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justinr73 wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:01 pm Cracking knock by Crawley today.

He looked ‘to the manor born’.

On that showing, we could be seeing a lot of him and Pope in the next ten years.
I wonder if there is anyone called Crawley who wasn't nicknamed "Creepy" at school?

Probably not, though it would probably be considered as "bullying" these days :roll:

So much for Jimmy being past it. Could get to 600 today. Conditions look to be in his favour this morning.
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Cap'n Grumpy wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2017 7:22 pm James Anderson :salut:

>appl >appl >appl >appl >appl

1 for each hundred :thumleft:
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He’s a national treasure.

Think there was a question on Pointless recently that gave his initials as part of the clue and only about ten people named him.

Disgraceful.
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Incredible that the guy at the other end had 500+. Phenomenal longevity and durability for pace bowlers.

Of course, this can be explained in part by the fact that these boys play very little non international cricket.
Anderson and Broad have taken totals of 975 and 808 first class wickets respectively.
By comparison, Trueman and Statham took 2304 and 2260!
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Incredible that, really.

Cricket is full of great stats.

Who has the most Test match sixes for England after KP, Freddie, Stokes and Beefy?
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justinr73 wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 12:11 am Incredible that, really.

Cricket is full of great stats.

Who has the most Test match sixes for England after KP, Freddie, Stokes and Beefy?
Got it 3rd guess playing this.

https://wisden.com/play-and-win/quizzes ... atch-sixes
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Great fun. Many thanks for the link.
And Freddie T same number in 13 years as Graham Gooch in 20 years!?
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Some surprises weren’t there?

Athers hit 4 sixes out of 8000 runs.

My excuse is similar to Everton Weekes - if you hit it in the air, then it landed in someone’s garden and you wouldn’t get your ball back.
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Seeing as Barbados are about to cast off the colonial shackles you might care to take a glance at Everton Weekes' all-time Barbadian XI. Quite staggering in it's quality for an island populated by a quarter of a million! Fantastic batting and one of the scariest pace attacks you'll ever see. The all-rounder is also pretty handy.

1 Gordon Greenidge (batting avge 44.72)
2 Desmond Haynes (42.29)
3 Clyde Walcott (wk) (56.68)
4 Frank Worrell (capt) (49.48)
5 Everton Weekes (58.61)
6 Garry Sobers (57.78)
7 Seymour Nurse (47.60)
8 Malcolm Marshall (bowling avge 20.94)
9 Joel Garner (20.97)
10 Wes Hall (26.38)
11 Charlie Griffith (28.54)
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I'm only a second rate cricket fan but that line-up strikes a real chord with even me. Hall and Griffith were an unforgettable part of my childhood.
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solidarity wrote: Thu Sep 17, 2020 7:18 pm I'm only a second rate cricket fan but that line-up strikes a real chord with even me. Hall and Griffith were an unforgettable part of my childhood.
In terms of population, Barbados falls far behind Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and the Combined Islands but none of them can produce a lineup anywhere close.
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big mervyn wrote: Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:58 pm Seeing as Barbados are about to cast off the colonial shackles you might care to take a glance at Everton Weekes' all-time Barbadian XI. Quite staggering in it's quality for an island populated by a quarter of a million! Fantastic batting and one of the scariest pace attacks you'll ever see. The all-rounder is also pretty handy.

1 Gordon Greenidge (batting avge 44.72)
2 Desmond Haynes (42.29)
3 Clyde Walcott (wk) (56.68)
4 Frank Worrell (capt) (49.48)
5 Everton Weekes (58.61)
6 Garry Sobers (57.78)
7 Seymour Nurse (47.60)
8 Malcolm Marshall (bowling avge 20.94)
9 Joel Garner (20.97)
10 Wes Hall (26.38)
11 Charlie Griffith (28.54)
Pretty handy that.

Seymour Nurse has recently surrendered a world record to Zak Crawley. What was it?
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justinr73 wrote: Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:06 pm
big mervyn wrote: Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:58 pm Seeing as Barbados are about to cast off the colonial shackles you might care to take a glance at Everton Weekes' all-time Barbadian XI. Quite staggering in it's quality for an island populated by a quarter of a million! Fantastic batting and one of the scariest pace attacks you'll ever see. The all-rounder is also pretty handy.

1 Gordon Greenidge (batting avge 44.72)
2 Desmond Haynes (42.29)
3 Clyde Walcott (wk) (56.68)
4 Frank Worrell (capt) (49.48)
5 Everton Weekes (58.61)
6 Garry Sobers (57.78)
7 Seymour Nurse (47.60)
8 Malcolm Marshall (bowling avge 20.94)
9 Joel Garner (20.97)
10 Wes Hall (26.38)
11 Charlie Griffith (28.54)
Pretty handy that.

Seymour Nurse has recently surrendered a world record to Zak Crawley. What was it?
I know this one. Heard the stats nerd on TMS discussing it!
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It was in his column in the Cricketer too!

Did he also mention the country in which Jimmy has taken his Test wickets at the lowest average?
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Am guessing Notts (Trent Bridge)?
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