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    Bill Bowes vs Ken Higgs

    It was often said that County Championships were won by bowlers. Those who took their teams to the title enjoyed a boost to their national reputation that was not always matched internationally. Bowes was a case in point. He took more championship wickets in seasons when his county won the title...
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    Bill Bowes vs Ken Higgs

    Neither was fast but both hit the pitch hard. Higgs was a seam bowler suited to English conditions. He was a decent slip catcher and had a solid defensive technique for a tailender. Bowes was a swing bowler. In his younger days he made use of his height by sometimes bowling short to a leg-side...
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    How does Ravindra Jadeja compare with Kapil Dev and Ian Botham ( Tests)

    Overseas tours missed. 1977-78: In party in Pakistan but not selected for Tests. Played all Tests in New Zealand. 1984-85: Made himself unavailable 1987-88: Made himself unavailable. Played for Queensland instead. 1988-89: No tour. Series in India cancelled. 1989-90: Dropped 1990-91: Out of...
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    Everton Weekes vs Neil Harvey

    Gubby Allen named Weekes as one of his Top 20 cricketers during the fifty year period 1921-71. Fingleton included Harvey in his Top 20. Ames and O'Reilly didn't choose either of them. Votes for batsmen: 4 - Bradman, Hobbs, Hammond, Hutton, Compton, Headley, Sobers 3 - Ponsford, McCabe 2 -...
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    Celebrating Garry Sobers - The Fielder

    It was David (DW) Allan. Old Trafford 1966.
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    Everton Weekes vs Neil Harvey

    Each received 9 votes in the 100 All-Time World XIs published in 2010. In each case eight were from contemporaries. (Non-contemporaries Boycott and Walters picked Weekes and Harvey respectively.) Both players made the teams of Davidson, Graveney and Walcott. Weekes was also selected by Bedser...
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    Better series – Sunil Gavaskar 1971 West Indies vs Shubhman Gill 2025 England

    Both apparently benefited from dropped catches by the West Indians. Match reports give the following: Gavaskar 2nd Test, 1st innings. Straightforward chance to Sobers at slip off Holder on 12. Scored 65. 3rd Test, 1st Innings. Sobers again at slip off Shillingford on 6. Carew at leg-slip off...
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    Which cricketers go on each countries Mount Rushmore?

    NZ were playing internationals against Australia during the early 20th century. Could go back as far as Dan Reese. Reggie Schwarz brought the googly to South Africa and might be a candidate.
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    Which cricketers go on each countries Mount Rushmore?

    Agree with three of these. Would move Grace to "growth" and add Hobbs for "development".
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    Which cricketers go on each countries Mount Rushmore?

    My understanding was that the Mount Rushmore presidents were chosen respectively to represent birth (as an independent nation), growth, development and preservation. The first chronological name for each cricketing nation would have to be someone from the early days, such as Nayudu for India...
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    How important are runs from number 8?

    The current England team has ten players with first-class hundreds. All except Archer who has a 2nd XI century. Most recent instances of each Test nation fielding eleven first-class centurions going into the match: India v Australia, Dharamsala, 2017. Won by 8 wickets. Rahul, Vijay, Pujara...
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    5 greatest test cricketers of 19th century.

    The thirty years after overarm bowling was legalised in 1864 was a very different era from the twenty before WW1. Much worse pitches and international cricket below the standard of many domestic matches.
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    England players and selection discussion thread

    Rehan Ahmed is the seventh youngest to score a hundred and take 10 wickets in a first-class match. The youngest is Xen Balaskas, who achieved the feat twice within nine days during February 1930. He was playing for Griqualand West against Eastern Province and Western Province respectively. On...
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    Allan Knott vs Ben Stokes

    It wasn't just about speed. In the moral landscape of the time, hitting a batsman by mistake was unfortunate. Doing so deliberately was beyond the pale. The term 'bodyline' implied intent. And it was the word "unsportsmanlike" in the cable to MCC from the Australian Board that almost led to the...
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    All-Time World XIs: Discussion Thread

    Curiously double century records were taken very seriously by Bradman. He had no idea at the end that he needed four more runs to average a hundred in so-called "Tests". But he confided to Cardus that he kept a running count of how many first-class double hundreds both he and rival Hammond had...
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    All-Time World XIs: Discussion Thread

    The main criticism of Bradman's captaincy came after his first two Tests in charge, both of which were lost, leaving Australia 2-0 down in the 1936-37 series. Four players appeared before the board accused of not supporting the captain. Some members of the team wanted to play under McCabe. Alan...
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    Allan Knott vs Ben Stokes

    When English pitches were uncovered there were quite a few medium-pacers in county cricket who nibbled the ball around - perhaps about 70 mph or so. Their effectiveness was enhanced when the keeper stood up to prevent batsmen leaving the crease. Alan Dixon was one such bowler for Kent and Knott...
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    Allan Knott vs Ben Stokes

    Knott probably has more supporters than anyone for the title of greatest-ever wicket-keeper. The criticism of him at the time was for standing back to medium-pace bowling. He argued that he caught a higher proportion of chances standing back. The purists' counter-argument was that he made it...
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    Ashwin v Laker v Verity v Grimmett

    Rosenwater seems to be referencing Charlie Turner, who claimed that his style of bowling would have been redundant in Australia during the inter-war period. After Australia lost the Ashes in 1926, Turner wrote an instruction manual entitled The Quest For Bowlers. For a long time English...
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    Dennis Lillee vs Bill O'Reilly

    In 1977 Keith Miller picked O'Reilly in his all-time Australian XI but not Lillee. Three years later Fingleton picked them both. It may be that Lillee took the lead among all bowlers around then.

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