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    A Test Team Of Players Who Played 10 Tests Or Less

    I picked a "1-9 Tests" XI in the ATG thread a few months ago: Richards, Apte, Jackson, Hodge, Donnelly, Irvine, Procter, Trott, Cowie, Appleyard, Iverson
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    Limited Top 6 Draft

    Trevor Bailey
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    Describe a Match in One Sentence

    You can see the end of it on Youtube.
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    6 or 8 ball overs and now 10 balls

    England switched to 8-ball overs in all FC cricket in 1939 for a two-year trial; the second year didn't happen for obvious reasons, but it hadn't been popular in the first year so after the war they switched back to 6-ball. Tests in the 1880s all had 4-ball overs; in the 1890s, England and S...
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    CW decides the 32 best test* opening batsmen of all time - The countdown thread!

    For 2000+ runs Ponsford is second, the top 10 being: Darren Bravo: 26.78/51.19 Bill Ponsford: 40.90/62.40 Mohinder Amarnath: 30.44/51.86 Ken Barrington: 50.71/69.18 Wally Hammond: 50.07/66.33 Alan Knott: 26.72/42.27 John R Reid: 25.15/38.66 Eddie Barlow: 40.97/54.10 Charles Macartney...
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    CW decides the 32 best test* opening batsmen of all time - The countdown thread!

    Rohit Sharma currently averages 88 at home and 26 away.
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    Limited Top 6 Draft

    Justin Langer
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    Limited Top 6 Draft

    Misbah-ul-Haq
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    Limited Top 6 Draft

    Stanley Jackson
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    If you could watch one match...

    Well, that all seems plausib.... wait a minute! They didn't have tea intervals in the 1870s!
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    If you could watch one match...

    I assumed the brief meant that you had full knowledge of the match before you made your choice, but would then get to watch it without knowing what happened ("knowledge of the match is removed during the time travel").
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    CW decides the 32 best test* opening batsmen of all time - The countdown thread!

    That's correct for players with an overall average of >40 with at least 10 completed innings both home and away. If you don't set a minimum average, Chris Broad is top with home average 26, away 57. (Also this is for specifically "away av - home av"'; there are plenty with a bigger value for...
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    If you could watch one match...

    I'd be tempted to pick Sussex v Notts 1911 just to see if Alletson's hitting really was as remarkable as accounts say it was... the down side is that it was 40 minutes of carnage amid 3 unremarkable days' play.
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    CW decides the 32 best test* opening batsmen of all time - The countdown thread!

    Briggs played in 8 of those series (including the one-match "series" in 1887-8).
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    Limited Top 6 Draft

    Wayne Daniel
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    About 45%, which seems to be a record for a 3 (or more) match series.
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    ICC Emerging Nations Trophy (Sim League X)

    Out with one run needed, though - I reckon he tried to finish the match in style, had a big swing and missed a straight one...
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    Limited Top 6 Draft

    All the Kiwis this round.... Stewie Dempster.
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    CW decides the 32 best test* opening batsmen of all time - The countdown thread!

    Certainly happened a few times, although perhaps surprisingly all the big partnerships were Woodfull & Bradman (when Ponsford had his huge partnerships with Bradman in 1934, Brown was the other opener) Here's the full list of Woodfull/Ponsford opening partnerships (runs they added, their...
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    CW decides the 32 best test* opening batsmen of all time - The countdown thread!

    Surprisingly*, they only opened together for Australia in 22 innings, and of the 19 Aussie pairs who opened 20+ times in Tests, they rank only 15th for "partnership average". *Well, it surprised me.

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