Good Bowlers are from the North, good Batsmen from the South

Plechazunga

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Laker, Larwood, Trueman, Statham, Willis, Gough, Flintoff, Harmison*, Hoggard

Hobbs, Compton, Barrington, Cowdrey, Gower, Gooch, Gatting :D, Botham, Stewart, Trescothick

Hammond was born in Natal...that's pretty fecking far south. Same goes for Robin Smith, Lamb and Hick :lol:, Strauss, Pieterson and fecking Jones

Underwood, Vaughn, Hutton and Boycott are the major exceptions. And I've cheated by putting Flintoff in the bowlers and Botham in the batsmen

Discuss this obviously rubbish theory, cnuts





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It's bollocks. Phil Neville is from the North.
 
If you call Jones a good batsman then you are deluded beyond belief.
 
Collingwood is from Durham isn't he? also isn't Atherton from the north?
 
Another, less wrong, way of putting it is, 'All of England's best bowlers exept Underwood have come from the North'.

Probably because to be a bowler you need grit, heart, soul, character, and a drunk father who hits you with a bat

Where's fecking Spoony when you need someone to back you up solely on the basis of regional bias?
 
Explains the lack of scouse cricketers seeing as they have no grit, heart, soul, character or a father to beat them down.
 
John Emburey, Phil Edmonds, Angus Fraser, Neil Foster, Graham Dilley, Simon Jones...
 
Emburey can feck off, as can Foster...FFS, as can Dilley. I mean, I've refrained from putting cocking Jarvis in...Jesus

Gus was world number 1 as I recall at one point, and has decent figures, but let's face it, he basically wasn't that good

Edmonds and Jones are/were good, wouldn't call them great by any stretch
 
Plechazunga said:
Emburey can feck off, as can Foster...FFS, as can Dilley

Gus was world number 1 as I recall at one point, and has decent figures, but let's face it, he basically wasn't that good

Edmonds and Jones are/were good, wouldn't call them great by any stretch
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Doesn't your thread title say GOOD bowlers and GOOD batsmen?:wenger:
 
Plechazunga said:
Emburey can feck off, as can Foster...FFS, as can Dilley. I mean, I've refrained from putting cocking Jarvis in...Jesus

Gus was world number 1 as I recall at one point, and has decent figures, but let's face it, he basically wasn't that good

Edmonds and Jones are/were good, wouldn't call them great by any stretch
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Hoggard and Harmison can feck off too, then.
 
Plechazunga said:
I mean, I've refrained from putting cocking Jarvis in...Jesus
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I was about to point out what a class act he was until I checked his stats on Cricinfo and realised that he was, in fact, rubbish.

He was great in India in 93 though.
 
Plechazunga said:
Laker, Larwood, Trueman, Statham, Willis, Gough, Flintoff, Harmison*, Hoggard

Hobbs, Compton, Barrington, Cowdrey, Gower, Gooch, Gatting :D, Botham, Stewart, Trescothick

Hammond was born in Natal...that's pretty fecking far south. Same goes for Robin Smith, Lamb and Hick :lol:, Strauss, Pieterson and fecking Jones

Underwood, Vaughn, Hutton and Boycott are the major exceptions. And I've cheated by putting Flintoff in the bowlers and Botham in the batsmen

Discuss this obviously rubbish theory, cnuts





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Botham's from a town near the Wirral, Cheshire, I think. His parents were originally from Yorkshire. Although he grew up down south.

Fairbrother's from Manchester. And he was a class batsman. Better than Strauss(cough), Hick(cough), Gatting and some other batsman that actually made the grade. Er. . . Vaughan's not bad. He was born in Manchester and grew up in Sheffield. Another one for the North. Atherton too, Failsworth, Manchester (Already mentioned though).

But yeah rubbish theory. Although the North seems to have produced most of England's quality seamers.
 
sincher said:
John Emburey, Phil Edmonds, Angus Fraser, Neil Foster, Graham Dilley, Simon Jones...
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All pretty naff. Edmonds is a Zimbo, like many of our best cricketers. Even though, I liked him, he wasn't actually all that good.
 
I loved Fairborther. Never got the look-in he should have at test level - can you imagine if they'd invested in him the way they have in the likes of Bell and Strauss?

Quality player for about a decade.
 
He never got a fair crack. I don't understand why. For some reason they pigeon-holed him as one day player. But he was so much better than that. I think he had the lot. Just wasn't given a good run. Always brought in when England were playing shite. . .and seemed to be the first one to get the chop.

Fools. What a waste.
 
Plechazunga said:
Emburey can feck off, as can Foster...FFS, as can Dilley. I mean, I've refrained from putting cocking Jarvis in...Jesus

Gus was world number 1 as I recall at one point, and has decent figures, but let's face it, he basically wasn't that good

Edmonds and Jones are/were good, wouldn't call them great by any stretch
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don't skit gus, he was awesome when he first came on the international scene, pace, movement in the air and off the seam, but got injured and was never the same again, but still became a great line and length bowler who could be counted on in any situation, and still pull fantastic performances out the bag.
 
Fraser only ever got as high as number 5 in the ranks. According to the official website. Surprisingly he was actually born in Wigan!

He wasn't bad. . .just your stand line and length bowler really. And he was just a tad over medium pace even during his peak. I don't recall him ever having movement in the air nevermind pace.
 
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Spoony said:
Fraser only ever got as high as number 5 in the ranks. According to the official website. Surprisingly he was actually born in Wigan!
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Feck, why didn't you tell me that before I disqualified him

I'm fairly sure he had the world's best averages at some point in the mid-nineties
 
Plechazunga said:
Laker, Larwood, Trueman, Statham, Willis, Gough, Flintoff, Harmison*, Hoggard

Hobbs, Compton, Barrington, Cowdrey, Gower, Gooch, Gatting :D, Botham, Stewart, Trescothick

Hammond was born in Natal...that's pretty fecking far south. Same goes for Robin Smith, Lamb and Hick :lol:, Strauss, Pieterson and fecking Jones

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Colin Cowdrey was born in India! ;)
 
Spoony said:
Derek Randall (notts). David Lloyd(accrington). They were good batsmen.
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One of the most underated batsman to play for England.
I remember the 170+ he scored in the Centenary Test in Australia in temperatures over 100 Degrees.
He used to talk to himself and encourage himself, this really pissed off Lilley and Thompson.
He was also one of the best fielders I've ever seen.
 
Plechazunga said:
Feck, why didn't you tell me that before I disqualified him

I'm fairly sure he had the world's best averages at some point in the mid-nineties
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I doubt it. Ambrose, Waqar. . .just to name a couple were averaging in the late teens, early 20's during Fraser's peak. Gus averaged around 25 during that time. I think he finished his career with an average around 28. He had an amazing first tour to the Windies, I seem to recall.
 
Plechazunga said:
Laker, Larwood, Trueman, Statham, Willis, Gough, Flintoff, Harmison*, Hoggard

Hobbs, Compton, Barrington, Cowdrey, Gower, Gooch, Gatting :D, Botham, Stewart, Trescothick

Hammond was born in Natal...that's pretty fecking far south. Same goes for Robin Smith, Lamb and Hick :lol:, Strauss, Pieterson and fecking Jones

Underwood, Vaughn, Hutton and Boycott are the major exceptions. And I've cheated by putting Flintoff in the bowlers and Botham in the batsmen

Discuss this obviously rubbish theory, cnuts





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Mike Atherton
 
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