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    AndrewB replied to the thread Which type of players are hardest to find ?.
    George Brown in his 612 FC matches - mostly for Hampshire - took 626 wickets and made 78 stumpings. In his 7 Tests for England in the...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread English Domestic Season 2024.
    Was just looking at a book about the 1979 season - highest score in the Championship all year was 469. (Of course, that was 3-day matches).
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    AndrewB replied to the thread English Domestic Season 2024.
    Last season but one, in fact. Quoting Cricinfo: "The Leicestershire total of 584 is the highest in county cricket by a team that...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread English Domestic Season 2024.
    Dunno, but the Test record seems to be 454 by India v WI at Delhi in 1948. It's the sort of stat that might get into the relevant copy...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread Cricket's most over rated players.
    I don't get where you're getting "he chose not to try" from - when he was out to make it 389-4, he'd scored 221, the other batters had...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread Cricket's most over rated players.
    I suppose he did bowl "off-breaks" in the sense that he broke the ball from off to leg (against right-handed batters, anyway), but it'd...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread Cricket's most over rated players.
    That's a bit unfair - his series averages were 66, 22, 43, 44, 70. Admittedly he only played 2 matches in the first series, but he was...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread Best 'bad fielders' XI.
    From Mike Gatting: I had some horrible moments in Ashes Tests at Lord’s… but I love the ground really! | The Cricketer "People say I...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread Cricketers you pick often in drafts.
    I don't think it was deliberate beyond a vague thought of "I can't just keep picking the same players each time". I feel like I've...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread Cricketers you pick often in drafts.
    At one point (back in 2016) there were 3 drafts running at once, and I'd picked Aubrey Faulkner in all of them, but I'm not sure I've...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread 3 Nations Draft.
    Jack Hobbs WG Grace KS Ranjitsinhji Allan Border Stanley Jackson Shakib Al Hasan Monty Noble* Alan Knott+ Jack Gregory Pat Cummins Frank...
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    AndrewB reacted to grecian's post in the thread Best 'bad fielders' XI with Like Like.
    Fat Gatt was appalling at the end of his career, but at the start he was a pretty good short-leg fielder, two catches in that Headingley...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread 3 Nations Draft.
    Shakib Al Hasan @kingkallis
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    AndrewB replied to the thread African FC/Test draft.
    Andrew Hudson. Herschelle Gibbs Andrew Hudson Jonathan Trott Jacques Kallis Pieter van der Bijl Brian Davison Jock Cameron+ Reggie...
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    AndrewB replied to the thread 3 Nations Draft.
    Hard to rate as an all-rounder; in his first two series he took quite a few wickets at about 20, while not scoring very many; after that...
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