zaremba
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Yep, I have a memory of him batting at four for Hants on at least one occasion.
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Which players you think are not considered all rounders but their stat is like all rounders? (Considering their era )
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Macartney always considered himself a batsman first. Others did not like his uncoached style and were not so sure. His bowling peaked during the 1909 tour of England when he took 64 wickets, including eleven in the Headingley Test on a pitch that was slow but not unduly helpful to bowlers. He occasionally went in number eleven on that trip.
Malcolm Marshall batted number five for Hampshire during most of the 1990 season in both first-class and List A matches. In List A he sometimes went in number four and on one occasion opened with Paul Terry. He scored 962 first-class runs at 45 that year, with a couple of centuries, and 410 in one-day matches.
Chaminda Vaas nearly always batted somewhere from seven downwards in first-class cricket.
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Line and Length
International Coach
In his brief Test career (ruined by serious injury), Coin Milburn was regarded as a hard hitting opener. However, his bowling in FC matches (99 @ 32.0) and LA matches (41 @ 22.8) would suggest he could claim all-rounder status.
Chin Music
International Debutant
Cork probably had more talent but Croft was a nuggety lower order player. Croft was pretty weak against the short ball though. Cork was more bound to give his wicket away carelessly though at international level but was a county standard all rounder long past his peak years as a bowler.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Cork's mini-epic 33* to get us over the line against the Curtly & Courtney led Windies in the second "four innings in one day" test of their 2000 tour remains one of my fondest cricketing memories.
Couldn't honestly have seen Croft managing that, given his weakness against top-notch pace.
Couldn't honestly have seen Croft managing that, given his weakness against top-notch pace.
Silver Silva
International Captain
Adil Rashid has 10 FC hundreds
mr_mister
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Didnt Croft have a back to the wall 37* against Donald and Pollock? To get a draw, not a win, but its the same type of innings
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Was that 1998? 3rd test, with Gus Fraser at the other end?
Fair shout if so, had completely slipped my mind. Different kind of innings for me though; was always batting for time whereas Cork's was on the third day of a scheduled five and was always about the runs.
Croft's effort no less praiseworthy for that though.
capt_Luffy
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Thought you meant Colin Croft and just was scratching my head with his Cricinfo page open....
Migara
International Coach
Since we have Vaas here, I will introduce the predecessor of Vaas. Ravi Ratnayake. Not as good as with the ball as Vaas, but boy he developed in to a fine batter, who could open the batying and score 90 odd. He retired at 30, at a time where he was entering the proper batsman proportions.
TheJediBrah
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Lara Croft was a better bat than both
Both Woakes and Rashid were genuine all-rounders at county level, batting regularly at 7. In international cricket they played during an era when England have had a surfeit of all-rounders, keeper-batters and other good middle-order options. In ODI cricket that resulted in our lineup often having Rashid or someone like Liam Plunkett, a very handy lower order batter, coming in at 10 or 11.