by Durhamfootman » Sat Apr 21, 2018 8:00 pm
poor preparation is certainly true, but he presumably arranges the preparation. Perhaps he was just unfortunate..... the chances of it raining in March were probably fairly remote.
Perhaps while we are helping Big Ottis and Benks to develop test players for SA by providing them with a taster of the challenging conditions they'll need to learn how to overcome later in their careers, CSA can reciprocate and help us to organise some pre season warm up's in South Africa where it might not rain quite so much
I'm trying to remember how many years it has been since we had any warm up matches at all (apart from the Uni game), but sadly my brain doesn't go that far back.
We used to complain that our only pre season match involved us skittling the students for 19. Nowadays they retire themselves out when they get to 76 and then sportingly declare to give us a chance to have a bat
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