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Replying to newblue   16:49, Wed 30 Jul
He did, but he's now had 5 days rest I think he'll go again.
There's too much opinion and not enough fact.
Replying to newblue   17:50, Wed 30 Jul
Don’t you love any of the England players FB?

Not fond of hooray fecking henrys. Can tolerate Root and Brook.

Happy to see the Indians refusing to take shit.
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Replying to Holdsworth_MaraSonner   18:20, Wed 30 Jul
Liked it. Don’t agree with the end bit about England becoming more unpopular though. I love the way we are playing Test cricket now and you have demurred somewhat, but it has made it (under Stokes) a more compelling spectacle. And as they say, far too much had been made over fairly small things.
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Replying to Fat Buddha OBE   18:23, Wed 30 Jul
Fat Buddha OBE
Don’t you love any of the England players FB?

Not fond of hooray fecking henrys. Can tolerate Root and Brook.

Happy to see the Indians refusing to take shit.

You’re talking shite now Buddha. Stokes and McCullum are the antithesis of that. If anything, the people who ‘make it’ in India and Australia tend to be posher than those.
Replying to Fat Buddha OBE   18:34, Wed 30 Jul
Fat Buddha OBE
No. You are talking shite.

Nasty fecker

Indeed. The life stories of Pant, Deep, Siraj, Jaiswal, Jadeja and Shardul just off the top of my head are founded on great adversity.
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Replying to Holdsworth_MaraSonner   18:51, Wed 30 Jul
A lot of them aren’t. Cricket is a middle and upper class game and as much (if not more ) in Australia and India.
Replying to newblue   19:07, Wed 30 Jul
newblue
A lot of them aren’t. Cricket is a middle and upper class game and as much (if not more ) in Australia and India.

Who specifically in the current India team? I’ve given you 6 names.
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Replying to Holdsworth_MaraSonner   19:22, Wed 30 Jul
From wiki

Bumrah was born on 6 December 1993 into a Sikh Punjabi Ramgarhia family in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.[12][13] His father, Jasbir Singh, ran a chemical business, while his mother, Daljeet Bumrah, worked as a school teacher. His father died due to hepatitis B when Bumrah was 5 years old.[14][15] His mother raised him and his sister Juhika in a middle-class environment in Ahmedabad. Bumrah attended Nirman High School in Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, where his mother worked as the vice principal. He also played cricket for Nirman's team.[16][17][18]

It doesn’t surprise me that cricketers on the whole tend to some from more privileged backgrounds - and I concede that it is a massively different concept in India than the Uk. Kohli and say Washington Sundar are examples of a bias towards wealth in cricket. It doesn’t make them worse cricketers.

Buddha’s comment about Root and Brook is ignorant though, Broom went to Sedburgh school for example and Joe Root went to public school. They apparently aren’t the hooray Henry’s in the England side.

Cricket is getting more exclusive sadly and that is reflected in the people mating it all over the world.