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    Wicket partnership records - retired hurt

    In 1982 India added 415 for their 3rd wicket in the 5th Test against England: 99* by Vengsarkar and Viswanath, and 316 by Viswanath and Yashpal Sharma. That would be India’s record partnership for any wicket, but it’s not generally listed as such.
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    Wicket partnership records - retired hurt

    In partnership lists (eg on Statsguru) that would be one partnership of 30* and one of 40.
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    Best number 3 of all time?

    For Compton especially the over-rates were higher so he’d be scoring more runs in a session than Barrington.
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    Best number 3 of all time?

    Also Tavare in 1984, to some extent (he wasn't scoring especially heavily but would probably have played a few more Tests if he'd scored the runs faster).
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    Best number 3 of all time?

    I think it's more a case of he was never mentioned in the same terms as May and Compton - I bet if we had an "England players draft" Barrington would get picked before them. Besides the issue of stylish batting, you can see why the older England fans in the 1980s (with a bias towards...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    He was also in Derek Lodge's "Rest of the World - no Tests" XI in "Figures on the Green" from 1982 (Tarilton, Trimble, Bill Alley, Thompson, Carmody, Tarrant, Smith, King, Sismey, Walsh, Massie).
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    Best number 3 of all time?

    Looking at the players with the highest averages (with 1000+ runs) for each batting position from 3-6, I was slightly surprised to find that Sobers was in the top 10 for all 4 positions. Smith was for 3/4/5, Barrington for 3/4, and Chanderpaul and de Villiers for 5/6.
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    Best number 3 of all time?

    Barrington's record at 3 is pretty remarkable: in 40 innings he made 13 hundreds and 7 fifties. It's approaching what Bradman's figures would have been if Bradman had got bored whenever he reached about 150 (Barrington's highest score at 3 was 172; Bradman passed 200 nine times, and made 20...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Other post-war options include Morris, Lawry, Hussey, Harare, Bedser, Davidson and Tyson.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Conversely, an XI where the bowlers all have 9-fors while none of the batters ever bowled a delivery in a Test: Herbert Sutcliffe Bill Ponsford Clem Hill Peter May Misbah-ul-Haq Adam Gilchrist Kapil Dev (9-83) Richard Hadlee (9-52) Jim Laker (10-53, 9-37) Sydney Barnes (9-103) Muttiah...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Some players whose "true batting average" is considerably lower than their traditional average: Shaun Pollock: 24.24 (32.32) Ravindra Jadeja: 28.67 (36.57) Wilfred Rhodes: 23.72 (30.19) Imran Khan: 30.21 (37.69) Steve Waugh: 42.19 (51.06) Shiv Chanderpaul: 42.53 (51.37) Andy Flower: 42.80...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Inverarity lasted from 1962 to 1985; does he help?
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    The "batters (and keeper) all have better "best bowling" figures than the bowlers" XI: Mudassar Nazar (6-32) Kraigg Brathwaite (6-29) Charles Macartney (7-58) Frank Worrell (7-70) Allan Border (7-46) Michael Clarke (6-9) John R Reid+ (6-60) Heath Streak (6-73) Graeme Swann (6-65) Brett Lee...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Looks like there's a mistake there somewhere, as the figures suggest that Hemmings bowled unchanged throughout the innings.
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Stevens's only games in 1997 seem to have been against Sussex and Cambridge U. If he'd played against Sussex a couple of years earlier he might have met Eddie Hemmings, who began with Warwickshire in 1966 - last player I'm aware of whose FC county career spanned 30 seasons.
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    IIRC Jack Ikin played some of his earliest matches for Staffordshire alongside Sydney Barnes, whose FC debut was in 1894.
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    Meaningless and stupid cricket statistics

    He missed the 3rd Test of his first series, in India in 2006.
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    Meaningless and stupid cricket statistics

    Following on from that, the only players to take 10 wickets in a match 3 times in a series are Barnes (twice) and Grimmett, and they both did so in their final series, Barnes also doing so in his joint-penultimate series (against SA in the Triangular tournament). Grimmett in fact took 10 wickets...
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    Descending Test High Score Draft

    WG Grace Bill Ponsford Kane Williamson Graeme Pollock Clyde Walcott+ Steve Waugh Jack Gregory Richie Benaud* Harold Larwood Joel Garner Jasprit Bumrah
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    Descending Test High Score Draft

    Jasprit Bumrah (final pick)

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