The Ashes 2009
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If ever there was a man who was good under sustained pressure it's marcus trescothick
Just what the doctor ordered.
mattie
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If ever there was a man who was good under sustained pressure it's marcus trescothick
Guffaw.
waterloowelshy
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I love it - its like the selectors (along with whole of the country) have finally admitted that the new breed of England cricketers will never be any good, especially in a pressure situation. So what do we do? – resort to the old heads that have long been considered to not be worthy of selection. Personally if I was Ramps or Trescothick id await the call from Geoff Miller and tell him he can shove the England team where the sun don’t shine. Id then sit back and relax and watch England lose, before going to collect my best batsman of the county championship awards at the end of the year.
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don't want ramprakash or trescothick back thanks. ramprakash was basically the ravi bopara of 10 years ago. kept getting picked over and over and over again and failed time after time after time. he had his chance and he wasn't good enough. as it happens, Bopara has already made more test centuries than ramps ever did.
mattie
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And for Trescothick?
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he's retired hasn't he? couldn't cope with the pressure of test cricket or something.
waterloowelshy
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cant handle it mentally unfortunately. He would be the first to admit it. He would be the answer from a playing perspective, but there is no way of knowing that he would actually make it out onto the pitch. real shame.
waterloowelshy
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I'd suggest reading his book. reall insightful into both mental health issues and cricket. Feel for him after reading it, but like you say he wont cope with interntational cricket again.
waterloowelshy
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it was mainly to do with being overseas, but i think that it was also to do with the pressure of internationals as well to a lesser extent. I cant see him putting himself in a position to fail mentally after he has worked so hard to get his life back on track. The risk of falling apart just doesnt seem worth it me for one match.
I dont think it'd be fair on the guy to throw him into an Ashes decider against a well-honed sledging unit like the aussies. I doubt his shrink would recommend it anyway.
paulhackett
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if only he was so mad someone could tell him he was at taunton and he was brian lara.. maybe lead him to the wicket in blinkers?
i think if a player isn't able to tour then he shouldn't be picked (unless he's done a few tours on the trot, in which case i can understand they need a rest)
i think if a player isn't able to tour then he shouldn't be picked (unless he's done a few tours on the trot, in which case i can understand they need a rest)
SpookyFrank
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
SpookyFrank
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He has 'one day specialist' written all over him. And a number of other words that politeness forbids me to recount here.
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being an idiot in the feedback forum
liquidlunch
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Hard to imagine a more stressful position to put yourself in as a cricketer
especially being an English one in the test at the Oval
There is no real need to play it is there?You can give up now if you want
(some already have)
TrippyLondoner
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He was always gonna play, it doesn't mean he's fit
aslong as he's in the team he'll give them a lift that wasn't there at the 4th test, same with KP. that's something we don't always recognize from the outside looking in.
You trying to weasel out of the final Test? Happy to settle for a draw?There is no real need to play it is there?You can give up now if you want
paulhackett
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There's a typically pithy quote from Michael Henderson "Bopara, Bell and Collingwood at Nos 3, 4 and 5 does not inspire the same confidence as, say, Cowdrey, Dexter, and Barrington. Or Vaughan, Hussain and Thorpe. Or Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb"
TrippyLondoner
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Aussies have only beaten a weaken team of ours, to bad they'll never be able to say they beat us with a fully fit flintoff and KP over the whole series. its sad we rely on two players so much though.
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well we've only beaten a weakened team of theirs...
waterloowelshy
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Has anyone seen the Justin Langer email by the way giving the Aussie coach an overview of a number of the English players. Ver insightful stuff and by the whole written very well by Langer - he sums the whole team up b saing they dont like it when things are going wrong - oh how he has been proved right there! I particulalry like his summation of Anderson as a 'Pussy' - classic! and probably very true.
TrippyLondoner
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Not including 2005...that was hardly a weak team. mind you they did beat us in 2006/7, but i meant over here.
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Not including 2005...that was hardly a weak team. mind you they did beat us in 2006/7, but i meant over here.
i meant Brett Lee this series
