It just seems strange to me that a team such as England as failed to produce a bowler capable of taking 400+ Test wickets or a batsman able to get into the top 5 highest run scorers of all time. A country who helped found Test cricket and having such great resources. Also, no WCs either. Your thoughts?
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It's also interesting to see how many more players they've used than Australia (it's about 620 to 390) even though they've been around for the same period of time. Maybe the fact that (I'm guessing) they've played more matches influences that, but I doubt it wholly explains the large discrepancy.
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yeah i've noticed that to. I dunno why they have had so many more players than australia... anyone know why?
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They have played more Test than Australia, but not enough to have 230 more Test cricketers. I think it may have to do with the fact they have 20 counties and Australia has 6 states in the respective domestic competitions. Therefore, they have more to choose from and have used the pool of players available
The simple explanation is that Australia have had better players than england, who have performed on a more consistent basis.
Boycott would have scored far more runs than did.Originally Posted by roseboy64
Hutton had the highest individual score for a long time.
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From 1991, when I started watching cricket, England have been ordinary. But they have been on the up curve for some time now.
I would not call England unachievers.
and the reason he didn't get many more was ???
i think he was not refering to an individual inngs
They will continue to be under achivers in ODI unless they play more games i think
england still plays a lot less odi games compared to others
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He played far less tests due to controversies, injury.
He was referring to England as a team and individual milestones too which is why he mentioned 400 wickets etc.i think he was not refering to an individual inngs
thats the same thing that i am also saying
he was reffering to career records not individual inngs records
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Though that make them underachiever and not unachiever.
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Career records means individual player performance judgements as do individual innings.thats the same thing that i am also saying
he was reffering to career records not individual inngs records
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