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    Bowlers then and now

    Quote on X from Kevin Pietersen: "Don’t shout at me but batting these days is way easier than 20/25 years ago! Probably twice as hard back then! Waqar, Shoaib, Akram, Mushtaq, Kumble, Srinath, Harbhajan, Donald, Pollock, Klusener, Gough, McGrath, Lee, Warne, Gillespie, Bond, Vettori, Cairns...
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    AI all-time XI

    I asked an AI chatbot for its all-time XI, and it picked a team with no regular openers... so I tried again, asking about each group separately. Here are its picks and alternative suggestions: Openers: Hobbs & Gavaskar (also mentioned: Hutton, B Richards, Sehwag) Middle-order: Bradman...
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    Continent draft (voting)

    Continent draft poll: Pick the best three (Test) teams from the list. JOJOXI Desmond Haynes Saeed Anwar George Headley Joe Root Michael Hussey Clive Rice John Waite+ Ray Lindwall Shane Warne James Anderson Muttiah Muralitharan Fuller Pilch Bill Lawry Gordon Greenidge Wally Hammond Neil Harvey...
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    Continent draft

    Simple draft proposal: Your team (picked for a FC match) must contain at least* 2 players from each continent (Africa, America, Asia, Australasia, Europe); where the continent a player is "from" is determined by the team they played for (or would have played for. No Bradman, as usual. *so, 3...
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    Median bowler to average exactly 30?

    George Hirst (59@30.00), Arshad Khan (32@30.00) or Dermot Reeve (2@30.00)? You decide.
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    MWM Draft: Final

    The top three teams go through from each of the semi-finals. Pick your top two (Test) teams from the following capt_Luffy Conrad Hunte Stanley Jackson Mohinder Amarnath Jacques Kallis* Zaheer Abbas Andy Flower+ Frank Woolley Wasim Akram Andy Roberts Kagiso Rabada Colin Blythe Himannv Trevor...
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    MWM thread: 2nd semi-final

    MWM draft - second 10 of the 20 teams in it. Pick your 3 favourite (Test) XIs from the following to go through to the final. Line and Length Jack Hobbs Virender Sehwag Kumar Sangakkara+ Mushtaq Mohammad Asif Iqbal Carl Hooper Ben Stokes Kapil Dev Anil Kumble Harold Larwood Waqar Younis Fuller...
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    MWM draft: 1st semi-final

    MWM draft - first 10 of the 20 teams in it. Pick your 3 favourite (Test) XIs from the following to go through to the final. Himannv Trevor Goddard Desmond Haynes Kane Williamson Greg Chappell Michael Clarke** Warwick Armstrong* BJ Watling+ Pat Cummins Fred Spofforth Dale Steyn Stuart MacGill...
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    MWM draft

    Pick a Text XI subject to the rules: 1) No Bradman 2) Each player must have played Test cricket, and must have a different "most wickets in a single Test" number. (So you can only pick at most one person who never took a wicket in Tests; and you couldn't (for example) pick both Wasim Raja (best...
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    Centenary draft: voting thread

    Poll for the Centenary draft Pick the three best (Test) teams as of March 1977 (active players' figures at the time are given in brackets). trundler Herbert Sutcliffe Bill Woodfull* Ken Barrington Ted Dexter 6 Patsy Hendren Mushaq Mohammad 5 (46 Tests: 3005 @ 40.06 and 53w @ 29.15) Imtiaz...
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    Centenary draft

    Simple idea: imagine it's 15th March 1977: pick players for your all-time World (Test) XI. No Bradman as usual.
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    RIP Sonny Ramadhin

    The last surviving member of the 1950 West Indies team who beat England 3-1 has died aged 92.
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    Categories (bid for position) - voting

    Poll for the Categories/bid for position draft: pick your top 3 teams from: trundler Sunil Gavaskar Bobby Abel Stan McCabe 6 Clem Hill* Mohammad Yousuf John R Reid 3 Tim Zoehrer+ Ray Lindwall 1 Stuart Clark 2 Steve O'Keefe 5 Muttiah Muralitharan 4 Bitmap Barry Richards Archie Jackson KS...
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    A "bid for position" draft: categories

    This is another "bid for position" draft, in which each participant gets $1,000,000 to bid for when they get to pick players: for more details on how these drafts work, see the first one. This is more complicated than the previous such drafts; I'm proposing it now to see if there's any...
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    Voting - Bid for position (in blocks) draft

    From the latest "bid for position" draft: Pick the three best (Test) teams from the following: Himannv Barry Richards / WG Grace / Wally Hammond* /o Dennis Compton / Rohan Kanhai / Ian Botham /o Les Ames+ Mike Proctor o/ Alan Davidson o/ Jim Laker o Allan Donald o CricZo XI (kingkallis)...
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    Another "bid for position" draft

    Anyone up for another of these? (See this draft for the basic details of how they work). The idea for this one is that each player gets the usual $1,000,000, but this time there are four separate rounds of bidding for openers (2), other batsmen (4), wicket-keeper, bowlers (4). (Suggestions for...
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    Voting: Decade Draft

    Teams drafted in the Decade Draft. As usual, vote for your 3 favourite teams. CricZo XI (kingkallis) Mark Richardson Herbie Collins Qasim Umar Frank Iredale Brian Booth Collie Smith John Murray+ Gary Gilmour Ryan Harris Arthur Mailey Roy Gilchrist Teuton Reggie Duff KL Rahul Usman Khawaja Bob...
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    Decade draft

    Very simple idea: you can only pick people whose entire Test career was within a single calendar decade. By a calendar decade, I mean (for example) "the 1950s", covering all dates from 1 Jan 1950 to 31 Dec 1959. So the years of the player's first and last Tests must both start with the same 3...
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    Voting: Inclusivity draft

    Teams drafted in the Inclusivity draft. Vote for what you judge to be the 3 strongest teams. Charter 77 (Michaelf7777777) Sunil Gavaskar Herbie Taylor Kane Williamson Neil Harvey Garfield Sobers (4) Keith Miller (*) (3) Shaun Pollock (1) Amelia Kerr (6) Jack Blackham (+) Hedley Verity (5) Brian...
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    Purple Patches

    In the 1987 book of this name by Ralph Barker (reviewed here), each chapter describes (to quote from the dust jacket) "one of those transient periods when a cricketer scales unprecedented heights". They're quite a varied set, including Bill Ponsford's record-breaking scoring in the Sheffield...

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