Failing in Philadelphia Famously haughty former England captain Archie Maclaren was never known to suffer from a lack of self-confidence. On tour in Philadelphia in , arch Arch' was told that a six by Aussie hitter George Bonnor had once broken a tile on a faraway roof, with the spot marked by a single blue tile amongst the red. Modest Maclaren bet that he could break the one next to it. Telling the story to Denzil Batchelor years later he admitted his attempt had failed, his aim was awry and that he had "missed by several tiles".
Pawn in their game While England batted in a Test at Johannesburg during their tour of South Africa in , dashing left-hander Bob Barber and young 12th man Mike Brearley were in the middle of a game of changing-room chess. Their battle on the board was interrupted, however, when Barber was required to go out and bat. While compiling a half-century, Barber summoned Brearley to the field, ostensibly for a fresh pair of gloves.
In fact, Brearley recounts, "his purpose was to inform me that his next move was Queen's pawn to QB4. This article features in the current issue of All Out Cricket magazine. A compendium of AOC's best top tens - the good, the bad and the downright weird - will be published by Bloomsbury in early Matches Schedule Points Table Report. This is wrong because there it will never happen that 4 matches are played simultaneously: the largest number of matches played simultaneously is 2 the last matches of each of 6 groups — Ale.
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Featured on Meta. A below-par IPL this year, where he made runs at a strike rate of just over raised question marks over not only him but the overall effectiveness of the opening pair, with Aaron Finch last playing a T20I in July against West Indies.
The duo has now made runs for the opening stand in this competition, with two fifty-plus stands to remove a major concern for the side.
Steve Smith along with Mitchell Marsh, an all-rounder who had tasted decent success at three, had to compete with Matthew Wade, yet another top-three batter for a spot in the XI.
Josh Inglis, a player who had scored two fifties in The Hundred as an opener, meant Australia went into the competition with a top-heavy unit, with the finishing prowess left to Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell. This year till the start of the T20 World Cup, the top three from Australia had scored 1, runs at an average of To rectify the trail of losses, it was imperative that the lower middle order reversed the trend in the T20 World Cup, which is what they have proceeded to do.
Though none of the middle-order batters have made more than 85 runs from Australia in the competition, Stoinis and Wade have played crucial knocks on different occasions to make up for the indifferent run by Maxwell.
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