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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Clyde Walcott (51+) @Fuller Pilch
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    Strongest XI for each decade with a caveat that every test playing country from said decade needs representation

    Murdoch, Blackham and Spofforth debuted in the 1870s.
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    Strongest XI for each decade with a caveat that every test playing country from said decade needs representation

    1970s: Barry Richards Sunil Gavaskar Viv Richards Greg Chappell Allan Border Ian Botham Imran Khan Syed Kirmani+ Richard Hadlee Malcolm Marshall Abdul Qadir
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    Strongest XI for each decade with a caveat that every test playing country from said decade needs representation

    1940s debutants: Arthur Morris Vinoo Mankad Frank Worrell Everton Weekes Clyde Walcott John Reid Keith Miller Godfrey Evans+ Ray Lindwall Alec Bedser Hugh Tayfield
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Dave Houghton (other) @Silver Silva
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    West Indies quite often had a specialist #7 bat when Sobers was playing: e.g. Joe Solomon when they played in India/Pakistan in 1958-9, and a couple of times in the 1960-1 tour of Australia (plus in one match he batted at 8), and the return tour in 1964-5; Lloyd, Kanhai, Butcher and Nurse all...
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Sarfaraz Ahmed (35-39) @Line and Length
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Vijay Merchant (47-51) @Jarquis
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    Which is the Strongest World XI Ever Assembled?

    Also the 1970 RoW side (Barlow, Richards, Kanhai, Pollock, Lloyd, Sobers, Procter, Murray, Intikhab Alam, McKenzie, Gibbs, plus Mushtaq Mohammad, Farokh Engineer and Peter Pollock)
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Angelo Mathews (43-47)
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Trent Boult (27-31 bowl) @Patience and Accuracy+Gut double pick
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Graham Gooch (39-43)
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    In the chart above I should be listed as having picked 2 from Australia (and none from England)
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Shane Warne (23-27 bowl) I think it’s @Teuton next
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Shaun Pollock (30-35 bat) @trundler
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    Glenn McGrath
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    One Test or Series Wonders

    In his first 23 Tests, George Giffen scored 644@16.94 and took 60 wickets @28.10. Then in 1894-5 he had one of the best all-round series of all time: 475 runs @ 52.77 and 34 wickets @ 24.11. Then he returned to mediocrity in his last series: 119@19.83 and 9@31.66.
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    Test Country/Average Combo Draft

    In
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    Meaningless and stupid cricket statistics

    Some other instances in Ashes series: 1924-5 (4-1 to Australia). H Sutcliffe (734) and JB Hobbs (573) most runs, MW Tate (38) most wickets 1950-1 (4-1 to Australia), L Hutton (533) most runs, AV Bedser (30) most wickets 1986-7 (2-1 to England), DM Jones (511) most runs, BA Reid (20) most wickets
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    Players who went up or down in your judgement after going through their records

    It was Holding who battered Willis in his final Test (hit him for 5 sixes), though the other West Indians joined in - one over to Haynes and Gomes went for 15, another to Gomes (13) and Richards (9) went for 22; he took 2-123 in 18 overs. But that was the only over he bowled to Richards in the...

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