Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of international cricket centuries by Andrew Strauss/archive1


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The list was promoted by Dabomb87 18:49, 18 June 2011.

List of international cricket centuries by Andrew Strauss

 * Nominator(s):  Harrias  talk 16:08, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Another international cricket centuries list: this one for England's current captain Andrew Strauss. A few impressive achievements, not least his three high scores in ODI cricket. Don't understand why people want him to retire from it! Based on those that have come before.  Harrias  talk 16:08, 21 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Support - nice job. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:32, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Comments –
 * "and was also scored at Lord's; his county home ground for Middlesex." The semi-colon should probably be a regular comma.
 * Done.


 * The Notes and references section has no notes, just references.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 22:17, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out, fixed now.  Harrias  talk 16:43, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support – Meets FL standards.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 21:03, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

-- Cheetah  (talk)  08:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * I am not a cricket expert, so I am not sure why the S/R column is missing from the first table. I assume there is a reason why it's missing, but I can't understand based on info from this article.
 * Strike-rate is not a particularly relevant statistic in Test cricket. In ODIs, there are only 50 overs for each team to score their runs, so it is important to score at a reasonably quick pace: however in Test cricket, there are five days (between the two teams) which is the equivalent of roughly 450 overs.
 * ESPNcricinfo shows S/R for Test matches, but I'll take your explanation. Now, I noticed you have "S/R" and ESPN has "SR" as an abbreviation for strike rate...why the difference? Which one is more familiar to cricket fans?-- Cheetah  (talk)  09:30, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Being honest, strike rate is actually quite a rarely used statistic within cricket. It is mentioned most in relation to Twenty20 cricket (the shortest form of the game), but other than that most commentators will say little more than "quicker than a run a ball" or "slower than a run a ball". I have no overall objection to changing it to SR rather than S/R, but I don't think the general fan would be particularly familiar or confused by either: CricketArchive uses SRate for example. Harrias  talk 09:53, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, I don't quite understand what the test column denotes. You added in the key section what "test" denotes, but you didn't mention why there are two numbers in the test column. What does "1/3" mean in the "test" column?
 * I've expanded the section on this in the key: does that help?
 * A little color can be more appealing. Something like "light green" for the "won" cells and "light red" for the "lost" cells.
 * I agree that colour can make tables more appealing, but in this case I think it would be inappropriate to colour those particular cells. The result is really just a footnote to the century itself, and by colouring that column, I think it would attract too much attention to a reasonably unimportant cells in terms of the century.
 * Thanks for your comments, it is always useful to hear from those less knowledgeable about cricket!  Harrias  talk 08:48, 29 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Support Nice list!-- Cheetah  (talk)  18:15, 29 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Support Courcelles 12:07, 17 June 2011 (UTC)


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