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    The Records and Milestones thread

    Here's the list, barring errors and omissions (note that batsmen are sorted alphabetically). 14 Dec 1894 : AU v EN, Sydney G Giffen (161), SE Gregory (201) 9 Feb 1912 : EN v AU, Melbourne JB Hobbs (178), W Rhodes (179) 1 Jan 1925 : EN v AU, Melbourne JB Hobbs...
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    The Records and Milestones thread

    A quick count suggests it's happened about 140 times.
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    World Cup draft, a player from each WC must be picked

    Poll for this draft is now up.
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    ICC Sim League VII

    Lancs unchanged
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    ICC Sim League VII

    For what it's worth, I think WI and SA have higher quotients than Lancs and Yorks anyway.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Were the 1971-2 matches regarded as Tests at the time? I've certainly a quote from someone (can't remember who or where, think it was someone who took part) that the 1970 matches had been but the 1971-2 matches were never more than exhibition matches. Certainly in "Sort of a Cricket Person"...
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    The law saying that the umpire should intervene in the event of excessive short-pitched bowling (1947 or earlier) was brought in before the law restricting leg-side fielders behind square (1957).
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    ICC Sim League VII

    Top 20 batting averages Aus D Bradman 12 23 7 1421 88.81 150 6 5 S A J McGlew 12 23 2 1256 59.81 149 4 6 W I F Worrell 12 23 2 1245 59.29 140 3 9 Aus B Brown 12 24 2 1222 55.55 199 4 4 NSW S McCabe 12 21 2 1047 55.11 224 2 4 Lan N...
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    ICC Sim League VII

    Well, at the start I thought they might well lose most of them... but of the "tough run in" they lost to West Indies before beating NSW and England.
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    ICC Sim League VII

    Final results table: Eng WIn Lan NSW SAf Yor Vic Ind Aus NZe Wor Pak Sur Eng x W L W W W W W W W W D+ T 59 WIn L x W L+ W L W D W W W W L+ 46 Lan W L x W L+ W D+ W D W L W W 46 NSW L W L+ x W L W W...
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    Budget Draft II

    Colin Bland. Final XI: Barry Richards Herbert Sutcliffe Ted Dexter Everton Weekes Clyde Walcott+ Colin Bland Monty Noble* Ray Lindwall Wasim Akram Hedley Verity Frank Tyson
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    Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Which reminds me - at first-class rather than international level John Carr had a particularly awkward-looking stance - described by Cricinfo as "the bat held vertically with the face pointing towards the wicketkeeper, all from a square-on stance". (His other main claim to fame was that when...
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    ICC Sim League VII

    Iddon hasn't had a game for Lancs, so I'll pick him in place of Washbrook.
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    DoG's Top 100 Test Bowlers Countdown Thread 100-1

    Also, he might have been more willing to cede the new ball to Hadlee and Steyn than he was to JWHT Douglas. (Or he might not - who knows).
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    DoG's Top 100 Test Bowlers Countdown Thread 100-1

    He didn’t bowl leg cutters, he bowled fast-medium leg spin (as he pointed out to Peter Gibbs in a conversation recounted in the 2012 Wisden).
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Ah, sorry, was forgetting he played for Rhodesia. Says something about how good Procter was that it wasn't a ridiculous claim for Gloucestershire.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Assuming you mean Glos, they did have Zaheer Abbas and Sadiq Mohammad for most of the 70s, so it'd be more accurate to say he was one of the best bats.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    They didn't really: the Packer-weakened teams he played against were Pakistan in 1978 and Australia in 1978-9, and those series account for 2 hundreds and 1 five-for (all against Pakistan).
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    Budget Draft II

    I'll exchange 2500 runs for 75 extra wickets and pick Hedley Verity (40 Tests, 669 runs, 144 wickets).
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    ICC Sim League VII

    Incidentally, Bradman's average for the tournament is now 99.64. And John Reid has for some reason still bowled more overs than anyone else.

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