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Recent content by Lancashire Nick

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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Sorry, yeah, I got my multiplication wrong
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    I prefer quality of cricket over quantity, but with career strike rates of Marshall (46.7), Garner and Hadlee (both 50.8), Holding (50.9) and Imran (53.7), if you select 4 out of those 5, I doubt many teams are batting for 75 overs.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Although the Windies showed that 5 is unnecessary. 4 is quite sufficient to rotate in 5 or 6 over spells, and keep them all fresh and firing at 90+ mph.
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    England conquering in Australia and India,What was More impressive series win?

    I may be showing my age here, but when I read the title of this thread, my first instinct was to evaluate the England win under David Gower in 1984/85. Then to wonder whether the poster meant Tony Greig's winning team in 1976/77. It was only when reading other peoples answers, I realised we...
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    Clutch Players.

    I agree with you on many points. Williamson is a fine captain (although Morgan was the England captain in that game). Stokes' innings in the WC Final had a large dose of luck to it (e.g. when the fielder caught the ball and stepped over the boundary), and of course the overthrows. I have always...
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    Welcome to Cricket Web - Cricket Chat

    I don't. Perhaps you misread my post.
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    Name a countries current best XI for all 3 formats using 33 unique players

    England Test team ...... Burns, Sibley, Denly, Root (capt), Stokes, Pope, Buttler (wk), Archer, Leach, Broad, Anderson. There are some glaring weaknesses, in that we're relying on young promise, rather than experienced achievement, but that's the position the England team find themselves in...
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    Clutch Players.

    In that case, you won't find many clutch knocks in history. Very, very few big knocks, spread over several hours are 100% chanceless. Similarly, very few bowling spells, don't contain the odd long hop, or wide delivery. The careers of all great players feature moments when they drove their...
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    How many books have you read?

    I'm now 56, I've been reading books (of various types) for most of that. Even if we restrict it to just cricket, I can remember reading a book on the game at the age of 6. So with 50 years of reading to consider, I couldn't even start to put an accurate number on it.
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    I'm not sure that either is a good enough batsman at Test level to be played as a batsman. I think you have to decide which one is going to be your wicket-keeper and select him at No.7, and drop the other.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    The captain of my school team batted and bowled left handed, but threw right handed ! Go figure.
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    Who's going to win the World Cup?

    Who's going to win the World Cup? Don't know, but if it isn't England, then I suspect it will be Sam Burgess' fault.
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    Here's the official link https://www.ecb.co.uk/england/men/news/1349647/-ecb-announces-men-s-central-contracts-for-the-2019-20-season?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=England+Cricket&utm_content=100000956678533%2B&utm_campaign=Other+Campaigns
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    England have announced the latest central contracts Test and One Day to Archer, Bairstow, Buttler, Root, Stokes and Woakes Test only for Anderson, Broad, Burns and S.Curran One Day only for Ali, Denly, Morgan, Rashid, Roy and Wood Incremental for T.Curran and Leach
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    Welcome to Cricket Web - Cricket Chat

    I don't see the point of it ...... The current 3 formats of the game are quite different from each other, and will appeal to different people for different reasons. If the idea of the Hundred is to attract new fans to the game, I don't see what it offers that a further 20 deliveries per team...
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