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    Grand Slam Draft Tournament

    Clive Lloyd
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    Grand Slam Draft Tournament

    Michael Holding
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    Grand Slam Draft Tournament

    Muttiah Muralitharan
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    Grand Slam Draft Tournament

    Well, there was the "played for Yorkshire" draft earlier in the tournament, so let's have a played for Lancashire draft; anyone who's played at least 1 FC game for Lancashire is eligible.
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    *Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

    Yes, this seems to be the first Test innings in which - 5 or more catches were held, - by 3 or more fielders, - all of whom had surnames with at most 4 letters. A few near misses: - 1963 at Christchurch: the only catches in England's first innings were by Dick (2), Reid and Motz. - 1983 at...
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    *Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

    Quite a few times, e.g. in Broad's 8-15 Test, Bell (1/2), Cook (2/1) and Root (3/2) did it in both innings. The records seem to be 8 catches (Bell, Cook, Read (6) in the 2006-7 Ashes), or 4 individuals (e.g. Bell, Lyth (2), Root, Wood v NZ in 2015).
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    *Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

    A stat pointed out on the online BBC cricket commentary is that this is the shortest named England team ever: Zak Crawley, Dominic Sibley, Joe Denly, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Dom Bess, Mark Wood, Stuart Broad = 101 letters This seems to be correct, just beating...
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    *Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

    Should clarify that I don't know if it's happened since then; I just checked a few likely series. (If you count Barnes as a spinner, he took the first 5 wickets twice in 1913-14).
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    Grand Slam Draft Tournament

    I think there's just Marcuss left to vote of those still taking part (as it happens, he's also the only person with a comfortable lead in this round).
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    DoG's Top 100 Test Batsmen Countdown Thread

    Bear in mind that in county cricket only 4 seasons (1915-1918) were lost to the 1st World War. With 4 more seasons at his peak, plus an Ashes tour, 250 seems a better guess. Of course, without that career break it's possible that Hobbs (and Hendren, Mead, Woolley, Sandham...) wouldn't have...
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    *Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

    Colin Blythe in 1905-6 (4th Test at Cape Town); opened the bowling and took 5-15 as SA reached 44-5.
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    *Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

    Chris Cowdrey and Richard Ellison v India in 1984?
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    Which cricketers have obtained a new highest score the most times?

    Cameron Cuffy's first 6 innings were 0, 0*, 1, 2, 3*, 4
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Blackham - Syd Gregory - Kelleway - Bradman - Harvey - Simpson - Wood - Healy - Ponting - Smith is I think as short as possible.
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    Grand Slam Draft Tournament

    mr_mister, NUFAN, Marcuss. (All very close).
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    Grand Slam Draft Tournament

    Ross Gregory Final XI: WG Grace Tom Hayward Clem Hill Tip Foster Charlie Kelleway Ross Gregory Monty Noble* Amar Singh Arthur Dolphin+ Colin Blythe Ken Farnes
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    DoG's Top 100 Test Batsmen Countdown Thread

    Some of the top overall bowling averages for English first-class cricket in the 1950s (Surrey bowlers in bold): Statham 1027 @ 15.41 Lock 1441 @ 15.50 Appleyard 696 @ 16.10 Loader 821 @ 16.71 Laker 1305 @ 16.79 Jackson 1122 @ 17.13 Tattersall 1256 @ 17.38 Gladwin 1127 @ 17.98 Bedser 1282 @ 18.04...
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    Grand Slam Draft Tournament

    Arthur Dolphin. WG Grace Tom Hayward Clem Hill Tip Foster - Charlie Kelleway Monty Noble* Amar Singh Arthur Dolphin+ Colin Blythe Ken Farnes
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    Grand Slam Draft Tournament

    Colin Blythe
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    CW decides the top 45 ODI Batsmen ever: The countdown thread

    Here's the total points according to my count - I've included Red Hill's top 20 (which I don't think mr_mister did), and whether I do that or not, it doesn't quite agree with what mr_mister has posted so far but it's probably reasonably close, at least towards the top: 1 Viv Richards 527 2...
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