The super series should be the Lions of cricket – but it lacks several things:<br />
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– the tour atmosphere – it’s too quick, an in-and-out job<br />
– history, which can’t be helped<br />
– passion. It all seems a bit half-hearted<br />
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There is an excellent piece summarising all this on <a href=”http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/221079.html”>cricinfo </a>(which has become one of my favourite sites.)<br />
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Sometimes I like to point out the weirder pictures that are used on sports sites, and here is one…. it’s in a review on the BBC of <a href=”http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/4312638.stm”>who should replace Simon Jones</a> on the Pakistan tour, but they have used a really weird picture of the bowler Liam Plunkett. It looks like they have put one of those S&M red balls in his mouth, like in Pulp Fiction. See what I mean?<br />
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<img src=”http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40877000/jpg/_40877588_plunkett203.jpg” alt=”” />