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    *Official* West Indies in New Zealand - Nov/Dec 2020

    Well Holder just had his bit of luck...
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of England 2020

    Hope averages 20 over the past 18 tests, back to Dec 2017. Must be someone better somewhere...
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    Best player most people don't know about?

    I like threads like this. George Freeman was a new name to me., Frank Tarrant a good call too. England has a few Test players with startlingly good averages that few people ever mention... Steel just mentioned above, Hayward and Mead in earlier posts. Others : Bill Bates, Billy Barnes, FS...
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    Initials game

    Yes if only any of William (Buster) Farrer, Wilfred Flowers, or Wilfred Ferguson had had the middle name Thomas....
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    CW decides the 32 best test* opening batsmen of all time - The countdown thread!

    I think Alec Stewart was better than both Trescothick and Atherton, and possibly on a par with Gooch and Cook, so he should be on this list.
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    Rate these almost-great fast bowlers

    436 wickets at 24.1 since 2010.
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    Best 'keeper of the 90s

    You missed Chandimal from the list... Is Gurusinha one of the best bowlers who could also keep? I know Tim Zoehrer was a decent leggie but Gurusinha took 20 test wickets at 34. I only saw Jayawardene on one tour but he looked an absolute natural. Feels like the last pure keeper anywhere...
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    Initials game

    Bert Sutcliffe - I've only just realised his first name wasn't Albert or Herbert, but just Bert. Hard to imagine a baby called Bert.... DWR
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    A Test Team of Players Who Played More Than 10 Tests But It Could Have Been Better If

    Yeah you can divide this up into two lists, one for "just generally terrible, should never have got to 10 tests" and "had a great start, should have stopped at 10". Thirimanne is a recent contender for the former category Mark Greatbatch a less recent contender for the second. - averaged 65.5...
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    Memorable Cricket Matches You Have Attended In Person

    Astle's 200 at Christchurch. I went to days 1, 2, and 4. So missed the Flintoff-Thorpe batfest on day 3. Walsh's 13-for-very-few against NZ at the Basin in 1995. Pretty much all the England-NZ test series in 1999, so Tudor's 98 not out after the miserable batting of earlier days, Horne's...
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    Herath v Shakib v Jadeja v Saunders

    Yes if you're going to include Saunders, then the English pre-war triumvarate of Briggs, Peel and Blythe have similar (better) stats. Then there's Rhodes, Verity, Wardle, Lock and Underwood. The English seemed to specialise in SLAs. Elsewhere, Bedi, Valentine, and Iqbal Qasim are the only...
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    A New Zealand XI Who Never Played Tests

    Hmm, you said you'd exclude Dacre, then included him....
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    Test All Rounders - A Statistical Look

    Yeah Musthaq was a bit of an omission on all our parts... Frank Woolley qualifies as well I think.... ... and Warwick Armstrong
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    Test All Rounders - A Statistical Look

    Yeah I've just always known him as Faulkner, GA....and I made a late decision to add his first name, looked it up and there he was listed as George Aubrey. I actually realised a while later but figured it was too late to edit.... Given I also missed the 1000 runs qualifier in the OP, not my...
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    Test All Rounders - A Statistical Look

    Er, ever hear of a player called George Faulkner? How about Jack Gregory? Asif Iqbal, Frank Worrell, and Billy Bates all score +10 on your measure. Other qualifiers are Kelleway, Ulyett, Wasim Raja, Jayasuriya, Gomez While Doug Walters is one wicket away from being third on your list....
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    A New Zealand XI Who Never Played Tests

    Hah, actually confused him with Greg Loveridge in my head....
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    You can add Eddie Barlow for one more allrounder (and Clive Rice if that's in scope...) You never know when that 7th and 8th seamer will come in handy.
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    A New Zealand XI Who Never Played Tests

    I didn't realise there were so many NZers who forfeited chances of tests to play county cricket. Ces Dacre was another. From the 70's onwards : Greg Hay Barry Hadlee Scott Briasco Mark Douglas Bruce Blair Jeff Wilson Ervin McSweeney * Stuart Duff Alex Tait Greg Aldridge Warren McSkimming...
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    An England XI That Never Played Tests

    Yes that Oval wicket block is ridiculous in size and you would occasionally see games with them out on one side with tiny boundaries on one side, and the rope on the other miles in from the fence.
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    An England XI That Never Played Tests

    As you say, rather harder than the Australian one. England have played more tests than other countries, and arguably have had a more, er, inclusive selection policy than other countries, so pretty much everyone got a go. One name that sprang to my mind was Wilf Wooller (13,000 at 23, 950...
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