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    ***Official*** 2025 NRL Tipping Competition

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    ***Official*** 2025 NRL Tipping Competition

    Rabbitohs with overs against Tigers raises a monocled eye brow.
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    Virat Kohli Retires from Test Cricket

    Kind of appropriate as it encapsulates his attitude towards opponents and fans. A great player and the best Indian batsman to watch apart from VVS. I never minded his abrasive conduct but when he barged into Konstas it kind of indicated he'd become grumpy and old and time to step down.
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    Douglas Jardine vs Ian Chappell

    Some of these comparisons are pretty interesting. This being one of the best. Both equal on captaincy but I give Chappelli the advantage on his batting. He was great at 3 in a crisis and had more gears to his game. He could wear down an attack then play his cuts and hooks.
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    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    You can see and measure the value of 5th bowlers and lower order runs but it's harder to quantify good fielding. But the latter is the skill you'd want your side to have. It has a remarkable effect on the mental side of the game. I'm sure we've all played at our respective levels and encountered...
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    AFL- the best you’ve watched

    Don't know much about this brand of footy but the best I've seen are Betts, Hudson, Blight and Matthews. The last mentioned taking the plum.
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    ***Official*** 2025 NRL Tipping Competition

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    Ranking the Auxiliary skills in test cricket

    Hard to pick between catching and lower order batting with both beating 5th bowler. My perception is the 5th bowler is mostly needed as a filler while lower order runs have been conspicuously valuable. Inclined to favour catches win matches option. A team taking its chances would have less need...
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    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    Imagine what he'd get in Melbourne grade cricket.
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    Greatest Touring Batsman to Australia?

    Hammond was the probably the best bat to tour here. The combination of excelling himself and their bowlers putting a cap on Bradman are the reasons England won 10 tests to 5 in the 3 series Hammond played in Aus before the war. Hammond's bowling form was pretty good here as well and then there...
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    Should World Series Cricket records be added to Test records or First Class records?

    It doesn't matter how long ago the instances of retrospectively recognised tests occurred. Walter Hadlee lobbied for a 1937 game to be granted test status right up until his death. The fact is that it can and has been done. You can't overcome the point so you invent a puerile justification to...
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    Should World Series Cricket records be added to Test records or First Class records?

    Shut up and listen. I think I know the matches aren't recognised. I'm just saying they should be and offered reasons. Matches have been retroactively designated tests and the schism has been conciliated ... It's pointless really; I'm repeating arguments you either don't understand or ignore...
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    Should World Series Cricket records be added to Test records or First Class records?

    You always go this route when anyone challenges the asinine and impressive dogged loyalty to your hardline opinions. I responded to what you wrote. I don’t agree with it. Your response above tells me you have no worthwhile counter argument. Just a Cromwellian intolerance that something contrary...
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