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    Monopoly Cricket Draft

    Block list (under a SPOILER for some reason) is on the original post and several others by Himannv. I'll pick Mike Procter.
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    Monopoly Cricket Draft

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    Sir Pelham Warner

    "Of those who appeared only one, Lancashire’s JT Tyldesley, would be in the side for the first Test against Australia in 1899 and just two more, Warner and the Yorkshire seamer Schofield Haigh, ever played a home Test." On a pedantic note, Albert Trott also played 3 home Tests, they just...
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    RIP Ray Illingworth

    Leicestershire had finished joint 2nd in 1967 (under Tony Lock), just a couple of years before Illingworth joined, so while he was undeniably a great success as their captain I don't think it was regarded as "some sort of miracle".
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    Novelty XIs Compendium

    Also Betty Snowball and Jacques Rudolph.
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    The Records and Milestones thread

    Eileen Ash, the longest-lived Test cricketer (male or female) died a couple of days ago aged 110. Thelma McKenzie (aged 106) now inherits the record as oldest living Test cricketer.
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    Cricketers you have probably never heard of

    Taimur Hasan, Jamil Ahmed, Javed Khan, Zain Yar, Qaiser Khan, Tariq Afridi, Maqbool Arif, Mohammad Hanif, Anwar Khan, Inayatullah, Fazal Matin. All made their debut for Dera Ismail Khan on 2 Dec 1964, the team's first ever FC match, against Pakistan Railways. Scores: Pakistan Railways 910-6d...
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    World Series Cricket Stats

    20 for the second Australia tour, 23 for the second England tour (which was abandoned after one "Test"). It's just occurred to me for the first time that if the Australian rebels had been banned for 3 years like the English ones, Alderman (and Hohns) would have missed the 1989 Ashes. Doubt it...
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    World Series Cricket Stats

    There's also the figures from the rebel tours of SA; I don't think anyone claims these should be regarded as Tests, but Pollock's figures are pretty impressive, given that the last of his appearances was about 23 years after his Test debut. Batting Graeme Pollock: 1375 @ 65.48 Ken McEwan: 438 @...
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    World Series Cricket Stats

    Nor did Sobers (check Intikhab Alam’s figures).
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    How do you read a Wisden Almanack?

    This essay?
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    Cricketers you have probably never heard of

    "Never has a cricketer sounded more like a musical instrument falling down a flight of stairs submerged in water" is the full quote (see here for the article). No mention of Imraan Khan, though.
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    Cricketers you have probably never heard of

    The second game in Patrick Murphy's "Fifty Incredible Cricket Matches" is Hampshire v Derbyshire from 1876, which had a few interesting - though little-remembered - players in it. The reason the game qualifies for inclusion in the book is that William Mycroft took 9-25 (and caught the other...
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    Cricketers you have probably never heard of

    Was a famously slow scorer (once carried his bat scoring 5 out of 60 iirc), and was mentioned in the poem “At Lord’s” in the line “O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago”.
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    Cricketers you have probably never heard of

    He scored a FC 200 when he was 17 and was called the ‘next Bradman’ as Burgey notes, but never made a Test hundred.
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    Greatest individual limited overs knock in history

    Technically, England needed to win or for Pakistan to beat Zimbabwe to stay in, but in the end the PK-Zim match was rained off. It was Bichel's match rather than Bevan's, though - he took 7-20 and scored 34 off 36. Had a look in Peter Roebuck's "Great Innings" (from 1990) to see if he'd picked...
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    Greatest individual limited overs knock in history

    Barry Richards, Hampshire v Yorkshire, John Player League 1970. He scored 155*, which, if it wasn't the List A record at the time, was pretty close. The other batsmen (on both teams) scored a total of 113, with none of them reaching 20. (Yorkshire managed 74-9 off their 40 overs; I think it's...
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    Best captain in test history?

    FWIW, the book "The Ten Greatest Test Teams" (about teams between 1948 and 1984, each based on a single series) ranks the teams' captains as follows: 1. Richie Benaud (1960-1 Aus) 2. Mike Brearley (1981 Eng) 3. Ian Chappell (1974-5 Aus) 4. Don Bradman (1948 Aus) 5. Clive Lloyd (1984 WI) 6...
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    Your complete player (Male edition)

    "Unlike many of his peers or successors, Blackham was just as happy to stand up to the stumps to pace bowlers as he was to spinners" (says his Cricinfo page).
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Oops. Corrected.

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