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    What is your definition of a match-winning innings?

    Another category is when one batsman plays the only significant innings of the match. In the first innings of the first-ever Test, Charles Bannerman retired hurt on 165. The next highest score from a teammate in either innings was 20. The highest for the opposition were 63 and 38. Australia won...
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    What is your definition of a match-winning innings?

    Ten notable fourth innings knocks in one-wicket wins. Number in batting order in brackets. The Oval 1902 v Australia. Target 263. Jessop 104 in 77 minutes (7). Runs needed when dismissed 76. Johannesburg 1906 v England. Target 284. Dave Nourse 93* (8). Last wicket stand 48. Melbourne 1952 v...
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    Which players would be locks in every OTHER country’s ATG XI?

    The World XI was published the day before the first World Cup Final. In a group match the week before, Kallicharran had thrashed a furious Lillee all round The Oval, including 35 runs off ten successive Lillee deliveries, most of which were fast bouncers. It shouldn't have affected the...
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    Which players would be locks in every OTHER country’s ATG XI?

    Good points. Hutton thought he was at his best in 1939. His post-war peak was between 1949 and early 1954. Compton's peak ended due to injury as Hutton's began. At the end of August 1950, Hutton was averaging 57 in Test cricket, Compton 59, Morris 67, Weekes 74, Worrell 104 and Harvey 106. The...
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    Which players would be locks in every OTHER country’s ATG XI?

    Copied from post last year: In June 1975 five leading English cricket writers got together to select a current World XI for The Daily Telegraph Magazine. They were EW Swanton, John Woodcock, Ian Peebles, Michael Melford and Crawford White. In addition to the Telegraph, The Times, Sunday Times...
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    Which players would be locks in every OTHER country’s ATG XI?

    I was thinking of the period 1993-95. After breaking the records for both highest Test and First-Class innings in 1994, there was talk of the sky being the limit for Lara. As you say there was a period of intense Lara v Tendulkar debate, and also one where most people thought Tendulkar was the...
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    Which players would be locks in every OTHER country’s ATG XI?

    There has been talk during the past few days about the rarity of undisputed boxing champions. Grace, Ranji and Barnes are among the few batsmen and bowlers considered the undisputed best in their own day. Undisputed meaning virtually everybody acknowledged them as the best at the time, with the...
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    Best test wicketkeeper since Knott?

    Would personally have stayed with Foakes and would still do so. But it seems he may have played his last Test.
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    Rahul Dravid vs Graeme Pollock

    Some of the bowlers Graeme Pollock scored hundreds against in first-class cricket, including Tests and unofficial representative matches: Fast: Wes Hall, Lillee, Snow (3), Procter (3), le Roux (3), Sylvester Clarke (2), Franklyn Stephenson (2), Ezra Mozeley, Rodney Hogg (2), Rackemann...
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    Best test wicketkeeper since Knott?

    Jack Russell is another English cricketer whose reputation has grown since retirement. Between his debut and last Test, England played 96 Test matches. Russell appeared in 54. His eccentricity and painting created an aura enhancing the claim that he was a victim of the selectors. Russell was a...
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    When was the zenith of each side?

    In the past claims have been made for the following England teams: 1902 (first two Tests) 1911-12 1928-29 or 1932-33 1954-55 2005 2011 2022-23
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    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of Wicketkeepers Poll

    The game has changed. But in those two series Pant was easily worth his place on batting alone. Perhaps the choice should have been between Saha and the seventh best batsman: .somebody like Vihari.
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    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of Wicketkeepers Poll

    It's another case of applying today's criteria to yesterday's circumstances. Less uniform pitches then. More standing up to the stumps. Until the 1970s Australia virtually always picked their best keeper. They knew what they were doing. They wouldn't have given Lindsay the gloves over Wally...
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    What are the minimum record requirements for secondary disciplines to qualify someone as an all-rounder?

    A few stats. Nothing particular to read into them. Test batting average 30; 100 wickets at 2 wpm. 17 qualifiers: Noble, Rhodes, Miller, Mankad, Sobers, Goddard, Imran, Greig, Botham, Kapil Dev, Cairns, Shaun Pollock, Irfan Pathan, Vettori, Flintoff, Shakib, Jadeja Reduce batting average to...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    It was in a VHS Benson & Hedges Golden Greats compilation of bowlers about forty years ago. The footage was of Barnes as quite an old man, delivering a few balls for the camera.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    There is footage of Grace, Ranji and Barnes.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    The comparison with Cowdrey and Dexter is relevant. Removing the distinction between amateur and professional in 1962 now seems to have been long overdue. That's not how everyone saw it then. To some it was another drastic measure fitting the widely held view that the days of cricket as a...
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    Who is the greatest bat with a sub-50 average?

    Murali would finish on 795 wickets rather than 800. It won't happen.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    That is correct. It took a long time for Barrington's reputation to grow. England lost five consecutive home series to Australia, West Indies and South Africa in the 1960s and didn't lose any away. English pitches offered more assistance to fast bowlers like Hall, Griffith, Adcock and Peter...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Rhodes' batting and bowling peaks not coinciding was an issue for The Cricketer's judges, who ignored his batting and picked him as the best left-arm spinner on all pitches. Ames was their keeper batting six. Others considered Rhodes' career as a whole and treated him as an all-rounder. Some...

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