Comments on: Hot streaks: Test batters who hit a prolonged purple patch https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:31:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/#comment-270541 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:31:10 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=27450#comment-270541 In reply to Richard.

Simon Kerrigan got off the mark against Australia and was never dismissed. People frequently forget that when they assess his international career.

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By: Balladeer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/#comment-270540 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:30:57 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=27450#comment-270540 In reply to King Cricket.

Cricinfo is currently plugging NFTs – or, to give them their full name, ‘Crictos digital collectible moments’. I hope Cricinfo doesn’t become a verb.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/#comment-270539 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:29:39 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=27450#comment-270539 In reply to King Cricket.

On this subject, people may or may not have seen that Travis Basevi, the creator of Statsguru – which is still one of the very best things on the internet – has sadly died.

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/#comment-270538 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:29:41 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=27450#comment-270538 In reply to King Cricket.

I can still remember thinking that AltaVista was the best thing ever…then I quite liked the simplicity of Dogpile…until Google came along. The former two search tools didn’t lend themselves to being a verb. The sentence “I’ve just dogpiled Adam Voges” sounds like a terrible confession.

In other news – just enjoyed the last quarter of WI vIRE seeing the latter emerging team take the former, formerly great, team to pieces. Paul Sterling really is the business in the T20 format. It is such a shame he never quite got his head around long form cricket.

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By: Tony https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/#comment-270537 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 05:50:55 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=27450#comment-270537 Mike Hussey is certainly no Sachin, but he did have a 20-match streak where he averaged 93, which was a pretty useful contribution.

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By: Richard https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/#comment-270535 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:02:19 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=27450#comment-270535 I know it’s based on an average of 4 innings and one dismissal (so basically going against the whole basis of this article) but Voges does have a respectable average versus West Indies – 542 runs per dismissal.

It’s hard to compare his batting average against West Indies with my own as they have failed to dismiss me yet but I think he will probably shade it if it ever happens.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/#comment-270533 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:40:53 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=27450#comment-270533 In reply to Deep Cower.

Think the verb is “to ESPNcricinfo” or “to ESPNcricinfojointlyownedbyTheWaltDisneyCompanyandHearstCorporation” which is possibly why it hasn’t caught on.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/#comment-270532 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:37:35 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=27450#comment-270532 In reply to sam.

Did you get a bowl? Think everyone else did.

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By: sam https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/#comment-270531 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:57:01 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=27450#comment-270531 Nice work.

Minor quibble – Lara didn’t ‘go to Durham’ for his 501. Durham came to him. I know coz I was there.

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By: Deep Cower https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/hot-streaks-test-batters-who-hit-a-prolonged-purple-patch/2022/10/19/#comment-270530 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 06:28:54 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=27450#comment-270530 I had to google Adam Voges. Well, I had to cricinfo Adam Voges, but I am not sure if cricinfo has attained the verb status (yet).

By the way, this is some statting, Oh King.

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