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  1. ataraxia

    ***Official 2024 Olympics Thread***

    This wasn't very well explained to you. Wikipedia has an extremely high bar to be satisfied re the inclusion of controversial information about living persons – references are absolutely required – and it tries not to be a news ticker. To write in a highly unencyclopedic tone a very...
  2. ataraxia

    Matches Played Draft

    Greg Chappell (87)
  3. ataraxia

    Shane Bond vs Mitchell Johnson

    Sarcastic laugh
  4. ataraxia

    Unpopular cricket opinions

    Ok we can either talk about that or we can talk about the stuff that happened in the 20th century that you know comparatively **** all about. You choose. Apologies for misleading you re the quality of your argument; it isn't that the argument consists of incoherent points but rather not very...
  5. ataraxia

    Unpopular cricket opinions

    I mean, I'm absolutely open to that view, but make some sort of coherent argument please with at least a morsel of evidence to back it up because you're losing by miles.
  6. ataraxia

    Barry Richards vs Michael Atherton

    Yeah @PlayerComparisons this is beyond your remit, gtfo
  7. ataraxia

    Barry Richards vs Michael Atherton

    Eh I don't like a view that means, in a situation where arbitrarily half the polls specify "test" and the other half don't, which is which is actually meant to change people's votes, often to a wild degree. It means that votes are determined as much by terminology as opinion. In other words, I...
  8. ataraxia

    Barry Richards vs Michael Atherton

    You must not come here often
  9. ataraxia

    Barry Richards vs Michael Atherton

    I cannot fathom rating a pre-1980 test player and completely ignoring all their FC performances. That method is what leads to the likes of Paynter being overrated, not the other way round. Hick and Bevan failed over an at least decent sample size of tests and thus aren't that good (but Bevan is...
  10. ataraxia

    AB de Villiers vs Hashim Amla

    This is quite well done tbh.
  11. ataraxia

    Barry Richards vs Michael Atherton

    Obviously not. I think that FC performance is extremely relevant to how Barry would perform in a hypothetical test.
  12. ataraxia

    Barry Richards vs Michael Atherton

    Nah, two or three. Out of thirty-one. Conservatively extrapolate Barry's 4 tests to a decade's worth – an extrapolation that based on FC record makes sense – and he ends up better than Atherton 19 times out of 20. I mean, you can't logically fault Barry for lack of longevity compared to Atherton.
  13. ataraxia

    Unpopular cricket opinions

    I don't think this is really true? There wasn't any concerted effort to attract more countries to the sport, sure, but when countries showed interest they were generally given test status fairly early on (so long as English imperialists saw the colony wanting to join as sufficiently de-attached...
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    Barry Richards vs Michael Atherton

    How many would he have played if Cummins were available?
  15. ataraxia

    Unpopular cricket opinions

    Uncertain wtf Xix is talking about, but I think (based on 1900s, Eng-Aus-SA triumvirate) it's some beef about the failure of the 1912 Triangular series. Never expected that from him tbh.
  16. ataraxia

    Matches Played Draft

    @AndrewB
  17. ataraxia

    Matches Played Draft

    Michael Holding (60) @sayon basak
  18. ataraxia

    All-time Australia XIs - A re-run

    Bump.
  19. ataraxia

    Is Batsman out if ball hits on falling stump?

    Around here only trundler hits on falling stumps.
  20. ataraxia

    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    You'd know obvs

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