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Same - too young to see him play but what a cricketer. He could do everything, brilliantly. Those six 6s. Highest differential between his batting stats and his bowling - 23.75. You got three for the price of one bowlers - left arm fast medium, left arm wrist spin and orthodox spin. This is a nice piece https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1027587/the-man-who-could-do-everything

Cut and pasted from the BBC site. Often graphs don't really tell the tale they're supposed to. But this one does. It shows momentum. Just look what happens after we score our only goal. One way momentum from Argentina from that point. Presumably our little flurry at the end was when we stuck two forwards on at 90+6 minutes....

Taking off Rice and Gordon for defenders (I sort of get the James sub but that's also in part what you deserve with such an injury prone and lacking in match fitness player, he was never going to last) so we had Burns, Konsa and O'Reilly on meant we absolutely deserved to lose. We were never going to defend successfully for 20 minutes, and what they hell did he expect, even if we had survived that, to happen in extra time??? And putting on Rashford and Toney on 90+6 minutes was pathetic. Way way too late. How were they supposed to attack when Tuchel had gutted the midfield for defenders?

At the country to which he personally owed his own senior professional career, having played 187 out of 200 of his entire senior club appearances for any club for Forest, Leeds and Man City. And with the rest only occurring for Byrne/Rosseland 4 years after he’d effectively retired.

Key still keeps his job though….

Accuracy. Not asserting as true utter BS because you've swallowed it and can't be bothered to find out whether it is true or not? I'd have thought that a moment's thinking would have raised questions as to the likelihood of any government minister being invited to sit in on a birth.... To be clear, I can't think of a single thing I agreed with Anne Widdicombe on. I didn't agree with, or like as a matter of personal opinion, any of her political beliefs and many of her personal ones. It was Government policy that all prisoners, including pregnant women, be handcuffed while being transported from place to place. It was never Government policy that a pregnant woman be handcuffed while giving birth, in fact the policy explicitly said that once labour is confirmed all restraints must be removed. In Parliamentary debate and in her capacity as the junior Minister at the Home Office responsible for that policy, she confirmed that position, so the policy, along with herself personally was still criticised - fair enough. But she never made such a demand while witnessing a birth and never in fact called for the policy to be extended to that. 2 minutes Googling would have got you there. Which you might want to bear in mind when you're making your long list. Chris Mason's piece on the BBC news website is a pretty balanced assessment of her.

Put Ramos on. Put Leao on. Put Danny Murphy’s cat Bob on. But someone do something!

Freely admit it could be me and I don’t do well in the heat, but this match really isn’t gripping me and it should be excellent. I had high hopes….Now just hoping for anyone to score because it’ll mean the other has to go for it. But it doesn’t look like happening at all. This will either be a brilliant reverse jinx or we’re going to penalties.

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It wasn’t just his astonishing hitting, 74 off 45, 4 fours and 7 sixes, it was how he combined it with farming the strike so Leach only face 17 balls, and the finest 1 not out there’s ever been.

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Given they lost one of their best ever batsmen who retired in Williamson, lost Henry and Phillips to injury for this test, have been peppered and hit in this game and barely got three bowlers for this last innings, the NZ performance has been brilliant. Properly shown England up. Absolutely deserve a great series win against England at home.

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It's funny alright, but only because they're a joke right now. So long as they don't get the hump with people laughing at them, rather than with them, as they say. There really needs to be a separation of the appreciation for Stokes' talent and some of the most astonishing match winning performances I've known and this farrago! I can't help but wonder, given Stokes has basically orchestrated this with his announcement (I've not heard that it was leaked etc) and clearly it has been a bombshell to the team, that it must be some kind of huge F Off statement.

Sears and O'Rourke are off. Not sure who they've got to bowl with the new ball. This could definitely make it easier. All that peppering the Kiwi players has paid off!

I'd have preferred Stokes to have followed Kane Williamson's example rather than this.

1, 45, 0, 5, 0, 7, 5 Wickets spread around Notts bowlers almost as evenly as you could; it's not like one is bowling like an unplayable demon.

No problem with him retiring in his own terms. Loved watching him play. I’ll never forget THAT innings. But to announce it mid game? If the ECB announced he would be stood down as captain mid match they’d be riots. Genuinely no idea why it couldn’t have waited till the end of the match. Seems extraordinarily disruptive. Can’t help but think the mid match timing in Day 3 was intended to be a two fingers up to some one/some group of people.

It's why the CEO job is a poisoned chalice most of the time. When things are bad, it's all your fault. When things are going well, it's the great team and workforce you have behind you. But as Clever Fox said, they are directly accountable to the Board, who can hire or fire them. So why is anyone really surprised that she could be undermined or ignored with the shareholder/Chairman set up LCFC has? When CEO's do throw their weight around, its usually where the Chair and Board are in awe of them and will let them do anything they want, or else they get fired very quickly. But Top still seems to think he's a savvy businessman and must run things. It's one of the biggest and repeated mistakes he makes. He was never going to let a CEO get on with it if they wanted to do something he disagreed with. Its why he stepped in briefly as CEO before appointing someone who owed their rise to him, from Finance Director to the CEO role. Kevin isn't exactly making any waves, is he? There's been one statement from him, on his appointment, expressing his honour in leading the club. I've seen damn little evidence of his leadership. But instead of a thread about what Kevin is or is not doing in this leadership role, we have this zombie thread still mithering over what Whelan should or should not have done about a job she left last year.