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    How much does scoreboard pressure benefit bowlers?

    Arthur Mailey. Not so much scoreboard pressure as the cushion of runs on the board allowing his full repertoire.
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    In terms of pure bowling skill, is Bumrah the greatest you have seen?

    The leading cricket writers and commentators of the past used to double up as historians. They lived in the past, as did many of their readers and listeners who were mostly old. The opposite is true now. The media sells subscriptions and advertising by talking up what is in front of us. No...
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    Ashwin vs eas prasana

    During India's historic series victories in West Indies and England in 1971, Venkat was their key bowler. He took 35 wickets across the eight tests, nine more than Bedi. Each of Prasanna and Chandra were omitted for one series. Venkat benefited from the appointment of Wadekar as captain, and for...
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    5 greatest cricketers since Don’s retirement.

    Returning to the 101 All-Time World XIs published in 2010, the ex-player selectors could broadly be divided into four geographical/historical constituencies: England & Australia (36 selectors), Indian Sub-Continent (31), West Indies (18) and South Africa & New Zealand (16). The chosen teams...
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    Aus AT XI vs Windies AT XI vs ROW AT XI

    On commentary today Sangakkara said that Nasser Hussain used to call him "Cymbals" when he first kept wicket. It motivated him to improve.
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    Polls with multiple judges from around the world should mean more than one man's personal list. Where the opinions come from is still important. Apartheid-era South Africans were scarcely visible outside their own country, unless they played county cricket. In the Wisden exercise they picked up...
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    ATG XIs with the Best Slip Cordons

    You could also try an all-time fielding team for each country, taking only fielding into account. Last week Mike Atherton and Mel Jones named the following nine from all countries: Bland, Harper, Jadeja, Jordan, Glenn Phillips, Ponting, Rhodes, Symonds, and Mark Waugh. Tom Graveney named this...
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    Trueman/Compton vs Anderson/Barrington

    There was no debate when either were playing, or for several decades afterwards. During most of the second half of the 20th century Compton was generally considered the fifth best-ever English batsman after Grace, Hobbs, Hammond and Hutton. Barrington was not rated highly even compared with his...
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    Gavaskar's vote count is impressive. Obviously a lot more of the judges saw him than they did Barry Richards, especially in the sub-continent and Caribbean. Only Prasanna from the 31 sub-continental judges picked Richards and he never saw him play, and only Lawrence Rowe from the Caribbean chose...
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    For exercises like this, it can be argued that ex-players add more value by evaluating what they have seen first-hand, rather than what they may, or may not, have heard or read. There was a reasonable spread of judges by nationality: England 21, West Indies 18, Australia 15, Pakistan 15, India...
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    Ramadhin: He [Kanhai] is my keeper, as he started as a wicketkeeper-batsman before he became a tremendous front-line batsman. He was good against all types of bowling. Kanhai kept wicket in his first three Tests and took over behind the stumps on subsequent occasions when the designated keeper...
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    Medium-pacers: 10 - Barnes 7 - Bedser Spinners: 61 - Warne 12 - Laker 11 - Gibbs 7 - Muralitharan 5 - Bedi 4 - Benaud, Gupte, O'Reilly 3 - Abdul Qadir, Grimmett, Tayfield 2 - Chandrasekhar, Prasanna, Rhodes, Underwood, Verity 1 - Dooland, Mankad
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    Middle-order batsmen. Some were picked as openers on occasions. 74 - Sobers 65 - Viv Richards 53 - Bradman 42 - Tendulkar 25 - Lara 16 - Border 13 - Greg Chappell 12 - Javed Miandad 11 - Graeme Pollock 10 - Compton 9 - Harvey, Weekes 7 - Headley, May, Ponting 6 - Cowdrey, Hammond, Lloyd, Steve...
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    Openers: 59 - Gavaskar 26 - Greenidge 21 - Hutton 18 - Barry Richards 14 - Hobbs 7 - Morris 5 - Hanif Mohammad, Hayden 4 - Haynes, Sehwag 3 - Boycott, Hunte 2 - Herbert Sutcliffe 1 - Goddard, Gary Kirsten, Lawry, McGlew, Saeed Anwar, Bob Simpson, Mark Taylor
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    Ramadhin chose Kanhai as wicket-keeper. He picked Weekes and Worrell as batsmen, but not Walcott as batsman or keeper. Also went for Gupte as leg-spinner, claiming he was just as good as Warne. His team was drawn from those he had played with or against. Azharuddin and Chandra both selected...
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    Kirmani's team had seven men from the sub-continent, three West Indians and one from England. Gavaskar, Greenidge, Viv Richards, Gower, Javed Miandad, Imran Khan*, Kapil Dev, Kirmani+, Holding, Bedi, Chandrasekhar. "As it is my team I'll pick myself, though I feel my record justifies it. It was...
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    Trueman picked his team before he died in 2006. He didn't select himself. His fast bowler was Lindwall, supported by Barnes, Bedser, Sobers and Hammond. In addition to Adcock, Bradman, Kirmani, Abdul Qadir and Lance Gibbs also chose themselves.
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    In 2010 the book In A League Of Their Own featured 100 all-time world teams picked by ex-players plus one by umpire Dickie Bird. The various fast bowlers featured in the following number of teams: 54 - Lillee 35 - Marshall 27 - Wasim Akram 21 - Imran Khan 20 - Hadlee 18 - Botham 14 - Lindwall...
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    There are sound commercial reasons for having a current player at number one. It reinforces the message that the game is better than ever and it is worth buying a subscription or placing an advert. Twenty years ago there was a concerted campaign in certain publications to position Warne and...
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    Scyld Berry 30 greatest test fast bowlers

    This is true and it also applies to several other bowlers here. There has rarely been much consensus around the relative ranking of fast bowlers. Back in the nineteenth century people couldn't decide which of the Surrey pair Richardson and Lockwood was superior. The greatest-ever tag passed...

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