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Eh? It wouldn't be an issue with female coaches or players as they'd be used to saying batters anyway.

I've been using it since I became coach of a junior team that boys and girls in it. I've started saying batters ever since. There are women playing adult league cricket now, so I suspect that I'm not the only person who's modified his language.

Blimey, Graeme Swann has just mentioned Ben Brown as an England possible, first time that I've ever seen his name mentioned in an England context. I wonder if he was thinking about someone else, as he was talking about young batsmen and Brown's nearly 30. It wouldn't shock me to see Wells get a...

Not sure that the departures of RHB and Prior were on the cards, they were relatively young - you can't predict injuries. And it also couldn't predict what happened to poor Matthew Holden - he'd have been well established by now. But, yes, Davis was a bad call and dumping Nash was bonkers. The...

An average of 31 is not great - and that's boosted by a double ton against us on an Edgbaston road. And a ton for the students against a second XI attack. To be fair, Rawlins looks a pretty decent prospect and people at Hove are really hopeful of Haines but they're awfully young - not really...

Yeah maybe, I could be being harsh on him. His average was boosted by a daddy hundred against a Notts team already on the beach, but even without that he'd have an average of around 40. Let's see if he can do it in the second season. Sussex are also without Rawlins for this match, he may well...

Yes but Brown is one of our decent batsmen. Basically, we have Wells, van Zyl and Brown (and perhaps Wright if he can stop getting out for breezy 20s). If these three fail, we're in the deep brown sticky stuff. And this is a score against an attack that's probably not 2nd XI standard.

Yeah, none of the Kolpaks are here and we're missing the IPL players but the only batsman we're missing is van Zyl. The side we're picking against Loughbrough includes Salt (first full season), Finch (who's not been a success despite several chances, average last year 22), Burgess (the reserve...

... currently 41-3 to the Loughbrough kids were loose