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looks like a cracking game, kirtley got 4 wickets, wright got 3. mcc all out for 425

sussex currently 259 for 3 goodwin made 134, yardy (why isnt he at the world cup? ) 75 not out, harmison and hoggard both picking up our opening yougsters.

yardy and goodwin put on 230 together.

roll on another double 8)

plenty of england players doing well for the mcc too, good stuff all round

Ally Cook 8)

is mushy playing for sussex again this year?

Am i right in thinking Sussex have got Mushy and Saqlain this year? or did i dream this up?

ali

yes we have mushy and salquain mushtaq, however salquain has been living in sussex for 5 years with some bird, so hes a home player. plus we have rana naved too.

walk in the park :D

Racist

Have you got to play Ireland this season?  :?

only in the c&g, we played in belfast last season, this year its at hove.

game of the season looks to be sussex v hampshire in the county championship, its being held in arguably the countries most beautiful ground , arundel, right on the sussex/hampshire border.

Ooooooohhhh, i love Arundel, used to drive there on my way down to Uni. Picturesque doesn't come close

a) he can't bat fast enough for odis full stop
b) he had a go at the top of the order for england in the icc trophy and was so out of his depth it was embarrasing
c) he bats 5 for sussex, he's nowhere near collingwood's quality
d) won't score enough runs to bat higher than that, can't score quickly enough to bat lower

Agreed. Lovely place for a pint by the river.

utter shite boeta and you know it :D

Yardy Retired Hurt on 99. Unlucky.

a) yardy has never even scored a domestic hundred

b) he averages under 20. thats less than giles. so ashley giles is a better one-day batsman than yardy

c) yardy's odi strike rate is 38, thats worse than vaughan, joyce and strauss even though they can't get the ball off the square

d) last season in one-dayers for sussex, yardy batted at no. 5 nine times, at no. 4 once, no. 8 once, no. 9 once, number 6. twice. that is not sometimes opening. and the reason? he doesn't bat fast enough.

e) show me a one-day innings where he batted with a strike rate of over a 100? not once, thats embarrasing. looking at it it would seem his one-day strike rate last season was about 55. shocker

i still think yardy's a decent player - if you put his first-class batting and one-day bowling together you'd have someone who deserves a run in the england side. but he just isn't quite good enough

but you what really made laugh? yardy and bell compared in the same sentence  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  the country's technically ugliest batsman with the best, with most aesthetically pleasing

james benning for england.

not a bad shout.

Is that in sympathy with Fred's shiner?

benning's a good striker of the ball, seemed a bit too reliant on the cut though which is not fed at international level in quite the same way as county plodders will do. anyone seen more of him know more of his technique?

you can look at all the stats you want, but yardy was one of the major reasons sussex won everything last year.

which is why i said he's a very good county player but not good enough for the top level