Why is Moeen Ali playing cricket for England ffs?

i dunno but ive heard of him. theres 3 players in there ive never heard of. i obviously dont watch enough crickeeeeet.

i dunno but ive heard of him. theres 3 players in there ive never heard of. i obviously dont watch enough crickeeeeet.

Actually many people have a better average in Test cricket than at county level, so we'll give him a chance. Joe Root is guiding him along nicely.

He's got a longer beard than W G Grace.

What other spin bowler would you pick?
Monty can't back for toffee

bat*

Vaughan and Tres had pretty poor FC averages before being picked for England.  The selectors saw something they liked and were proved right.

early days for him yet. a joke that he's supposedly our front line spinner though. probably get away with it against awful travellers like sri lanka. seems they ain't gonna pick monty again but they've gotta decide who our next best spinner is and play him

india and jaya and sanga for that matter will no doubt treat ali's bowling with the contempt it deserves

John Emburey got me out once - give him a chance.

I reckon he's a stop gap to "do a job" whilst the selectors allow the potential spin candidates to prove themselves and stick their proverbial hand up and shout pick me.  I very much doubt that Ali (or Root for that matter) will be number one spinner in next year's ashes contest.

To many chiefs not enough indians.

i may have been just slightly guilty of jumping in too early an incredible improvement from those early matches

Just watched the highhlights and i have worked out the reason for his success.  He sticks both arms out like doing a waist up star jump as he goes into the delivery stride and it puts the batsmen off.

10 wickets in a match and scored 87 in the first innings,not bad.

Just a shame he supports Sharia Law isn't it?

Does he?  Why would you say that?

Why would you tell a lie like that aasbff?

I miss kenny mann. I think a ban now is permanent with no chance of parole

Kenny will be consoling himself in the bosom of one of his chicks.
But agree, a big loss to the forum.

India's gain

je suis canny

kenny mann 12 Jun 14 14:25 Joined: 29 Apr 10 | Topic/replies: 35,523 | Blogger: kenny mann's blog
His first class batting average is not bad at an average of 38, but his 100 plus wickets have cost him 40 each!



Bizarrely this is pretty much now his record in test cricket, batting average 35 and 100 test wicket at 40

kenny knew