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    Create an all time best ODI XI featuring only one player from each country...

    Or Joel Garner.
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    Four Eras Test Draft

    @Silver Silva can presumably pick now?
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    The Underarm vs Timed Out

    An interesting follow-up to this (according to the book "Sports Facts 1980") is that the TCCB banned declarations and underarm bowling in one-day matches in England from 1980. (It's not clear why, as the book implies, the declaration led them to ban underarm bowling - I suspect it's just...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    In the 1979 ICC Trophy, the qualifier for the 1979 World Cup, Sri Lanka forfeited their game against Israel for political reasons. As a result, if the USA had beaten Netherlands in their match, rather than it being abandoned, they'd have qualified for the semis ahead of Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka...
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    Four Eras Test Draft

    In
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    The Underarm vs Timed Out

    No, that counts as ‘hit the ball twice’.
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    The Underarm vs Timed Out

    Not sure either of them was as bad as Somerset declaring in a List A match to stop the other side improving their wicket-taking rate, that being the method of breaking ties in the B&H Cup at the time. (That was also entirely legal, but Somerset still got disqualified a week later. IIRC even...
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    All 11 Modes of Dismissal Have Now Occurred in International Cricket After Shakib appealed for Timed Out Dismissal Against Angelo Mathews

    There's nothing in the law for HTB2 about trying to take a run*: "The striker is out Hit the ball twice if, while the ball is in play, it strikes any part of his/her person or is struck by his/her bat and, before the ball has been touched by a fielder, the striker wilfully strikes it again with...
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    Fred Trueman , Ray Lindwall or Wes Hall : The Better Fast Bowler?

    That was certainly a curious pick. In the book "Bent Arms and Dodgy Wickets" (I've no idea how well informed this book is) it says "Hutton was clearly disappointed not to have Laker, Lock and Trueman at his disposal, though. Trueman was omitted by a single vote." and "Hutton was bewildered...
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    Fred Trueman , Ray Lindwall or Wes Hall : The Better Fast Bowler?

    Laker’s average at that point was 29.26, compared to Wardle’s 22.52, so he wasn’t an obvious automatic pick.
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    Fred Trueman , Ray Lindwall or Wes Hall : The Better Fast Bowler?

    This isn't correct, though he did miss a fair number: his 67 Tests were out of 120 played by England. (For comparison, Brian Statham played 70 Tests out of 136; Jim Laker played 46 Tests out of 96.)
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    Making All-time Test Batting Averages Fully Comparable

    That was Newton, not Einstein (well, I suppose Einstein might have said it as well).
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    The Records and Milestones thread

    Chile had 7 debutants and most of the team are aged 15-19.
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    6 hundreds in an innings equals the first-class record set by Holkar v Mysore in the 1945-6 Ranji Trophy. On that occasion CT Sarwate followed up his hundred with 9-61. Even 5 hundreds in an innings has only happened four other times, although one of those times was 10 days ago.
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    Strongest XI for each decade with a caveat that every test playing country from said decade needs representation

    Reasonable, but you have to decide who to leave out, without breaking the rules... I wouldn't drop Marshall or Imran for Lillee, or Hadlee (especially as in that case you'd have to bring in another Kiwi - presumably Turner for Gavaskar). That leaves two options: - Lillee in for Qadir means you...
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    Strongest XI for each decade with a caveat that every test playing country from said decade needs representation

    Players all from different decades (debut) and countries: Jack Hobbs (Eng, 1900s) Vinoo Mankad (Ind, 1940s) Don Bradman (Aus, 1920s) George Headley (WI, 1930s) Aravinda de Silva (SL, 1980s) Andy Flower+ (Zim, 1990s) Shakib Al Hasan (BD, 2000s) Mike Procter (SA, 1960s) Richard Hadlee (NZ, 1970s)...
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    Strongest XI for each decade with a caveat that every test playing country from said decade needs representation

    1930s debutants: Len Hutton Vijay Merchant George Headley Stan McCabe Dudley Nourse Bill Edrich Billy Wade+ Amar Singh Hedley Verity Bill O'Reilly Jack Cowie Edrich is in ahead of (e.g.) Compton to give an extra pace bowling option.
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Graham Gooch Vijay Merchant Clyde Walcott Angelo Matthews Dave Houghton Sarfaraz Ahmed+ Shaun Pollock Shane Warne Trent Boult Boyd Rankin Glenn McGrath
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Tucker was picked by Pothas.
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Boyd Rankin to finish

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