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I loved watching the "bulldog" in the SA20 and also the crowd of the SEC especially with the St George's Brass Band!

I'm looking forward to the commentary on talksport2!!!

Also, I know you're jet lagged but I assume you meant Adam Rossington! (not Andy?)

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Dear Neil Some time ago I got in touch & shared with you may views on Kallis as being the all time best all rounder - I did not hear from you so I hope you received it? I'll be in Cape Town visiting our 2nd grand child (son) & meeting clients at Kelvin Grove early March & May - I'd love to meet & chat with you about Kallis & a few other cricket stats such as Sangakara, unsung hero with 2nd most test double hundreds! Pse let me know - thanks knd rgds Louis

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Insightful as always.

When discussing weather, I always feel betting markets give the best guide as they are formed by the masses.

Currently Monday, 3-4 days before the Test start date (depending where you are).

The betting markets have England and Draw as slight favs, with about 30% chance of each.

New Zealand are 40% chance.

I have a favourite story from The Bay Oval - maybe 6-7 yrs ago. Could be longer.

I used to tour NZ watching cricket and as ever, rain plauged a test match. Day 2 was a Saturday and it was raining so hard the teams didnt bother to leave the hotel.

I was in the ground, situated quite near the umpires shed happily reading a novel.

The umpires had watched me for 2-3 hrs, as they walked back and forth, inspecting the ground. They clearly felt I should be spending my time more productively, as an English umpire came and said they would be probably calling the game off in the next hr and I could go home.

Literally 45 mins later they were playing - (the clouds lifted/sun came out seconds after the umpire had spoken - no malice was intended)

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Sometimes the experts need to listen to the locals, back in the day, South Africa hosted the ODI world cup, and when the schedule was announced, day games up on the reef, day nights on the coast, everyone in Durbs was like what the bleep... Day night games in Durban, always going to buy you wet clothes, guaranteed.. Cannot get better odds at the betshops..And well had we had a day game that fateful day in 2003, when we played Sri Lanka, game over, a win by 6pm, many hours before the rain arrived..

So fast forward many decades and the recently concluded farce called SA20, and Durban again rain at night, but it was a T20, could have made it a Saturday afternoon 2 to 5, but no, must be a day night farce... There is such a thing as "history..." learn from it...

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