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    why do we trust anything from cricket history before tv at all?

    To be fair, that's his bowling average. His batting average is 36.
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    Cricketweb decides- England's all time ODI XI

    Surely Gooch should be in the B XI, if not the A XI.
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    Cricketweb decides- England's all time ODI XI

    Gower is a curious case: I think it's generally known that he had a high peak (ranked 2nd in the world in 1983) in the middle of a decent but not amazing career (strike rate 75, average 30), but I hadn't realised until checking now just how sharp the peak was. Before 1983, his average was 29...
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    Cricketweb decides- England's all time ODI XI

    In the 5 years 1991-95, their figures were Hick 1571 @ 39.27, SR 74.98 Smith 1431 @ 43.36, SR 70.07 Fairbrother 1109 @ 44.36, SR 78.54 Lamb 516 @ 30.35, SR 82.56 (he didn't play after 1992). Not saying he's any kind of ATG, but I can't see any reason to rank him behind Hick, Lamb or Smith in...
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    Sheep Draft 7.0

    I think I just listed all the valid picks with All-round records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com and then just scanned through it looking for good players. Since I ended up picking Ranji I might even have sorted them on runs scored. (Don't think I'd have picked Krezja even...
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    Cricketweb decides- England's all time ODI XI

    Botham. Buttler
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    Who was an ATG FC cricketer

    On which subject, if you look at the leading FC wicket takers behind Wilfred Rhodes, the next 6 are Tich Freeman, Charlie Parker, Jack Hearne, Tom Goddard, Alec Kennedy and Derek Shackleton. None of them played more than 12 Tests, and while 11 of Hearne's 12 were against Australia the others...
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    Who was an ATG FC cricketer

    Regarding that story, there's an interesting bit in "Wisden on Grace", from Lord Harris's comments in Grace's obituary: "He [WG] was... just as reluctant to leave the wicket whatever his score was as was Harry Jupp, but more observant of the rules, practice and etiquette of the game than that...
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    Sheep Draft 7.0

    In
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    Jack Bond

    Checking in Clive Lloyd's "Living for Cricket", I can't see anything about the 1971 Gillette Cup final, but he does have some words about Bond: "It is then that the captain's mettle is demonstrated, and I was lucky that I came in when Jackie Bond was at the helm. Jackie was, in a word...
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    Does Umpire's Call need to go?

    They could change the rules so that if (according to the best technology) there's a 50% chance that the batsmen should have been given out, then from that point on each of his runs only counts as half a run.
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    ICC teaches FIFA. No Penalties! If game is tied after ET team with most corners wins

    In last year's football World Cup Senegal were eliminated because they'd had more yellow cards than Japan.
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    Jack Bond

    You can see the catch here, though not very clearly. Some good shots by Asif and a great run-out by Clive Lloyd too.
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    The disappointment of the 2019 Cricket World Cup being a 10 team World Cup

    That's what they did in 1979, FWIW. The group matches of the ICC Trophy began on 22nd May; the semi-finals were on 6th June; by winning those, Sri Lanka and Canada qualified for the World Cup which began on 9th June. (A little-remembered fact about those qualifiers: if USA had beaten...
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    The ideal WorldT20 format

    15 teams all-play-all 2 games a day would take 53 days. For comparison, the group stage of the current World Cup has taken 38 days.
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    Definitely deserves its own thread

    https://www.icc-cricket.com/live-cricket/womens-results says they're T20Is.
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    Deliveries that changed the history of the game

    Some which felt significant to England in recent years: In 1996, Nasser Hussain was on his 3rd or 4th chance in the England side, and a few bad games could have been the end of his Test career. In the first innings that summer, he was lucky not to be given out early on, and ended up scoring...
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    Bunnybados

    The book apparently contains an introduction by Viv Richards - does he think it's dodgy?
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    First Chance Average

    I think Bradman the Great is the relevant book.
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    Looking for Wisden Cricket Monthly May 1992

    The only thing in WCM for March 1992 is the list of squads (besides the "free pull-out wallchart" which I don't seem to have any more). The February WCM has Steven Lynch's predictions for the tournament (fwiw he tipped Australia to beat Pakistan in the final, with England and SA to be the other...

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