What a quality fellow
I knew many like him at school, they were mostly the bullies though. Very sad when a child can be harrassed so much that he wishes to become like those who abuse him *cough*Rory*cough*

Very well thank you sir. Tell me of this bat your GF has kindly bought you.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:16, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

He's an only child, spoiled by parents, then beaten shitless at school as a result.
And it's not taught him any lessons at all. How he's made it to his late 30s without getting a cricket stump up his rusty sheriff's badge is quite beyond me.

Edit: the parallels with Rory seem uncanny, come to mention it.

She bought me a Kookaburra Kahuna 300. Over a hundred quid's worth. She does crazy shit like that. She bought me a load of kit for my last birthday - new boots, kit bag, pads, gloves, the works. She's nuts, but actually awesome.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:21, Reply)

A Kahuna 300?!
At the risk of exceeding the acceptable level of geekery, surely that's the Firebolt of the non-izarding world. You are a lucky fellow. Although you realise she'll be buying herself a better one soon enough.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:24, Reply)

Funnily enough,
She's bought herself some kit as well! She's been in the nets a few times, and played a couple of times as well. Sunday was the first time she'd batted though. She was out for a duck bless her, but she hung around for a couple of overs.

She's bought quite a cool 'ladies' bat. It's a Newbery Chic or something like that. Quite girly with a pink handle - you'd love it! ;-)
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:27, Reply)

KP uses a pink handled bat too

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:30, Reply)

And often bats like a girl.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:34, Reply)

Unfair
He never bats like a girl, he always bats like a bloke. Sometimes that bloke is an absolute dickhead, that's all
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:37, Reply)

Well that's true - I was just being flippant
His technique is essentially flawed, and he's not really addressed it.

Ally Cook had technical failings, addressed them, and hasn't looked back. KP would do well to learn from that.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:39, Reply)

Cook is batting superbly at the moment
On current form he must be the best opening batsman in the world, if the world were reconfigured to not include India. And you're quite right about KP, he seems to have deemed the most simple lesson of batting - leave the good balls, punish the bad ones - unimportant to a man of his considerable gifts.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:45, Reply)

Exactly
If this was his first year in international cricket he'd have been dropped before now, but because he's "established" then he gets away with it.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:51, Reply)

And there are very few middle-order batsmen in the world, let alone England
who can score runs like he can when he's on form.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 11:02, Reply)

Yes but his periods of form are becoming few and far between.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 8 Jun 2011, 11:07, Reply)

Agreed
He needs to re-evaluate his batsmanship if he wants to claim a place as one of the game's greats. And I think we all know he does.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 11:12, Reply)