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  1. The Sean

    20 Greatest ODIs (by ESPNCricinfo)

    Ha, OK. I need to work on my tone clearly, because you've taken my flippant comment way too seriously. Far more seriously than I'm taking this countdown in fact, engaged with it though I am.
  2. The Sean

    20 Greatest ODIs (by ESPNCricinfo)

    Gotta care about something.
  3. The Sean

    20 Greatest ODIs (by ESPNCricinfo)

    So, it seems my prediction that they'd speed this up so it finished on the eve of the World Cup opener was about as accurate as all my other predictions.
  4. The Sean

    Ranking the All Time Test teams

    I feel like there might be a way to improve your West Indian side...
  5. The Sean

    Kyear2 / Prince EWS ATG draft

    What if the team that doesn't have Kallis does have Sangakkara?
  6. The Sean

    Do Great Innings in Defeats Get Rated Unfairly?

    It was overshadowed by subsequent shenanigans, but Michael Clarke's 151 at Cape Town in 2011 was a classic example of a player seemingly batting on a different pitch to everyone else.
  7. The Sean

    Do Great Innings in Defeats Get Rated Unfairly?

    As far as Indian performances go, we have given Gavaskar, Tendulkar and Kohli their dues so far, but I reckon Azharuddin's 121 in Gooch's match at Lord's in 1990 holds its own as well. A gem of an innings.
  8. The Sean

    Do Great Innings in Defeats Get Rated Unfairly?

    Also a shout out to two openers I can think of carrying their bats in losing cause epics: Len Hutton 156* in 1950/51 vs an ATG Australian attack David Warner 123* vs Doug Bracewell in Hadlee-impersonation mode
  9. The Sean

    Do Great Innings in Defeats Get Rated Unfairly?

    Do you mean his final innings 96? Yeah, that was absolutely masterful by all accounts.
  10. The Sean

    Do Great Innings in Defeats Get Rated Unfairly?

    Not exhaustive by any means, but five which leap to mind: Stan McCabe's 187* against Bodyline Derek Randall's 174 in the Centenary Test Nathan Astle's 222(168) against England Kumar Sangakkara's 192 sawn off at Bellerive Ben Stokes' 155 at Lord's this year
  11. The Sean

    Australia's Opening Batsman

    John Dyson too. Yeah, I suppose the argument was that Stumpy was 32 when they dropped him and the others were all quite a bit younger. I reckon I'd have given him a few more Tests though, and it's not as though all those other blokes started scoring so heavily that they became undroppable.
  12. The Sean

    20 Greatest ODIs (by ESPNCricinfo)

    It's a list of greatest individual performances rather than greatest Test matches, but no - none of the performances in any of those Tests made the list.
  13. The Sean

    Australia's Opening Batsman

    Agreed. I was a huge fan of Kepler Wessels for the same reason. His series against the Windies in 1984/85 was a masterclass in both skill and resilience. After starting with scores of 13, 0, 0 - and coming under immense pressure as "Joel Garner's bunny" - he then peeled off innings of 61, 98...
  14. The Sean

    Australia's Opening Batsman

    Made three, in fact. Laird is a great example of consistent scoring vs all-or-nothing in his two "Test" careers. In WSC, he made three centuries in 13 SuperTests but did very little else and averaged only 25. Whereas in his 21 official Tests, he never made a century but passed 50 no fewer than...
  15. The Sean

    Strongest XI for each decade with a caveat that every test playing country from said decade needs representation

    That's a great side, but the criteria is decade of debut and most of those blokes debuted in the 1950s.
  16. The Sean

    Australia's Opening Batsman

    And spent his peak years in a low scoring era too, which means his Test average probably doesn't do justice to his quality. He comes out very well on ICC ratings - the second highest rated Aussie opener ever (after Hayden), and on that metric would actually open for the All Time World 3rd XI!
  17. The Sean

    20 Greatest ODIs (by ESPNCricinfo)

    The scope was for the 50-year period 1966-2016, so Hanif's innings falls outside that.
  18. The Sean

    20 Greatest ODIs (by ESPNCricinfo)

    So neither the 1987 or 1992 World Cups are going to be represented at all. There are several other World Cups which have been excluded in their entirety as well, but those two to me are the most surprising.
  19. The Sean

    20 Greatest ODIs (by ESPNCricinfo)

    So three of the top four will involve South Africa. Typical Cricinfo bias. :ph34r:
  20. The Sean

    20 Greatest ODIs (by ESPNCricinfo)

    Number four. https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1377616/elation-and-despair-duel-in-auckland

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