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26-02-2007, 08:13 PM
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| 2007 Wisden Cricketers of the Year They won't be announced until just before the publication of this year's Wisden on March 26, but I'm wondering: who is worthy of the allocade? The selection is based: "primarily but not exclusively, on the player's influence on the previous English season", and it can only be awarded once to each player. The obvious candidates are: Monty Panesar Stuart Clark (surely?) Alistair Cook Mohammad Yousef Younis Khan ...but I have my doubts, as I've been proven wrong on many an occasion. Is there anyone else who is worthy of selection?
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Pretty much covers it I reckon.............. I'd say Monty is a cert with Alistair Cook a close second after missing out last year |
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| No Murali? Or Jayawardene? Also, I'm not sure Clark achieved much in the English season. But then maybe I am wrong. :-)
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| My only doubt is whether Stuart Clark made enough of an impact - granted he did make one, just did he leave it too late to be included? Then again, there aren't exactly a lot of people who are worthy of the award that haven't already got it! EDIT: Quote:
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26-02-2007, 09:07 PM
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| IMO, Mohammed Yusouf would surey be a frontrunner. |
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26-02-2007, 11:22 PM
in reply to Nostromo's post starting "IMO, Mohammed Yusouf would surey be a..." | ||||
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| What about Michael Hussey?
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| Damn, there's always an obvious one that slips my mind...  At least I know I'm forgetting the Ashes now! Quite right, Hussey is worthy of the award, not only for his performance in the Ashes but his all-year-round consistancy. In fact, I reckon he's a front-runner for Wisden's Leading Cricketer in the World award.
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| I think Yousuf should be, so Ponting, Lee, Flintoff, Hoggard and Warne are not able to be selected again, is that right?
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27-02-2007, 06:55 AM
in reply to Quagmire's post starting "I think Yousuf should be, so Ponting,..." | ||||
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| I didn't follow the 2006 Championship in any great detail, so I could be wrong. But I don't think either Hussey and Clarke did much during the English summer so neither of them deserves to be one of the chosen five. Similarly, Jawardene's triple hundred was not during the English cricket summer, so is mostly irrelevant. Adam - the criteria, as you quote, is derived "primarily but not exclusively, from the player's influence on the previous English season". The English season only includes performances in the county championship or performances in any of the seven Tests played in England against Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
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27-02-2007, 09:15 AM
in reply to Maranello's post starting "I didn't follow the 2006 Championship..." | |||
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Code: Name Mat I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St Team MR Ramprakash 15 24 2 2278 301* 103.54 60.79 8 9 13 - SURREY AN Cook 13 23 5 1159 132 64.38 54.95 4 6 15 - MCC/ESSEX/ENG-A/ENG IR Bell 9 16 4 713 119 59.41 55.44 3 4 4 - WARWICKS/ENG-A/ENG KP Pietersen 7 12 0 707 158 58.91 78.29 3 1 7 - ENG Mohammad Yousuf 5 9 1 666 202 83.25 61.26 3 - 1 - PAK Code: Name Mat O M R W Ave Best 5 10 SR Econ Team Mushtaq Ahmed 15 623.5 118 2031 102 19.91 9-48 11 4 36.6 3.25 SUSSEX MS Panesar 17 759 195 2029 71 28.57 5-32 6 1 64.1 2.67 MCC/NORTHANTS/ENG M Muralitharan 4 189.2 45 507 28 18.10 8-70 2 2 40.5 2.67 SL Code: Name Mat I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St IR Bell 4 7 3 375 119 93.75 59.90 3 - 2 - KP Pietersen 3 5 0 360 158 72.00 77.92 2 - 4 - KP Pietersen 4 7 0 347 135 49.57 78.68 1 1 3 - Mohammad Yousuf 4 7 0 631 202 90.14 63.99 3 - 1 - Name Mat O M R W Ave Best 5 10 SR Econ M Muralitharan 3 146.2 36 405 24 16.87 8-70 2 2 36.5 2.76 SJ Harmison 4 151.3 29 542 20 27.10 6-19 2 1 45.4 3.57 MS Panesar 3 99.1 32 210 10 21.00 5-78 1 - 59.5 2.11 MS Panesar 4 184.1 40 515 17 30.29 5-72 1 - 65.0 2.79 Code: Name Mat I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St MEK Hussey 5 7 2 458 103 91.60 50.71 1 4 5 - RT Ponting 5 8 1 576 196 82.28 60.44 2 2 4 - MJ Clarke 5 7 2 389 135* 77.80 63.04 2 1 2 - KP Pietersen 5 10 1 490 158 54.44 48.46 1 3 3 - Name Mat O M R W Ave Best 5 10 SR Econ SR Clark 5 194.2 53 443 26 17.03 4-72 - - 44.8 2.27 GD McGrath 5 209.1 65 502 21 23.90 6-50 1 - 59.7 2.40 SK Warne 5 241.2 43 698 23 30.34 5-39 1 - 62.9 2.89 Code: Name Mat O M R W Ave Best 5 10 SR Econ Team SK Warne 13 523.4 91 1571 58 27.08 7-99 4 - 54.1 3.00 HANTS Last edited by Rachael : 27-02-2007 at 09:23 AM. |
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