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    What Qualifies as a Test Allrounder?

    If Greg Matthews makes the list but Richie Benaud doesn't, the qualifying criteria aren't right. I'd want all of Keith Boyce, Shane Watson and Collie Smith in the list,, so that would require expansion of all lower thresholds. Even if you don't agree with all that, there is a bit of a mismatch...
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of Bangladesh 2018

    All Bangladesh tests at the moment are on GTV Live on YouTube. It's awesome...
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of Bangladesh 2018

    Argh, would have loved these two to get it down to 35 or so. Would have been really interesting...
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    *Official* England Tour of Sri Lanka 2018

    With Silva not playing, this will be the first time in a while that Sri Lanka have fewer wicket-keepers than their opponents...
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    *Official* Zimbabwe tour of Bangladesh 2018

    Different game once the spinners are on you'd think.
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    *Official* Zimbabwe tour of Bangladesh 2018

    Nice that it's on live on YouTube...
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    DoG's Top 100 Test Bowlers Countdown Thread 100-1

    Some of Wasim's MOTM awards might have been affected by his batting. If he and Waqar each took 8 wickets in a match say, then Wasim scoring a handy 40-odd might have tipped the balance his way. I'll guess he won one for his 259 for a start.
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of India 2018

    Non-Indian pace bowlers with 50s and 5-wickets in same game in India : Bruce Taylor, John Lever (!!), Ian Botham, Malcolm Marshall, now Holder. Decent company...
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    Test and FC cricketers who are related

    More on that : Non kiws may not know that Richard and Dayle had another brother Barry Hadlee, who was a stalwart opener for Canterbury and I think played one ODI for NZ. The Bracewells are full of cricketers.- four brothers played first class cricket, John and Brendon who made it to the...
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    Test and FC cricketers who are related

    Alec and Eric Bedser were twins, playd for Surrey together for donkey's years, and lived together for their whole lives, neither marrying. Also worked together pre- and post cricket career. Wikipedia says they decided they couldn't both be opening bowlers so flipped a coin, and as a result Eric...
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    *Official* Pakistan vs Australia in the UAE 2018

    Yes, given the rather... unproven... nature of the top 6, I was surprised Agar wasn't picked ahead of Holland purely on his batting ability.
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of India 2018

    The T20 might last longer, and will certainly be more competitive, than this one...
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    DoG's Top 100 Test Bowlers Countdown Thread 100-1

    Did I miss Colin Croft in the 51-100?
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    DoG's Top 100 Test Bowlers Countdown Thread 100-1

    Since Ajmal got brought up... based on the profile pictures I think we can safely say that Lance Gibbs didn't chuck... and Hugh Trumble might have...
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    DoG's Top 100 Test Bowlers Countdown Thread 100-1

    Kaneria has a terrible record in the UAE (7 wickets at 70) so if you do allocate the middle-east to be home performances, he'll go up a bit as his away from home record will improve.
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    DoG's Top 100 Test Bowlers Countdown Thread 100-1

    Seriously confused by Kaneria's rating. Seems to be getting a huge boost from silver performances - am I right that the 12 silver performances add 24 points to his overall rating?. So inconsistency is highly rewarded. Better to take 0-100 + 6-100 in a match vs 3-100 + 3-100? Is that correct...
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    Greatest Team to never play a test

    If assessing the potential South African sides of the 70's and 80's you probably have to add back Tony Greig, Allan Lamb and Robin Smith (plus Wessels) who would have played for their home country had it been on the cards.
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    Greatest Team to never play a test

    Well, if you're looking for the best "team" that might have actually played together : A South African xi : Brian Whitfield, Henry Fotheringham Hylton Ackerman Ken McEwan Kevin McKenzie Clive Rice Alan Kourie Ray Jennings * Stephen Jefferies Garth le Roux Vince van der Bijl if you just...
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    Was Sehwag the greatest player of spin in the hisory of the game ??

    If "how you did against Murali" is the measure of greatness against spin in general, Stephen Fleming must be in with a shout...
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    Run Out

    Few batsmen can cope with being stuck at one end for a long time not scoring. It's a cliché of course, but rotating the strike to stop bowlers being able to set you up over a long period helps. Particularly when it's a left and right handed combination. Taking short singles can drag...

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