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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

2 months

Graham Thorpe had his demons but this is just such a sad day…..RIP Thorpey, a fabulous cricketer and team mate

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1 year

The fact that Sky have got a Broad tribute ready to go suggests there’s a seat in the comms box already waiting…..

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@derekpringle

5 years

Fine gesture by ECB to send '92 WCup finalists a replica of current shirt with our names on. Mine is a bit snugger than the original but that won't matter when England go one better than us on Sunday

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1 year

Sky have some excellent commentators, Atherton, Hussain, Ponting, Taylor, but even they are getting caught in the hyperbole trap where every little passage of play is amazing or incredible…the cricket is engaging enough w/o overloading the superlatives

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1 year

Very sorry to hear Allan Border has Parkinson’s disease. He was a cherished member of the Essex team in the mid to late 80s as well as one of Australia and cricket’s great batsmen. I know we all wish him well in the days ahead….

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1 year

After her second 5-fer in the Ashes Test, is Sophie Ecclestone the best spinner in England man or woman? And if she is, is there anything in the rules/laws to stop her being selected for the men’s team? What could be more Bazball than that (in its desire to do the unexpected)?

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6 years

What a Test unfolding at Edgbaston - to think there are some muppets who think this game better served by 10-ball overs and 15 a side - tinker not ye heathens

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@derekpringle

1 year

Stuart Broad is playing his last game of cricket…….one of England’s greatest bowlers (and he started life as a batsman)……

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

5 years

Us Dibbly-Dobblers not to be underestimated...

ESPNcricinfo

@ESPNcricinfo

5 years

What a performance from Colin de Grandhomme - the most economical 10 over spell in a World Cup final since Derek Pringle's 3/22 in 1992! Ball-by-ball: Live report: #NZvENG | #CWC19Final

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3 years

England have had bad days before in Tests but this seemed inevitable - you treat Test cricket shabbily at your peril administrators....

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5 years

Bob Willis was my first England captain and a legend of England cricket. Headingley 1980 was as much his triumph as Beefy Botham's - RIP Big Bob...

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

6 months

Very saddened to hear of Derek Underwood’s passing - a superb spin and cut bowler and an unassuming England and Kent legend. I once faced him on a ‘turner’ at Folkestone and there was only one Deadly Derek and it wasn’t me. RIP

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Derek Pringle

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1 year

Great catch by Mitchell Starc but he clearly doesn’t know the Law defining a clean catch….. if he did he would surely have made sure his knuckles were down and not up when he slid his ball hand along the deck……

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3 years

Scarcely has a bowler deserved a six-fer more than Mark Wood who has been terrific all series - pace, persistence and positivity despite the wreckage around him....

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

5 years

Over the centuries Test cricket has evolved into the highest form of the game to be played over five days. Lopping a day off to secure its survival is like removing one horn from a black rhino to make it less attractive to poachers...barmy

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1 year

Bazball has changed perceptions of how Test cricket is played but the old saw that if you put a team in you should bowl them out for under 250 has been well and truly ignored…..

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Derek Pringle

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3 months

Sport doesn’t always reward the most deserving but it wouldn’t have been right if England had made the final…..they’ve been all over the place in this World T20……..scrambled thinking from top to bottom

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

1 month

Discussion between Atherton and Sangakkara about Sri Lanka’s bowlers getting tired more quickly than usual……reason is, and West Indies did the same, you can’t just turn up and expect to play flawless Test cricket

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Derek Pringle

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3 years

Australian cricket's darkest day - first Rod Marsh gone then Shane Warne. Two titans of the game. Sadness does not begin to express what a loss they are...

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@derekpringle

1 year

When overseas players were the best there was….

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Barry Richards and Gordon Greenidge walking out to face the bowling of Bishan Bedi. Hants v Northants 20th Aug 1973. 📷Patrick Eagar #countycricket

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Derek Pringle

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8 months

Incredible victory by England in Hyderabad. No team visiting India has overcome such a big 1st inns deficit (190) to win. Bazball continues to defy convention…..

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@derekpringle

7 years

Pakistan have a fraction of the resources of teams like India, England and Australia but they have one huge asset - incredible talent

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@derekpringle

1 year

Nasser talking great sense and calling out this now moronic attitude to playing the short ball - you are allowed to duck…..

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1 year

Stokes turning it on yet again to hide the deficiencies of his team who don’t seem to be able to think straight with the slightest squeeze of pressure….

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

4 years

I do wish commentators, and former players are the biggest culprits here, would not call the pitch 'wicket.' The wicket is the three stumps and bails. Not the 22 yards of rolled whatever between them.....tv and radio producers instruct please

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

4 years

Irrespective of SS's explanation or India's lack of complaint, the crease is not his when he is fielding. He should keep his scrapes to himself until he has bat in hand....

simon hughes

@theanalyst

4 years

‘It's something I do to visualise how the batter is playing our bowlers and then out of habit I always mark centre.’ Says @stevesmith49 As I keep telling you all. AND NO INDIAN PLAYER COMPLAINED ABOUT IT.

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

6 years

Ben Foakes showing Test match batting not dead out in Galle - application, composure and treating the ball on its merits. Unfashionable but effective

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

4 years

Very sad to hear of David Capel's passing, always friendly after play (which is how it should be) and a damned good all-rounder for Northants and England....RIP

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

4 years

Lost one of the great most singular sportswriters over the weekend and a great mate and inspiration to me. Martin Johnson's hilarious cricket reports were the reason many bought The Independent when it first published in the 80s. A unique voice - RIP Jonno...

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3 years

One of cricket's greatest friends and writers has died at the grand old age of 94. John Woodcock, who was Times' cricket correspondent for 34 years, was the kind of scribe we'd all like to be - elegant, informative and generous with a beautiful turn of phrase. RIP Wooders....

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Derek Pringle

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21 days

Well done the Mighty Glos, first T20 Blast title and a fitting tribute to David ‘Syd’ Lawrence one of the county’s greatest players and the club’s President who is undergoing his own battle with MND….

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@derekpringle

3 years

For those asking how England might lose on such a docile pitch the charitable answer is that India are the flat pitch experts.....know how to work a wicket...

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6 years

JUST EPIC

Cricketopia

@CricketopiaCom

6 years

Marathon Innings! #OnThisDay in 1995, @Athersmike scored his highest Test score :185* v South Africa at Johannesburg Atherton batted for 643 min (492 balls) to save the Test. His partner for last 2 sessions Russell batted 235 balls for 29*. ENG batted 165 overs in 4th inngs.

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4 years

A day like that is why Test cricket remains King, all that drame without resolution, exquisite...

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@derekpringle

9 months

Steve Waugh spot on for highlighting the derisory way so many cricket boards treating Test cricket as they push domestic franchise competitions. White ball cricket merely chewing gum when compared to the feast of red ball game…….

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@derekpringle

4 months

Cricket administrators never learn…. when rain interrupts get rid of the rigmarole and get the game started

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@derekpringle

9 months

Whatever the collective noun for spinners (a twirl maybe) England are stretching it by playing 3 in the 1st Test v India. If the pitch turns big you need fewer bowlers not more. This smacks of Eng not having a clue who their best spinners are & playing them all as a consequence

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Derek Pringle

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4 years

I think the WACA is an amazing ground and should be protected as a Test venue - play white ball stuff over at the Casino if you must but let the proper stuff be played where it always has in that part of Australia....

Rob Smith

@rcssmedasmith

4 years

@selvecricket @derekpringle Was at the WACA today for an A grade game. Still a beautiful wicket and outfield

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1 year

Terrific from Mark Wood…… never compromises on pace often to the detriment of his body… so very deserving of his 5 wickets…..

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Derek Pringle

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5 months

Happy 80th birthday to my old Essex captain, Keith Fletcher…. guru, gnome, Mad Mahdi and, when the inspiration was low, reader of tea leaves

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6 months

And the great JK Lever who probably took more 1st-class wickets than the other two combined….

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Devon and Woody.

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Derek Pringle

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11 months

Has the dew been mopped up during drinks breaks in other matches during World Cup?

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3 months

I can still feel the jet stream of that one he belted back past me……..Gordon Cuthbert hit ‘em hard

Lord's Cricket Ground

@HomeOfCricket

3 months

One of the finest batting performances in Lord's history 👏 ✍️ #OnThisDay in 1984, Gordon Greenidge hit an incredible 214* as @windiescricket defeated England. #LoveLords

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Derek Pringle

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5 years

Many congratulations to England - you've done the country proud and consigned that '92 final to the footnote it deserves to be. Commiserations to New Zealand though in what was a belting World Cup final. Narrow margins.... and all

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

4 years

Dickie Bird reckoned the greatest innings he'd seen as player or umpire was the 34 made by John Edrich against Australia at Edgbaston in 1975. Caught on an uncovered pitch after rain, Edrich batted for 162 mins against Lillee, Thommo and Max Walker - no helmets or armguards then

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Derek Pringle

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2 years

Some Test wins are more deserving than others but England’s victory over Pakistan in Rawalpindi, on a comatose pitch, must be one of their worthiest…👏👊🏏☄️

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Derek Pringle

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5 years

I felt that final lbw v Stokes was missing leg when saw it live. V surprised when Hawkeye had it hitting middle&leg. Lyon did not turn it enough from angle he bowled from to achieve that. I think predictive path fooled a bit after it deviated off Stokes front pad

Mark Waugh

@juniorwaugh349

5 years

@lukebhatia @derekpringle Poor umpiring has been part of the game but shouldn’t we try and make it better if we can.

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

4 years

Fabulous achievement by Ishant Sharma to play 100 Tests - fast bowling in India is tough and generally thankless...

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@derekpringle

5 years

Only a teensy bit snugger than 27 years ago when it soaked up the sweat and tears (no blood) from the '92 WCup final..

Adam Collins

@collinsadam

5 years

The brilliant @derekpringle wearing his ORIGINAL kit from the 1992 @cricketworldcup Final. Catch him on our @1116sen call of the game, live from Lord’s at 10:15am. #CWC19

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

1 year

Great win by England…..keeps Ashes alive. Refine Bazball further and the urn could yet be ours….

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

4 years

It's great when players like Jimmy Anderson stick it to armchair critics like me for suggesting he should be saved for home Tests only in his dotage - 6-40 in the searing heat of Galle ...38 years young Jim

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Derek Pringle

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7 years

From one of the '92 Essex side heartiest congrats to Ryan ten Doeschate, Chris Silverwood & their mighty Essex team - County Champions again

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

8 years

Bangladesh's scorecard looks like the ones that used to occur when Wasim and Waqar were in their pomp #reverseswingthething

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

5 years

Great stats but JK was an even greater team mate. In my 11 years with him at Essex never saw him sulk, lose his rag or be anything other than supportive to those he played with. Proper human being...

Essex Cricket

@EssexCricket

5 years

🎂 Happy Birthday to Essex legend John Lever, who turns 7⃣1⃣ today! John stands at fourth in the all time wicket-taker list for Essex, with 1,473 first-class scalps at an average of 23.54, and helped the Club win 9 trophies between 1967 & 1989 👏 Have a great day John 🥳

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Derek Pringle

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4 years

Dan Lawrence showing what can be achieved with calm mind and organised technique....

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8 months

Tom Hartley takes 7- 62 which is a superb debut but Ollie Pope’s 196 in the 3rd inns won this Test for England….

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@derekpringle

2 months

Good guy Ken, and top umpire. Always cheery and up for a bit of gossip. Damned fine bowler too, though he was too modest to ever talk about it. RIP Ken…

Jack Russell MBE

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Always got on well with Kenny, top umpire Cricket man through and through He loved the game with a passion Thanks for the memories RIP Kenny

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Derek Pringle

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6 years

For those partial to trips down memory's narrowing lanes my book - "Pushing the Boundaries," a memoir of cricket in the 80s is published today #pushingtheboundaries

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Derek Pringle

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3 years

Tough and uncompromising as a cricketer Rod Marsh was blessed with a generous and mischievous spirit which made him most companionable. He will be so badly missed - RIP Bacchus

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Derek Pringle

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5 years

Third day's play in Lord's Tests usually dull but today 11wickets fallen, 38 runs scored in 95 balls. But seriously, is this the creme de la creme of red ball cricket?

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Derek Pringle

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4 years

Disagree about the toss. Had England batted first I doubt they'd have made 250 - this pitch designed to take toss out of it by turning from day one. Basically India back their spinners to outbowl ours...

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

8 years

Alastair Cook was not one of England's great captains but he was respected by team mates (well, all but one) and not every capt can say that

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3 months

Great final in an otherwise underwhelming tournament played on some crap pitches…

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

1 year

Greatest over I’ve seen by an England bowler……

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1 year

The law says you must have control of both ball and body, the latter was still in motion after taking catch..,, Starc was careless putting ball on deck while still in motion

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1 year

@derekpringle He took the catch cleanly as we all saw, in control and then the momentum carried him to the ground but.. the catch was completed well before that! How is that not out? I am a neutral here and having watched the game for over fifty years, that was just out

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Derek Pringle

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4 years

It's was Smith's scraping that was unacceptable, not the looking....same when in a gallery...look don't touch...

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4 years

You see it’s not only @stevesmith49 who shadow bats at the crease when he’s in the field! #AUSvsIND

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

6 years

They say leopards never change their spots what odds that Imran pulls Melania on his first state visit to the US?

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

3 years

Very poor show from ECB who have no idea how to deal with either those above them in International Cricket's pecking order or those below.....

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3 years

ECB wants the story to disappear. The only thing that has is the chairman, Ian Watmore, silent now for 5 days, one day longer than the tour was due to last

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5 years

Jason Roy faced 3 balls today all from Josh Hazlewood. The first, he swished at & missed. The second he pushed at & missed. The third, he hung his bat out at & nicked - good night nurse...his desire to get bat on ball too strong in circumstances where the leave the prudent option

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Derek Pringle

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8 years

Eoin Morgan has withdrawn from England's tour of Bangladesh citing his brush with a bomb in India. Yet it hasnt stopped him returning there

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6 years

Interesting Test squad. Lest we forget, England thrashed by India 18 months ago not because their batsmen were crap on turning pitches but because their spinners couldn't strike quickly enough on them. Now those spinners picked once more

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2 years

Advocates of the Biff Bang Pow approach to batting will disagree but I’ve enjoyed watching Zak Crawley battle with himself as well as South Africa’s bowlers - hopefully he’ll discover that grubby runs eked out when nothing feels right are still runs….

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Derek Pringle

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6 years

The two-minute standing ovation for Alastair Cook at the Oval shows what high esteem the English public hold him in. A great survivor, he is the only player from his debut in 2006 still playing international cricket - tho not for much longer

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4 years

Deeply saddened to hear of Graham Cowdrey's passing. A fine cricketer for Kent his abiding obsession was with the music of Van Morrison....'Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic'

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1 year

It’s been a rip-snorting series so I guess 2-2 is a fair but ironic scoreline, given it is England’s avowed intention to do away with draws of any kind….

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

4 years

Three quarter sprint over 20 yards, gather, small leap, then compress left side with front arm pull, right-arm follows, seam up, bit of swing or seam & measured scowl in follow-through..Jimmy Anderson did this 33,717 times to reach 600 Test wickets...dedication, fitness & talent

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Derek Pringle

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5 months

Great, great win by Essex over Warwickshire…….the perfect birthday present for former captain Keith Fletcher who pioneered this kind of against the odds victory

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Derek Pringle

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4 years

Brilliant knock from Pant but if roly poly Rishabh had been English he'd have needed to get his weight down and bleep test scores up before having any chance of being picked....

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1 year

Top effort from Mark Wood…… outright pace is ‘kin hard work but worth it as it tests everything in a batter from technique, ticker to the absorbability of their underwear…..

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1 year

Incredible achievement from Stuart Broad to take 600 Test wickets……the extended fitness for a tall pace bowler being the marvel as opposed to his skills which have always been apparent…

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Derek Pringle

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3 years

Very sad to hear of Mike Hendrick's passing...a terrific seam bowler for England, Derbyshire and Notts. Always a great team man his Gobi-dry humour kept many an England tour on track....

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Derek Pringle

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7 years

BTW for all those England players who bang on how crucial playing IPL is for improving their white ball game Pakistan barred from playing it

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@derekpringle

1 month

Thank goodness for Joe Root - one of the few able to resist a bit of line and length, which is about the extent of the trickery offered by Sri Lanka’s bowlers on the Lord’s slope….

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3 years

Have England a patience coach? Bowl three dot balls to Ollie Pope and you know a nibble will follow - needs to stifle that itch if he's going to fulfil his undoubted talent....

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1 year

Nasser and Dinesk Karthik discussing Anderson’s lack of bite but not mentioning the most obvious thing - he’s lost his outswinger and hasn’t bowled it to order for a while…without it batsmen can anticipate

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4 years

Fabulous win by England what a thriller...unexpected at five down with Woakes and Buttler to fore.....Test cricket at its absolute best...

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@derekpringle

5 years

One Goliath, one David, set to pasture and replaced by cheaper models so Sky can accumulate a war chest to combat BT's growing appetite for football - but that's the biz part of showbiz...

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@SkyCricket

5 years

"It has been extraordinary. What a year it's been and, dare I say it, what a 20 years it's been." The end of two magnificent innings as @BeefyBotham and @David215Gower sign off from the @SkyCricket commentary box.

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8 years

Travesty for James Taylor forced to quit cricket at 26 due to heart defect. V talented & different - will be much missed by all cricket fans

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2 years

Not just to fit it in but to give it dominion over everything else - it’s a mutant take over like the Triffids….

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2 years

Just to fit the Hundred in?

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6 years

Fantastic too that Sam Curran made man of the match. Incredible all-round performance for someone in only their second test and just 20 years old. His Dad, KC, would have been incredibly proud

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3 years

England's bowlers should be paid more than the batsmen for this Ashes series - clocking up many more work hours....

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3 years

Very saddened to hear of Alan Igglesden's passing. He was that rarity - a fine fast bowler whose laid back personality made him popular with both team mates and opponents. His long battle with a brain tumour was fortitude personified. RIP Iggy....

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4 years

Nick Knight explaining Ashwin's variations - hmmmm- stick to batting Knighty...

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4 years

Essex win the Bob Willis Trophy and once more take the accolade of best red ball team in England - hearty congratulations to Tom Westley and his team on a fine campaign....

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2 years

Mince is an apposite metaphor for the state of English domestic cricket at present.....

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2 years

@derekpringle not mincing his words in @MetroUK re no Test cricket for 5 years in August to indulge the “pampered child” @thehundred that “impersonates this great game” all the month to itself 👉🏾“an extraordinary act of self-harm by @ECB_cricket ” 👎🏾 #SaveTestCricket

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By ‘eck……Two Yorkshiremen umpiring the World Cup final….

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1 year

I’ve played many an ungainly shot but nothing this bad……. It’s Angus Fraser

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1 year

Watching the Ashes from a chilly Down Under and this is mentioned by @nassercricket . Is this you batting @derekpringle ?

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

3 years

Jasprit Bumrah only took two wickets in England's 2nd inns but it was the timing of those wickets ( just after lunch) that simultaneously made India believe and England to doubt...

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

8 months

Sad to hear of Mike Procter’s passing…… Proccy was one of the great all-rounders despite being denied the Test stage for most of his career….

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Derek Pringle

@derekpringle

1 year

Confident as ever Broad says tomorrow will be his last day of cricket……but there are 2 days left…

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