summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Lancashire beat Durham by an innings and 18 runs. Durham 110, Hurt 4-27.
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BigMick
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All over really once Bailey had the South African Kolpak player Bedingham lbw for 25, having earlier dismissed their only other in form batsman, Lees.
Great day for big Liam Hurt!
Next up for Lancs a trip to Trent Bridge for a home game against Notts! Hameed will be looking to score a few I would imagine.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Hurt really is a big unit. lol
Chris O'Connor
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Michael Holding and Michael Atherton were both in agreement that now is an era where virtually every test team has a quality attack. You can add Pakistan, West indies, New Zealand and South Africa to that list.
They're comparing this particular time not this decade. Some lack depth as with the Windies but all can field formidable first choice attacks. Even Sri Lanka now have some good young pace bowlers to go with their usual strength in the spin department. All about opinions but i would think now is particularly strong because so many attacks are more than decent.
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arminisgod
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what? none of them have quality attacks. New Zealand at an absolute push because of Boult. Windies? lol Pakistan? Sky did a great job at hyping up that attack. Abbas is good, thats it.
Don't get me started on the saffers... Literally got a semi retired Steyn and Rabada
Chris O'Connor
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No point going on with this as we clearly disagree too much.
Philander plays for South Africa but can't be arsed going on with this
Philander has retired tbf. The England series was his last.
Chris O'Connor
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Yes Tim that's fair enough going forward, I think their remarks were more in the context of why batsmen's averages in the current day are struggling a little and the bowling attacks they've faced recently was thought to be a factor (amongst others so not exclusively by any means), he has played for them up to the very last series South Africa played in.
My own personal opinion is that there are more top bowlers around these days than batsmen, but the quality of test cricket is definitely lower than about 15 years ago. I see the 2005 ashes as the peak of test cricket with two outstanding teams.
But test cricket, especially series involving england, are great for excitement and test cricket is as watchable now as its ever been. Low scoring matches are far better as a spectacle. Flat wickets with little bounce are bad for the sport.
Chris O'Connor
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Definitely lower than the 2005 ashes but that series was possibly the best of all time with Australia's team also possibly one of the very best of all time and England's also one of their strongest ever. There have been outstanding teams, Australia have had a few since the nineties but test cricket was dying in other parts and the empty grounds had begun to be a feature - and as you alluded too, the flat lifeless wickets in many parts of the world didn't help.
arminisgod
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Simple. They can't bat in test cricket. Look at our batting. Rory Burns and Sibley. Openers with horrific technical faults. I'd dread to think what Ambrose, Walsh or McGrath, Lee & Gillespie would do to them.
Chris O'Connor
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I've answered similar questions only a day or two ago so won't do again,
Here's a question for you though, how many wickets do you think Walsh, Ambrose, McGrath, Warne, Akram etc get if there is DRS?
I do think DRS has made a big (and in my mind positive) impact on the game. I always think if you average 40 it should be a good average for a batsman, not a given.