Comments on: James Anderson knows the rules

By: Nicko

Nicko — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:50:03 +0000

Shouldn’t Brearley have a category of his own: Public school educated southern non-batsman?

By: daneel

daneel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:23:59 +0000

Bah! And Keith Fletcher (2)

By: daneel

daneel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:21:06 +0000

thesaurusrus – MJK

Jay – I thought Lamb was only a stand-in, never appointed – like Butch and Tres.

Brian Close (4) and Tony Lewis (1? 2?) appear to be missing, though. Think Boycott (4) was official captain for a bit as well – it wasn’t all stand-in for Brearley, IIRC.

By: daneel

daneel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:02:36 +0000

Wasn’t John Emburey (6) also appointed captain in 1988? I’m not sure your employer has got their money’s worth with this list…

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:25:15 +0000

It may only have been three tests, but Lamb (5) should be in there as well…

By: thesaurusrus

thesaurusrus — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:41:29 +0000

Smith?

By: Kit Kat

Kit Kat — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:29:42 +0000

Hahaha, A South African batsman also makes the list. Brilliant.

By: The Other Ed

The Other Ed — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:43:50 +0000

Bert – apologies. They clearly play a bit fast-and-loose with the term “grammar school” in the county of Lancashire.

Maybe that kind of sneaky underhandedness is what prevents most Lancastrians from being chosen as England captains.

By: Collywobble

Collywobble — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:33:11 +0000

Can we extrapolate from that list what the next captain is most likely to be?

After Smith it seems to meander slowly upwards (that phrase might not make sense) , then gets snapped down again at Gower. It’s meandered along upwards again, has it just snapped down? Will we have two decades of 1’s and 2’s?

Extrapolate. That’s a good word.

By: Bert

Bert — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:37:15 +0000

Manchester Grammar is a fee-paying school. Don’t you go criticising my List. It took literally lots of my employer’s valuable time to compile.