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    The Records and Milestones thread

    Anderson and Broad are fairly comfortably top of the "most innings bowled in" list, so it's not surprising they're high in the "most wicketless innings" list as well. Perhaps surprisingly, if you only look at bowlers with <200 wickets, the "most innings bowled in" list, 5 of the top 6 (Root...
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    The Records and Milestones thread

    Confirmed by Statsguru
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Barry Richards Vijay Merchant Ranjitsinhji Denis Compton Kane Williamson Kumar Sangakkara+ Imran Khan Richie Benaud* Peter Pollock Harold Larwood Brian Statham
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Ranjitsinhji @kingkallis
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Harold Larwood (14 Nov 1904)
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Vijay Merchant (12/10/1911) @Bitmap
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    The Records and Milestones thread

    Looking at Lloyd's record, it's as if he was determined to get that record: his 15 innings include ones of 49, 48, 46 and 44.
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Brian Statham (21 Jun 1930) and Denis Compton (23 May 1918)
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    "Next pick I'll take one of the 3 W's," I said...
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Richie Benaud (6 Oct 1930)
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Peter Pollock (30 June 1941) @Himannv
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Barry Richards (21/07/1945) @Silver Silva
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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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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Imran Khan (5/10/1952)
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Kumar Sangakkara (27/10/1977) @Pothas, I think?
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    Birthday Chronology Draft: Reversed Order

    Kane Williamson (8/8/2004)
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    What would Bradman average if he played in a typical (i.e. neither batsman or bowler favored) period of the modern era (1970 - current)?

    Not sure that you'd lose in 1934 - unless we assume that without Bradman, there's no bodyline, and then go with Fingleton's argument that with Larwood, England would have won in 34 and 36-7.
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    Ambrose and Walsh were 33/34 in 1996-7.
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    Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats

    Some near-misses: Herschelle Gibbs (14661 runs) and Andrew Strauss (11315 runs) each bowled 1 over and never kept wicket; Eoin Morgan (10783 runs) kept wicket in a couple of ODIs and never bowled.

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