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    'Ball of the Century'

    And from a kiwi perspective, probably the best I've seen was Cairns's slower ball to Thorpe in the 99 series. The one to Read has lived on for the batsman's reaction, but Thorpe was a seriously good batsman and to defeat him like that was a heck of an achievement. It was the ball that made me...
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    'Ball of the Century'

    Gatting averaged 55 against India and 15 against the West Indies so his reputation as preferring spin seems fairly well justified. He played one test against Sri Lanka (scoring 29+18) so it's a little hard to make too many claims how he coped with Chuckaweera and Murali. Anyway, best ball...
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    An Assessent of the 'ATG XI - Open Voting' thread: The Bottom Four.

    Because if you're bowling in the first innings of the match for the first forty overs at least you'd expect the bowlers to pose most of the threat to be the quicker bowlers, while the spinners, no matter how good they are, won't be at their best on seamer-friendly wickets with a new-ish ball/...
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    *Official* Road to 2013 Ashes

    Surprised that everyone seems to be including Hughes in the side. Honestly from what I've seen of him (which being a kiwi, was mostly his giving Guptill catching practice) I wouldn't have him in the same postcode as Jimmy Anderson for his own safety. Does no-one think Wade might score more...
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    Bradman- status as the greatest batsman ever under threat?

    I don't think Bradman was bowling to Headley very much and vice versa. Fact is the Windies team of the 1930s had bowlers like Constantine, Griffith, Martindale and Hylton who averaged in the 20's (or 30 exactly in Constantine's case) while playing against only the best two sides of their era...
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    ATG XI- Open Voting

    If we're doing 3rds... Richards B Ponsford Lara Kallis Pollock Walcott Imran Khan Oldfield * Davidson Muralitharan McGrath
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    Top 5 Indian cricketers of all-time

    1. Gavaskar 2. Tendulkar 3. Kapil Dev 4. Dravid 5. Bedi
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    ATG XI- Open Voting

    First XI Hobbs Hutton Headley Bradman Richards IVA Sobers Gilchrist * Marshall Warne Trueman Lillee Second XI Sutcliffe Gavaskar Hammond Tendulkar Chappell G Miller K Knott * Hadlee O'Reilly Ambrose Barnes
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    Zimbabwe All-Time Test XI - Open Voting

    Seem to recall reading somewhere that Flower averaged more as a keeper than when he didn't have the gloves. So that makes me inclined ot pick Whittall over Taibu and let Flower do the keeping. Don't know that I've ever seen Taibu keep though, so if someone can convince me that he was...
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    Bradman- status as the greatest batsman ever under threat?

    So presumably you believe modern greats like Cook, Sangakkara, Amla, Chanderpaul etc would average 70+ if transported back to the mid 70's? If progress is unidirectional as you suggest, then surely 40 years is long enough. That is halfway between the modern era and Bradman's time after all...
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    Players who are exceptional in one format and dire in another

    Neil Fairbrother seems the perfect example here - averaged 15 in a reasonable number of tests, but 39 in ODIs.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    I read those peak stats and the one that jumped out at me was Mike Gatting averaging 61 over a 50 match period.... jesus he must have been rubbish for the rest of his career....
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    ***Official*** New Zealand in England series 2013

    If these guys keep going like this for an hour, Cook will wish he'd batted on a couple more hours...
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    New Zealand doom and gloom thread

    NZ's selectors are fairly random so I'd say most top order batsmen always feel under pressure. Most folk think that's a bad thing. I'm almost happy Guptill and Fulton failed on this tour - both have now got averages below 30 which seems about right to me. I've always thought the threshold for...
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    Zimbabwe All-Time Test XI - Open Voting

    Goodwin, Houghton, Flower Strang P
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    New Zealand doom and gloom thread

    Dunno.. Robiul Islam looked a bit tasty in his recent matches. Only against the Zimbos, I know, but who are we to sniff..
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    ***Official*** New Zealand in England series 2013

    Would be nice to get one umpire's call in favour of NZ. Hope the umps are similarly protective of the batsmen in our innings...
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    ***Official*** New Zealand in England series 2013

    Wow.... Did not see this coming
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    ***Official*** New Zealand in England series 2013

    Yes,.... My impression is that Wagner should only ever bowl in the last ten minutes before lunch and tea breaks - seems to lure Trott in particular into indiscretions in those periods...
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    Zimbabwe All-Time Test XI - Open Voting

    Streak and Pommie to bowl, though I think if we could extend the requirement to "representative" cricket then Rawson would be a shout. Grant Flower as opener. Arnott was unlucky test cricket didn't arrive 5 years earlier - he averaged near 40 against the various international and youth teams...

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