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    Doubts about the rules

    1. Fishing for mankads would certainly go against the spirit of the game and I'd love to call it a no ball, but I think the ball has to actually be bowled for it to be a no ball. It's not exactly clear, hence I said it would be a good question if you ever find an ICC umpire doing a Q&A. 2. No...
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    Doubts about the rules

    The 'batters stealing a run' law was amended specifically so that it wouldn't count if the bowler attempted to run out the non-striker, so I believe the ball stays in play and the batsman can steal runs in that case.
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    Doubts about the rules

    1. 21.6 applies to the bowler being in their delivery stride, a mankad breaks the delivery stride to attempt a run out. Strict letter of the law could be interpreted as a no ball and it is written that way, but I'd bet umpires would call a dead ball. Would be an interesting question to ask an...
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    Doubts about the rules

    Knocking the stump crooked does not count. The stump must be uprooted, and it follows the same rules as removing a bail - you can uproot the stump with your hand as long as the ball is in the hand you used to uproot the stump, and you can do it with a direct hit as long as it uproots the stump.
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    Doubts about the rules

    The ball has to be in the same hand you use to break the stump (it doesn't necessarily have to make contact with the stump, though in most cases it would).
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    If your team don’t win it, who would you like to?

    Don't really care if my own team wins tbh, we got 2019 and it's not going to get any better than that. I've got a soft spot for Pakistan, but really, any team that isn't Australia or India.
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    Tied Superover Rule Change

    I can't help but hope one super over gets tied over and over again and they're still out there at 1am trying to get a result.
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    Tied Superover Rule Change

    I actually laughed when I heard the game would be decided by boundary count in case of a tied super over, it tells you everything you need to know about how the governing body views cricket. Sure, replaying the super over until someone wins makes more sense than boundary count nonsense, but...
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    Geoffrey Boycott vs Gordon Greenidge

    If Greenidge is batting injured, I'll take him over anyone.
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    Graeme Hick international career

    There were, but rarely an attack filled with test level bowlers, he's just one of a long list that dominated at county level and failed at test level, he probably was the most hyped one though. Dunno how much you could attribute Australia's sledging to his failures, but he couldn't handle that...
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    Graeme Hick international career

    Because test cricket is a completely different game to county cricket, and it's always been an issue in developing proper test players. County cricket has hardly any fast bowlers, it's mainly 70mph swing and seam bowlers dominating greentops. Hick was great at playing those, but struggled on the...
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    What are the five strongest batting lineups who ever played?

    Only because Collingwood retired, but 6 of the top 7 shone for a number of years before they burned out against South Africa in 2012. Pietersen gets underrated now, he's not in the top tier but he played a number of ATG innings.
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    Which Decade Saw the Best Players Debut?

    I suppose it's a cop out, but you picked AB. He took the gloves after Boucher's career ending injury, batted at #5 and still averaged over 50 doing it. Though, if this is players based on their debut decade, Flintoff shouldn't even be in the 00s team.
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    Is this the most impressive test victory ever?

    England were a great side at that point but Australia weren't THAT bad. It's been a while now, but I think Australia fell apart during that series more than anything and their form got real bad, real fast, while England were at their peak. I recall most of the batsman being in decent form coming...
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    Which Decade Saw the Best Players Debut?

    Sangakkara was significantly better when he was free of wicket keeping and you can't really bat in a test match at #3 and be the wicket keeper without being hampered. If you're picking your WK based on batting ability, you might as well put Matt Prior in there at #7 tbh.
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    Is this the most impressive test victory ever?

    England perspective. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/england-tour-of-india-2012-13-565792/india-vs-england-2nd-test-565807/full-scorecard https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/england-tour-of-australia-2010-11-428730/australia-vs-england-4th-test-428752/full-scorecard These would be...
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    Players Whose Careers Ended Without Any Fanfare

    They scapegoated him for a 5-0 whitewash when he was England's highest run scorer in the series, sacked him immediately after it and told him he'd never be picked for England again. That was one thing, but it gets worse because they lied to him and told him he could get selected for the 2015...
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    England don't have another test until 10th July 2024?

    It's not too high, at least at home (8 away tests in one winter might have been a bit much, though I can see why the boards would want to organize more tests with England). There is actually one less home test a year than there used to be. It's got more condensed because these crap white ball...
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    Bazball final verdict

    Bazball (and **** that term and crapinfo for inventing it) was a necessity because England's batting isn't very good. Nothing to do with 'saving test cricket' and all the nonsense they talk about, it just sounds good for the media and it upsets the Australians. We have two class players with...
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    *Official* Fifth Test (The Oval, London) 27-31 July

    Got a while to beat the 'home drought'. We had 20 years between 1985 and 2005, and an even longer one from 1956 to 1977.

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