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Post by hhsussex on Oct 19, 2016 17:47:32 GMT
George Gunn played against Australia in 1911/12 , then against West Indies in 1929/30.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 18:28:11 GMT
George Gunn played against Australia in 1911/12 , then against West Indies in 1929/30. I knew you would have the answer, hhs. And isn't the story that the reason for the long gap was that during Notts' last game at Trent Bridge one season, he was delivered a letter from the MCC inviting him to be a member of England's winter touring team. He put it in his blazer pocket unopened and forget about it until he found it on the first day of the following season. I can't remember which tour it was, but I'll hazard a guess at the 1920-21 tour of Australia, when England took a very weak post-war team and lost 5-0. And if I'm right, it took the MCC another nine years to forgive him! |
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Post by hhsussex on Oct 19, 2016 18:41:53 GMT
It is a great story and, if true, probably relates to the 20/21 tour.
The Traicos issue illustrates one of the great ambiguities of cricket - and indeed many other sports in the British and colonial mindset - that a player is "Ours" by nationality when it suits the narrative but is conveniently excluded when it is more pragmatic. Thus Traicos, a national of the beleaguered Rhodesia at the turn of the Seventies could be conveniently 'South African' by virtue of appearance in the Currie Cup, yet at more or less the same time Younis Ahmed could play for Surrey as a British citizen and appear for Pakistan in Tests. Incidentally Younis had an 8 year gap between his Test match appearances.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 18:48:18 GMT
Why you posting on mobile via Tapatalk ? You're out late for an old'un...  I do hope you are not off to the Shooshh nightclub followed by a 3am seafront pizza!!! |
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Post by hhsussex on Oct 20, 2016 7:28:10 GMT
I was at home last night, young borderman, taking the trouble to leave the dinner table to answer your question.  And now, at breakfast time, half the England side out for 106. I think I shall go and do some digging. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 8:29:27 GMT
I was at home last night, young borderman, taking the trouble to leave the dinner table to answer your question. A likely story, you old raver. Don't forget I knew you long before you were a solid and upright allotment-digging citizen!!!  |
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Post by hhsussex on Oct 20, 2016 11:42:47 GMT
Happy to say that, like Moeen Ali and Bairstow I dug in this morning and prospered. |
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Post by coverpoint on Oct 20, 2016 11:50:48 GMT
Mehedi Hasan looks quite a player!
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Post by hhsussex on Oct 20, 2016 12:52:46 GMT
Mehedi Hasan looks quite a player! Yes he does. Let's sign him up quickly before he gets too pricy ...oh, wait, we did that last year with another Bangladeshi prodigy.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 17:17:22 GMT
No prizes for guessing which polemicist - let's not confuse matters by calling him a journalist - opened his 'report' of the day's play with this sentence:
"Similarities between Moeen Ali and Croatian music teacher Frane Selak may not, at first glance, appear obvious."
Needless to say, I have already e-mailed it to Ian Hislop...
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Post by hhsussex on Oct 22, 2016 7:23:24 GMT
England 47-4 and 92 runs on. The optimist says "150 could be a match-winning lead". The pessimist says "We shouldn't have let them get 200 in the first innings".
Gripping stuff though, and once again its the all-rounders who can adapt their game from T20 to 50 overs to Tests who have made the biggest impact.
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Post by coverpoint on Oct 22, 2016 7:29:42 GMT
Hameed for Ballance and move Duckett to number 4 for the next text.
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Post by hhsussex on Oct 22, 2016 7:38:40 GMT
Hameed for Ballance and move Duckett to number 4 for the next text. Nick Hoult @nhoultcricket 5m5 minutes ago Ballance averaging 22 since his recall last summer. Wasn't in great nick when picked in July. Nothing has changed.
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Post by leedsgull on Oct 22, 2016 13:37:33 GMT
Balance was selected last season after a century at Scarborough. Unfortunately that was probably his only decent innings all season. His technique looks shot to me and he should make way. Also can't see why Batty has been picked. Perhaps he will do well in the second innings, if not bring in Ansari.
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Post by coverpoint on Oct 22, 2016 13:55:43 GMT
Where would England be without DURHAM's Ben Stokes?
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