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Old 18-03-2009, 06:58 AM   #165 (permalink)
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His FC record - 1,395 wickets at 20.76 - is wonderful though.
Thats true but then one has to remember that he got only 152 of those wickets in Australia (at 23.5 each). Almost all of the others in England where, in county cricket, the top bowlers got their wickets cheaper by comparison.

Even Ironmonger, who is never ranked in any list of truly great players and who played almost all his cricket in Australia, got his 464 first class wickets at 21.5.
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