[Cricket] "I'm a retired professional cricketer..."

A1X

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Deepest, darkest Sussex

• Nov 3, 2020

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As seen this morning on an anonymous "confession" account on the Twitters

[TWEET]1323541683636764677[/TWEET]

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen...

 

Chicken Run

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Valley of Hangleton

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"I'm a retired professional cricketer..."

A1X said:

As seen this morning on an anonymous "confession" account on the Twitters

[TWEET]1323541683636764677[/TWEET]

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen...

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The Irish Chicken Farmer?

Boyd Rankin

 

vegster

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Gavin Hamilton, ex-Durham and partially Scottish, would fit the bill, you know what Jocks are like.

 

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big nuts

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vegster said:

Gavin Hamilton, ex-Durham and partially Scottish, would fit the bill, you know what Jocks are like.

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Or Boyd Rankin. Wouldn’t like to think it’s Ed Joyce.

Or what about Darren Pattinson the one test wonder who was an Aussie. His selection was controversial.

It’s says picked a handful of times but does that include Lions matches I wonder?

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

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Kevin Pietersen?

 

Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker

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Sussex by the Sea

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Beefy?

 

Bold Seagull

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Tom Hark said:

Kevin Pietersen?

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He fits the bill other than the 'played a handful of times'.

 

GT49er

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• Nov 3, 2020

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A1X said:

As seen this morning on an anonymous "confession" account on the Twitters

[TWEET]1323541683636764677[/TWEET]

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen...

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Too many potential runners and riders to start guessing.

 

Bold Seagull

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big nuts said:

Or Boyd Rankin. Wouldn’t like to think it’s Ed Joyce.

Or what about Darren Pattinson the one test wonder who was an Aussie. His selection was controversial.

It’s says picked a handful of times but does that include Lions matches I wonder?

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Boyd played a T20, I think it was 3 ODIs and 1 test match for England - so does fit the 'handful of times'.

 

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big nuts

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Could also be cricketers with Pakistani or Indian roots e.g Kabir Ali, Min Patel or Saj Mahmood.

Did they choose England, so as not to be considered an overseas player or were just not good enough for those sides and took the chance for international honours with England.

 

GT49er

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big nuts said:

Could also be cricketers with Pakistani or Indian roots e.g Kabir Ali, Min Patel or Saj Mahmood.

Did they choose England, so as not to be considered an overseas player or were just not good enough for those sides and took the chance for international honours with England.

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Could just as easily be a Saffer - gawd knows how many of those there are to choose from!

 

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blockhseagull

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Martin McCague

 

Scappa

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Nick Compton? Jason Gallian? Michael Lumb? Owais Shah?

 

Taybha

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Uwantsumorwat

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I've seen Yootha trying to text so it's not him

 

keaton

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big nuts said:

Could also be cricketers with Pakistani or Indian roots e.g Kabir Ali, Min Patel or Saj Mahmood.

Did they choose England, so as not to be considered an overseas player or were just not good enough for those sides and took the chance for international honours with England.

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It would explain a lot about Saj Mahmood's performances if he enjoys England losing

 

Braggfan

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Is Boyd Rankin retired? Doesn't he still play for Ireland?

 

Bold Seagull

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Scappa said:

Nick Compton? Jason Gallian? Michael Lumb? Owais Shah?

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Compton played 16 tests I think. Didn't Gallian as captain of Notts smash KPs kit all round the dressing room when KP asked to leave? Top man.

Shah played 71 ODIs so can't be him.

 

Braggfan

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Kieswetter?

 

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This is one of the reasons why we should drastically cut down on our habit of importing foreigners to play for our country

 

Scappa

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Bold Seagull said:

Compton played 16 tests I think. Didn't Gallian as captain of Notts smash KPs kit all round the dressing room when KP asked to leave? Top man.

Shah played 71 ODIs so can't be him.

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Pretty sure it was LUZZED out of a window on the second floor of the Trent Bridge pavilion