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    Another "bid for position" draft?

    Please e-mail your list of bids to andi.pqrs@gmail.com . No particular rush... and don't forget to include your forum name with the bids.
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    Another "bid for position" draft?

    So here's the rules, copied from the earlier thread: - Everyone taking part has $1,000,000 to bid with - You then use this to bid (in a silent auction - i.e. bids are e-mailed to me) for your positions in the draft. Just to illustrate, suppose we have 3 players (X, Y and Z) bidding for a 5-man...
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    Draft - your selection must have a batting average close to the previous player's selection

    Jack Hobbs (56.94)
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    Draft - your selection must have a batting average close to the previous player's selection

    In if there's room.
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    Another "bid for position" draft?

    Let's keep it simple: only people who've played in ODIs are eligible. I can't see any reason to exclude Sobers - if you think he'll get you votes in an ODI XI, go ahead and pick him.
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    Another "bid for position" draft?

    We had the "bid for position" draft a couple of months ago for Test teams. Anyone interested in a similar draft for ODI teams? Bids and draft order in post #48 State of play after 68 picks in post #152
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    Cricket Books

    Hutton did that? Sounds like the kind of thing I'd associate more with Sutcliffe. (Cardus apparently wrote that Sutcliffe eventually spoke "not with the accents of Yorkshire but of Teddington").
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    Most catches dropped off a bowler?

    Or Kumble.
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    Best Bowling Pair in Test Cricket

    Some other highly-regarded pairs from the 40s-80s: Lindwall and Miller Trueman and Statham Laker and Lock Hall and Griffith Adc0ck and Heine Bedi and Chandrasekhar Holding and Roberts Garner and Marshall Imran Khan and Abdul Qadir The WIPQ make things tricky as there are any number of possible...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Quote in this Cricinfo article: "There have been three long breaks in Test cricket. The First World War saw a break of 2483 days. The Second World War saw a break of 2411 days. And now, the Covid-19 enforced break lasted 127 days." Even sticking to post-WW2, that's a shorter gap than we had for...
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    Squad Passengers

    http://test-cricket-tours.co.uk is a good site for checking the members of touring squads (up to 2015). Benjamin and Malcolm both had chicken-pox.
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    Decade/Country test draft

    Frank Tyson (Eng 1950s) Barry Richards (SA 1970s) Hanif Mohammad (PK 1950s) Kumar Sangakkara+ (SL 2000s) Vijay Hazare (Ind 1940s) Steve Waugh* (Aus 1980s) Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI 1990s) Aubrey Faulkner (SA 1900s) Learie Constantine (WI 1920s) Frank Tyson (Eng 1950s) Jack Cowie (NZ 1930s)...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Genuinely wondered for a minute or so who was this player nicknamed "Garber"...
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    Decade/Country test draft

    Shivnarine Chanderpaul (1990s, WI)
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    Who is England's greatest cricketer?

    One surprising (and not particularly well-known) fact about WG is that if you rank all Test cricketers (excluding wicket-keepers) who played 10 or more Tests by "number of catches per innings", WG is in the top 10 (behind some noted fielders like Solkar, Constantine and Simpson, so it's not a...
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    (Stats Video) Most days spent as #1 Batsman & Bowler in Test Cricket

    According to Marcus Berkmann’s book on the ratings, dismissing high-rated batsmen does get a bowler more credit than dismissing low-rated batsmen. (Admittedly that book is now 30 years old).
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    Cyril Walters – A Lost Talent

    Related to that - something I've wondered... Suppose that England had managed to hang on for draws at Lord's 1930 and Nottingham 1934, and had batted significantly better at Adelaide 1937 to win. Then, without any change to Bradman's batting figures, England would have held the Ashes from 1926...
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    Decade/Country test draft

    He averaged 26 before WW1 and 69 after it. OTOH he took 24 wickets @ 17 in his first 8 Tests, 21 wickets @ 39 in his last 27.
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    (Stats Video) Most days spent as #1 Batsman & Bowler in Test Cricket

    Pollock was ranked #1 for most of 1970 - for some reason the video never seems to give him his 1970 rating. The video's also a bit misleading at other times because when a player's rating jumps from (say) 400 to 700, it insists on counting up the rating through the 300 points (even though...
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    (Stats Video) Most days spent as #1 Batsman & Bowler in Test Cricket

    On a pedantic note: across the Bodyling series and the first 3 Tests in 1934, Bradman's average was 44.08. In the rankings, Sutcliffe was briefly ahead of Bradman during the Bodyline series, and Hammond and Headley were very close behind during the 1936-7 series (885/883/863). One period in...

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