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Yes Leach is no massive spinner of the ball and is never going to regularly spin teams out but I'm fairly sure he would have been able to tie an end down (unlike Jacks), put some pressure on their batsmen with a few maidens and try and let Stokes rest and rotate the pace bowlers properly like Cummins has been able to do with Lyon.
His economy rate in tests is a fag paper over 3 (3.08) and he has five five fors in 39 tests. As a comparison his strike rate in tests is not that much worse than Lyon's (61.4 Lyon, 66.2 Leach)
Would he really not have been the worst option at least to have in the squad?
They also normally use UltraEdge and not Snicko which is the Lidl/Aldi offering compared to the former which is made by Hawkeye. Not sure whether it was the ICC or the host broadcaster who decided.
Jeremy Charles. Scored a brace on his full debut at home to Everton and five in his first seven appearances including another brace in a 6-0 shellacking of Stoke, who graciously that season took our lowest first division points record from us.
Then nada, zilch, nothing. Seemed to completely vanish once TV left and didn't play in the 84-85 season at all (injured?) before we sold him at the end of that season to Oxford.
Him being there at that time and available also meant that Houston pissed about for two months taking it in turns with him and Lee Charles up front with Dichateley because 'he wanted to see what he had', instead of going out and buying John Spencer in September as soon as we knew Gallen was out for the season.
That couple of months I'm convinced cost us if not automatic promotion (Barnsley made it with just 80 points) then certainly at very least play offs given Spencer scored 17 in the league from mid November on.
Carse is bowling absolutely shite already. Three of the worst opening overs you'll ever see.
They must be absolutely thick as whale omelettes. Saw the ball fly to all parts after bowling short and wide in Brisbane so think "yeah, that'll be the thing to do again"...This is going to be a long day....
20,000 possibly a few more I reckon. The North Bank held about 17-18k that back then and I can remember it being totally rammed with Rs fans that day. On the qprnet.com site in the seasonal stats section it says the attendance that day was 45,015. The Clock end terrace I reckon held about 13-14k.