The most difficult tour of England? No chance. However, it will be good preparation. India, n ° 1 of the planet, team followed was Photo: PAIf instead of this, I sought Sun winter Zimbabwe soapies idle time to drink (a wonderfully deceptive mixture of cane, barley lemon and soda water) and training with Grant Flower. Both left me feeling ill.But at least I could meet his brother Andrew.Ils me he did quite well what to say.
And there was also a winter, time spent in Cape Town, playing for a club called Primrose.Nos experienced talent was a delicious CHAP called Haroon Lorgat. I think it is always involved Cricket: be the Chief Executive of the International Cricket Council can rightly regarded as such.
Therefore I will travel to Australia very soon in a rare state excitation .but I will be in a State of some perplexity. I'll admit it: I just you all this fuss. Hype and history produce a cocktail that I am not prepared to stomach.
I am led to believe that I am journey to another planet where bowling visits regularly disappear, sucked Vortex Kookaburra, where drummers become tremolo wrecks on land just simply too fast and bouncy, surrounded with a doctorate in luge fielders and crowds if frightening they all parts in the film psycho. PAH. I'm with flowers (E) with regard: "I think there is nothing to fear from in Australia," he said before departure.
Of course, it can be. There is not whether long Australia has an excellent team.And it is not to use this adjective allègrement.Ils were large, mainly because Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, they had two launchers ever to draw breath. Two in the same side! That makes a difference, even for noise levels. Matthew Hayden has never said a word until this as established in this team.Even I - shy, retirement I - used to chirp a little when Waqar Younis was steamed in Glamorgan.
Last week I asked Alastair Cook that Australians had told him while he was a little early to do 100 double against them for Essex in 2005. "It does is not much they could say,", he said, "We [Will Jefferson was his partner logon before Ravi Bopara joined in a partnership of 270] had approximately 60 out of the first 10 overs." "Exactement.Les struggling teams go quiet. Chirps for England used to be a futile enterprise.
And most of the toboggan run stories are apocryphal. I played against Warne and McGrath. Mostly they just swore and ill-treated. "Could not invoke this toboggan because it was so foul-salamandre be a shame for the game," writes Duncan Fletcher of them in 2006/07 Ashes Blanch in his autobiography behind glare.
The truth is that someone needs to say: Australia are simply not very much more. They lose for fun time actuelle.Ils are the new Anglican. Same grade cricket is said is soft.Just as in the 1980s and 1990s, we used to, they now appear to select players with a hat.Last Sunday, they played an international T20 with only two States players.They have lost.During two years 45 players have represented Australia tests, one-day internationals and T20s.Et they have only six national teams!No wonder that they just sacked Merv Hughes as a selector.
Call heresy, but the ash just were not the most important thing in the life of this young cricket crazy.He had a reason: the Australia were simply very good step and then either.Do were nor in England, but modifié.Au place that I grew up in awe of the Antilles.Il was .Passer team in the Caribbean to four fast snarling faced was the final exam.
Course, the rivalry of ash is ever-lasting and I am indebted to Huw Turbervill this parish for the production of his latest book The Toughest Tour (Aurum 16.99 £), recording visits to post-war 17.Il is full of a few anecdotes wonderful and tales, certainly not "proof read" as one of his friends maliciously be ventured.
But what will tour the most difficult of England? no chance.Cependant, it will be good préparation.Inde, n ° 1 World team, come next summer.
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