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Do you happen to know why he spent only three seasons with Somerset?
Visited my Dad this morning and had a look through my old Somerset year books at around the time Cook played. Found nothing as to why he only spent three seasons there, so im going to hazzard a guess with a few theory’s.
He was no spring chicken when Somerset signed him back in 1989 and perhaps he wanted to spend the last couple of cricket playing years back in South Africa before retiring, where maybe he thought he would stand a better chance of breaking into the South African test team which was about to play official tests after years of exile. Peter Roebuck, Cooks opening batting partner at Somerset was retiring from the game and maybe the club thought it was time for a fresh new look team with the young talented Marcus Trescothick and Mark Lathwell coming up through the ranks to spearhead the opening batting places.
Jimmy Cook did write a farewell piece published in the 1992 yearbook saying how saddend he was to be leaving and that the time had flew by, but grateful and thankful for his opportunity to play county cricket in England.
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Good stuff Drone
I’m not sure why he was only there for three season’s, but give me a few days and i’ll come back with something. Somerset’s overseas replacment for Cook was also South African called Richard Snell he was at Taunton for one season and he was totally useless in comparison.
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Mallender wasnt a regular was he? And if memory serves right, he was picked as a "horse (no sniggering at the back) for course" at Headingley and did very well….
Mallender played two test’s vs Pakistan in 1992 at Headingley and the Oval and done ok getting a total of 10 wickets at a cost of only 21.50
. In his first match he was in the bowling line up along with Tim Munton, Chris Lewis and Derek Pringle and in his Second was joined by Devon Malcom and Phil Tufnell.Blackbeard to conquer the World
Mallender was ok for Somerset, but if he was the best availible for England duty then things must have been pretty bad. The Ghost was a scary looking guy, i always got my older brother to get his autograph for me.
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Your dead right about Lathwell & Trescothick, it’s funny how Trescothick had a better test match average then county.
Yeah, it’s the right era, Cook was there from 1989 – 1991 he played 71 first class matches for Somerset scored 7604 runs at an average of 72.41 with 28 hundreds and a best score of 313 not out. My mates and I use to play cricket in the nets at the back of the old pavillion, we only really use to watch the match when Cook was batting.
Harvey Trump was average imo but he did get a hat trick vs Gloucestershire, Neil Mallender use to open the bowling, he played a few times for England before becoming an umpire. Richard Harden was pretty solid in the middle order, Van Troost was a lunitic but with a heart of gold.
Peter Bowler loved batting for his average and with the good batting track at Taunton probably thought he could knock his average up a little.
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Frightfully delicate these Somerset openers. It must be the diet.
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Frightfully delicate these Somerset openers, can you remember the South African Jimmy Cook who was there for about three seasons, he hit over 2000 county championship runs every year, the problem back then was the rest of the team, Cook use to carry the lot of them. Peter Bowler could stick around aswell but it was like watching paint dry. As for Lathwell i loved watching him bat, he went to England and they for some reason tried changing his technique, never the same after that experience must of destroyed him.
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I see Steve Harmison has injured Matthew Hoggard’s right thumb which has ruled Hoggy out of the next test. Broad, Sidebottom and Anderson better be on their guard if they get within a 50 metre radius of big Steve. im guessing by what Andrew Hughes wrote at the start of the thread it would’nt be a bad idea in Anderson’s case
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[quote= Any news on Caddick?
There was a piece in the Western Daily Press(local paper) yesterday which went along the lines of Caddick due to return in next week’s CC clash with Kent has had another two week setback. Director of cricket Brain Rose said "He is still quite a way off. What has kept him back has been bronchitis. He has done very little training and looks pretty weak. He has to get his strength back over the next week to ten days."
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It did have draw written all over it, but Somerset were in such a strong position its a little dissapointing they could’nt match their efforts of yesterday. Somerset have shown though in their first three cchampionship games that they can compete.
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Whilst i agree it is more eye catching to watch the beauitful game played with attacking flair, as a neutral i was falling to sleep watching Rangers in europe but i can also appreciate the determination, work rate and team work that went into Rangers european games, if they had gone all out to against Fiorentina they would have been taken apart, good manager tactic’s imo. Man Utd have a superb range of attacking option’s but also show not much mercy when defending i.e vs Barcelona in the first leg of the semi final, Fergie hailed tactical genius.
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i have to thank Sussex for winning the toss and putting Somerset into bat on day 1 in glorious conditions, today was very overcast with plenty of drizzle(window cleaning was put on hold) but such was the condition’s that it suited Trego, Jones and Willoughby, hopefully a full days play tomorrow and Somerset just might get their first county championship win in division one since 2002. failing that then my prediction of a draw is on but i know what i’d rather happen.
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should the whip be banned?
depends on how kinky you are
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that was his course and distance, what now for Sergeant?
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. In his first match he was in the bowling line up along with Tim Munton, Chris Lewis and Derek Pringle and in his Second was joined by Devon Malcom and Phil Tufnell.
