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    New/uncommon statistics you'd like to see brought into cricket

    Ditto to this. Seems flawed to compare two bowlers' economy rates when one might regularly bowl at the death or in the power-plays, when another only gets used in the middle overs with 5 on the boundary. Still subjective, of course. Bowling with the new ball and fielding restrictions is good...
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    England's worst ever series performances

    I love the '89 series. England had won the previous two Ashes series and were probably fairly confident going into the series - after all, who knew Steve Waugh would turn out to be anything more than a bits n pieces allrounder? Australia used 12 players in the 6 matches, Taylor, Marsh, Boon...
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    ***Official*** Pakistan and England in UAE

    how was that not a wide??
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    ***Official*** Pakistan and England in UAE

    Michael Vaughan's average after 16 tests, spread over 28 months, in all conditions, was 30.7. Must have funny ducks where you live.
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    ***Official*** Zimbabwe in New Zealand 2012

    The Vincent comparison is a good one, he also got a duck against a minnow on his first test innings in NZ. Skied a pull off some Bangladesh quick (cough, splutter) bowler as I recall..
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    Vaas and Z Khan

    Vaas was a home-field bowler. Don't know how he did it on the wickets in Sri Lanka, but he averaged under 27 at home. So if the contest is in Sri Lanka, I'll take him. He was deadly in New Zealand as well, but weirdly, when he went to other countries that you imagine might have suited him...
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    ***Official*** India in Australia 2011/12

    Come on, the party line is that the Windies are a side on the way back up. Roach, Rampaul, Edwards, Sammy, Bishoo, Russell... there's almost a decent attack in there. Now if they could just produce some wickets with some bounce in them.
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    How fast were Merv Hughes and Craig Mcdermott in 1991/92 series vs India

    That '91 series in the West Indies must have been an amazing one to watch. The West Indies used the same 11 players through the whole 5-test series : Greenidge, Haynes, Richardson, Hooper, Richards, Logie, Dujon, Marshall, Ambrose, Patterson, Walsh. Omitting the Guyana test on presumably a...
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    We will beat Aussies at home: Srinivasan

    As he and Kohli are really the only two players in the current line-up who I'd confidently say will still be in the side in 24 months time, I guess he's the obvious choice if a change is to be made. However, his comments on the wickets around the world make me wonder. He obviously thinks the...
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    ***Official*** Zimbabwe in New Zealand 2012

    Elliott was a bit of a golden arm. 4 wickets @ 35 was it? It was his batting that never looked up to the job. And given his first class stats, it was never going to. I was thinking of recent similar players who didn't get near a test squad, the likes of Matthew Walker or Tama Canning...
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    Best of The Second Tier

    I think if I were selecting all-time elevens, I'd have Pollock in the second xi, and Weekes in the third. Pollock gets a boost by being a left hander, though!
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    Cribbage's Standardised Test Averages (UPDATED November 2018 - posts 753-755)

    I'm not trying to pick an argument, seriously I'm genuinely curious. The bowlers he was facing would have played around 1/3 of their matches against South Africa. So I guess the bad performance of his teammates did in a roundabout way improve his rating, though I don't know how you can escape...
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    Cribbage's Standardised Test Averages (UPDATED November 2018 - posts 753-755)

    Mmm. The 1920s wasn't any more bowler-dominated than any other decade. In fact, I'd suggest batsmen averaged more in that decade than pretty much any other till recent times (ignoring the 1940's). Not very evenly spread of course - England and Australia scored a lot, South Africa not so...
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    Cribbage's Standardised Test Averages (UPDATED November 2018 - posts 753-755)

    True, though you can probably argue it both ways. He got preferential treatment (not as much as he'd have liked, of course!) So he got to choose ends for instance. And when they got to the tail he was thrown the ball a lot more than some bowlers in sides with more options. Prince's...
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    Cribbage's Standardised Test Averages (UPDATED November 2018 - posts 753-755)

    Would it be fair to say players get penalised if they play in a successful side, and promoted if they play in a less good side? Seems to me some Aussies (Chappell G, Walters, for instance) are far lower in the list than I would have expected given they played in an era against good bowlers. Is...
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    How would you rate Aravinda De silva

    I pair him with Mark Waugh - fantastic to watch, impossible to bowl to on their day... but didn't actually average all that much in test cricket. Both bowled handy offspin too. And they were even better at the one-day game.
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    ***Official*** Pakistan and England in UAE

    Well, a) if you're gonna use language like that you're probably on the wrong forum. And b) Averages in wins/daws/losses : Sangakkara : 75.68 / 61.38 / 34.70 Bell : 63.75 / 52.92 / 32.05 Cook : 56.37 / 66.05 / 25.44 Pietersen : 58.84 / 57.76...
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    ***Official*** Zimbabwe in New Zealand 2012

    Does that mean they were desperate to give Wells another bat? In which case he must be in with a chance for Napier...
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    Best of The Second Tier

    So how many tiers are there? Are they equal size? Trying not to decide that beforehand, I get two top tiers of about 15 each... Tier 1 (in order of nationality before anyone gets upset) : Bradman, Chappell, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hutton, Hammond, Tendulkar, Gavaskar, Pollock, Richards B...
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    ***Official*** Zimbabwe in New Zealand 2012

    So what's the consensus on the keeping issue? Did everyone catch the many articles in the Herald on the subject? I don't agree with all of it (Paul Lewis in particular seems to have some dodgy logic), but it's nice to see the coverage about cricket - must be because Super-something rugby is...

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