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  1. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Was reading Old Ebor's obituary of EM Grace today, and learnt from it that he almost certainly had notes prepared for Shaw-style biographies of both "The Coroner" and Bob Thoms. The excitement of such discoveries is almost always tempered by the realisation that these materials are probably lost.
  2. neville cardus

    The captaincy

    That wouldn't explain why the opposite is so often true of batsmen.
  3. neville cardus

    The captaincy

    Others, courtesy of David North: Sobers 34.00 (34.07) Benaud 25.78 (28.59) Vettori 33.38 (34.82) Imran Khan 20.26 (25.53) Bedi 24.82 (31.28) Kapil Dev 26.35 (30.78)
  4. neville cardus

    The captaincy

    Well, well...
  5. neville cardus

    The captaincy

    It would be interesting to list bowling averages with and without the captaincy, and to see how the drop-off (if there is one, which is by no means certain) compares with the well-established decline in batsmen when they take on the mantle of leadership. I know that I tend to bowl better when...
  6. neville cardus

    The captaincy

    What you'd actually find, if you checked out Pollock's record, is that he had the highest win percentage of any Test captain in South African history.
  7. neville cardus

    The captaincy

    I've heard most of this before, and it's never much impressed me. It seems to come down to the idea (savouring again of feudalism) that these lumpen grocks have very small brains, and can't realistically be expected to exert or extend them. I'm not sure, anyway, how much of an exertion or...
  8. neville cardus

    The captaincy

    Why does it seem always to go to batsmen? The question has been asked before, but I'm asking it with a slightly different point in mind: I don't think bowlers are merely under-represented, or that a fifty-fifty split would be fairer; I think the divide should be roughly what it is now, but with...
  9. neville cardus

    Making the ball buzz

    Bradman once likened the experience of facing Bill O'Reilly to facing "a swarm of bees," but I don't know that he had in mind the effect attributed to Mailey and Turner. The latter, according to CB Fry, "made the ball spin like a humming-top; you could hear the ball buzz in the air as it...
  10. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Don't know why I've posted this here. Will make a new thread out of it.
  11. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Making the ball buzz Bradman once likened the experience of facing Bill O'Reilly to facing "a swarm of bees," but I don't know that he had in mind the effect attributed to Mailey and Turner. The latter, according to CB Fry, "made the ball spin like a humming-top; you could hear the ball buzz in...
  12. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I should get myself a review copy, since I seem to be tackling all the fiction on this site. ;-)
  13. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Also picked up a signed first edition of one of Archie MacLaren's books. Not much of a signature collector myself, but I know value when I see it. Once I've gotten bored of these things, I'll have to learn to use eBay.
  14. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    This silence is a bit unnerving. I hope you know that last post was very much tongue-in-cheek.
  15. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    You really don't deserve this, so I'm keeping it to two pages. Laker and Evans and friends will have to wait till you're on better behaviour.
  16. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Currently holiday, Fred. Will get on it as soon as I can.
  17. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I found an autograph book in an antique store this morning. It features almost every South African cricketer of the Fifties, together with virtually every touring party to the country that decade. Bargain of a lifetime: It cost me the equivalent of forty quid.
  18. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    I thought this was generally accepted. Not sure that there's any objective measure I could use to convince you. Can only go off the years I've spent watching on television. Perhaps. But we're now multiple cricketing generations beyond the 1980s.
  19. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    I don't see how that holds three decades down the line, when their pitches are arguably the flattest in the world, and have been for a good long while. Surely, on this logic, their batsmen ought to be among the best?
  20. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    Again, you've rather lost track of the context in which you made this point. We were talking about crowds, and you were offering your "minority" argument to explain their paucity in the Caribbean. When you lump England into this category, you fatally undermine that explanation. England...

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