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Offline pablo

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Re: Ashes -2019
« Reply #105 on: August 26, 2019, 07:54:06 AM »
I too have heard all the comments by Willis, Vaughan,Trott et al. All of them criticised scheduling but none have explicitly condemned the 100, its concept or its introduction, partly because Willis ( who is never wrong!!) has for years wanted to reduce the number of counties to 8 -10 at a push- and Vaughan, Swann and others agree. The City franchises are of course a potential way of creating this by the back door. What's more falling out with the ECB is never a good idea for those commenting on the sport. They know where their bread is buttered.

Offline LeedsExile

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Re: Ashes -2019
« Reply #106 on: August 26, 2019, 10:43:16 AM »
Precisely Pablo. I was surprised that such comments were made because the commentators usually pursue their own agendas. Anyway after yesterday everything will now be deemed to be rosy in the ECB garden.

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Re: Ashes -2019
« Reply #107 on: August 27, 2019, 01:22:07 AM »
Anyway after yesterday everything will now be deemed to be rosy in the ECB garden.

Absolutely. We all know that what Stokes did in the 2nd innings was stupendous & credit has to go to Leech but that was the minimum expected from Root & Bairstow after a string of failures. Alex Stewart was pretending that virtually everything in the garden is rosy & any failures were down to mindset. I still reckon this batting lineup will fail more often than it succeeds & the schedule is a principal cause.
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