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    Biggest test series upset of all time

    There were a couple of months between the two tours. Before 1971 India had played 47 away Tests and won three - all in New Zealand. They had never beaten West Indies anywhere. To win series in the Caribbean and England within a few months was a major achievement, especially with spinners bowling...
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    Vintcent Van Der Bijl vs Eddie Barlow vs Clive Rice

    Barlow was sometimes compared with Tony Greig, in that both were thought to have over-achieved in Tests given their natural ability.
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    Bart King vs Van der Bijl

    Rice averaged 27 with the bat in unofficial Tests.
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    Biggest test series upset of all time

    Both sides had issues going into the series. Australia were probably narrow favourites - provided Bradman was back to full health which wasn't certain. Bodyline tactics had been outlawed. The hosts introduced four new caps for the first Test. Larwood headed the English first-class bowling...
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    India Xi vs Pakistan Xi (from 1970s)

    India v Pakistan Tests since 1970: India won 7, Pakistan won 11, Drawn 26.
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    England XI vs South Africa XI (since 1990)

    England v South Africa Test averages since readmission in 1992. Batting averages: Qualification 800 runs England: Trescothick 51, Root 46, Bairstow 45, Pietersen 45, Stokes 45, Hussain 43, Atherton 43, Stewart 39, Butcher 38, Strauss 38, Thorpe 35, Cook 35, Flintoff 32, Vaughan 26. South...
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    England XI vs Pakistan XI (since 1970)

    England v Pakistan Test averages since 1970. Batting averages: Qualification 800 runs England: Brook 84, Root 53, Stewart 52, Gower 49, Cook 49, Bell 42, Gatting 34. Pakistan: Yousuf 62, Salim Malik 60, Inzamam 54, Zaheer 51, Miandad 51, Younis Khan 46, Misbah 45, Asad Shafiq 35, Mudassar 34...
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    England XI vs India XI (since 1970)

    England v India Test averages since 1970. Batting averages: Qualification 1000 runs England: Vaughan 72, Botham 70, Pietersen 58, Root 58, Gooch 55, Gatting 55, Cook 47, Gower 44, Bell 41, Bairstow 31. India: Dravid 60, Azharuddin 58, Tendulkar 51, Rohit Sharma 47, Vengsarkar 42, Kohli 42...
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    England XI vs India XI (since 1970)

    England v India Test results since 1970: England won 33, India won 32, Drawn 34. England v Pakistan since 1970: England won 22, Pakistan won 22, Drawn 30. England v South Africa since readmission: England won 20, South Africa won 17, Drawn 17.
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    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    From Hussain's autobiography: It may sound controversial for the purists, but I believe it is easier to turn a player with real cricket talent into a wicketkeeper competent enough to perform at the highest level - for instance Marcus Trescothick could be England's wicketkeeper if we really...
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    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    This is exactly right. England and South Africa generally picked their best wicket-keeper until the 1960s (when John Murray and Dennis Gamsy lost out to better batsmen). Australia held out longer until 1970. West Indies and Pakistan had been more sympathetic to the batsman-keeper than India...
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    The 4th Greatest Wicket keeper Batsman?

    You guys will know as much about these players as I do. Personally I would class Sangakkara and Walcott as 3 + 1 because they did not keep wicket in most of their Tests. Agree they were better keepers to spin than Flower, Pant etc. Walcott took up keeping as insurance early on in case the runs...
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    The 4th Greatest Wicket keeper Batsman?

    Over-simplifying a bit, but one might consider three tiers of wicket-keeper, excluding batting: Tier 1: Top-class. Snaps up half-chances others wouldn't take. Reputation unanimous. Tier 2: Competent and safe standing up or back, without doing much out of the ordinary. Tier 3: Generally OK...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Adding Clive Lloyd. 3754 runs @ 43.14. 9 centuries. HS 197 v Lillee and Thomson in WSC. Lillee dismissed him most often.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    He was in a group refused entry late at night to entertainment at a hotel. Richards allegedly vandalised property outside.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Van der Bijl bowled to all these batsmen, dismissing all except Chappell and Zaheer. He caused plenty of problems when bowling for Middlesex in 1980 and troubled Boycott on the first rebel tour. Pollock came up against Snow and Underwood in England in 1965, taking a hundred off one and scoring...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Ten of the best bowlers of this time were: Lillee, Thomson, Roberts, Holding, Snow, Underwood, Bedi, Chandra, Procter, van der Bijl. Two each from Australia, West Indies, England, India and South Africa. Hadlee and Imran were still developing. Batting figures below taken from innings when one...
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    Denis Compton vs Kane Williamson

    The origin of Compton's knee injury was pre-war when he collided with an opposing goalkeeper while playing for Arsenal. The injury became chronic in 1949 after he had turned thirty and thereafter affected his batting to varying degrees. Up to that point he was averaging 61 in Tests (50 away) and...
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    All-Time India XIs - A re-run

    During almost half a century between 1926 and 1975 India played 34 matches that might loosely be termed "Unofficial Tests". Opponents were MCC, Ceylon and Commonwealth XIs. 11 matches were won, 9 lost and 14 drawn. All took place on the sub-continent. Overall India got the better of Ceylon, lost...
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    Ravichandran Ashwin vs Ian Botham

    Percentage of Tests missed by leading Indian spinner wicket-takers from debut to last match: Bedi 11, Mankad 12, Shastri 12, Kumble 17, Ashwin 18, Chandra 31, Gupte 32, Jadeja 37, Harbhajan 40, Prasanna 41, Venkat 53. Apart from the very beginning and end of his career, Bedi was only dropped...

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