I think we have a few world class players, Collingwood and Pieterson to name 2, the problem has been up the order, but has been for a while now.
And our bowling is rubbish, normally perm 1 from 5 to have a decent game, others are so so. But anyhow, problem with Boycott was, as I have said, his run rate. As you say he was capable of 'getting a lash on' but either due to his then animosity towards ODIs or not wanting to sacrifice his wicket, he rarely did. In those days it was acceptable to have a slow & steady start and then accelerate later on. He often didn't accelerate. His style/mentality/approach was ideal for test cricket, but not particularly ODIs. Which was the point I was trying to make to Rich. I don't think Gerrard & co would have a chance in hell of winning a beach footy competition against teams who specialise in that game. Rich's argument was that if you can play football, you can play any kind of football, and that is rubbish! From: John Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 April 2007 13:55 To: Mark Humphries; 'Richard Walker'; 'Tim Leslie'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [LU] Moving on ... Is there not a subtle point to be made here about cricket - regardless of whether it's 5 day test or 1 day slogfest, Ingerland currently have poor players for all options. I don't think we should be limiting discussion to one crap XI, we've got several crap XIs potentially! I never really accepted that Boycott was a poor one-dayer - mostly he seemed to use one day games as practice, rather than as things to be won! When he did get a lash on he was outstanding, although I'm sure there's plenty of anecdotal examples to demonstrate that he didn't do that often enough. I'll readily accept that my memory of Great Boycott Innings is on the wane after 30+ years :-) John Mark Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I bet they wouldn't. You clearly don't know the game. Most test players are nowhere near fit or quick (and big) enough for test 7's. _____ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. Do <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/yahoo_com/trueswitch/*http:/uk.docs .yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html> it now... _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist it's a God awful small affair
