It's the end of the world as we know it.

Cricinfo anyway.

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He was basically right though.

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Bowling strength is trickier to measure because there is no fixed quota for each bowler, like there is for batsmen. A bowler can bowl as many overs as the captain would like him to, whereas a batsman can only bat twice in a Test. Not all 11 players are required to bowl, while all 11 players bat.

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... classic; word-rich, information-sparse yet densely serious kartikeyan

The converse is that most batsmen don't bat the number of overs as the captain would like him to.

It that him? That Karti guy who who used to make stupid predictions, get them wrong then still claim he was right?

"I predicted that Vaughan would get out for less than 20. He made 177, so I was basically right."

Neil D wrote:It that him?  That Karti guy who who used to make stupid predictions, get them wrong then still claim he was right?

"I predicted that Vaughan would get out for less than 20.  He made 177, so I was basically right."

The same.