Ric Finlay
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Co-creator of CSW, since 1993 the first choice cricket database for many worldwide, and DAFT, harnessing the power of RStudio. ABC Grandstand cricket analyst.
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Most wickets by the time the team total has reached 5, in Tests: 64 JAnderson 37 MStarc 35 GMcGrath 31 CAmbrose 30 CVaas
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England reach their 50 two balls quicker than they did in Perth. No letting up!
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Mitch Starc now has six wickets in the last four "first over of a Test innings" he has played - three wickets in the first over of the last Test v the Windies, two in Perth, and now one here...
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England have played 22 Tests at the Gabba, winning four (1933, 1936, 1978 and 1986), and losing 13. In the nine Tests after 1986, Australia have won seven. The toss-winner has elected to bat in all Tests since 2002, when Nasser Hussain sent Australia in and lost by 384 runs.
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To demonstrate what a good series Robin Smith had in Ashes 1989 for a losing side, I append here a list of all players from both sides in order of Era Index for that series:
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Jason Richardson saying excellent things about the proposed new Tasmanian Stadium…..
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Disappointing equipment failure at Drummoyne. Makes you realise how much we’ve come to depend on it to get decisions we are comfortable with.
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The most entertaining feature of today’s flight to Brisbane was provided by the elderly gentleman who decided to sit in 23F when his ticket said 22D. As someone remarked, “Close”. Added 15 minutes to the journey getting him sorted.
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Bob Cotgrove received an appropriate send-off yesterday, full of facts and stats, befitting of his role as Cricket Tasmania First Grade statistician for 55 years.
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Sophie Devine plants an enormous straight six off DDottin, her 150th in the WBBL, putting her 46 sixes ahead of the next-highest in the comp, LLee (104).
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I've combined the Test records for both the Australian and English squads into one file and calculated their combined batting and bowling Test career averages: 36.02 and 28.65 respetively. I've now filtered on day/night Tests only: the averages drop to 31.78 and 19.98. #pinkball
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Can confirm that Ben Stokes is the first skipper/bowler in Test history to win the toss and think the wicket is good enough to bat on, but still take personal "five-fer" on the first day....
Still wrapping my head around the fact that on a day when Ben Stokes won the toss and chose to bat, Ben Stokes also took a five-for.
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Hurricanes get to 4-176 in 17 overs at Bellerive, a record score for any #WBBL innings of 102 balls or fewer...
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We’ve just had a 32 -minute rain break at Bellerive, and lost 6 overs out of the game. They’ve come back on, bowled 14 balls, then stopped for a drinks break. #WBBL
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