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Jul 2020
3:41pm, 23 Jul 2020
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fetcheveryone
He got 9 actually Nico. Aside from his legendary cut shot, I remember him acclimatising his eyes to the light by blinking furiously at the sky whenever he came out to bat.
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Jul 2020
3:43pm, 23 Jul 2020
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fetcheveryone
Worst conversion was Prior, with 28 fifties and 7 hundreds.
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Jul 2020
3:44pm, 23 Jul 2020
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fetcheveryone
Smith was third worst, with 28 fifties but 9 hundreds. Bairstow takes second with 6/21.
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Jul 2020
3:48pm, 23 Jul 2020
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fetcheveryone
Broad is best converter amongst >=1980 players, with 6 hundreds and 6 fifties, followed by Vaughan, Lamb, Strauss, KP then BrexitBeefy.
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Jul 2020
3:51pm, 23 Jul 2020
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Nicholls595
Come on Greppers, where's this ORB Allstars XI then?
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Jul 2020
4:10pm, 23 Jul 2020
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Cerrertonia
Prior (like Stewart and Bairstow) suffers from batting low down the order as a wicket-keeper though. You clearly have less chance to get a century when you come in at no.6 or 7. The fact that they made the list at all shows that they were pretty good batsmen.
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Jul 2020
4:15pm, 23 Jul 2020
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fetcheveryone
Agreed. It's the ideal spot for a momentum-changing 60-70, but you'd have to hope that one of the specialists would have done the bulk of the scoring.
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Jul 2020
4:18pm, 23 Jul 2020
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fetcheveryone
To my mind, Gilchrist was the w/k who broke the mould for keepers. Up 'til then, with the possible exception of Dujon, I'd never noticed any of them offer anything other than 'just another member of the tail'. Or am I misremembering? My first keeper was Downton 
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Jul 2020
4:20pm, 23 Jul 2020
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rf_fozzy
The Prior-Bairstow-Buttler comparison is worth having (as "recent" best wkt/bat)
So Bairstow (Mat - Inns - Runs - Ave - SR - 100 - 50 - 0)
70 - 123 - 4030 - 34.74 - 6 - 21 - 10
Buttler
43 - 77 - 2211 - 31.14 - 1 - 15 - 6
Foakes
5 - 10 - 332 - 41.50 - 1 - 1 - 0
G Jones
34 - 53 - 1172 - 23.91 - 1 - 6 - 2
Prior
79 - 123 - 4099 - 40.18 - 7 - 28 - 13
The Prior-Bairstow comparison is interesting and numbers suggest Buttler worse than both.
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Jul 2020
4:22pm, 23 Jul 2020
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rf_fozzy
My theory about Foakes is that they can't play him due to having then:
Stokes
Foakes
Woakes
in the batting order
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