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    All Time Chasing Team?

    Watching Smiffy muscling the ball around yesterday against the hapless Lankans made me think of more pleasurable things (pertaining to cricket, to preempt any would be wags and cards on here with too much time on their paws)...for example the best 4th innings chasing batsmen, among whom Smiffy...
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    New Golden Era for Fast Bowling?

    With Steyn already close to all time great status, and a new crop of excellent quick bowlers around, particularly in England, Australia and South Africa (with honourable mentions to the West Indies and Pakistan -- Oh, Aamer and Asif!), one could argue that a new golden age of fast bowling is...
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    Greatest Ever 'Taches in Cricket?

    In honour of Movember, please select your top 5. Pictures highly appreciated. Note: no beards, soul patches and suchlike bumfluff.
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    Momentum - Does it Exist?

    As Newton turns in his grave at the thread title, I put forward the question more aptly: Does momentum actually exist in cricket? An interesting article in the grauniad would like to suggest not. The death of momentum | Guardian Sport Network | Sport | guardian.co.uk Calling boffins and...
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    Smiffy vs. Buzz (lightyear)

    Who is the better test batsman?
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    Pitch Bitch.

    Apropos of some cricket pitches (or was it only the batting?) in the recent past, the mind trots on to the bad pitches that one has seen.... Topping the list would be a couple in the windies where tests were abandoned in the last decade and half. But what about others that have been roundly...
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    New cricketing terms

    The Siddle noball, as a couple of wags - one not exactly known for setting the benchmark in such matters, if truth be told - on the Australia-South Africa series thread, mentioned, was a Mazhar. Or maybe an Amir. What about some new terms based on those who best epitomise certain cricketing...
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    Class, Categories and Other General Questions

    1) A conversation between Ikki and myself a couple of weeks ago had us arguing about the concept of class in the sense that a particular player is in a different class (league, category, playing field, levels...you name it) from another in terms of quality. In that instance it was about Gavaskar...
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    Ponting vs Kallis

    Am sure this has been done - to death - before, but so what... Just 4 more days till the two greats face off for the last time. For those in the mood for some flagellation haha, some overblown, flowery prose from Roebuck. Colossus and cavalier will fight to the end Mods, could we have a...
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    The best at their peak?

    Those batsmen and bowlers you thought were simply unstoppable when at their very best. Lara Richards Sehwag Tendulkar Ponting Hayden in that order would make my list of such batsmen in tests. And the following bowlers: Waqar Marshall Ambrose Akhtar Lillee Murali
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    Best fielding team?

    Best ever fielding team? Which is the best overall fielding team that you have ever seen? For the nappy wearers around here, the one that you have read about? Also, to make it a little more 'interesting', which team do you fee has had the greatest complement of outstanding fielders, without...
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    Richards still King!

    Interesting stats article in cricinfo showing that Richards is the greatest odi batsman of them all. Stats from the Past: The best ODI batsmen from across eras | Highlights | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo Thoughts?
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    Test Championship Postponed (read Scrapped)

    It's not even begun yet – but ICC to axe Test Championship - Cricket, Sport - The Independent bugger.
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    Sangakkara!

    100 tests. Ta for the memories....so far. May there be many more. Being a bit greedy but really looking forward to a 100 in this test. Anyway, time for a quasi retrospective. What are your best memories of the man? Where does he stand in the pantheon of great subcontinental batsmen? What...
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    Greatest ever batsman with the tail?

    Hussey surely?
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    Panesar wrong? Or Flower overreacting?

    According to the England supremo, Panesar erred on the side of naivete by bowling at Tendulkar in the nets at Lords. What are your thoughts on it? The article by that arch dobber, Pringle, in the Telegraph: England coach Andy Flower to ban Monty Panesar from giving net practice to Sachin...
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    Would Praveen Kumar make the England XI?

    The strongest XI, that is. While we are at it, would you, as selector, choose Khan in your strongest England XI. Khan as he has been over the past couple of years i.e. ostensibly fit or fit in a cat kind of way. Schrodinger's cat that is, not the one of Stevens fame.
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    Harper lets Dhoni have it.

    Quite a broadside from Harper: Daryl Harper, the former international umpire, has said the ICC's failure to take any action against India captain MS Dhoni for criticising his decisions in the first Test against West Indies reflected the advent of "selective management" in cricket. This was...
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    Middle order face off! Lara AND Tendulkar Vs. Richards AND Chappell

    So, finally, those two (and the corresponding legions of fans and keyboard warriors) are united! Which middle order do you think is better? To play the best bowlers the world has had to offer? To make it a little more interesting, would you change either of the orders? For example, no...
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    Hadlee vs. McGrath (the minimalist masters)

    Paddles vs. Pigeon. The two bowlers who seemed most alike to me in their cerebral approach to bowling. Who's the better bowler in your book? (Even if this has been done before, it might be nice to see it again since McGrath has been on our minds for a while courtesy of a couple of threads!)...
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