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  1. mr_mister

    African FC/Test draft

    Wasn't sure exactly what to call it. It's a red ball draft, and I want tests to have a bit more weighting than FC when assessing players, but there's no min test requirement with this draft. It's just anyone who was born in Africa who played FC cricket, regardless of where. I will also allow...
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    Which of these Australian 90s XIs are better? (22 unique players)

    I'll do the Australian one too. This one might be trickier with the batting/bowling split. Again, keep it to what they achieved in the decade Team A: Mark Taylor Michael Slater David Boon Mark Waugh Steve Waugh Allan Border Ian Healy + Paul Reiffel Merv Hughes Craig McDermott Stuart MacGill...
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    Which of these English 90s XIs is better? (22 unique players)

    Only include what they did in the decade when assessing. I've opted to split the best bowlers and batsmen to make it interesting Team A Graham Gooch Michael Atherton Nasser Hussain Robin Smith Graham Thorpe Alec Stewart+ Phil Defreitas Robert Croft Dean Headley Allan Mullally Devon Malcolm...
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    Australia's batting in the '93 ashes

    Was before my time but just glancing at the statistics, it struck me as pretty interesting. All members of the top 7 averaged 40+ and scored at least one ton (Slater, Taylor, Boon, The Waughs, Border and Healy) 6 of the top 7 scored at least 400 runs, with Healy falling short of that but still...
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    Arguably, Mark Ramprakash had 5/5 successful ashes series

    He only featured in one test each in his first 3 series. In '93 he got 6 and 64, you'd take that for your ashes debut. In '94/95, 72 and 42. Respectable. In '97, 4 and 48. Very low scoring match, the 48 was the second highest score of the game behind Thorpe's 62. In '98/99, he hit 4 fifites...
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    Y/N - you could explain Net run rate in detail to someone without googling

    We've all been watching cricket for decades, but who the **** understands Net run rate. The decimals throw me, I don't know if takes wickets into equation as well as runs, I'm a solid nope
  7. mr_mister

    Strongest XI for each decade with a caveat that every test playing country from said decade needs representation

    For the sake of letting the 2010s/20s be eligible, Ireland and Afghanistan can count as one team(ie only one player from either side needs to feature) We'll go by a players debut date as the decade he's eligible for. So I guess the 70s team will be featuring Barry Richards
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    Your best batsman coming in at 3 is such a myth

    From the rough list of the 10-15 best test bats ever, only Bradman, Headley and Ponting (if you count him) had 3 as their most common batting position in tests Ignoring openers and just including middle order batsman: Lara, Sachin, Pollock, Viv, Sobers, Chappell, Border, Hammond, Weekes...
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    Doug Walter's 68/69 series against the Windies... How come I'm just now discovering this

    I know a bit about Walters of course, cheeky larrakin, aggressive yet very effective batsmen but sucked in England, but I had no idea he was this bloody good His returns across the series: 76, 118, 110, 242, 50, 103 699 runs @ 116 from 6 digs with no not outs The Windies bowling weren't...
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    Do you consider Colin Croft a "what if?"

    He played roughly the amount of tests as Harris, Bond, Asif etc, but with different circumstances, that being he had 4 ATGs ahead of him in the pecking order for parts of his career. His stats are still spectacular, but how good was he? Would he have played 60+ tests(a full career using Garner...
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    Richard Hadlee as a batsman - how good was he? Overrated, underrated?

    So among the big four 80s all rounders, Hadlee is always seen as definitely the weakest bat. Some think it's a stretch to truly call him an all-rounder since he averaged 27 in tests. He did get a test 150 and FC 200, but I almost never see his batting used as an argument to big him up when...
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    Which nation has the strongest ATG XI with a chronological caveat of one player from each decade

    The stipulation being all players had to have made their test debut in different decades This cripples WI, means only one of McWarne and Gilly can make it in, and well... I guess some teams won't even be able to make a complete side. Maybe this thread was a mistake but it's too late now to pull...
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    Is there an actual metric for how big a spike needs to be on snicko?

    Was just watching a T20 finals game between Hampshire and Lancashire, and There's a moment where a batsmen potentially feathers an edge to the keeper. Onfield decision not out, players review, and at the moment the ball passes the bat, the snicko goes from a dead flat line to a sliiiight spike...
  14. mr_mister

    Was Phil Hughes one of the best offside players ever?

    Just a thought that sprang in my head today. I remember when he came on the scene he put a remarkable amount of balls to the boundary through cuts and squareish drives and at a really rapid rate too. Like it was very noticeable he was a beast in that area, regardless of how many fielders there...
  15. mr_mister

    Rugby league draft! Second edition

    So, hoping for at least 6 participants. I was gonna limit it to the last 10 years, but I've decided I'll open this sucker right up time period wise and allow anyone who played a game of top flight Australian rugby league (so nswrl, ARL, super league and NRL) from the last 40 years. So 1983 on...
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    What is the general consensus on Makhaya Ntini's controversial history

    I wanted to use the word "dark" rather than "controversial" as I feel controversial is more appropriate for like a Warnie calibre tabloid scandal but didn't want it to be mistaken as a racist pun. And "criminal" history feels wrong too since he was acquitted. But anyway enough whinging about the...
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    Does Babar Azam have a chance as going down as the best ODI batsmen ever?

    Averaging just shy of 60 after 86 games, if Kohli is in the discussion you'd think Babar should be soon enough
  18. mr_mister

    Nirosan Dickwella unconverted 50 watch

    Alright, i've been posting about this on the forum since he was on about 10 unconverted 50s - I'd considered making a thread years ago about how close he was to reaching Chetan Chahaul's record of 16 fifties without a ton. I kept thinking "nah, i'm sure as soon as I make the thread he'l convert...
  19. mr_mister

    11 countries 11 timespans draft voting thread

    vote for the top 3 mr_mister: Sanath Jayasuriya 5 (SL) Rohit Sharma * (Ind) Dean Jones (Aus) Andy Balbirnie (Ire) Brendon McCullum + (NZ) Sikanda Raza 6 (Zim) Najmul Hossain Shanto (Bang) Chris Old 3 (Eng) Saqlain Mushtaq 4 (Pak) Joel Garner 1 (WI) Allan Donald 2 (SA) Bitmap: 1)Gordon...
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    Best ever minnow batsman?

    For the sake of keeping it interesting, let's define this to what players did in ODIs before their country got test status - or never got test status. Arjuna Ranatunga actually played an ODI for SL a few days before their inaugural test, so any definitions looser than this(ie debuted before...

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