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    The "Also-Rans" Test Draft

    Victor Trumper
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Grace's FC figures have been disputed for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations_in_published_cricket_statistics#W._G._Grace's_career_statistics
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    The "Also-Rans" Test Draft

    James Anderson @Fuller Pilch
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    The West Indies in 1957 had Worrell, Weekes, Walcott, Sobers and Kanhai. Their scores in the series were 474, 72-7, 127, 261, 372, 367, 142, 132, 89, 86. Even in the 367, they were 89-5 and were rescued by Smith, Atkinson and Goddard.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Ignoring current players: BA Richards KJ Arnott JWH Makepeace BL Irvine L Ronchi Abdul Kadir BA Barnett+ GF Bissett R Pollard W Brearley T Greenhough You can probably improve this team but I don't think you're going to get a great XI.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    If Barnes/O'Reilly is barred as the pair of spinners, I'd probably go for Ashwin/Underwood, though I guess you might be excluding players for whom the numbers are likely to change. I think I've looked before at the best XI who *all* played the same number of Tests: currently the most...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    If you regard Barnes as a spinner you could pick Barnes and O’Reilly.
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    The "Also-Rans" Test Draft

    Clyde Walcott @trundler
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    The "Also-Rans" Test Draft

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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Just tidying up the previous version: time is now in years + days, and is from start of the first Test to end of the last Test in the side: Longest spell in a Test side (without missing any matches - time given is between start of first and last Tests in the spell): 21y312d: AW Nourse* 19y267d...
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    Vikram Solanki and Owais Shah

    I'm not sure what the very poor selection decisions were*: in the second half of the 00s, the England batting line-up was usually 5 or 6 from Strauss, Trescothick, Cook, Vaughan, Bell, Pietersen and Collingwood, all of whom had pretty successful careers (and would walk into the team now). Key...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Longest spell in a Test side (without missing any matches - time given is between start of first and last Tests in the spell): 21y10m: AW Nourse* 19y8m: B Mitchell* 18y0m: GA Headley 17y0m: HW Taylor, GS Sobers, FE Woolley 16y0m: AD Nourse 15y11m: JR Reid* 15y0m: AR Border 14y3m: Intikhab Alam...
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    Raw Pace but Sprays It All Over

    Patrick Patterson, at least early in his career: from Graeme Fowler's book "Fox on the Run" (about matches from 1984 and 1985): "He has no idea where it is going when he lets it go, so he wasn't able to fire it into the blockhole." "Patto ... slipped - presumably - and this ball came flying...
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    CW's Ranking of WicketKeeper-Batsmen (Tests)

    Charles Davis's article on the "46-ball hundred": "On a similar subject, here are some notes I have made on the claim by Farouk Engineer that he scored a century off 46 (or 48) balls at Chennai in 1966/67. Engineer was 94 not out at lunch on the first day, and claims to have hit a six off the...
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    CW's Ranking of All-Rounders (Tests)

    Gregory's Test career was like Botham's in miniature: in his first year (13 Tests) his averages were 48 & 24; after that, in his last 11 Tests, they were 25 & 45.
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Hookes, Marsh, Gilmour, Walker, Woolmer, Greig, Willis: so at least 7.
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    CW's Ranking of WicketKeeper-Batsmen (Tests)

    Don't think Prior was ever a batsman in the way that Stewart and Flower were - he was picked as wicket-keeper for Sussex from his first FC season.
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Yes. I've re-labelled it "most gaps in a Test career" (and subtracted 1 from each of the numbers) as I think that's clearer.
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    A record that it's no surprise to see is held by James Anderson: Most gaps in a Test career (i.e. most runs of consecutive Tests missed between a player's first and last Tests): 25: JM Anderson (Eng) 21: JB Statham (Eng) 20: Harbhajan Singh (Ind) 19: I Sharma (Ind) 18: S Chanderpaul (WI), Z Khan...
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    Books on 1972 Ashes?

    Owen-Thomas was the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year in 1972 - not one of their more far-sighted choices, but not too surprising that Arlott tipped him. According to Wikipedia he became a solicitor but was struck off in 2008.

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