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    Steve Harmison feels strongly about suggestions that he came out of one-day retirement in order to play the Stanford Twenty20 for 20

    Sep 7, 2008

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    Ambrose readies himself for England

    By Will 6 months ago Leave a comment on this post

    When Tim Ambrose makes his debut on Wednesday, he will be the sixth wicketkeeper England have tried since Alec Stewart hung up his gloves in 2000, and the second with an Aussie twang after Geraint Jones. Andrew Miller met him yesterday.

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    5 Responses to “Ambrose readies himself for England”

  • Marcus wrote:
    March 2nd, 2008 at 11.22 pm

    Well, whatever else his merits, he certainly has to have better teeth than Mustard. The man belongs in the Big Book of British Smiles. :)

  • aidan wrote:
    March 3rd, 2008 at 2.20 pm

    well good luck to the chap, we need someone to finally take over alec stewart and jack russell

  • the half blood Welshman wrote:
    March 5th, 2008 at 10.40 am

    Er…do you mean the first retirement or the second one for Alec Stewart? As I recall he was dropped as wicketkeeper in 2001 for Foster and in 2003 when he retired - so I’m not quite sure where “2000″ comes into it.

  • Will wrote:
    March 5th, 2008 at 1.00 pm

    Yep, good point. I was thinking of, well whatever. Keeps you on your toes MW…

  • mohammed butt wrote:
    March 12th, 2008 at 12.26 pm

    england need players with big hart cricket is mind game with hart when players playing county cricket they ok but when they start international cricket they have not big hart i played ist class cricket with waseem akram waqar younis they never scared they was playing cricket with big hart england players always scared when they playing cricket away ist test in newzeland england players was so scared like baby

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