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    ATG slow deliveries thread

    Franklyn Stephenson was an early exponent of well-disguised slower deliveries - when playing for Notts in 1988 he (according to "The Cricketer" magazine of October 1988) reckoned he took a quarter of his wickets with them (out of 100+), including some where the batsmen was turning his back on a...
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    People who played test cricket after their 40th birthday

    FWIW, Illingworth, Titmus and David Allen all played in the 5th Test at Sydney in 1963.
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    People who played test cricket after their 40th birthday

    Gooch certainly did. The last-Test ages I've given above (including Akram 35 and Imran 39) are those given by Cricinfo.
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    Meaningless and stupid cricket statistics

    Boycott also has a 99 and a 99*. Misbah is unique in scoring three 99s (including the 99*)
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    People who played test cricket after their 40th birthday

    Extending this a bit: 37: Gavaskar, Hayden, Ponting, Lara, Sangakkara, Sobers, Constantine, Tallon, Warne, Cowie Bedser 36: Langer, Wessels, Miandad, I Chappell, de Silva, Miller, Gilchrist, Botham, Underwood, Ambrose, McGrath 35: Turner, Boon, G Chappell, Amla, Thorpe, Walters, Knott, Akram...
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    People who played test cricket after their 40th birthday

    The "last Test at 39" XI (for which there are, coincidentally, 39 candidates) is pretty strong: Gordon Greenidge John Edrich Don Bradman Viv Richards Younis Khan/Rahul Dravid Frank Worrell Imran Khan Richard Hadlee Bobby Peel Jack Board+ Herman Griffith There are a few other options as 3rd...
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    People who played test cricket after their 40th birthday

    Basing it on how good they were for their whole careers, not just on how good they were over 40, the best side is along the lines of: Jack Hobbs Herbert Sutcliffe Wally Hammond WG Grace* Tom Graveney Frank Woolley Wilfred Rhodes Dick Lilley+ Maurice Tate Gubby Allen Sydney Barnes Patsy...
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    Sheep Draft 2022

    Vijay Merchant Arthur Morris Viv Richards Kane Williamson Kevin Pietersen Gary Sobers Alan Knott+ Richie Benaud* Shane Bond Frank Tyson Waqar Younis
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    Glenn Turner - How highly do you rate him?

    Lillee's ODI figures in the 70s weren't actually very good; his strike-rate was, but his economy rate was poor - among the 40 or so players with 10+ wickets, he's only above Cairns, Thomson and some batters who bowled a bit (G Chappell, Richards and Amarnath). Willis, Sarfraz, Croft or Chris Old...
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    Statistically impressive all-round performances, senior cricket

    Grace had a remarkable run in July/August 1874, when in 8 matches he scored 916 runs at 83.27, and 84 wickets at 10.89: Gents (S) v Players (N): 104 & 19, 7-60 & 1-79 Gents v Players: 23 & 110, 3-61 & 7-58 Glos v Yorks: 167, 4-57 & 7-44 United South v United North: 1, 3-52 & 7-28 Kent & Glos v...
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    Should more 40 year old professional cricketers continue on

    I think you've overlooked George Gunn (4th oldest Test player); Grace and Woolley were really purely playing as batters by that stage of their careers as well. Considering pace bowlers, Anderson is already 5th in the list of leading wicket-takers after turning 40, behind Sydney Barnes, Geoff...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    The bat-left-bowl-right XI is strong: Graeme Smith Matthew Hayden Kumar Sangakkara Graeme Pollock Brian Lara Ben Stokes Adam Gilchrist+ Richard Hadlee Bill O'Reilly Curtly Ambrose Kagiso Rabada with plenty of options for batters/pace bowlers (Cook, Chanderpaul, Gower, Flower, Lloyd, Langer...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Quite a lot of the batsmen picked above (e.g. Hayden, Smith, Sangakkara, Lara and Gilchrist) are right-arm bowlers according to Cricinfo. Meanwhile, Verity batted right-handed. An XI who batted left-handed and were left-arm bowlers: Bill Lawry Arthur Morris Martin Donnelly Allan Border Garry...
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    Statistically impressive all-round performances, senior cricket

    The longest career in Tests with highest score and best (innings) bowling in the same Test seems to be 82 matches by Michael Vaughan (197 & 2-71 v India, Nottingham 2002). For most runs and best match bowling figures in the same Test: 87 matches by Tillakaratne Dilshan (162+143 & 4-10 v...
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    Best knock by a tailender?

    Charles Davis has most of the details here. They added 50 to take NZ to a 2-wicket win (with Cairns in hospital) to win the series 2-0.
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    Best knock by a trundler?

    In Harry Pearson's book "The Trundlers", he picks Gooch in his England all-time trundlers XI, so I'll go for his 154 v the West Indies in 1991. Hobbs, Grace, Worrell, Walcott and Walters are also in his England/RoW XIs, so it has some stiff competition.
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    Hidden Objective Draft

    Don't know if it'll help anyone guess the theme if I say the main eligible players I missed out on were Len Hutton, Viv Richards and Imran Khan.
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    Happy birthday Jimmy

    It's funny how Geoff Chubb (1911-1982) and Derek Sealy (1912-1982) were almost exact contemporaries, but the slightly younger Sealy made his Test debut 21 years before Chubb; especially with Chubb being a fast bowler. There were players born after Sealy's debut who played Tests before Chubb did...
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    Happy birthday Jimmy

    Alec Stewart was the last 40-year-old to play for England, in 2003; Gooch at 41 and Emburey at 42 were the last before that.
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    Better Test bowler: Anderson vs Willis.

    It’s certainly a rule in the current laws - seems to have been brought in in the 2000 laws (not sure which edition).

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