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The only players on the county scene that I saw who could even come close to Russell's ability as a keeper were, in my opinion, Metson early on and Chris Read towards the end. Although, I've heard tell that his replacement at Gloucestershire when he was away on England duty, Reggie Williams, was...

I think it's a feature of getting old. Back in the late 80s/early 90s when I started getting into all sorts of sports I almost instantly knew all the current players and I very quickly learned all the history as well. I then coped ok with the first wave of new players but after that my brain...

I'd go for option 2 but it will only really be of any use to me if we could pick from history, as my knowledge of contemporary cricket is rudimentary at best.

How about something like the old Fantasy Leagues where you can only have a total number of OV points? You can have a squad of 20-odd players in a squad but in the match 11 you must have a minimum of four batsmen, one all-rounder, a keeper and three bowlers (leaves two places to fill with extra...

It It still baffles me how Russell kept getting dropped because his batting apparently wasn't good enough. Ok, he was no Alec Stewart with the bat but he was as good as if not better than Ian Healy, Junior Murray, Rashid Latif, Moin Khan, Dave Richardson, Adam Parore and possibly, maybe Romesh...

Everything was fine for me in that game yesterday. Australia set 230 to win; lost three early wickets; Border and M.Waugh steadied things and got Aus in a good position to win but then there was a collapse with a nice variety of dismissals (including a chip up to mid-wicket and an attempted hook...

An unexpected upside to this game. Now I'm stuck working from home all day everyday and with the complete absence of any real sport I've had a CPU vs CPU "Test Match" on in the background all day. 90s England vs 90s Australia. It's coming to the end now with the Aussies needing another 108...

I've just managed to connect now. Don't know if it's been fixed or if the servers are so busy since Ashes went cheap that you have to keep trying. Either way, I'm in.

Anyone else having problems connecting to the servers today? https://status.bigant.com/ showing everything ok but I haven't been able to get on all day.

Very wrong that Waqar. Waqar doesn't have a pinky finger on his left hand. If BA really want to up the immersion of the game they should give us the choice of selecting exactly how many fingers players have in the Academy. I don't know about anyone else here but being FORCED to play with a...

I have vague memories of him using a plain bat for Glamorgan in 97 but I'm not entirely sure. Didn't get to see him bat much that year. Got to stand at first slip when he was bowling in a warm up once though. Blimey, he was quick.

I once thought about writing to the ECB to say that if they picked Adrian for the England team and gave me free tickets to every Test Match that he played then they would have an all time great player on their hands. But I didn't because I was 15 years old and I was out after girls. I now...

Duncan Fearnley bat: Check Shirt number 11: Check 99 overall rating: Pending Not joking about that. I once worked out that in all the games I saw Adrian Dale play live he had a batting average of around 75 and a bowling average of about 18. He is literally the best player I have ever seen.

I was thinking the same thing for a moment. All I could think of was there was a racist mod objecting to me posting Credit to the Nation in the music thread. And, as I've told you before Dave, my ratings for players like Moxon are based purely on their county performances. If we went only on...

Mechanical scoreboards and ropes and fences for boundaries. And instead of all the ball tracking stuff just have Geoff Boycott scribbling all over the screen like a nutter.

It baffles me how you can have a cricket game without an option for a mullet; a sharp, Brylcreemed side parting; a short, receding hairline with one of those hair-peninsula things in the middle or a baldy on top with a ring of hair above the ears. That excludes nearly 90% of the white men that...

Getting back into Credit to the Nation. I used to listen to a few bits and pieces of theirs back in the 90s but never gave them a proper listen. Finally bought a copy of 'Take Dis' the other day and I love it.

Cheers BD! I keep meaning to get around to finishing the 1997 sides and, by extension, the combined 90s teams. But a combination of a ludicrous workload at work and big jobs needing completing around the house, it - and the game in general - has dropped way down my to-do list. Maybe when the...

And I think most coaches would prefer it if most of that hook section was replaced with 'duck/sway/generally get out of the way'. Not quite as dangerous a shot in C19 as it is im real life though.