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Apr 12 2011
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Why Adil Rashid’s 11 wickets prove he is not ready for International cricket

Before last week there were people lining up on every street corner in the UK explaining why Adil wasn’t ready for International cricket.

They generally pointed to the fact he was a roller not a spinner, that his consistency was poor, that he had a bad attitude and that he just needed to grow up a bit before he was considered a real international player.

Then he took 11 wickets, and some people saw this as proof he was now ready for international cricket.

They are wrong.

Here are the main reasons he is still not ready.

  • The England team wants a back up to Swanny, not a star. Taking 11 wickets over qualifies him for that position.
  • 11 wickets just proves that Adil is all about personal achievements and not team goals. Kent still won with Tredwell only taking 2/52, you don’t have to steal the headlines.
  • Sure he took 11 wickets, but he only made four, he just doesn’t bring enough facets of variety to the side. James Middlebrook might have only taken 3/138 in the match, but he made a hundred, Adil should look into that.
  • 11 wickets, means 11 wicket celebrations, which means 11 ways to show what a bad attitude he has.
  • Danny Briggs’ 5 wicket haul was for well over a hundred runs, showing that he had the fortitude to really ride out a long innings in a patient way. Unlike Adil who showed no patience at all and tried to get through the opposition as quick as possible.
  • Adil doesn’t show the innate class of a Batty or Dalrymple.
  • There was a real lack of maturity in his appealing, it lacked respect for the batsmen he had bamboozled.
  • Monty would have made his 11 wickets feel less obtrusive.
  • Clearly Adil is still a roller of the ball with little control, if the ball fizzed more he wouldn’t need 11 wicket hauls to get noticed.
  • Worcestershire are one of the weaker top Division teams, their batting is made of green jelly, and they all expected to collapse to pace and not spin. Confusing them when Adil came on.
  • Azeem Rafiq would have pushed his case on twitter.

11 wickets is ok, Adil, but there is no need to show off.

This is cricket, show a bit of respect for your elders, the opposition and the spirit of cricket.

No one likes a show off.

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Sep 23 2010
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England discriminate against Adil Rashid

For too long this has gone on, and no one in the media has had the courage to speak out.

I can’t stand by anymore, I need to talk about it.

We all know the reason Adil Rashid is not playing for England, and it shouldn’t be hidden away.

It is because England discriminate against leg spinners.

Talk to anyone in English cricket and they talk about legspinners like they all have an attitude or behavioural problem.

The coaches say they are hard to deal with.

The other players say they can’t be trusted.

And the selectors believe they are weak under pressure.

This sort of ugly discrimination is doing nothing for English cricket, and the ECB should act.

English cricket should be for everyone, and not just for those who happen to be born as non leg spinners.

No one should be treated differently just because it comes out the back of their hands. That aint right.

These legists need to be outed from the English cricket culture, so that all players, regardless of their wrist spin, can make it to the top level.

This sort of institutional bigotry should not be tolerated, and if the ECB won’t clean out these old school idiots, then the ICC should ban them from the world of cricket for a few years until they learn to use all their players, and not just the non wrist spinning ones.

If you have a son or daughter in England right now who bowls wrist spin, tell them to switch to cricket’s rubbish skill, finger spin, because I can’t see how this archaic cricket institution will ever change.

Cricket is not a game for everyone in the UK, just the lucky few.

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Jul 02 2009
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Adil & Montybot, better than Nathan, but no Swannie

I desperately want Adil Rashid to be good, and he can bowl, but yesterday was not one of his good days.

The Australians scored off him so easily at times I thought I was watching an Australian spinner.

He had good control, some nice variation, and seemed to have confidence, but he looked pretty unthreatening at all times.

His bowling around the wicket to the left handers seemed to be based on a personal preference or some coach showing him a pitch map to Australian left handers, but it just did not work.

Yet he plugged away there almost all day, and being that Katich, Hussey and Johnson were they only three batsmen to make any runs, he spent most of his time bowling around the wicket. Other than a half tracker that didn’t deserve a wicket, but should have been caught, he never looked likely to succeed.

In his current form, and against a team of left handers, Adil does not look more likely to take more wickets than Bresnan, Harmy or Onions.

He probably looks more likely to take wickets than Montybot, but Montybot has had a mental break down.

Once Mushtaq tried to teach how Montybot how to think and bowl, his world crumbled. This year his county figures are pure horror.  6 matches for 6 wickets at 86.

Kill it.

And he played at Cardiff the worlds spiniest non subbie pitch (no, it’s not) taking him 2 for 149.

So Adil is a young struggling leggie who’s better than Nathan, but not test standard, and Montybot is a badly programmed bowler who is better than Nathan, but playing just as bad.

Australia will be hoping one of them gets picked.

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May 29 2009
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Why Adil is better than Freddie

England has decided on Adil Rashid to replace Freddie Flintoff for the world twenty20 thingy.

I know there are some out there that think this is a bad thing, it really isn’t.

Reasons why Adil rocks and Freddie flounders

Adil is a leggie; Freddie is not.

Adil gives the commentators 9.09% more chance of saying a batsman is wristy when England bat; Freddie doesn’t bat long enough these days for the commentators to say anything.

Adil gives good back rubs, Freddie has rough hands.

Adil’s selection means that we might see a cricketer moonwalk on the field, Freddie can only do the Robot.

Adil is cute and lovable; Freddie is cumbersome and fragile.

Adil deserves a chance to be more than a team mascot; Freddie would look great in a giant bulldog suit.

Adil is fit; Freddie is Freddie.

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Dec 10 2008
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England go all rainbow coalition and wristy on us

Apparently there is to be a test series between England and India.

Although, nationality boundaries are so broad these days that this could end up being a tour of a combined professional cricketers XI vs India.

England have Saffas, Indians, Pakistanis, Australians and Danes over there.

Plus Graeme Swann, who is a spider from mars.

England have recently added to their squad, one officially, and one unofficially.

The official one is Amjad Khan, who sounds like he should be slaying people in a David Lean film.

He is a quick from Kent, and while not the quick from Kent I would pick (Proud passionate paid up supporter of Robbie Joseph), still a pretty decent quick bowler.

The unofficial squad member is Adil Rashid.

Potential CWB cult figure.

Part Pakistani, Part Yorkshirian, and all Leggie.

I am not sure what an unofficial squad member does, other than not pose for the group tour photo.

What these two men do have in common is their browness, and not from tanning, but from ancestry in the subbie.

While South Africa masturbates all over the quota system, England just get the job done.

Shah, Monty, Bopara, Dimi and Patel have played in recent times.

Robbie Joseph also could not be far away.

And in county cricket there are other non whites in the mix.

It could be a racial extravaganza.

An orgy of religions and skin tones.

Like Woodstock, except not as well marketed.

Ofcourse Khan and Rashid may still be a way off, and someone more cynical, like me, may even suggest that England has:

a) Run out of white players willing to go to the subbie
b) Run out of players they think can perform in the subbie
c) Have a variant of jungle fever, known as the curry cough

or

d) Wanted the commentators to be able to say wristy more often

This is a good time to be brown in England.

Look at Mushie, can barely speak English, has a multi coloured beard, and follows a religion that makes most people think of exploding trains, and yet is gainfully employed on a part time basis by the ECB.

Is that not what we all want, brown middle age men working part time for Giles Clarke.

What a wonderful world it will be.

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Sep 29 2008
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pick this

Australia hasn’t played a match against India yet.

England has already picked their test squad for India.

The tour is in December, but fuck me England are prepared.

Squad Andrew Strauss, Alastair Cook, Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen (capt), Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Owais Shah, Matt Prior (wk), Tim Ambrose (wk), Graeme Swann, Stuart Broad, Steve Harmison, James Anderson, Ryan Sidebottom, Monty Panesar

There were only three decisions.

Back up Spinner, Keeper, and Vaughan’s replacement.

The Spinners

Monty has been picked, because he is like Yao Ming in an NBA allstar game, an automatic selection.

The back up spinner is Graeme Swann.

A man I just watched bowl for a whole day on a turning pitch against Hampshire for one wicket.

Sure he is cool, has a chin that Roger Ramjet would be proud of, and everyone likes to tour with him, but why is he going?

Adil Rashid, the first English legspinner I have ever rated, and possibly the last, has taken 62 wickets @ 30 this year.

Swann didn’t have a bad year, but he is not much of wicket taker, 30 wickets @ 26.

He seems to have been chosen under the Ashley Giles selection policy.

“Sure he doesn’t take many wickets, but he can bat a bit, and everyone likes him, so lets take him along. “

Rashid is too risky to be the backup spinner according to the english.

So he will play second XI cricket.

Graeme Swann is never going to be England’s test spinner, unless he develops a doosra, or some other mystery ball.

And do England really need to take two finger spinners who aren’t big wicket takers.

No they don’t.

Don’t fear the wrist spinner England, this aint no Ian Salisbury.

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