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  1. zaremba

    Baggy Green ball tampering: Bancroft, Smith and the Aussie "Leadership Group"

    Baggy Green ball tampering: Bancroft, Smith and the Aussie "Leadership Group" Thought it might be worth having a separate thread for this, unless the mods disagree?
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    Sarah Taylor takes a break

    Sussex and England legend Sarah Taylor is taking a break from cricket as she gets to grips with some inner strife. Brilliantly frank interview here Sarah Taylor: England wicketkeeper-batter takes break to deal with anxiety - BBC Sport. All the best to her.
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    David Cameron XI

    1. FH Bacon 2. Swill Jefferson 3. Jonathan Trotter 4. Wally Hammond 5. Paul Porker 6. P.I.G. Perera 7. Wally Snout + 8. Heath Streaky 9. Kevin Swine 10. Rodney Hogg 11. Babe Saunders “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it...
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    Stumped

    Can anyone explain why a batsman can be stumped off a wide but not off a no ball?
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    Colin Dredge

    Somerset needs you back.
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    Cricket Without Boundaries

    On Christmas Day Radio 5 Live carried a special feature about an innovative and remarkably successful charity called Cricket Without Boundaries which combines cricket coaching in sub-Saharan Africa with AIDS/HIV education. The podcast can be found here. Worth a listen.
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    RIP Christopher Martin-Jenkins

    BBC is reporting that the Great Man has died of cancer. RIP
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    David Gower

    The man needs a thread of his own. In fact, not the man, and certainly not the commentator, but the heaven-sent and blessed cricketer with a talent that many of us would have committed mass murder for. Thoughts and memories please. Here's an excellent pen portrait of an innings in which Gower...
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    In Praise of Andy Flower

    Coach of the Year in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards. Successful, modest, thoughtful, intelligent, dignified, principled. WAFG. WAFG.
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    Spare Ticket for Archive Cricket Evening (London Southbank)

    I have a spare ticket for the Archive Cricket Evening at the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London this evening. Available at the special discount price of nil. Please email me on tac@cloisters.com if you'd like it. I'm told (by wisden18 who knows about these things) that the...
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    Rank, the Indian Batsmen

    Title refers.
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    Nightwatchmen

    What is the purpose of the nightwatchman? There is a general perception that his role is to protect the batsman whom he goes out to join near the end of the day's play. Seems to me this is just plain wrong. His role is not to protect the batsman who's already batting (except perhaps in the...
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    Most career centuries in a team

    In the current match, the England team has a total of 83 career Test centuries and the India team 137. Is this a record for each country, and maybe even a record aggregate for both teams in any given match?
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    Pick one former player to add to your current Test team

    If you could pick one player from your country's past to bolster the current side, who would it be? Me, I'm working on a shortlist of Hammond, Botham, Trueman and Larwood. Maybe Botham (pre-mullet).
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    Indian Diaspora XI

    Ok following on from something raised in the Windies / India thread, what would your all-time non-Indian Indian XI be? Let's ignore Ind/Pak pre-/post-Partition issues. Otherwise you can take whatever definition of "Indian" fits. Here goes. Ganga Ranji Kanhai Kallicharan Chanderpaul Jardine...
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    Odd Jobs XI

    1. GP 2. Sports shop owner 3. Stockbroker 4. Bishop 5. Christmas Tree Salesman 6. Lawyer 7. Painter 8. Prime Minister 9. Travel Agent 10. Air traffic controller 11. Milkman Name them?
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    Worst Test XI from your country

    Stop me, oh-oh-oh stop me, stop me if you think that you've seen this thread before.... Not sure that I have though. So here goes. As an Englishman, this has been something of a golden age for Worst XIs, so I don't even need to go beyond the 80s and 90s. 1. John Stephenson 2. Darren Maddy 3...
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    Follicularly Challenged XI

    Sehwag Jayasuriya Chimp Ponting Mick Vaughan Jarrrk Kallis Brian Close Matt Prior Shane Warne Vince Van der Bijl Frank Tyson Doug Bollinger 12th man: Greg Matthews TV Anchor: Peter "Rictus Grin" West
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    Test XI: born overseas

    OK quite a straightforward one here. Pick an all-time Test XI made up of players who were born in one country and who played for another. WI count as one country, and pre- and post-partition issues in the Sub-Continent don't count. Doesn't matter if the player also played for the country of...
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    Alec Stewart / Jack Russell

    Prompted by a discussion in the Graham Gooch thread, I thought the Stewart/Russell debate might appeal (2 decades on) to a particular kind of hard-core cricket fan of a certain age, and merit a thread of its own. For about a decade England struggled with the decision as to whether to play a...

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