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Recent content by AndrewB

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    Which type of players are hardest to find ?

    George Brown in his 612 FC matches - mostly for Hampshire - took 626 wickets and made 78 stumpings. In his 7 Tests for England in the early 20s he was picked as a wicket-keeper/batsman.
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    English Domestic Season 2024

    Was just looking at a book about the 1979 season - highest score in the Championship all year was 469. (Of course, that was 3-day matches).
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    English Domestic Season 2024

    Last season but one, in fact. Quoting Cricinfo: "The Leicestershire total of 584 is the highest in county cricket by a team that subsequently lost by an innings - smashing the previous mark of 527 scored in an innings defeat against Northamptonshire in 1995 - and is thought to be the highest in...
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    English Domestic Season 2024

    Dunno, but the Test record seems to be 454 by India v WI at Delhi in 1948. It's the sort of stat that might get into the relevant copy of Wisden - e.g. when Notts lost by an innings after scoring 527 Wisden gave the instances of sides doing this while scoring 400+.
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    Cricket's most over rated players

    I don't get where you're getting "he chose not to try" from - when he was out to make it 389-4, he'd scored 221, the other batters had scored 141 (and that's despite Chauhan not being far behind him at the end of Day 4, when they probably weren't even thinking about going for the win). After tea...
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    Cricket's most over rated players

    I suppose he did bowl "off-breaks" in the sense that he broke the ball from off to leg (against right-handed batters, anyway), but it'd really be less misleading if they split bowlers into wrist-spinners and finger-spinners (as they seem to for left-arm spinners).
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    Cricket's most over rated players

    That's a bit unfair - his series averages were 66, 22, 43, 44, 70. Admittedly he only played 2 matches in the first series, but he was top of the averages and runs scored (across both teams) in both the last two series. Curious fact I noticed about Jackson while looking up his figures: his...
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    Best 'bad fielders' XI

    From Mike Gatting: I had some horrible moments in Ashes Tests at Lord’s… but I love the ground really! | The Cricketer "People say I dropped Allan Border on 87 at short-leg, but I dispute I never had it. He ran down the wicket and I went with him. He got a thick inside edge off his pad and it...
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    Cricketers you pick often in drafts

    I don't think it was deliberate beyond a vague thought of "I can't just keep picking the same players each time". I feel like I've picked Hobbs a lot recently, but I can't be bothered to check how often... and it didn't stop me picking him first in the recent 3-country draft.
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    Cricketers you pick often in drafts

    At one point (back in 2016) there were 3 drafts running at once, and I'd picked Aubrey Faulkner in all of them, but I'm not sure I've picked him much since then.
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    3 Nations Draft

    Jack Hobbs WG Grace KS Ranjitsinhji Allan Border Stanley Jackson Shakib Al Hasan Monty Noble* Alan Knott+ Jack Gregory Pat Cummins Frank Tyson
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    3 Nations Draft

    Shakib Al Hasan @kingkallis
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    African FC/Test draft

    Andrew Hudson. Herschelle Gibbs Andrew Hudson Jonathan Trott Jacques Kallis Pieter van der Bijl Brian Davison Jock Cameron+ Reggie Schwarz Makhaya Ntini Fanie de Villiers Duanne Olivier
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    3 Nations Draft

    Hard to rate as an all-rounder; in his first two series he took quite a few wickets at about 20, while not scoring very many; after that his batting average kept going up, but he didn’t bowl very much. If you’re picking him as a #3, he’s only at about Hammond/Dexter/Chappell level as a bowler...
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    3 Nations Draft

    Jack Gregory @Fuller Pilch
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