Comments on: Ravi Bopara should be allowed to have a bat

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:07:27 +0000

I think I’ve noticed from his picture above the crucial flaw in his technique, which the Sri Lankans so cunnigly exploited in his debut series. He always has his eyes closed.

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:29:05 +0000

Definitely Ravi Bopara. No doubt about it.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:42:59 +0000

Price, we were well aware of that when we wrote this.

We were hoping no-one else was.

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:09:26 +0000

I hate the way the term “all-rounder” is used these days. If Ravi Bopara is an all-rounder, so is Geoffrey Boycott. And wicket-keepers are wicket-keepers, not all-rounders.

As everybody knows, cricket was better in the 80s. Back then, all-rounders were people who could score 150 quick runs, take 3 for 27 with the new ball, drink 28 pints of beer, take drugs, challenge the established authority just by existing, sleep with dozens of women, play a second sport professionally, be fat without anyone really noticing, and walk. Oh yes, that’s proper all-roundering, that is.

I bet Ravi Bopara couldn’t do any more than two of those, possibly three.

By: Price

Price — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:50:32 +0000

Are you saying that when Sir Bob Key scores 269* & 149 against Northants in the LVCC div 2 in April it wont count?