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Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

Howe_zat

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I saw today that Joe Root has won the most tests as England captain, despite being in charge for only four years and the test team under his tenure being wildly inconsistent. My first thought was 'I bet that's because they never draw games any more', and that does seem to be there in the figures.

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Cook's record suprises me in that it's worse than both Root's and by raw data, Hussain's as well. But then I thought Cook kinda had two teams, the one he inherited that was falling apart and then the one they rebuilt after 2014 which was actually quite good.

Atherton's record as captain there shows a couple of things, 1) we don't actually play that many more tests than we used to, since Athers also had 50-odd tests at the helm, and 2) Jesus **** we used to be rubbish, didn't we.
 
Victor Ian

Victor Ian

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I'm surprised by the great consistency in captain's tenure. All around 50 games and 4-5 years. Root's run must be coming to an end soon.
 
TheJediBrah

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Howe_zat said:
I saw today that Joe Root has won the most tests as England captain, despite being in charge for only four years and the test team under his tenure being wildly inconsistent. My first thought was 'I bet that's because they never draw games any more', and that does seem to be there in the figures.

Relevant number crunches:

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Cook's record suprises me in that it's worse than both Root's and by raw data, Hussain's as well. But then I thought Cook kinda had two teams, the one he inherited that was falling apart and then the one they rebuilt after 2014 which was actually quite good.

Atherton's record as captain there shows a couple of things, 1) we don't actually play that many more tests than we used to, since Athers also had 50-odd tests at the helm, and 2) Jesus **** we used to be rubbish, didn't we.
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Crazy how much Test cricket England have played over the last 5 years. If anything they've played more during Covid
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

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Here's an interesting paragraph from Brearley's The Art of Captaincy:

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It seems that my idea of allowing each side to choose their own ball has actually happened at least one in a test match.
 
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