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    Why no non-Ashes tours to Australia between 1953–54 and 1961–62?

    Should be “between 1953-4 and 1959-60”, as the big bambino pointed out.
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    Why no non-Ashes tours to Australia between 1953–54 and 1961–62?

    Also in late 1956.
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    In the 2015 series three of the matches ended on the 4th day. The other two didn’t last that long.
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    What Qualifies as a Test Allrounder?

    Since "balls bowled per match" has been suggested as one way for determining if someone qualifies as an all-rounder, here's a list of everyone who played 20+ Tests, took 20+ wickets and has a 20+ batting average, sorted by balls bowled per match (with "wickets taken per match" also given)...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Given that the 1931 Lord's Test saw 1293 runs in 420 overs across 3 days, while the recent Adelaide Test saw 1083 runs in 413 overs across 4 2/3 days, you could argue that Test cricket is neither shorter nor quicker than it used to be.
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    England v Australia 1985

    The "good bowlers" who "showed up" the "technically poor English batting" would be Ian Bishop, Malcolm Marshall, Curtly Ambrose and Waqar Younis (the only players with 50+ wickets at under 26), so it took 3 ATGs and one who might have been with better fitness to succeed. Several other overseas...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Don't know if it's accurate, but the description of his career on Wiki doesn't make it sound like he would have needed to retire from cricket for monetary reasons: "Ponsford began his working life at the State Savings Bank. On his return from England in 1926, the bank advised him that they...
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    What Qualifies as a Test Allrounder?

    It’s just (batting rating) x (bowling rating)/1000, isn’t it?
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    Greg Chappell vs Wally Hammond

    It was only his last match against Somerset in 1951 that was apparently painful to watch. In 1946 his FC average was 85; then he did poorly in the Aus tour, and retired. IIRC he only played two more F.C. games - a friendly in 1950 where he did fine on a flat wicket, and the Somerset game.
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    Strike-rates of some famous batsmen from year's past

    Cricinfo gives 1064+, so that'll be the number of balls he faced in the innings where this is "known".
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Ponsford retired in 1934; Sutcliffe was at least still playing for Yorkshire throughout the 30s. And they both played more Tests in the 30s than Hutton. If you want an opener who played Tests through the 30s, you should pick Bruce Mitchell. There's also Stewie Dempster, who only played 10 Tests...
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    Strike-rates of some famous batsmen from year's past

    Were the Sheffield Shield matches timeless in Trumper's era?
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    In Cricket Crisis, Fingleton’s “contemporaries” XI (which is pretty close to being a 30s XI) is Ponsford, Headley, Hammond*, Duleepsinhji, McCabe, Cameron+, Constantine, Larwood, Tate, Grimmett, O’Reilly. Bradman is to play in the opposing side.
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    Basic questions

    Apologies if this is a joke I’m missing, but the verb “burgle” was derived from the noun “burglar”, not vice versa.
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    The Records and Milestones thread

    Didn't make a huge different to his wicket-taking rate: he took 129 wickets in 21 matches when O'Reilly wasn't playing, and 88 in 15 when he was.
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    What Qualifies as a Test Allrounder?

    Bear in mind, though, that if a batsman gets a big innings he may well not get to bat again, but if a bowler has a good first innings they can expect to bowl again. Consequently there are more bowlers with 6+ wickets per match (Barnes, Richardson, Lohmann, Yasir Shah, Muralitharan) than batsmen...
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    Strike-rates of some famous batsmen from year's past

    57-58 (according to Davis).
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    What Qualifies as a Test Allrounder?

    I was looking at which players had the most matches in which they'd been successful with both bat and ball... if you use 100 runs and 6 wickets as the cut-offs, then Botham and Shakib Al Hasan are well clear with 6 each, and the only other player to manage it 3 times was Tony Greig. (Another 9...
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    Battle of the drawn test matches

    WI v Pakistan, Bridgetown, 1977.
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    Player of the Match Awards: Strange Version

    A near miss: in the Eng-WI ODI at Lord's in 1988, the MotM was DeFreitas with 11-5-20-1 and a catch (Greenidge). Walsh had figures of 11-5-11-0 in the same game. Alan Knott was MotM in the semi-final and final of the 1974 Gillette Cup, but he did score some useful runs in both games. Cuffy's...

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