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    Centenary draft

    Frank Tyson @Fuller Pilch
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    English Domestic Season 2023

    There may not have been different competitions on the same day, but I don't know that the schedule made more sense. Here's Yorkshire fixtures in July 1987: 1st, 2nd, 3rd: Championship match at Canterbury 4th: First day of Championship match at Nottingham 5th: Sunday League match (40 overs) at...
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    Centenary draft

    Picks to date: AndrewB: Len Hutton, Andy Roberts, Frank Tyson ataraxia: Sydney Barnes, WG Grace Bitmap: Ray Lindwall, George Headley Fuller Pilch: Keith Miller, Aubrey Faulkner Himannv: Alan Davidson, Graeme Pollock JOJOXI: Wally Hammond, Dennis Lillee, Harold Larwood kingkallis: Richie Benaud...
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    Centenary draft

    R3 order @JOJOXI kingkallis trundler AndrewB Fuller Pilch Teuton ataraxia Himannv Bitmap Patience and Accuracy+Gut Line and Length Pothas
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    Centenary draft

    Andy Roberts: 22 matches. 111 wickets @23.72 @Himannv
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    Centenary draft

    Len Hutton @kingkallis
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    Centenary draft

    Just to note that Lillee is still available.
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    Centenary draft

    Round 1 order: @Teuton Patience and Accuracy+Gut Line and Length Pothas ataraxia Fuller Pilch Bitmap Himannv AndrewB kingkallis trundler JOJOXI (Even round order is reverse of previous round as usual)
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    Centenary draft

    No Bradman - original post edited to confirm.
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    Centenary draft

    Simple idea: imagine it's 15th March 1977: pick players for your all-time World (Test) XI. No Bradman as usual.
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    The Hundred could be scrapped

    I don't know the precise rules but I think there was some change for the 1982 season whereby you could only pick two overseas players if they'd both been with the club before a certain date, and hence Lancashire switched from Michael Holding (who'd played for them in 1981) to Colin Croft (who'd...
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    Players having crazy transformations later in life

    Bill Alley switched from the Lancashire League to county cricket aged 38, and played for Somerset as a batting all-rounder for 4 years, though in 1960 his batting appeared to have tailed off. Then in 1961, aged 42, he scored 3019 runs in the season - the last player to score 3000 in a season and...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    The famous "Lillee c Willey b Dilley" dismissal was Willey's first catch in a Test, and he only held 2 more catches in his other 22 Tests, including Lillee again two matches later (off Lever; the other was Viv Richards off Botham). Less famously, the 1981 Headingley Test featured - sort of -...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Ranji should probably get into the first 4 XIs, and Trott and Thorpe are also contenders. I'd have Greig in the all-rounder spot instead of Rhodes, who at Test level was usually either "spinner and useful tail-end batter" or "opener who bowls a bit" rather than all-rounder.
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    Does Ben Foakes have a legitimate case for Test selection?

    For his first few years of county cricket Blakey was picked as a batter who stood in as keeper when (David) Bairstow was unavailable.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Need to replace Larwood with (e.g.) Trueman.
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    Wicket partnership records - retired hurt

    India have had at least two Test "partnerships" involving 4 batsmen: - In 1976 at Kingston, they were 216-3: then Vengsarkar added 21 with Gaekwad, 36 with Patel and 7 with Madan Lal, all for the 4th wicket as Gaekwad and Patel both retired hurt (hit in the face by deliveries from Holding and...
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    Wicket partnership records - retired hurt

    FWIW, the 1980-1985 Playfair Cricket Annuals gave the Richards/Greenidge/Turner partnership as a footnote in the list of Hampshire partnership records. The 1980 Annual at least specifically says "... in the absence of any official ruling on the matter, it is a matter of opinion as to whether it...
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    Rate these Rare Test Performances: Century and a 10-wicket haul, Botham's 114 and 13/106, Imran Khan's 117 and 11/180 , Shakib's 137 and 10/124

    Thread title is wrong: Imran’s 14-116 was against Sri Lanka; he took 11-180 in his match double as the first post says.
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    Over-rates yawn

    FWIW Australia used 6-ball overs for Tests from 1928-9 to 1932-3 inclusive (see e.g. the BPO column in Grimmett's career record).

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