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Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
You do know that the average value for a wicket is about 32 these days? Though obviously less prior to WWI or in the fifties.
Yeah, that'd be a better conversion to use if you include negative points for conceding runs/getting dismissed (which I might do next).
20 runs = 1 wicket seemed better for this, since the most runs in a series (974) is roughly 20x the most wickets in a series (49, or 51 for wickets+catches).
 

cnerd123

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no offence to merv, but how many other people are going into CA's hall of fame if he's making it in
When I saw that I figured he was only getting in for his ATG shenanigans and because the people running the HOF wanted to give their mate a good pat on the back

There are definitely players with better careers who could get in ahead of him
 

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
no offence to merv, but how many other people are going into CA's hall of fame if he's making it in
Here are the players inducted before Merv. An interesting list.

Hall of Fame Inductees
Inducted 1996 - Fred Spofforth, John Blackham, Victor Trumper, Clarrie Grimmett, Bill Ponsford, Sir Donald Bradman, Bill O’Reilly, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall and Dennis Lillee
Inducted 2000 - Warwick Armstrong, Neil Harvey and Allan Border
Inducted 2001 - Bill Woodfull and Arthur Morris
Inducted 2002 - Stan McCabe and Greg Chappell
Inducted 2003 - Lindsay Hassett and Ian Chappell
Inducted 2004 - Hugh Trumble and Alan Davidson
Inducted 2005 - Clem Hill and Rod Marsh
Inducted 2006 - Monty Noble and Bob Simpson
Inducted 2007 - Charles Macartney and Richie Benaud
Inducted 2008 - George Giffen and Ian Healy
Inducted 2009 - Steve Waugh
Inducted 2010 - Bill Lawry and Graham McKenzie
Inducted 2011 - Mark Taylor and Doug Walters
Inducted 2012 - Shane Warne
Inducted 2013 - Charlie Turner and Glenn McGrath
Inducted 2014 - Mark Waugh and Belinda Clark
Inducted 2015 - Adam Gilchrist and Jack Ryder
Inducted 2016 - Jeff Thomson and Wally Grout
Inducted 2017 - David Boon, Matthew Hayden and Betty Wilson
Inducted 2018 - Norm O’Neill, Ricky Ponting and Karen Rolton
Inducted 2019 - Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Dean Jones and Billy Murdoch
Inducted 2020 - Sharon Tredrea and Craig McDermott
 

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