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*Official* England in NZ 2023

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
It's almost like mediocre domestic bowlers struggle at test level.

Fire Gary Stead, Shane Jurgensen and Gavin Larsen.
Who is Stead? He was the shadow of a great coach and had been his batting coach. He was an ordinary man, a lad about the dressing room, agreeable to the NZC in the balmy days of success, the sort of man who does not make too much trouble for David White. Who knows how to suppress his personality, what there is of it. A good, simple, harmless, ordinary man. And onto him crashes the brutal, remorseless weight of time, as the men who had made his ascension possible departed one by one.
 

Darwin Award

U19 Cricketer
Oh I thought you meant total. Cricinfo has a list. - Trumper still leading it

Honestly the main thing keeping modern openers from adding to it is modern over rates
... Trumper is 'still leading it' on the basis of being the first to do so back in 1902.

However,the poster asked who was the fastest in terms of deliveries faced in their century that they brought up before lunch and the number of deliveries they faced isn't listed for the earlier ones.

Considering there is only about half a dozen names on that list it wouldn't be hard to eventually whittle down and find out who.
 

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