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    Is Moeen Ali the best ever test no-rounder?

    Top 6 or 7 in the Olympics? Their only finish in the top 10 of the medals table was 8th at Los Angeles in 1984.
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    Is Moeen Ali the best ever test no-rounder?

    Eknath Solkar's Wiki page calls him an "all-rounder" rather than "specialist fielder", despite his batting average of 25 and bowling average of 59.
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    Slightly Wacky Draft

    Steve Smith
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    Slightly Wacky Draft

    Sydney Barnes, then
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    Establishing the best decade for cricket: Finding the ATG XI from 12 decades of test cricket - then having a KO tourney to decide the best

    CB Fry also captained a side to win a Test championship.
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    Slightly Wacky Draft

    Dale Steyn @SillyCowCorner1
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    Slightly Wacky Draft

    Barry Richards
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    Slightly Wacky Draft

    Gary Sobers
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    Slightly Wacky Draft

    Yeah, I'll join too. Don't quite get the benefit of skipping the next person, though...
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    Charles Townsend: A Forgotten Hero of the Golden Age

    The article mentions Townsend's father Frank and his son David playing FC cricket; David's son Jonathan did as well, which is (or at least was) unique.
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    Establishing the best decade for cricket: Finding the ATG XI from 12 decades of test cricket - then having a KO tourney to decide the best

    But not in the 80s (largely because Border didn’t take any wickets in India or West Indies).
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    Establishing the best decade for cricket: Finding the ATG XI from 12 decades of test cricket - then having a KO tourney to decide the best

    This is why you should use STV ?
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    Best Day 5 of a Test Match

    That was Day 4 - with 16 wickets falling by tea on the first day (India 75; WI 45-6), it's surprising it lasted that long.
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    Time Changes Perception

    One change of perception which has come up on the forum before: if we were naming an England XI for 1946-1980 or so, Barrington would probably be the first middle-order batsman picked. In the 1980s, he'd have been behind Compton and May, and quite possible behind at least some of Dexter...
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    Rule changes - good, bad or indifferent?

    Laws of Cricket 1970 (i.e. 4th edition of the 1947 code): Law 35: "The Fieldsman must have both feet entirely within the playing area at the instant the catch is completed." Experimental Law 35: "The Fieldsman must have no part of his body grounded outside the playing area in the act of making...
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    Time Changes Perception

    You think Botham was in England's best pace attack towards the end of his career? His average from 1986 onwards was 45. (And his batting average was 24, so it wasn't as if he was worth a place in the side for his batting and so in effect a "free" extra bowler).
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    How do fifers and tenfers help to judge a bowler?

    FWIW, the wicket-keeping/fielding equivalent record is held by Kamran Akmal, who dismissed at least one opponent in each of his 53 Tests.
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    How do fifers and tenfers help to judge a bowler?

    He's second in the all-time list for "most Tests with 1+ wicket in all of them": 67: Fred Trueman 58: Joel Garner 30: Lasith Malinga 27: Bill O'Reilly, Ben Hilfenhaus 22: Iain O'Brien, Abdur Rehman 19: Colin Blythe 18: Simon Jones, Shane Bond Allan Donald shared the record with Trueman for a...
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    Test record-breakers draft

    Neil Harvey (most runs in a home Test series; also, last living player from the 1940s). Final XI: WG Grace Graham Gooch Frank Worrell* Neil Harvey Everton Weekes Clyde Walcott Denis Lindsay+ Monty Noble Dennis Lillee Curtly Ambrose Glenn McGrath
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    John R Reid has passed away

    Just Harvey left now (plus Eileen Ash, Thelma McKenzie and quite possibly some other women Test cricketers).

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