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Re: World Test Team Of The Decade He took a couple of years to get started, but IIRC his average has hovered consistently between 50-55 since 2003 or so. I'd do a cumulative averages query on Cricinfo if I wasn't too lazy.

Re: County Cricket 2010 A good win for Yorkshire. I'm interested to see how their young squad goes this year, particularly Bresnan and Rashid. As they say, a strong Yorkshire is a strong England.

Re: Group Stages Chat Associates very rarely (if ever) play full member nations outside of these tournaments. Zimbabwe really are utter rubbish at the moment though. Bangladesh are a bit of a lucky dip. Afghanistan look good, but their group will probably prevent them doing a Netherlands...

Re: Group Stages Chat In T20? Not recently as far as I'm aware.

Re: Group Stages Chat Afghanistan won the Associates' qualifying tournament, beating Ireland by a handful of runs in the group stage and then flogging them pretty comprehensively in the final.

Re: Group Stages Chat I rate Afghanistan better than either Ireland or Zimbabwe at present. They'll still get flogged though - I reckon they'd trade places with any team at all in that draw.

Re: Australia in New Zealand That would actually explain a lot.

Re: Who will finish their careers as the better batsmen? Clarke or Ponting? It's a batting order. Bradman wasn't an opener.

Re: England in Bangladesh Cut it out, both of you.

Re: Australia in New Zealand If we could confine this thread to match discussion that would be great. In-depth analysis of players and selection should go in those specific forums. I understand that the two topics overlap and many people will want to post on both, but this will improve...

Re: MADRID MAGIC Official Thread, Season 3 Sweet, batting at 9. I'm practically an allrounder.

Re: England in Bangladesh They've won a few Tests previously.

Re: MADRID MAGIC Official Thread, Season 3 Caesar Bowler Left arm fast Right hand bat

Re: An interesting trend - Australia don't win test matchs bowling first. But we're not talking about the history of the game, we're talking about the last two years, where it's more like 60:40. Regardless, my answer is that it needs more analysis. There are too many variables, particularly...

Re: Australia in New Zealand He certainly doesn't help the impression with his body language when he's bowling badly.

Re: Favourite Cricket Journo's Not sure. I haven't noticed his ball-by-ball stuff, and as an opinion writer he tends to focus on the current state of the English team, development pathways, selection decisions, etc. rather than comparing them to other countries. He IS an English opinion...

Re: Australia in New Zealand I reserve judgement on Bollinger until he's played a few more games. He's had a couple of matches with very good returns, I want to see if that's going to be a regular occurrence or not before I say that we can rely on him to bag a lot of wickets consistently.

Re: Favourite Cricket Journo's Hard to go past Gideon Haigh. I devour anything he produces; in Australia he is probably the only cricket writer who is a genuinely class journalist as well. Definitely the benchmark for cricket journalism. Robert Craddock is a good beat reporter, I agree. I...

Re: Australia in New Zealand This has been a concern since before the Ashes. Our bowlers are pretty good, but even with a full-strength lineup Johnson is the only one who is capable of taking a lot of Test wickets regularly. The others can generally be relied on for a few each match, and if...

Re: Who will finish their careers as the better batsmen? Clarke or Ponting? So your point is... it's good to have a steady player who is able to average low 40s at number 3? Certainly, but we've got plenty of other batsmen in this country who can do the same thing. Yes, Ponting is still a good...