Anyone seen this new leggie from Afghanistan?

Brilliant but different bowlers. Vettori built pressure, Herath tries to take a wicket with every ball. This is a product of their respective environments where one played most of his cricket on greentops and the other on dustbowls. I'd pick Herath for tests and Vettori for ODI's.

I'm sure If Vettori had played 70% of his career on minefields in the sub continent then he would have takes stacks.
Like saying who's better, Lara or Tendulkar for the same reason. Lara wins hands down I think

But Tendulkar scored all around the world too?

I was toying between firminio and king when releasing sterling earlier this week.

Sure glad I went for Firminio

Gg. Wp

Yup.... 2nd time lucky......NOT

Those are the 50/50 calls that really annoy me. Have to put it down to plain bad luck.

This week has the potential to really move people up the ranks...... the real test will be to see whether we've all gone for a short term boost and unbalanced our squads for the long term.

Herath just seems to have been really underestimated for a long time. His record is excellent.

Started off well but now it seems to be getting overly dramatic for the sake of it.

Anyone watching scandal?

Anyone on a Josh King punt for this gameweek?

Herath just broke Vettori's record for most test wickets by a left arm spinner. Reckon he is a better bowler or just bowling on a load of helpful pitches?

Next season will probably have some major squad changes.... Cazorla might have played his last.

no its not meant to be damning

they just play more test cricket, are physically fitter/conditioned with great equipment playing on covered pitches that drain well. its a different game

he's 32 and has played 140 tests

lots of countries want to play england because of the revenue they bring, so England never rest

he could take off the odd winter tour, play for another 5 years and still hit 200 tests


top 10? off the top of my head

Bradman
Lara
Richards
Sachin
Compton
Hutton
G Chappell
Border
Hammond
Ponting

and i will have missed some

Cook isn't in the same postcode as any of those

He's in the same bracket as Gooch, boycott, Gower etc

Fair enough.  Pretty similar points of view to me then.  How high can Root get potentially on the all time list?  Not just runs (obviously he could get to number 1 on that list easily) but where does his style/flair on top of the runs put him potentially in that all time list if he carries on to 32/33 like Cook has.  He seems to have a great mental approach to the game/life so there is no reason to think he will go off the boil other than captaincy ruining him.

Surely Root is streets ahead in terms of talent.... just needs to prove himself over a decade or so which is never a given.

That's one way of looking at all. Alternatively Moss failed to give a stonewaller from Gray's foul on Mustafi. Terrible refereeing performance, correct result.

Yup... Arsenal would have been hard done by if they came away with anything less than a win.

The only hope that ODI cricket has is that it differentiates between itself and T20 cricket. The more it becomes simply a longer version of T20, the more likely that it will become irrelevant.

Great write up.... Senegal look strong.

Anyone got any news on the Walcott calf injury and potential return to action?