Derek Pringle
@derekpringle
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Former cricketer who writes for Metro and The Cricket Paper. Author of "Pushing the Boundaries - Cricket in the 80s" https://t.co/j7jznVxtOa..
6 Leagues from the Isle of Ely
Joined October 2010
Listing to Sky comms on Test match and MarkButcher’s reference to Rolling Stones’ ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ going straight over Nasser Hussain’s smooth head….
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RT @TheCricketPaper: ✍️ @derekpringle highlights the perils of 'Bazball', and the ruses England have tried to use at Edgbaston in the field….
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Also, really tiring England out with Lord’s Test in just five sleeps time….
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It’s a cunning ploy, humiliating England into playing for the draw…. their defensive play rank compared to their offensive play. .
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Yes, if they were trying give more time to their bowlers rather than less time to England’s batters, who remember, don’t play for draws….
@derekpringle But with 6 wickets left and a flat pitch thought they’d try and push it on a bit quicker .🤷♀️.
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Ian Ward says he can’t understand why India taking time out of the game…. Well, England’s stated aim that they don’t play for draws mean they’ll go for anything, so make it steep ……500 in 120 overs.
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The irony is that it was Gavaskar’s last Test in England and he’d been interviewed before the innings by Peter West who’d made great play of Gavaskar’s judgment of his off-stump…. hey presto he leaves one and it clunks into off-stump.
#July4.SUNIL GAVASKAR b DEREK PRINGLE 29 .ENGLAND v INDIA .3rd TEST MATCH .DAY 2 .EDGBASTON .JULY 4 1986.India had reached 58-1 in their first innings, 332 behind. ---.@derekpringle .via @YouTube
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Respect to Mohd Siraj and India’s other bowlers to dismiss England in under 90 overs on a shirtfront without Jasprit Bumrah….
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Indeed, but just about every county bar Yorkshire had top player or two in 80s….
@derekpringle And the 1970s , especially from the Caribbean.
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You’re right though, 1980s a high point for overseas talent which raised standards no end….
@derekpringle Quick question. Given the popularity of Test cricket here, is it possible to get more of the worlds best players to play red-ball County Championship cricket ?. I’m just harking back to the 70s/80s perhaps and guessing the answers ‘no, as long as we have 100/T20 comps’.
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Doubt it, even if there was enough space in international itineraries top players would want top money the domestic game doesn’t really have despite the recent sale of The Hundred franchises….
@derekpringle Quick question. Given the popularity of Test cricket here, is it possible to get more of the worlds best players to play red-ball County Championship cricket ?. I’m just harking back to the 70s/80s perhaps and guessing the answers ‘no, as long as we have 100/T20 comps’.
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Short and wide and kerching…. Jaiswal c Smith b Stokes ……. Beefy’s true heir golden arm and all.
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Wimbledon was on the dressing-room telly…. .
#July2.BAD LIGHT DECISION - TO BAT OR NOT TO BAT? .ENGLAND v WEST INDIES .2nd TEST MATCH.DAY 4 .LORD'S .JULY 2 1984.---.@derekpringle .@AllanLamb294 .@David215Gower .via @YouTube
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Enter Beefy, swinging….
#June30.ENGLAND v WEST INDIES.2nd TEST MATCH.DAY 3.LORD'S.JUNE 30 1984.West Indies resumed on day 3 at 119-3 in their first innings, 167 behind. @ivivianrichards 60*. Clive Lloyd 32*. -.@David215Gower.@BeefyBotham.@derekpringle.@AllanLamb294 .via @YouTube
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Awash and empty cans…. a contradiction only Tuffers could explain….
@derekpringle Think he was Tufnells first room mate. Came back to the room with the hotel room floor awash with empty cans.
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RT @toffeedoug: @DavidBritten5 @derekpringle What a joy it was, on a Larkins good day, to see bowlers get "nedded" and not be able to do an….
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RT @BrucePatterson3: @derekpringle Was lucky enough to watch him up close in a B&H game as he scored a sublime 100 against us. He just made….
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RT @DavidBritten5: @derekpringle I once saw him hit a 6 on to the old hotel end roof in a Sunday league game just nonchalantly flicking the….
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