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    All-rounders categories

    Looking at some of the other names on the 50:50 list, I'm going to assume this is a troll post.
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    All-rounders categories

    Boje and Emburey crack a nod as bowling ARs on this list due to being crap bowlers. Hadlee and Pollock are bowlers who could bat despite scoring a lot more RPT because they knew how to take wickets.
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    Team of all rounders v specialists

    4 bowling ARs + stacking the batting as much as possible leaves the teams very evenly matched on batting and bowling (assuming Grace is disqualified). I'm not sure if this is the best way though. AR team has so many ways of constucting a team.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Smith captaining the ROW would drop Sobers for being a 'disruptive influence', Curtly for not being penetrative enough, and Watling cos he's not Boucher.
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    Joe Root is number one

    The 4 most recent entries are all England.
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    Jacques Kallis vs Ricky Ponting

    Ya, fair enough if you prefer WPM. For specialists with the same role, SR and WPM mostly tend to be rough proxies for each other, with each covering different gaps. For specialist bowlers, a faster SR will normally get you a higher WPM, and when they don't, you can generally see why. WPM isn't...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Ah, thought you were cutting it off at an earlier date. My point still stands though- VD Bijl only played one season overseas, and Barry played on his team, so Pollock had a much rougher ride against these specific bowlers. I also hadn't heard about that drunken story. Bacher joked that his...
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    Jacques Kallis vs Ricky Ponting

    Neither WPM nor SR give a complete picture by themselves. WPM is probably a slightly better measure, but the number is extremely range bound stuff by like the quality/composition of your team in both disciplines and your role in it. There are 20 wickets max to be shared amongst bowlers, and...
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    Team of all rounders v specialists

    Boucher, average of 6. But ya, Gilchrist is an AR.
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    Jacques Kallis vs Ricky Ponting

    You could argue this for bats too, and ask how many Sutcliffe like bats there have been that could survive a million balls an innings. Quicks pretty much always have the option of slowing things down by bowling wide and setting fields to it. They just tend not to take this route unless they...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Pollock gets a real rough deal of this. He's the only one who faced VD Bijl, and he gets Procter in the same matches. That's basically all his matches other than ROW, which were stronger than domestic attacks, and he was playing with a mashed eyeball.
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    Jacques Kallis vs Ricky Ponting

    Is fast striking from bowlers more difficult to accomplish and more valuable?
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    Best Cricket Xi (from 2000s)

    India will have the highest win % based on their home record. Aus will likely win a bit more than India away, and also have a great home record, but will drop home games to India and RSA. RSA probably have the best away record, but a meh home one. Aus and India both seem good answers to me.
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    Jacques Kallis vs Ricky Ponting

    The opposite of this, I reckon. A more aggressive bat is more likely to make life easier for the person they are batting with, while a slower one will make life easier for the ones who follow. It's a part of why I think Cook had a better SR than Sehwag, but Gilchrist had a better SR than...
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    Jacques Kallis vs Younis Khan

    Why are a bunch of people rating Younis so low? I didn't pay much attention to him in his career cos he happened to be a bit meh when I was watching him, but he has a seriously impressive record.
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    Goddard or Barlow

    I'm not so sure. Most of the outside the SC, you can just play Goddard as a replacement for a spinner, and he will do a better job than than all but a couple of spinners in history. Particularly in a strong team, he also leaves the option of playing an extra specialist bat that Barlow doesn't...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    IDK who was the best in county. Boycott had a similar record to Turner, and if we are running it that way, he'd also get a shout. Anyway, Barry had the highest Currie Cup, Shield, and WSC averages, and a 70 test average. County is his weak point. Barry would have debutted in 67 and ended in...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    I don't think the county system worked off leads for points. Think it had something to do with runs and wickets, but I'm the wrong person to be answering this. In a time limited game I would assume the opposite given two bats who score equally and are dismissed an equal amount. I'd say the one...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    That's hiiigh for a bat who didn't play tests. I don't doubt that he could have ended at that level. But he also might not have cracked the test top 50. Flash is flashy. In Barry's case I mainly just mean SR. But there's also visibility through personality, the teams you play for and the media...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    I'm not disputing that some people do rate players higher on the basis of 100s even with equal total output. I'm disputing whether they should. Roots failure to convert was reflected in his average never really rising. If he'd been even more consistent in scoring 50s (or scored a buunch of 90s)...

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