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Cricketer Of The Year
There's no way I'll see the bicentenary. The Centenary Test was great viewing - even though I was older than the participants. Sadly at least 4 are no longer with us.
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Cricketer Of The Year
Thanks for that. I was only going by memory and overlooked some.
Silly question but when running between the wickets, what would happen if batsman doesn’t properly finish the run? So if batsmen are running, and one batsman doesn’t properly cross the crease and come back for the second, would he be given out; or that just run wouldn’t count?
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Short run. It won't count. If the umpires think it's deliberate, no runs scored off that ball will count and the fielding team will be awarded 5 runs.
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Short run— ?
Longest spell in a Test side (without missing any matches - time given is between start of first and last Tests in the spell):
21y10m: AW Nourse*
19y8m: B Mitchell*
18y0m: GA Headley
17y0m: HW Taylor, GS Sobers, FE Woolley
16y0m: AD Nourse
15y11m: JR Reid*
15y0m: AR Border
14y3m: Intikhab Alam
14y2m: WJ O'Reilly*
* = entire career. Dudley Nourse and Border each missed one Test early in their careers.
A lot of these careers include a gap of several years due to a World War. For both Headley and O'Reilly the last match in their spell was their country's first match after WW2.
Longest Test careers without missing a match:
101: BB McCullum
96: AC Gilchrist
79: MEK Hussey
65: TWM Latham (to date)
58: JR Reid, AW Greig
48: VT Trumper
45: AW Nourse
42: MA Noble, B Mitchell
I was surprised to see Trumper on that list when he didn't get onto the first one, but Australia played 8 series v England and 2 v SA between June 1899 and Feb 1912, and Trumper didn't miss a match.
AN Cook (161), AR Border (156), Kapil Dev (131) and IA Healy (119) each played over 100 Tests while missing precisely one match.
21y10m: AW Nourse*
19y8m: B Mitchell*
18y0m: GA Headley
17y0m: HW Taylor, GS Sobers, FE Woolley
16y0m: AD Nourse
15y11m: JR Reid*
15y0m: AR Border
14y3m: Intikhab Alam
14y2m: WJ O'Reilly*
* = entire career. Dudley Nourse and Border each missed one Test early in their careers.
A lot of these careers include a gap of several years due to a World War. For both Headley and O'Reilly the last match in their spell was their country's first match after WW2.
Longest Test careers without missing a match:
101: BB McCullum
96: AC Gilchrist
79: MEK Hussey
65: TWM Latham (to date)
58: JR Reid, AW Greig
48: VT Trumper
45: AW Nourse
42: MA Noble, B Mitchell
I was surprised to see Trumper on that list when he didn't get onto the first one, but Australia played 8 series v England and 2 v SA between June 1899 and Feb 1912, and Trumper didn't miss a match.
AN Cook (161), AR Border (156), Kapil Dev (131) and IA Healy (119) each played over 100 Tests while missing precisely one match.
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'He was very drunk, he took me and hung me out of the 15th-floor balcony'
Yuzvendra Chahal opens up, not for the first time, about bullying by colleagues from the time he was a youngster trying to make a mark
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****ing hell. Both of these are appalling.
honestbharani
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Same with Symonds tbh.
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this is criminal surely'He was very drunk, he took me and hung me out of the 15th-floor balcony'
Yuzvendra Chahal opens up, not for the first time, about bullying by colleagues from the time he was a youngster trying to make a mark
****ing hell. Both of these are appalling.
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I reckon it was Sachin
honestbharani
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He could not hear what was said, tbf.
Just tidying up the previous version: time is now in years + days, and is from start of the first Test to end of the last Test in the side:
Longest spell in a Test side (without missing any matches - time given is between start of first and last Tests in the spell):
21y312d: AW Nourse*
19y267d: B Mitchell*
18y015d: GA Headley
17y022d: HW Taylor
17y016d: GS Sobers
17y009d: FE Woolley
16y022d: AD Nourse
15y355d: JR Reid*
15y019d: AR Border
14y101d: Intikhab Alam
14y060d: WJ O'Reilly*
* = entire career. Dudley Nourse and Border each missed one Test early in their careers.
I did wonder about extending each spell to include the time at the start and end when that player's country didn't play any Tests - e.g. Dave Nourse's career was actually from 1902 to 1924, but he didn't miss any Tests from April 1899 to December 1927, because SA went 3 years without a Test at both the start and end of his career.
However, it turns out that (apart from Nourse) everyone at the top of this list is a South African who played in their last Test before the 22-year gap or the first Test after it. (FWIW Eddie Barlow didn't miss a Test between 1960 and 1992, so is top, ahead of Peter Pollock, with Nourse in third).
Longest spell in a Test side (without missing any matches - time given is between start of first and last Tests in the spell):
21y312d: AW Nourse*
19y267d: B Mitchell*
18y015d: GA Headley
17y022d: HW Taylor
17y016d: GS Sobers
17y009d: FE Woolley
16y022d: AD Nourse
15y355d: JR Reid*
15y019d: AR Border
14y101d: Intikhab Alam
14y060d: WJ O'Reilly*
* = entire career. Dudley Nourse and Border each missed one Test early in their careers.
I did wonder about extending each spell to include the time at the start and end when that player's country didn't play any Tests - e.g. Dave Nourse's career was actually from 1902 to 1924, but he didn't miss any Tests from April 1899 to December 1927, because SA went 3 years without a Test at both the start and end of his career.
However, it turns out that (apart from Nourse) everyone at the top of this list is a South African who played in their last Test before the 22-year gap or the first Test after it. (FWIW Eddie Barlow didn't miss a Test between 1960 and 1992, so is top, ahead of Peter Pollock, with Nourse in third).
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Has Sri Lanka appointing Silverwood been mentioned anywhere? (Yes I could search but as usual can’t be arsed 
).
Anyway suffice to say they must be insane.
). Anyway suffice to say they must be insane.
honestbharani
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Nah.. they got what they wanted. A Yes man.Has Sri Lanka appointing Silverwood been mentioned anywhere? (Yes I could search but as usual can’t be arsed
Anyway suffice to say they must be insane.
Red_Ink_Squid
Cricketer Of The Year
To be fair, he actually has a good win record in Sri Lanka...Has Sri Lanka appointing Silverwood been mentioned anywhere? (Yes I could search but as usual can’t be arsed
Anyway suffice to say they must be insane.
honestbharani
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ICC meeting: Ramiz's quadrangular T20s idea gets support ahead of his presentation
It is believed that the ECB, CA, CWI and PCB were in favour; indications are that BCCI is not in direct opposition
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Lol @ PCB and Rambo claiming it as a win. The idea was originally proposed in ICC by Ganguly and even then, its not like anyone "owns" the idea of a quadrangular T20 tourmament between international sides. It will be funny when ECB organize their quadrangular with Windies, Australia and India and Pak are left out.
What do you mean? Why would England steal mighty India's idea?ICC meeting: Ramiz's quadrangular T20s idea gets support ahead of his presentation
It is believed that the ECB, CA, CWI and PCB were in favour; indications are that BCCI is not in direct opposition
Lol @ PCB and Rambo claiming it as a win. The idea was originally proposed in ICC by Ganguly and even then, its not like anyone "owns" the idea of a quadrangular T20 tourmament between international sides. It will be funny when ECB organize their quadrangular with Windies, Australia and India and Pak are left out.
And who cares, it's not as if Pakistan have any great T20 cricketers and as we know, India wins everything T20 related!! How dare anyonequestion this
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
What do you mean? Why would England steal mighty India's idea?
And who cares, it's not as if Pakistan have any great T20 cricketers and as we know, India wins everything T20 related!! How dare anyonequestion this