Comments on: Why Graham Onions’ five-fer ain’t all that

By: the librarian

the librarian — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:01:41 +0000

Sir, Sir, narkins used the word “heck” twice in his post Sir.

Does he get detention?

By: Ged Ladd

Ged Ladd — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:45:44 +0000

Onions bowls very well at Lord’s in those sorts of conditions – I’ve seen him do so before.

Even for the Ashes against much better batsmen and probably on much flatter wickets, I’d trust him to put the ball in the right place more often than Harmy right now.

And he does have some pace.

But I agree that he isn’t the be all and end all.

Very few such be all and end all bowlers in world cricket at the moment. Look at the Aussie attack, for example.

By: mushy's beard

mushy's beard — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:49:06 +0000

I wish Mark Nicholas would stop asking all the players about the Ashes. I’d rather watch the Loose Women interview the players, and they make me want to claw my eyes out.

By: Daneel

Daneel — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:20:55 +0000

Personally, I still reckon there’s time to dust off Alan Mullally for one last hurrah.

By: e normous

e normous — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:50:51 +0000

like I said, bring back Hoggard. Onion is not going to amount to much.

By: narkins

narkins — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:06:07 +0000

I couldn’t care less if he’s not gonna be a great of the game, heck few are ever remembered as such. As long as he takes wickets i’ll be glad to have him in the team.

Heck Athers referred to sidebottom as a jouneryman and now can’t wait to have him back in the team.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:52:38 +0000

you can only bowl at what’s in front of you

unfortunately what’s in front of england right now is a team of flat-track bullies who can’t cope when it’s a bit cloudy.

fair play to onions. let him enjoy it while he can before phillip hughes smashes the bejeezus out of him.

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:39:14 +0000

Athers agrees with you. In his Times column, under the headline “Journeymen put England on brink of victory”, he says:

“The first day at Lord’s witnessed the arrival of a special talent; now it was the turn of the journeymen. For Ravi Bopara, the possibilities are endless, but we know, as much as we can know anything in sport, that Graeme Swann and Graham Onions will not finish their international careers as greats of the game.”

I wonder if Gooch said something nasty to him when he was a lad, or if he much prefers the comic talents of Brooke-Taylor and Oddie. As for spy thrillers, well there’s no one to compare to Le Carre.

By: Price

Price — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:25:11 +0000

Bob Willis is of the opinion that Onions will suceed on the test stage and wont just disappear like other bowlers who made excellent starts to their test careers (Ed Giddins and Richard Johnson, for example).

Bob Willis is ALWAYS wrong