I note t
hat our attempt to retain the Ashes will be hampered by the usual southern bias of the selectors.
Sussex spinner Monty Panesar, (can’t field, can’t bat, above average bowler), has been selected instead of Yorkshire’s promising Adil Rashid, who is at least as good a spinner, and an infinitely better fielder and batsmen. Monty Panesar took 52 wickets at 25.53 in the 2nd division last season, and averaged a paltry 11 runs with the bat. Rashid in comparison took 57 wickets at 31, and a batting average of 45 in the top division.
To rub salt into the wounds, Rashid’s Yorkshire team mate Ajmal Shazhad, who could have been more usefully occupied during the summer winning the County Championship for Yorkshire instead of traipsing the country trotting out with the drinks for England, has been overlooked in favour of Surrey’s Chris Tremlett who helped Surrey just avoid finishing bottom of the 2nd division.
Bitter, Moi? You bet!
Bitter, Moi? You bet!
Phew you will have people looking into this now, betting is a word not used around cricket at the moment.
Just out of interest Bob why do you support Yorkshire CCC?
Richard, it goes back to my childhood. We used to go to Wallis’s Holiday Camp in Scarborough and I started to take an interest in their cricket team, who play an annual festival in Scarborough. As someone born in Staffordshire I was effectively disenfranchised as far as first class cricket was concerned, and I suspect it helped that the great Yorkshire team back in the day swept all before them (glory hunting, see). Later, at secondary school, most other cricket fans supported Warwicks, so I became further entrenched in defending Yorkshire. Now I try to go anything up to half-a-dozen times a year, and this summer has been pretty good with visits to Worcester, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Somerset, Lancashire and Headingley. Oh, and Warwickshire.