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    Completely OTT ATG England Thread

    The question of Botham, like Thomson for Australia, is whether you're picking "peak player" or "whole test career". After 50 tests Botham was averaging almost 37 with the bat and just under 23 with the ball. When I put him in these sides, I tend to think I'm picking the slim, fit, Botham who...
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    What would your stats be if you actually played international cricket?

    I have twice faced genuinely quick bowlers - both had played first class cricket, and one was considered genuinely quick at that level. Neither was especially good, but they were quick. I have no idea if they were 130kmh or 140kmh, but one in particular was appreciably quicker than your...
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    What would your stats be if you actually played international cricket?

    I was a decidedly average school first xi batsman then less-than-average first team club player (not in a major centre). My theory is that Ewen Chatfield and Bob Willis could average 6 or 8 by virtue of being able to block the ones on the stumps and miss the ones that moved or were outside...
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    Sri Lanka Doom and Gloom Thread

    I've always had a soft spot for Sri Lanaka - they seemed able to punch above their weight for a long time and they've always had players who were fun to watch. But now? In the past 6 years Vaas, Murali, Malinga, Sangakkara, Jayawardene, Samaraweera, and Dilshan have retired. Plus Prasanna...
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    ***Official*** India in Sri Lanka 2015

    Mishra would be an outside bet. Really important runs in both innings, took wickets...
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    *Official* Fifth Test at the Oval

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    *Official* Fifth Test at the Oval

    Anyone know if it's possible to see any highlights of yesterday anywhere? I've tried googling it but can't seem to actually see any video at any of the sites...
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    ***Official*** India in Sri Lanka 2015

    It seems a little perverse to me that when India had a keeper who could reasonably have batted at 6, as well as Jadeja and Ashwin at 7 and 8, and Kumar at 9, they pretty much always went in with 6 batsmen and 4 bowlers. (This is right isn't it? That was certainly my perception...) Now...
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    *Official* Fifth Test at the Oval

    It's a grim scorecard for the Australians, but Cummins gets 3 wickets and Siddle none, MMarsh 4 wickets and Watson none, now Watson lbw cheaply again, MMarsh doing better... I think the selectors will have an easier job this time around...
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    ***Official*** India in Sri Lanka 2015

    Herath got none for 60 off 30 overs in the first innings....
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    ***Official*** India in Sri Lanka 2015

    Yep, I actually thought one of Harby or Ashwin might have got India home today. Mishra can bat a bit can't he?
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    ***Official*** India in Sri Lanka 2015

    Good bounce, reasonable pace, plenty of turn. Could be on for another three day test if the weather plays the game...
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    Other than Dizzy.... did Matt Sinclair have the best 200 to 100 ratio?

    David Lloyd, Taslim Arif, Brad Hodge and Brendon Kuruppu also had a double and no score between 100-199. Andrew Sandham had one 300 and one 100...
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    Playing selector: ATG Test English XI from 'the modern age'(debuted in FC after 1980)

    Ok, I'm revising my decision to leave out Broad...
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    Worst team batting performances

    A couple of the worst I've seen in person were NZ's second innings at Edgbaston in '99 - just a succession of "windy woofs" to throw away a winning position, though the final score was given a faint glimmer of respectability by Doull's late blast. (The collapse in the second innings at the...
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    *Official* Fourth Test at Trent Bridge

    How predictable was that first ball from Hazlewood?
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    Split test cricket into roughly two halves. ATG XI 1877-1959 vs ATG XI 1960-2015

    Hobbs Hutton Bradman Hammond Headley Miller K Ames * Lindwall O'Reilly Barnes Turner vs Gavaskar Richards B Sangakkara Tendulkar Richards IVA Sobers Knott * Wasim Marshall Warne Lillee Who would win? Who can say....
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    Playing selector: ATG Test English XI from 'the modern age'(debuted in FC after 1980)

    Yep on Stewart, if you pick Prior as keeper then Stewart simply has to be one of the openers... anyone who doesn't pick him can't have watched much cricket through the 90s... Stewart Vaughan Root Pietersen Thorpe Flintoff Prior * Swann Gough Sidebottom Anderson Initially had Broad but I don't...
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    Modern Australian XI (dayboo post Border's debut) Border- Clarke

    Taylor Hayden Ponting Hussey Waugh S Martyn Gilchrist * Harris Warne Gillespie McGrath Second xi of Slater, Langer, Boon, Waugh M, Clarke, Smith, Healy, Johnson, McDermott, Clark S, MacGill is still pretty fine...
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    *Official* South Africa in Bangladesh 2015

    I thought I saw pictures of the whole outfield under covers? I remember wondering why they can do that in Bangladesh but not in Dunedin...

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