BG I’d love Test Match Special with you and Boycott doing the afternoon session. You both really know your stuff.
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Our man [MENTION=24635]Greg Bobkin[/MENTION] has met BGg. Had nothing bad to say at all.......despite my prodding.
Likewise. I have nobody on ignore. Give em enough rope etc.
I’ve no doubt he’s a nice old chap and he’s completely aware of what he’s posting. He is massively negative on the England cricket team though.........
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He answered my query about usb memory sticks some years ago and dropped some off for me. My very first encounter with them and he was a perfect gentleman.
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I am n ot really as I have said I was brought up on Denis Compton Cyril Washbrook Peter May etc so expect our batsmen to be able to compare with them and our bowlers to Laker, Lock Snow etc and get frustrated when they do not. I think that it is down to too many limited over games. I think that Bairstow epitomizes that good limited over opener but cannot even bat at no 7 or 8 for the test team.
Most of us are truth be told.
But BG. NONE of those great players of their time would last ten seconds in the current era.
It's like comparing football players from different eras.
It's not the same game. I prefer to enjoy the now rather than incomparable comparisons from yesteryear.
Little bit before my time (Botham, Willis, Edmunds, Embury etc more my formative years). Our current lineup is massively frustrating....talent is there but application sometimes isn’t. I wouldn’t call Root out though as you often do, he’s immense.
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Why would they not has the batting and bowling technique changed? Those batsmen mentioned pitted their wits against bowlers as fast as todays with just a cap on and a bat in their hands no fancy helmets and padding. If they got hit it hurt but they carried on. The bowlers like Laker and Lock relied on craft and even as recent as Swann he did the same. Footballers are different as the fitness levels now are greater.
Yeah ok. It's exactly the same.
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Not being facetious and just asking as I do not know. If one of the knowledgeable ones can explain the difference I would be pleased to hear it.
Fred Trueman would simply knock their bloody blocks off. Simple.
Thommo was the quickest apparently. But he got slaughtered the night before to bowl better with a hangover.
Training and skill has improved, so (as you know dazzer) it's a different game.
Go away BG. You already said you have no idea about cricket. If you saw the way kids train now then maybe you'd understand. The skill level is off the scale compared to the 60's/70's.
My son's U13-U16 team would give Boycott & Co a game. The current England team would DESTROY them.
Try talking to anyone at a club.
Yeah, I think batsmen from a previous era would do fine. Not only have modern cricketers got more protection, they're also batting on covered wickets and have much better bats. The idea that someone like Bradman would struggle in modern cricket is laughable.
Bowlers of about 40+ years ago may struggle however - pitches are better and they get less help from the weather.
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I will leave it now but I can understand them being fitter etc but not the ability to hit the ball through the covers or square cut.