General Cricket Discussion

[pillowprocter]

Forgot Ahmed Shehzad

On purpose. He and Abid are interchangeable I suppose

 

[pillowprocter]

Top 10 Test runscorers % runs scored in boundaries:

Name	Overall %​	Fours %​	Sixes %​
Sachin Tendulkar	54.3​	51.7​	2.6​
Ricky Ponting	48.4​	45.1​	3.3​
Jacques Kallis	49.2​	44.5​	4.4​
Rahul Dravid	50.7​	49.8​	0.9​
Alastair Cook	46.8​	46.2​	0.6​
Kumar Sangakkara	50.6​	48.1​	2.5​
Brian Lara	56.6​	52.2​	4.4​
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	45.1​	43.3​	1.8​
Mahela Jayawardene	50.1​	47.0​	3.1​
Joe Root	45.9​	43.6​	2.3​

Honestly this didn't reveal much, but the few things I could take away:

• Alastair Cook doesn't do sixes
• Brian Lara liked himself a boundary
• Seems like everyone has between 45%-55%, no matter how aggressive or defensive they're remembered as
• Shiv runs

I will probably do something similar with ODIs, where boundary hitting is a virtue, maybe that'll reveal more

 

[CerealKiller]

On purpose. He and Abid are interchangeable I suppose

Wait you actually considered him? I was joking

 

[pillowprocter]

Wait you actually considered him? I was joking

I did actually! QeA 2024: 482 runs @ 96.4, 2 tons and a fifty. Also he has previous experience. In the end Abid was chosen ahead of him cuz he has sustained decent form for longer

 

[Aislabie]

Had a think about what an England squad might look like if all The Hundred players were unavailable. Based on those in the test squad without contracts, the recent Lions squad and a few others.

1 Jennings
2 Lees
3 Bohannon
4 Price
5 Rew
6 Foakes
7 Higgins
8 Aldridge
9 Robinson
10 Leach
11 Anderson

12 Bashir
13 Coles/Barnard
14 Miles/Norwell/Porter
15 Sibley/Hameed
16 Westley/Gubbins


Any thoughts from others what your side would look like minus players from the main T20 tournament?

Given you've already done England, let's have a crack at Australia.

1. Henry Hunt
2. Tim Ward
3. Jack Clayton
4. Cameron Green
5. Jake Lehmann
6. Jake Doran
7. Nivethan Radhakrishnan
8. Mitchell Starc
9. Pat Cummins
10. Chris Tremain
11. Josh Hazlewood

Sort of the opposite problem to the South African side really

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Given you've already done England, let's have a crack at Australia.

1. Henry Hunt
2. Tim Ward
3. Jack Clayton
4. Cameron Green
5. Jake Lehmann
6. Jake Doran
7. Nivethan Ravikrishnan
8. Mitchell Starc
9. Pat Cummins
10. Chris Tremain
11. Josh Hazlewood

Sort of the opposite problem to the South African side really

It's a bit generous to give them Green, Starc, Cummins and Hazlewood

 

[Aislabie]

It's a bit generous to give them Green, Starc, Cummins and Hazlewood

None of them have Big Bash contracts (granted, just because CA are managing their workloads but I don't make the rules)

 

[Till Valhalla]

Given you've already done England, let's have a crack at Australia.

1. Henry Hunt
2. Tim Ward
3. Jack Clayton
4. Cameron Green
5. Jake Lehmann
6. Jake Doran
7. Nivethan Ravikrishnan
8. Mitchell Starc
9. Pat Cummins
10. Chris Tremain
11. Josh Hazlewood

Sort of the opposite problem to the South African side really

I think its Radha not Ravi, I tried searching but couldn't find Ravi but found one Radha.

 

[CerealKiller]

I did actually! QeA 2024: 482 runs @ 96.4, 2 tons and a fifty. Also he has previous experience. In the end Abid was chosen ahead of him cuz he has sustained decent form for longer

I think players who performed in the 6-team structure, and then kept on making runs in the current structure should be preferred. Have proven themselves against undiluted competition

 

[wasteyouryouth]

I think players who performed in he 6-team structure, and then kept on making runs in the current structure should be preferred. Have proven themselves against undiluted competition

Mooez Ghani captain

 

[pillowprocter]

I think players who performed in he 6-team structure, and then kept on making runs in the current structure should be preferred. Have proven themselves against undiluted competition

There's no perfect criteria, even the previous QeA trophy inflates batsmen's stats cuz of how flat some of the pitches are

 

[CerealKiller]

It's quite fitting that countries like India and Pakistan, with massive fanbases and talent, but who have boards filled with nepotism, corruption and politicisation, don't have much to show in terms of ICC trophies recently.
Meanwhile, teams like Australia, England and New Zealand, with smaller fanbases, but also less of those issues holding them back, have won a lot more in recent years.

 

[Aislabie]

I think its Radha not Ravi, I tried searching but couldn't find Ravi but found one Radha.

Thank you, fixed it

 

[CerealKiller]

You thought he died, didn’t you?

 

[ShamiLoverGlipGlops]

Better then Kesrick's notebook celebration lol!