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Can you beat for the cricket guru title?

archie mac

archie mac

International Coach
Fiery said:
I think we can assume it is, so I would go ahead and ask a question mate
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Okay an easy one:laugh:

'He kept yelling at me, your a cheat if you stay out here' So I left, but I will never forgive him for it.

This became know as the Kippax incident, but who was yelling at him?
 
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Engle

State Vice-Captain
Bob Cowper is correct, congrats Archie. :thumbsup:

Assuming a minimum of 2000 Test runs, to rule out any statistical oddities, the man with the greatest discrepancy between his home and away averages is ... Bob Cowper, the Australian left-hander of the 1960s. He averaged an impressive 75.78 in home Tests, but a more, er, average 33.33 away from home. That's a difference of 42.45. Next come Vijay Hazare of India, with 69.56 at home and 35.96 away (-33.60), the West Indian legend George Headley, 77.56 at home and 47.45 away (-30.11), another West Indian in Lawrence Rowe, 59.54 at home and 29.48 away (-30.06)

At the other end of the scale are the good travellers, whose away average exceeds their home one. The leader there is Bill Ponsford, the prolific Australian of the 1920s and '30s. His home average was 40.89, but he managed 62.40 away (+21.51). Next come Mohinder Amarnath of India, 30.44 at home, 51.86 away (+21.42), England's 1960s stalwart Ken Barrington, with 50.71 at home, and an even more impressive 69.18 away (+18.47), an earlier England legend in Wally Hammond, 50.06 home, 66.32 away (+16.26), and a surprise name in Alan Knott, England's perky, quirky wicketkeeper - he averaged 26.71 in home Tests, and 42.26 away (+15.55). The man closest to parity is the pragmatic Yorkshireman Wilfred Rhodes - 30.29 at home, 30.15 away (-0.14). And in case you're wondering, Don Bradman averaged 98.22 at home ... and 102.84 overseas (all in England, in his case).
 
J

JASON

Cricketer Of The Year
South Africa v England (19th century) 1888 or South Africa v Australia (Mathews hat trick Test) 1911

I will go for the former .
 
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