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Cricket returning to the Olympics.
I hadn't spent long thinking about this,
apasrt from an impious thought of adopting the Timeless Test format as an antidote to
T20/ThUndred.Recent TMS podcast revealed an adminstrative problem,
The 'West Indies' could not compete,
(as in the 'United Kingdom' gets split down in the Commonwealth games).Can the ICC find a way to avoid giving full status to each nation state in the Caribbean?
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Anyone after a ticket for Day two of England v India at Headingley? Face Value £65. I am sadly likely to be too ill to make it. Is a PDF ticket. Upper North East Block 0, this Thursday 26/8.
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I don't know if it is logistically/administratively possible, but I'd be looking to find spots for Crawley, Sibley, Lawrence, and Pope in the Ranji Trophy/Sheffield Shield this winter, with the understanding that they could be recalled by England as emergency cover if necessary. Australia have done similar when touring here for the ashes, you'd hope it could be accommodated and the players, if serious about red-ball careers, would be up for it. This ashes, if it goes ahead at all, is no proving ground for players with suspect techniques/temperaments and I'd rather lean on Malan, Burns, Bairstow and Buttler for now. I also hope Stokes and Woakes will be fit/available/happy. I'd honestly rather Jason Roy comes back and tries to smash it than have to watch Sibley get dismantled again. Hameed has these India games to try to make a claim for a spot, but if he continues in the current vein I'd be asking Malan/Bairstow/Moeen to do it. They can't do any worse, and have the experience to handle it. Or at least handle it better.