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    3 Nations Draft

    Jack Hobbs @Silver Silva
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    African FC/Test draft

    Jacques Kallis @kingkallis
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    African FC/Test draft

    In
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    African FC/Test draft

    FWIW about 30 SA cricketers were born outside Africa - mostly born in England, mostly a long time ago (Dave Nourse and Reggie Schwarz are probably the most famous of these).
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    Meaningless and stupid cricket statistics

    Pakistan's first 2 Tests (in a series against India in 1952) were an innings loss and an innings win. Also happened in WI v PK 1957-8 Eng v Aus 1965-6 Eng v WI in 1966 (which had 2 innings wins for WI, one for Eng) Aus v WI 1984-5 Eng v WI 2000 SA v Eng 2009-10 Ind v SA 2010 (so SA drew...
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    Historical T20 XI

    A pre List-A XI, making a lot of use of Charles Davis's list of fastest scorers: Victor Trumper Charles Macartney Don Bradman Frank Woolley Stan McCabe Gilbert Jessop Jock Cameron+ Maurice Tate Alan Davidson Hedley Verity Bill O'Reilly Tate, Davidson, Verity and O'Reilly all conceded less than...
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    3 Nations Draft

    In
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    Draft ideas/scheduling thread

    There was a 2 nationalities draft on those lines run by mr_mister several years ago. No reason why we shouldn't do that (or a variant on it) again, though.
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    Ten players you wished you could have seen live in their prime?

    George Freeman - played in the 1860s, said to be "the best bowler they'd ever seen" by various Yorkshire cricketers 30 years later. Charles Kortright - to see how fast the fastest bowler of the 1890s really was. GIlbert Jessop Learie Constantine - for various fielding exploits as much as his...
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    Drafting Controversial Players: Cronje, Asif etc.

    Leslie Hylton (hanged for murdering his wife) has been picked more than once.
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    Worst Player to Play 100 Tests?

    Holding-Garner-Roberts-Croft played 11 Tests together. Garner didn't play in India in 1983-4; Marshall, Holding and Winston Davis played in all 6 Tests, alongside Baptiste (1), Daniel (3) and Roberts+Harper (2).
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    MWM Draft: Final

    I thought I'd set this poll to close yesterday, but I guess I must have forgotten... Anyway, congratulations to Himannv, and well done to Pothas and ataraxia for finishing joint second; and to Krypto, capt_Luffy, and howitzer for reaching the final.
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    Worst Player to Play 100 Tests?

    A few XIs on similar lines were picked 4 years ago in the ATG discussion thread (though some of the 90-99 team are no longer eligible).
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    MWM Draft: Final

    The top three teams go through from each of the semi-finals. Pick your top two (Test) teams from the following capt_Luffy Conrad Hunte Stanley Jackson Mohinder Amarnath Jacques Kallis* Zaheer Abbas Andy Flower+ Frank Woolley Wasim Akram Andy Roberts Kagiso Rabada Colin Blythe Himannv Trevor...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Hundreds by both #10 and #11 is rare, but has been done before.
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    WG Grace - The Champion Cricketer

    I've posted before here about his run of 6 matches in July/August 1874 in which he took 10+ wickets in every match, and scored a century in 5 of them. (He also scored a century (and took 8 wickets) in the previous match, and took 14 wickets in the following match).
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    Mike Procter dead at 77

    Brian (BC) Broad being Chris Broad, in his first FC season.
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    Mike Procter dead at 77

    He gave the Gloucestershire fans some entertainment in the last month or so of the 1979 season: August 2-3: Glos v Leics: Procter hit a hundred before lunch, then took a hat-trick the next day (first player to score 100 and take a hat-trick in the same match twice). August 11: Glos v Yorks...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    The two over 700 were in the same match (Essex 700-9d v Notts 791). Notts, Derbyshire, Somerset (850-7) and Worcs (701-6) all set county records that season.
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    MWM thread: 2nd semi-final

    It doesn't seem to be possible to edit it to show that (now the poll's been posted - you can set up a poll to show the votes but I don't think I've seen that in recent ones so I didn't here).

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