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    The best after the Don? CW ranked 25 contenders, here is the countdown thread

    Am I right in thinking that Javed was never lbw in a home test in his entire career? I seem to recall that being a thing... and that's partly why I put him a level below the likes of Border or Waugh. Plus didn't India and Pakistan play 6-test series that ended no more than 1-0, so flat were...
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    All Time Australian XI game

    Waugh to captain Smith at 5, Waugh at 6. McCabe, Hussey, Clarke Turner, Johnston
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    All Time Australian XI game

    Warne Chappell G and Smith S
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    All Time Australian XI game

    Ponsford and Barnes Bradman Davidson and Lillee
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    ***Official*** 3rd Test at the WACA

    He had a better average between 1997 and 2000, but played just 15 tests in that period, compared to that run you mention when he was around pretty much every series, playing 45 tests in the 4 years from 2001 to 2004.
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    Ranking the candidates for the second best batsman after the Don. 25 contenders

    Yes that's my rationale for not rating Trumper the way some folk do. He played more tests pre-WW1 than most of the other top batsmen of the era, but even so, the likes of Hill, Bardsley and Ransford in his own side and Faulkner, Ranjit, and Gunn for others all averaged about the same or more in...
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    Ranking the candidates for the second best batsman after the Don. 25 contenders

    This is impossible.... do you consider peak Ponting, or his whole career? Gone off tests only apart from Barry Richards, who was my one of my Dad's favourite players (my Dad watched a lot of county cricket in the 60's and 70's), hence the pre WW1 options are down the bottom of the list. Would...
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    The worst selections and non-selections in Test history

    Australia - given Hussey's ODI record at the time was 300-odd runs at 100 at a strike rate close to 100, I always thought the Aussie selectors shot themselves in the foot by not just adding him to the test party for the 2005 Ashes. Maybe would have been harsh on Katich, but the guy was in...
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    Road to the 2017-18 Ashes in Australia

    So Australia have abandoned their recent need to shoe-horn an all-rounder into the side ? As has been mentioned earlier, going in with only four bowlers seems a very bold policy given the injury history of two of them. Who's first in line to get a bowl if Cummins breaks down half-way through...
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    ***Official*** Sri Lanka in India 2017

    How the fxxx does Thirimanne keep getting picked? It's getting downright weird. If they think he'll do a Shai Hope and suddenly turn good, I think that bus left years ago.
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    Best Asian Test Team of All Time

    Second xi Sehwag Saeed Anwar Dravid Younis Khan Hazare Kapil Dev Mankad Jayawardene * Kumble Fazal M Shoaib Akhtar
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    Best Asian Test Team of All Time

    I'm influenced by his being one of my father's favourite players when my dad used to watch a lot of county cricket, but here goes with a surprise at number 6.... Gavaskar Merchant Sangakkara Tendulkar Javed Miandad Mushtaq Mohammad Imran Khan Kirmani * Wasim Akram Waqar Younis Muralitharan
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    Four-day test cricket

    Just to be contrary I quite like this idea although groundsmen must play along by producing pitches with something in them for the bowlers, and umpires / match officials will have to do something to keep over-rates up. I kind of prefer it to the two-divisions idea for tests. Maybe matches...
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    Who is the best post war English opening batsman?

    For those saying the list isn't that great, to be fair, for the first 10 years of the post-war period, England had Hutton and Washbrook, who weren't a bad pair... Subba Row and Pullar were pretty good too. It's hard to know what to make of Amiss - he played just 11 tests in the 6 years after...
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    Really Bad Umpires!

    Anyone who thinks Reiffel is an ok umpire clearly didn't see the Zimbabwe - NZ series last year... Umpiring blunders leave Zimbabwe shortchanged | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
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    *** Official*** South Africa in England 2017

    This has been an appalling innings from Root. No doubt he'll get 170 odd from here...
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    ***Official*** Pakistan in West Indies 2017

    Could you swap Hope and Dowrich? (I haven't ever seen Hope keep, so genuine question...)
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    Players who 'over-performed' internationally

    Still doesn't explain how he was 66%-100% better than the very best of his contemporaries... No-one, not even Hobbs, has been that superior to their contemporaries. Maybe Grace for a few years in county cricket but it was a very small club back then.
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2017

    As long as Wads isn't talking about Murali he's fine...
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    Top ten greatest bowlers and batsmen of all time

    All of which got me thinking of an xi of "players who are usually considered much better than their averages suggest, (even if their averages were pretty good....) " Trumper Gooch Majid Khan Viswanath de Silva Waugh M Constantine wk ??? Larwood Wes Hall Mailey I didn't include Jimmy Cook and...

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