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    All Rounders Poll - Discussion

    25 > 20
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    Imran v Hadlee v Miller

    That's at Old Trafford in 1998 (excluding Cullinan's 1-0-1-0 figures) - it's the most overs Kallis ever bowled in a Test innings. (So yes, it's early career Kallis).
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    Full list of number one test batters

    He (Hammond) was ranked the #1 all-rounder for quite a while, though.
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    Greatest Test Series

    The trouble with the 36/37 Ashes is that the outcomes of 4 of the 5 Tests were significantly affected by the weather (I remember seeing an interview with Bradman where he noted that 3-2 to Australia was a fair result, because the 4th Test (which they won) was the only exception).
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    2025 Ranking of All Rounders Poll

    Typo in Jadeja's batting average (34.74)
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    Consecutive Year of Birth Test Draft:

    Trying to pick a 19th century team (1872-1882), ended up with a decent batting line-up with some good spinners, but virtually no pace attack: Jack Hobbs Victor Trumper Ranjitsinhji Reggie Duff Aubrey Faulkner Warwick Armstrong* Jimmy Sinclair Gilbert Jessop Reggie Schwarz Percy Sherwell+ Sydney...
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    All-Time Sri Lanka XIs - A re-run

    Assuming the "D"s at the start of DST Jayasuriya, DPA de Silva etc, are for "Deshabandu", isn't that like referring to SJB Hobbs and SRJ Hadlee because they were knighted?
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    Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats

    His batting average in the 80s was 44. There are, to be fair, long spells in his career over which those were his averages (e.g. 1982 onwards).
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    Which type of players are hardest to find ?

    Could give as a clue that their surnames are all from the first half of the alphabet.
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    In 1963 v England (the NZ v Eng 50s series were all 2 Tests).
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Bannermann's 165* in the first ever Test was his first (and last) FC hundred. Cricinfo has the complete list.
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    500+ Runs in a Test Series on 2+ Occasions

    Most instances of 25 wickets in a series: 7: R Ashwin 6: M Muralitharan, SK Warne 5: CEL Ambrose, J Garner, CV Grimmett, MD Marshall, CA Walsh 4: Kapil Dev, DK Lillee, GD McGrath, WJ O'Reilly 3: SF Barnes, BS Bedi, AV Bedser, R Benaud, AK Davidson, CJ McDermott, HJ Tayfield, FS Trueman Barnes...
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    Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats

    First should be "between 1961 and 1988"; there were two hat-tricks in late 1988 (by Courtney Walsh and Merv Hughes in successive Tests in the Aus v WI series) - weirdly, they were the first two Test hat-tricks to be split across innings.
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    500+ Runs in a Test Series on 2+ Occasions

    Incidentally, it's not hard to get Statsguru to show the most runs for a player playing 2 Tests in a series - you then just have to check that they didn't miss Tests in a longer series:
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    500+ Runs in a Test Series on 2+ Occasions

    Inzamam scored 329 in what became a 1-match series due to the later matches being cancelled (Pakistan v NZ 2002). Najmal Hossain Shanto scored 270 for Bangladesh v Afghanistan in their Test last year.
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    After Sri Lanka's 42 the other day I had a look at the list of lowest Test scores in the 21st century with all 10 wickets falling (so e.g. India's 36ao with a retired hurt isn't included in the list). The 10 lowest scores (up to 51) were made by 10 different teams. South Africa's lowest of 55 is...
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    30 Test hundreds

    Sachin has 119 50s; if Root gets 5 more he'd pass Ponting and Kallis to go second. Angelo Mathews has reached 100 Test 30s.
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    Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats

    2019 was the first with neither Miandad nor Shahid Afridi/Mahela Jayawardene. (They both only played in 5 World Cups to Miandad and Tendulkar's 6 each, but Miandad and Tendulkar had a 2 World Cup overlap - 1992 and 1996).
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    Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats

    If you list all Test cricketers by their bowling average, the three of them appear consecutively: no-one else has a Test bowling average of 20.9x . Also consecutive are Waqar Younis (23.56) and Wasim Akram (23.62). And, temporarily, England's batting all-rounder captains Tony Greig (32.20) and...
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    Cataloguing the best innings of X runs in test history

    Belated reply, since this innings has been mentioned in the thread recently: Charles Davis's database says Klusener's 2 only lasted for 27 minutes.

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