< 1 minute read It’s always faintly harrowing when England select a leg-spinner. The way they’re treated tends to be geared towards absolute decimation of their confidence. Adil Rashid himself has benefited from this once before. Eight years ago, we promised Rashid that we’d always be nice to him – even if he got
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Adil Rashid and poor growing conditions
2 minute read Being a young leg-spinner involves being told you’re amazing when you’re not. When you get a bit older and you seem a little less exciting, people tell you that you’re rubbish when you’re not. If you can bat as well, the extra novelty magnifies that first bit and also the
Continue reading2011 County Championship players to watch review
2 minute read Suppose we should take a look at how our 2011 County Championship players to watch fared. Adam Lyth, Yorkshire 553 runs at 26.33 Yeah, that’s pretty shoddy. James Hildreth, Somerset 893 runs at 38.82 That’s okay. Ben Stokes, Durham 628 runs at 48.30 and 17 wickets at 33.00 Three hundreds,
Continue readingAdil Rashid is getting worse
< 1 minute read How much worse? One worse. Having taken 6-77 in Worcestershire’s first innings, Adil Rashid could only manage 5-37 in their second innings. This grave loss of form is deeply worrying. Ben Stokes is getting better How much better? 125 better. Having scored 10 in Durham’s first innings, Ben Stokes then
Continue readingAdil Rashid has day one of the County Championship
< 1 minute read “Day one of the County Championship?” thought Adil Rashid. “I’ll have that.” So he did. Rashid has kicked off with 6-77 against Worcestershire. That’s called ‘being better than everyone else,’ that is. We recognise it well from all the millions of times we’ve been one small part of the ‘everyone
Continue readingCounty Championship players to watch in 2011
< 1 minute read County Championship only. First division only. We’re also lumping them all together in one post this year, because multiple posts feels like quite a big commitment. Adam Lyth, Yorkshire Our reasons for picking batsmen to watch are invariably the same: they’re young and we’ve got a general sense that they
Continue readingAdil Rashid, Yorkshire: first-class bowler to watch in 2010
< 1 minute read The general feeling about Adil Rashid is that maybe everyone should just let him play a bit of cricket. England helped his development no end last season by keeping him out of the majority of Yorkshire’s matches so that he could not play for them instead. Occasionally they let him
Continue readingAdil Rashid treated like an English leg spinner
< 1 minute read England are going to have to watch this. It’s not deliberate, but if you had to design some tactics to erode a player’s confidence, what they’re doing to Adil Rashid might be what you’d come up with. In the summer, Rashid started the one-day series against Australia well and promptly
Continue readingEngland’s one-day all-rounders
< 1 minute read Are they going to win a game with the bat? Are they going to win a game with the ball? Luke Wright Dimitri Mascarenhas Tim Bresnan Adil Rashid There’s room for players who chip in, rather than deciding matches on their own, but there seem to be altogether too many
Continue readingAdil Rashid makes a case to be England’s new number seven
< 1 minute read A week or so ago, Adil Rashid hit two hundreds in successive innings. In Yorkshire’s two innings in the field adjacent to those hundreds, Rashid took five wickets in each of them. England will naturally be looking for a seam bowling all-rounder to replace Andrew Flintoff – perhaps Rashid’s team
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