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    Worst delivery to take a wicket

    Closest to it is that you used to have to say if you were going to bowl underarm, back when that was allowed.
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    What would Bradman average if he played in a typical (i.e. neither batsman or bowler favored) period of the modern era (1970 - current)?

    According to CLR James in Beyond a Boundary, Headley (aged 21, in his first cricket outside WI) had looked very good on the off-side in the first few FC matches in that tour, so the Australians bowled leg-theory to him; for the next 5 matches (including the first 2 Tests) he failed; after that...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    A couple of facts I'd never noticed before about Wally Hammond: - When in his first series in Australia he scored 251, 200, 32, 119*, 177 in 3 Tests, those were his first Test hundreds. - Following his 336* in NZ in 1932-33, he didn't reach 50 in his next 14 Tests.
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    Do you believe slip fielding should factor in to your selection of an ATG XI that you intend to take the field

    In "Cricket Crisis", when Fingleton and colleague pick their World XI of their era, they pick Cameron, reckoning him equal to Oldfield as a keeper and a better batter: apparently Oldfield "made a hash of taking Fleetwood-Smith" in the 1935-6 tour of South Africa, or else they might have picked...
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    Graeme Hick international career

    Unless I've done something wrong in Statsguru, his average in 15 consecutive Tests (Aug 1993 to Jan 1995) was 43.08, not 46.83. He then missed the last two Tests of the 1994-5 Ashes through injury, came back for the first 3 Tests the next summer and averaged 22 - so in total that's a run of 20...
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    Which Decade Saw the Best Players Debut?

    I'm not suggesting it proves anything, but I thought it was curious how similar the figures are for Trumble and Rhodes across the 3 series they both played in (1899, 1902 and 1903-4): Trumble: 360 runs @ 20.00, 65 wickets @ 17.60 Rhodes: 211 runs @ 19.18, 66 wickets @ 17.65
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    Which Decade Saw the Best Players Debut?

    1890s and 1900s both fall a bit short, but they give a good combined XI: Jack Hobbs Victor Trumper Ranjitsinhji Clem Hill Stanley Jackson Aubrey Faulkner Monty Noble* Wilfred Rhodes Dick Lilley+ Tom Richardson Sydney Barnes
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    What are the five strongest batting lineups who ever played?

    The only such game was Ames’s debut. Woolley, Wyatt, Leyland and Carr were the other batters.
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    Retire then Unretire

    Reginald Moss played a dozen times for Oxford Univ in the late 1880s, and a couple more FC games in 1893. 32 years later (aged 57) he played his only county match, for Worcestershire.
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    Which Decade Saw the Best Players Debut?

    Bruce Mitchell?
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    Which Decade Saw the Best Players Debut?

    With Gregory, Constantine, Tate, Larwood and Grimmett, it would at least be a strong tail.
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    What are the 5 greatest bowling attacks ever fielded?

    Checking that out: their bowling figures up to the end of the 1956 Ashes: Lindwall 199@22.28 Miller 168@22.90 Johnson 102@29.78 Benaud 49@34.40 Davidson 13@37.53 After the 1956 Ashes: Benaud 199@25.21 Davidson 173@19.25 Lindwall 29@28.13 Johnson 7@20.57 Miller 2@29.00 Ironically, in the 4...
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    Retire then Unretire

    Frank Foster briefly retired from first-class cricket in 1911, was persuaded to return (as Warwickshire captain), then played in the Ashes winning side in 1911-12.
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    An England XI That Never Played Tests

    Got injured in his only ODI.
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    Most Controversial Moments in Cricket History?

    Settled out of court by the BBC I think.
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    Most Controversial Moments in Cricket History?

    Also Rodney Hogg was run out in the Bairstow fashion in the match before, was briefly recalled, then confirmed to be out, and responded by knocking two stumps out of the ground.
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    Most Controversial Moments in Cricket History?

    Bailey played in the next Test (the last of the same series), but never again after that. The big controversy about that came when Christopher Martin-Jenkins said "If that is gamesmanship or professionalism, I am not quite sure what cheating is", and the whole of Barbados was up in arms.
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    Most Controversial Moments in Cricket History?

    I can't see anything related to bodyline in the 1936 revision of the laws, and always had the impression that umpires were just told to clamp down on it. The new code in 1947 specifically includes "The persistent and systematic bowling of fast short-pitched balls at the batsman standing clear of...
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    Most Controversial Moments in Cricket History?

    The on-field fight between Lillee and Miandad rarely seems to be remembered.
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    Cataloguing the best innings of X runs in test history

    229. If/when someone scores 229, the lowest will jump up to 265.
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