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Congratulations to Durham CCC
It seems like only a few years since Durham became first-class and now they are top of the pile and deservedly so. But for the abysmal weather this year, I reckon they would have wrapped the title up in August as they are clearly the best team around.

But it doesn't change the line in the County Championship infobox about the most successful team of all time. Does it? Lancashire, Surrey and the rest? :-) BlackJack | talk page 20:57, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Women's cricket and notability.
The ICC now have a guide as to what counts as official cricket on their website here. It has a section on "Women's Competitive cricket" which is defined in similar terms to first-class/List A cricket, though it doesn't go completely into specifics. CricketArchive has recently begun to have wf and wa match classifications in addition to their current f/a classifications, (eg. here and here) so my question is, do you think we can claim notability for women in those matches? Could we get away with saying that someone like Catherine Smaill was notable? She has played for Scotland, but not in women's ODIs, though she has played in three matches classed as CricketArchive's women's equivalent of List A.

My first thought is yes we can, but would appreciate the thoughts of others. Andrew nixon (talk) 19:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I have no problem with your second example, which is a 50-over match, but am less sure about the first one, where the tournament seems to have been held over a fortnight or so and the matches are just two days each in duration. I'd like to see the opinion of User:BlackJack, who is our local expert on the characteristics that define when men's matches can be considered to have emerged from the primeval slime and become classified as "major", to see if there is a similar set of rules that can be applied to women's matches. Duration of matches might be one of the defining rules, perhaps. Johnlp (talk) 20:57, 26 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Andrew and I discussed this on his talk page a few days ago. I agree that wf and wa would meet WP:CRIN but I think we should add some words to clarify.  BlackJack | talk page 12:09, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

It's a miracle!
I create 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Five, it gets nominated for speedy deletion and, big surprise, someone not from WP:Cricket, and an American no less, actually removed the speedy deletion tag. A sign of changing times, or a one off? Andrew nixon (talk) 21:41, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

GA nomination
For the first time in the three years that I've been on the site, I've decided to explore the GA/FA process. I've tentatively nominated History of cricket to 1725 at GA. As the page directions themselves suggest, it is more a case of getting some positive feedback about how to make the article more readable and more informative than a desire to capture a star rating.

I realise that this is quite a specialist area of cricket history but some of you do have knowledge of it (it includes the origins of cricket in America and India). So, if you would like to make any comments on the article's talk page, they will be welcome; and if one of you should wish to lead the GA review itself, then great.

I think it's only right that someone seeking a GA should be prepared to perform a review too so I've taken over Maria Sharapova. I don't know that much about tennis but she is definitely the best looking lass in the GA list at present! BlackJack | talk page 09:56, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * That didn't last long. Maria Sharapova is the subject of a rather tedious edit war so I've failed it.  I'm doing History of the Netherlands instead.  BlackJack | talk page 12:07, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Bet that wasn't the best-looking thing on the list. ;-) Johnlp (talk) 13:10, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Certainly wasn't. Awful prose such as "Julius Caesar and his empire conquered Gaul"!  I'm doing Northallerton now because I know that is a nice place.  :-) 07:10, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

It looks ok, although the tone seems a bit lively at times. Also with the page ranges in the refs, make sure to put a ndash instead of using a hyphen. Some of the standalone sentences should be merged.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 07:32, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, YM. Much appreciated.  I see you've already attended to the ndashes and I'll note that for the future.  I'll deal with standalone sentences and look again at the tone.  Apart from those points, do you think it complies overall with the MoS criteria?  By the way, I've checked and double-checked the sources and I'm certain they are all accurate, including one "issue" where Altham and Birley (among others) disagree with Bowen. BlackJack | talk page 07:40, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Please review these prods
A whole bunch of cricket clubs have been prodded at Category:Proposed deletion as of 1 October 2008. I am not qualified to assess their notability but think they should be reviewed by an interested editor. TerriersFan (talk) 19:32, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * This follows on from the topic two above. BlackJack | talk page 07:43, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note - they have been prodded and so are not listed at AfD, and therefore not transcludable onto out deletion watch page.–MDCollins (talk) 10:40, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

A momentous day
Today is the first day I've ever been faster in wanting to write an article than Cricket Archive has been in updating its database - I desperately want to write an article on some S. Nowak, who makes his first-class debut today for Northerns in the South African Airwaves Three-Day Challenge, but no confirmation yet exists on the player's first name, nor does a page exist for him on Cricket Archive.

If anyone spots his full name before I do, please feel free to get there before me. Bobo. 10:33, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Sean Nowak? SGGH speak! 13:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * That's be the guy, thank you very much, SGGH. His full name wasn't available on Cricinfo when I looked. Bobo. 13:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

No worries SGGH speak! 13:35, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * And I've polished off brief stubs on Nowak and fellow debutant Juandre van Wyk. Bobo. 13:49, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think you've actually confused J van Wyk with DJ van Wyk on the scorecard - looks like Juandre scored 2 whilst the namesake opener scored the half-century, I think? AllynJ (talk | contribs) 14:52, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Aha, thank you very much for spotting, Allyn. I do apologize for the confusion, you were right. Bobo. 15:24, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

FAR listing
History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883 has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. BlackJack | talk page 16:26, 2 October 2008 (UTC)


 * And I see someone has nominated The Adventures of Tintin. :-)  BlackJack | talk page 16:31, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Mitchell Johnson
I'm intrigued how the guy's managed 9 Tests while playing just 25 other FC matches ever. --Dweller (talk) 14:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Bermudian cricket team in the Netherlands in 2008
Found this uncategorized article, thought that maybe someone here could find an appropriate category. If in fact this topic deserves an article of its own... /skagedal... 12:58, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I think the article needs renaming, the first sentence mentions the teams playing in Scotland and yet the article title says "in the Netherlands". Nev1 (talk) 13:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The first paragraph reveals that it was copied from another article. The rest of the article matches the title, so the first paragraph needs changing. Andrew nixon (talk) 13:17, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * All fixed now! Andrew nixon (talk) 15:45, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Aus v India
An interesting series....Perhaps India have not chosen their best team. I think, if the batsmen play properly, which they don't really do anymore nowadays, all the Tests should be drawn...and Perhaps Australia should pick 8 batsmen.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 03:13, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Surely the Australian selectors will pick White. If you are going to select a spinner who doesn't get any turn, better to pick the one who can bat. Australia's spin attack will be lead by Clark and Katich, both of whom at least turn the ball! I predict a miserable series and a lot of leather chasing for Australia. -- Mattinbgn\talk 20:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think they'll pick Krejza because Indians like to pummel wristspinners who toss the ball up. Neither of them spin the ball but White tosses the ball up and can get freaked out by aggressive batsmen. I reckon the IPL commentators get paid to talk everything up. In the opening IPL match between Calcutta and Bangalore, everyone was saying that McCullums 150 odd was "unprecedented hitting" etc but most of his sixes and fours came from full tosses and long hops because the bowlers lost their marbles. White bowled one over for 24 runs. There were about 3 sixes in that over, all from full tosses and balls that bounced 8-10 metres from McCullum.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 03:10, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, guess Ponting was bluffing about Krejza. Anyway, it's good to have a wristspinner and some attacking cricket.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 03:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I am sure since you are interested very much in the Indians and living in Australia. What chances do you think the Australians have? Given their bowling attack is pretty slim especially spin, id be relying on the bat to make sure Australia dont lose. Ta 211.30.12.197 (talk) 07:35, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd have to say it's probably up to either side's batsmen to lose the series, probably India's moreso. I guess if the pitches are good for batting, I don't see why the series should not be drawn 0-0, and if it isn't I think the batsmen from one of the sides won't have batted well enough. Both batting lineups are quite strong, especailly compared to the bowlers. If the batsmen were replaced with the 1930s Australian and England batsmen, I could see Ponsford, Bradman, Hutton and Hammond making triple centuries more than once. In the last series, the SCG match should have been drawn I think, and now with Gambhir and Sehwag there instead of Jaffer I think the Indians won't be forced immediately onto the back foot like the MCG and SCG Tests when they bat. To be honest, the Indians are not a first-class level team in terms of fitness - I saw them train at Adelaide Oval when I took all their photos and most of them didn't do the stretches when John Gloster told them to. Sehwag and SRT just leaned against the fence and Sreesanth and Harbhajan were talking to the spectators. LOL. I didn't see any jogging type exercises. In the March 2005, Jan 2006 and Dec 2007 series against Pak, there were a pile of flat pitches and India's attack went all toothless in 4-5th days and in some cases Pakistan only lost 3-4 wickets per day on a wearing pitch in the second innings. Looking back on the last 3 years, almost all of India's wins have come when the game was over in < 5 days, or when it only lasted 4 days and 1 hour. Especially now that the warhorse Kumble appears to be rusting quite badly and he was the usual in defatigable lionheart in such matches, I think India might struggle in the flat-pitch attrition battles. Harbhajan has gone rather flat since the start of 2006 and looked pretty hopeless for two years, but after the controversies of this year, was MotS against RSA and after he slapped Sreesanth he came back and took 9 wickets in the 2nd Test against SL in Kandy. In 2001 he took 32 wickets after he got expelled from the Academy and his father died and in late 2005 he won a couple of MotM after he got gagged for bagging Chappell. So he tends to do well after getting into some angry incidents so I guess it depends whether he is still fired up or might get invovled in another stoush. I can't see the Indian pacers being much of a threat on flat pitches, especially when Zaheer drops down to 120kph after his first few spells. Most of the Australian batsmen + Sehwag and Gambhir get out mostly trying to be aggressive so I think if either side are worried about losing they should just bat. If India decide to go to minefield result pitches, it could end up with the likes of Clarke taking bags of wickets and it would diminish India's spin advantage. If they went for a green pitch I think India would mentally psych themselves into losing by an innings or something (Ahmedabad 2008, Nagpur 2004), because they aren't meentally prepared for green ptiches in India. I think they would actually do well if they didn't think pnegatively when they see a green pitch at home and think they've lost their home advantage. Most of India's recent overseas wins have come on bowling pitches (Perth 2008, Headingley 2007, Joburg 2006, Sabina Park 2006), which I think is because they seamers can move the ball, India have Tendulkar and Dravid-two technically correct batsman, which is quite a lot in this age, and if the match lasts three days, the terrible fitness and 4-5th day burnout doesn't show up so much and the bowlers only have to bowl 70-80 overs at a time. People always talk about Australia's "amazing" and "uncanny" ability to make a comeback late in the day but I think it's just fitness and not miracles. A lot of the Indian batsmen fell late in the day to normal deliveries.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 08:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * If I was an Australian selector I would be tempted to pick Jaques, Katich, Watson and White and only have two specialist quicks. I think Clarke is the best spinner as is anyway. Indians tend to bash wristspinners, I can't see White and Katich conceding less than five runs an over, but even those two would be better than Krejza who got bashed about by Yuvraj who struggles against even Symonds and Hogg. Also play both Katich and Jaques because lefthanders score big against India. They tend to not bowl well when they go around the wicket.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 08:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think both captains would win the toss, bat first and try to make 650+ and demoralise the other lot. I think India would be more susceptible to getting demoralised if they lost the toss or had 600+ piled up against them. It didn't affect India when Pak piled on 600+ first, but the Aussie fielders will cut off at least 20% of the runs due to old Indian uncles "Fab Four" who run about 30% slower.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 08:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

C-class rating criteria
I see our old friend Sydney Riot of 1879 has been given a C-class rating for both WP:CRIC and WP:AUS by someone who, presumably, belongs to the latter project. We have had this article in our A-class review section for many months and it has been left that if someone can be bothered to complete the inline citations, then it will be worth an A-class rating. But, as this has not been done, it should be reviewed against the B-class criteria.

However, the C-class rating raises an issue because we have not adopted it in WP:CRIC while WP:AUS is one of the minority of projects that have.

The question is, should we expand our assessment criteria to incorporate C-class, which is the equivalent of better quality Start-class? The advantage of C-class is that it would potentially reduce the Start-class group by hundreds of articles and I see that the WP v0.7 data posted above indicates we have nearly 8,000 articles in all. The disadvantage is that it is an extra layer of admin. For a description of the C-class criteria, see Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment.

Personally, I think C-class would be a useful staging post between Start-class and B-class. I'd be prepared to do the necessary to incorporate it into our assessment page. But it depends on what you all think? BlackJack | talk page 14:36, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Personally, I say go for it. Considering the huge volume of articles we cover, it probably would help in the long run to add another layer. I've set up the infrastructure for it. Regards, AllynJ (talk | contribs) 14:11, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd say it would just cause a rather pointless domino effect I think. I think we need BJ and everyone else devoting themselves to writing articles. There's so much cricket literature around in everyday places such as CI/CA databases and lots of books in everyday libraries that almost anything can be worked up into a decent B level article. One of the main proponents of the C-class criteria has just ended up using it to inflate more articles - he is tagging all 2-3 paragraph articles in his WP as C, and I don't see any of his activities as doing anything except causing inflation. He'll be creating a Zimbabwean-class assessment at this rate.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 01:40, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Good points. I've had a thought that C-class would be an "it'll do" second-class level when really we should be striving to get everything to B-class which is like Base Camp on Mt Everest.  In that sense, C-class would not encourage editors to strive for a quality article; rather it would encourage quantity before quality.  The B-class criteria are quite demanding and any article that gets there does have quality.  Indeed, for short articles, B-class is realistically their pinnacle.  BlackJack | talk page 09:00, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Given that Allyn has done some work on this I'm loath to dismiss it but I think it needs to be a clearly defined standard. I've thought about this and I have a proposal based on the B-class criteria which are:


 * 1. It reasonably covers the topic using WP:NPOV and contains no major omissions or inaccuracies
 * 2. It uses good English and is free from major grammatical, syntax and spelling errors
 * 3. It has a defined structure with a lead section and one or more sections of content
 * 4. It provides adequate navigation through links, categories and appropriate templates
 * 5. It is suitably referenced and all major points have appropriate inline citations
 * 6. It contains appropriate supporting materials such as an infobox, images or diagrams

Anything that fails #1 is a stub: has to be. So, anything that passes #1 is a start and whether it is a strong start or a weak start depends on how many of the other five it passes. It has to pass all six for B-class. C-class must represent a sound start and I propose that anything passing all of criteria 1 to 4 inclusive should be a C. Even it passes 1-3 and 5, it is not a C; if it passes all of 1-5 it is still a C.  My reasoning is that the vast majority of articles failing B-class review do so because they don't meet one of #5 or #6: and there really are loads of them. Owzat? BlackJack | talk page 07:54, 2 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I've changed the WP Cricket template to include C-class functionality (i.e., to create the appropriate categories). Sydney Riot of 1879 fails criterion 5 and so is confirmed our first C-class article.  If no one objects, I'll update our assessment page accordingly.  BlackJack | talk page 05:36, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * BUMP! If there's nothing else to be added to this topic, I'll go ahead with changes to the assessment page per above.  BlackJack | talk page 12:32, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I have no issues. But I'm curious to know what a class C cricket article looks like. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  18:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * There are some already in Category:C-Class cricket articles but a few have not been assessed according to the B-class criteria so those ratings will need to be reviewed. BlackJack | talk page 05:48, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Can anyone help with Norman "Nobby" Bennett?
I have conflicting information about Bennett, who made one first-class appearance for Worcestershire in 1946. His CricketArchive info doesn't have a date of death, while Cricinfo says he died in 2007. Cricinfo also mentions that he played rugby, and that led me to a passing mention in this Telegraph obituary of Tom Kemp. Yes, a redlink, as is Thomas Kemp. In fact, Category:English rugby union footballers contains no Kemps at all!

Anyway, I also turned up this brief mention on a rugby blog, which seems to be about the same person. The information in message 8 there says that Bennett "won seven caps in 1947 - 48", and also mentions Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital, both of which are mentioned in the Cricinfo bio. So, it would seem to be the same man... except that the blog - dated 2005 - mentions that a memorial service is about to be held, which would mean that Cricinfo's 2007 date would be wrong; and also says that Bennett played for Hampshire, which "my" Bennett never did. Any suggestions? Loganberry (Talk) 20:00, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Other things being equal, I would always be more inclined to believe CA. It's not conclusive, but the Wisdens for 2006, 2007 and 2008 don't have an obituary for anyone called Bennett. JH (talk page) 20:17, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Having now looked at that blog entry, I'm prepared to believe that it could be the same man, as the age at death looks correct. The rugby world may have picked up on a death that the cricket world overlooked. As for the blog saying that he played cricket for Hampshire, that could have been a slip by someone whose main interest was rugby. I'd try emailing the guy who posted the blog message, in the hope that he hasn't changed his email address and that he can shed some light on the matter. If you were really feeling energetic, you could also contact CA, CI and Wisden about it. JH (talk page) 20:57, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, I've started off by emailing the blog guy, and will see where it goes from there. Thanks. Loganberry (Talk) 22:54, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

A request
Ahmm..Can you guys do some cleanup work and expansion on the article Saurav Ganguly? Currently it is rated START class. He going to retire.. So..Many people might read this article.. Soo. Its shameful to see this article in such a state. So.. I hope you'll do something.--Abhishek Jacob (talk) 16:49, 10 October 2008 (UTC)


 * You are of course more than welcome to be WP:BOLD and make the changes yourself. The problem with the article is that it isn't objective so you don't have to do any research.  It is simply a case of rewording the existing content so that it doesn't read like a fanzine.  See the WP:MOS page for guidance.  BlackJack | talk page 20:36, 11 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Having had a quick glance at the article I would have thought it would qualify as C Class, or whatever it is that comes after Start Class IMHO. Jevansen (formerly Crickettragic) (talk) 14:31, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Warwickshire County Cricket Club
A new user has added this fans forum site as an online link. I think I've seen a rule about this sort of site somewhere but can't remember where. Does anyone know if they are allowed or do they constitute advertising or whatever? BlackJack | talk page 20:28, 11 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The external-links policy says:
 * Links to social networking sites (such as MySpace), chat or discussion forums/groups (such as Yahoo! Groups), USENET newsgroups or e-mail lists.
 * I have removed the link. Sam Korn (smoddy)
 * Thanks, Sam. Actually the guy had duplicated the link so I removed the other one as well.  BlackJack | talk page 10:36, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

International cricket in 2009 - proposal for speedy deletion
I just created this page, for the semi-annual season starting in April 2009. It was immediately tagged for speedy deletion. If you have an opinion whether it should be deleted or not, please express it on the article's talk page, in the section headlined "speedy deletion". Thanks.--Nitsansh (talk) 08:04, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The article certainly deserves to be there, but when you create an article with no references whatsoever, it's always going to be tagged for speedy deletion. Add some references. Andrew nixon (talk) 09:41, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've dealt with it. Sam Korn (smoddy) 10:14, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It is somewhat suprising such a tag was added. SGGH speak! 12:21, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Category:Doping cases in cricket
This category seems to me to define it as allowing recreational drugs. I think that it should be redefined if necessary to exllude Fleming and Nash etc, because they smoked pot, and it's a bit harsh to include that with steroids, EPO, HGH etc....  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 03:13, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I disagree. Apart from anything else, possession of cannabis is (generally) actually unlawful, so in that sense it's more serious than using drugs which are legal but banned by the sporting authorities. Loganberry (Talk) 19:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I understand but the "doping" seems to hint at cheating while I can't see marijuana as cheating.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to chose Australia's next top model! ) 06:22, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Well it is also banned by most sporting authorities, so technically it is cheating. Andrew nixon (talk) 07:56, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

English county cricketer redlinks
I thought I had already done this, but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to let you guys know - I've made lists of first-class cricketers from - as of this moment - six different English County cricket teams, Derbyshire, Durham, Essex, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire and Kent (wikilinks are piped to my user subpages), which may or may not assist people in creating articles for county cricketers. Most notable are the redlinks for Gloucestershire - if only because clearly I blinked and missed the moment when Cricket Archive finally put up a Gloucestershire subsection on their site.

If anyone wants to start working on relatively prosey articles for these, I would be most appreciative - particularly, for example, as we are only 11 cricketers away from having an article about every Durham first-class player.

Thank you everyone. Bobo. 04:19, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I have Charlie Bray of Essex on my to-do list, mainly because after his playing days he had quite a distinguished career in cricket journalism. Under Gloucestershire, I think that "Roy Sweetman" may be a typo for Roy Swetman, who has an article. Also "David Shepherd (1940)" looks as though it must be the David Shepherd. JH (talk page) 09:14, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for pointing these out, JH, I thought I had caught all the necessary disambiguations, but seemingly not. If you, or anyone else, happens upon any other rusty undisambiguated names, please feel free to edit these up as necessary. Bobo. 11:35, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


 * There are a couple on the Kent page as well which I'll fix, and I'm going to have a stab at creating some articles from that list tonight. Suppose I ought to start with the two captains without articles really! -AMBerry (t|c) 17:53, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I have made a further subpage, containing a bunch of Surrey redlinks, which I decided to work on after you contacted me on my User talk page, JH. I realize these subpage titles are becoming somewhat of a misnomer, as the majority also contain all the club's bluelinked players, but this is how they started out and I feel I must be consistent. Again, if anyone can offer anything, please do. Bobo. 04:01, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

The Don's article
I left a comment about possible minor mistakes on the Don's article talk page a few weeks ago... Nobody seems to be interested in it, so I post this message to ask for a review... I know that I sould be BOLD, but I don't want to downgrade the quality of this article with my far-from-perfect English... Thanks a lot. OrangeKnight (talk) 19:58, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Cricket articles need cites
I've looked at a few articles on the laws of cricket, and they are strikingly deficient in cites. - "Verifiability is one of Wikipedia's core content policies." "Wikipedia articles should use reliable, third-party, published sources." (Reliable sources) -- Please provide good cites for all assertions in all articles on Cricket. "Any material lacking a reliable source may be removed" (Verifiability). (I will definitely not be adding these cites myself, nevertheless they do need to be added.) -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 03:14, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Feel free to remove any uncited material. The laws themselves are clearly linked at the bottom of the article. -- Mattinbgn\talk 03:17, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Oldest List A player?
By which I mean oldest when he played a match, not oldest now. List of List A cricket records does not contain age-related sections, and it's perhaps not the most vital of information, but I'm curious: I wonder if anyone knows? I don't, but in the course of editing an article today I came across Johnny Lawrence of Somerset, who retired from first-class cricket in 1955, but who then played on for some years for Lincolnshire - in which cause he appeared in a 1966 Gillette Cup match (scorecard) aged 55. That certainly beats Ray Illingworth, who was 51 when he finished after the 1983 season. Might there have been anyone else? Loganberry (Talk) 16:52, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * From memory, Nolan Clarke and John Emburey played List A cricket in their late 40s, but I can't think of any in their 50s. I suspect most of those that did play in their 50s would be minor counties players though. Andrew nixon (talk) 06:17, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


 * In this month's TWC there was a piece on Cyril Perkins, who at 97 is County cricket's oldest living player. His only List A match came a couple of months shy of his 55th birthday. Interestingly Perkins also holds the record for most first-class matches without a victory. Bill Edrich is another over-50s List A player, he was 54 when he appeared for Norfolk against his former county Middlesex in 1970. --Jpeeling (talk) 09:20, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Perkins is the closest approach so far, then: he was (roughly) 54y 11m when he played for Suffolk. Lawrence was two and a bit months older. Loganberry (Talk) 14:30, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Raja Maharaj Singh was 75 when he made his FC debut in Bombay in 1950. See also List of oldest Test cricketers. Moondyne 14:51, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Raja Maharaj Singh was *72* when he played his only FC match. We have fixed that in our article :-) Tintin 16:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Tory! Tory! Tory!
Looking at the English clubs list per the above topic, I was surprised that we have no articles at all for clubs in the Bradford League and so I scanned this article. It contains a list of famous players who have represented each of the clubs and I was astonished to read that the noTORYous Cecil Parkinson (of England, too) has played for Undercliffe!!!

It was of course Cec Parkin who played for Undercliffe. :-) BlackJack | talk page 05:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * And Cecil Parkinson, of course, tended to play only away from home... Johnlp (talk) 07:27, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Admin needed
Category:Central Lancashire League cricket clubs is a bit of a mess after someone decided that all the clubs should be titled "C.C." per soccer convention instead of "Cricket Club" per WP:CRIC convention. He redirected 14 articles accordingly and of course the titles cannot now be moved back. The articles are: Ashton C.C., Clifton C.C., Crompton C.C., Heywood C.C., Middleton C.C., Milnrow C.C., Monton & Weaste C.C., Norden C.C., Oldham C.C., Radcliffe C.C., Royton C.C., Unsworth C.C., Walsden C.C. and Werneth C.C.. They need to be renamed as Ashton Cricket Club, etc.

I realise this should properly go to AfD or whatever but I can see a can of worms opening if we do that.

Could one of you with admin functionality please assist? Thanks. BlackJack | talk page 06:48, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅ The move back seems straightforward to me and I don't think there would be any objection to it. Full and proper names are the default for article titles. For the record, Requested moves was the "whatever" you were looking for, or you could have used db-move. Just as easy to ask an admin if you know where to find one! -- Mattinbgn\talk 08:51, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. I'll make a note of db-move as I'll probably need it again sometime.  BlackJack | talk page 13:22, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Deletion requests
I've nominated a couple of things for deletion. Please see Articles for deletion/Prestwich Cricket Club‎ and Categories for discussion/Log/2008 October 14‎ (re Category:Lancashire County League cricket clubs) for the discussions. BlackJack | talk page 08:09, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Also nominated for deletion. Templates_for_deletion -- bigissue (talk) 00:54, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

"Current" Squad sections
Am I the only person who is puzzled why a current squad section lists all players to have played in the last year? The England team page has Darren Pattinson and Matthew Hoggard as being in the current squad, and they simply aren't! If it's going to include all players from the last 12 months, the section should be titled "Players to have played in the last 12 months". If it's going to be titled "Current squad", it should include just that, the current squad and nobody else. Andrew nixon (talk) 10:01, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Is it possibly just because it is slow in updating? But yes, I agree with you. SGGH speak! 10:57, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * A belated response to this before it slips off the main page. Over the past 6 months I have been working on international team squad lists, standardising and improving them. I set a standardised criteria for inclusion, so that nothing was subject to POV. The spree of edits which I'm guessing andrew spotted, and which I reverted, removed a few old players, but a few who'd played the team's last game! Anyway the criteria I used was that a player had appeared in the last year. My reasoning for this was that that covered a full cycle of northern and southern hemisphere seasons, allowed for injuries and the vagaries of the fixture list. Pakistan, for example haven't played a Test in 2008, yet a year long criteria allows for the inclusion. I don't want to suggest I own the squad lists mind, so if the project doesn't feel it's suitable... I agree, though, that "current squad" is a deceptive heading, and perhaps "players" might be a more accurate one for this set of criteria. HornetMike (talk) 22:14, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Just moving this down the page so it catches peoples attention. Probably needs to be resolved, with criteria set by the project. HornetMike (talk) 09:48, 9 October 2008 (UTC)


 * As I've said above, the criteria for a current squad section is quite simple - it should be the current (or most recent) squad. If we're going to have any other criteria, the sections should be called something else. Andrew nixon (talk) 09:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Current Squad should be the most recently announced squad. Create an additional sub section Recent callups for those players who have been called up in the last 12 months but excluded from the most recently announced squad. Should also list cap numbers. --bigissue (talk) 10:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I suggest to list as current quad the contracted players, and only them, and to write why they have been chosen and by whom. OrangeKnight (talk) 11:28, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * In that case, you'd have Michael Vaughan in as being in the current England squad. He's a contracted player, but hasn't been named in any of the winter squads. So why should he be in a listing of the current squad? Andrew nixon (talk) 11:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Late reply again, sorry. I think one of my problems with listing the current squad is due to the nature of international cricket these days. Sri Lanka's most recent squad only encompassed a Twenty20 tournament, and they rested Sangakarra. Someone going to a squad section on Sri Lanka's page would expect to see him there. Similarly when Dhoni was rested by India earlier this year. With a team like England, whose tours involve all three forms of the game, it's fine to write down a current squad as both the one-day and longer form squads are likely be named at the same time. But frequently other sides are only going on tours that involve one form. Pakistan haven't played a Test since December last year. Do you put them down on the Pakistan page as they were in the most recent Test squad? That would surely invoke much the same criticism as the one year format? The compromise would be to have two tables, one with the most recent squad (and decide if that involved literally the most recent squad, or the most recent one for all forms etc.) and one for call-ups in the last... however long. But that just seems like overcomplicating things really - when looking for a player who wants to scan two tables instead of one? So yes, bit of a ramble, but I'd still back the "edit the headings" option. HornetMike (talk) 01:03, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Another team down
Ten down, eight to go (though is there technically any need to cover Yorkshire? Does Yorkshire even have any redlinks left?)

I finished User:Bobo192/Leicestershire redlinks about ten minutes ago - if anyone feels like working on some redlinks. There seems to be a huge imbalance with Leicestershire when it comes to cricketers post-WW2 which are still redlinks and cricketers pre-WW2 - probably more so than with other teams.

If anyone fancies something to work on, there they are. I will create some later on today, time permitting. Bobo. 03:59, 16 October 2008 (UTC)


 * List of Somerset CCC players does that county for you and is complete (well, up to 2007)! Think there's a Lancashire one as well, though it's not complete. Johnlp (talk) 20:45, 16 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the heads-up, Johnlp, I knew there was at least one team with all the links already covered. Yorkshire is entirely bluelinked - though the table on the list of Yorkshire CCC players is not entirely complete, this task I could easily do at some point. Bobo. 21:10, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

And another
Just finished Middlesex redlinks. Bobo. 20:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Non-notable cricket clubs & competitions
It seems that people will insist on creating pages for their own little corner of planet earth (sigh) resulting in pages being created for any and every small cricket club and competition, when a single line on the village/town page would more than suffice. In a large number of cases these pages should be deleted as they fail to meet WP:NOTE.

The project page has guidelines for the creation/deletion of player bios, perhaps there should also be the same for clubs/competitions. -- bigissue (talk) 12:53, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * This was actually discussed pretty recently, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket/Archive 50. Spotted one today, too, and prodded it (Charlesworth Cricket Club). Agreed we should definitely extend WP:CRIN to include club notability, and on that note expand to clarify which of the other non major cricket level leagues other than Bradford, Lancs & Central Lancs are notable, else it just creates a potential loophole... But I've no idea which, really :) AllynJ (talk | contribs) 13:11, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that the List of English cricket clubs could be "dangerous" as it is full of red links, and it could encourage people to transform these red links in blue links, so to create an enormous amount of non-notable articles. OrangeKnight (talk) 14:38, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The list is a good spot which I'd not seen before. Perhaps the sensible thing would be to prune it down to the ECB premier leagues and their top division clubs (plus the major Lancashire and Yorkshire leagues outside the ECB system), because the gist of what seemed to be accepted before was that, with a few historic exceptions, other individual clubs were likely to be non-notable. I'm badly under the cosh IRL for the next 48 hours: if it hasn't been done by then, I'll take it on at the weekend. Johnlp (talk) 22:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that is the way forward. BlackJack | talk page 07:42, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Update
User:Wjemather and I have gone through this list and just about halved it in length: it now makes a lot of redlinks, but at least these are the teams that can probably justify having a short article on them. Any help with reducing the redness would be welcome, but we're also slightly uncomfortable that we've perhaps done a small injustice to Yorkshire League cricket, most of which stands outside the ECB system but has historic notability at least, and quite possibly contemporary notability too. Thoughts, please. Johnlp (talk) 07:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me and I think the two of you deserve a pat on the back. Do we need to review the others group at the end or are you happy the clubs there meetWP:N?  BlackJack | talk page 15:27, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Definitely needs reviewing. Some may be notable, others are most certainly not – I have already prodded a couple. Even those that may be noteworthy require a good clean up to remove all the self promotion. -- bigissue (talk) 15:44, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

BUMP! This was just about ready for archive so I've rescued it. I've added a section on clubs to WP:CRIN which I think reflects what we are saying above. Could those interested please read it and provide feedback or amend as necessary? We seem to be agreed about GB clubs but, as I've said on WP:CRIN, we need to take an individual view about each country's own grassroots structure. Which means that editors from other countries need to repeat the work done by User:Wjemather and User:Johnlp. BlackJack | talk page 05:25, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Australian clubs
With Australian clubs, there is a clear and historic hierarchy. My personal view is that clubs any lower than what is known as "grade" or "district" cricket are extremely unlikely to be notable. This would mean that only clubs who have competed in : are suitable for inclusion. This seems reasonable to me as most of these clubs do not have an article as yet. Indeed none of the WA clubs are even at stub stage!. It boggles me that famous clubs like Melville, Subiaco-Floreat and Midland-Guildford do not have have articles. Given this it is unlikely that lower grade clubs will be notable, with perhaps some historic exceptions. But then again, I have been accused of deletionism in the past. Others' views? -- Mattinbgn\talk 09:08, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Sydney Grade Cricket
 * Victorian Premier Cricket
 * South Australian Grade Cricket League
 * Queensland Cricket Association
 * Western Australian Grade Cricket
 * Tasmanian Grade Cricket
 * I agree, unfortunately things like Articles_for_deletion/Hoppers_crossing_cricket_club survived because of one fellow who erroneously claimed that the deletion was US-centric. A second-tier suburban club. No you are anything but a deletionist  YellowMonkey  ( click here to chose Australia's next top model! ) 01:06, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Can we claim an Australian consensus here? A third Australian voice would reassure me; if I get one I will update WP:CRIN. -- Mattinbgn\talk 21:01, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree. Grade cricket clubs should (generally) be the minimum inclusion criteria.   Subiaco Marist Cricket Club may be one exception.  Moondyne 02:23, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Now updated, see WP:CRIN. Subiaco Marist Cricket Club plays in the women's equivalent to grade cricket, I think? -- Mattinbgn\talk 10:35, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * They do see here for confirmation. -- Mattinbgn\talk 10:38, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

FARC commentary
Featured article review/History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883 has today been progressed from its review commentary to its FARC commentary stage. Please follow the link to add your views. BlackJack | talk page 16:43, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

John Nicholson
The article for South African cricketer Frank Nicholson was originally created in early 2006, and mistakenly named as John Nicholson (cricketer). Since this clearly refers to the wrong individual, when I write an article about former Northamptonshire cricketer John Nicholson, how would people feel if I just overwrote the redirect? If anyone feels otherwise, please feel free to alter the link on the page below. Bobo. 20:03, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Go ahead. Redirects are a pain in the proverbial, especially when you need to undo the redirect.  BlackJack | talk page 20:29, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you BlackJack. Just notifying people before I did anything potentially contentious. Bobo. 20:37, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Addendum: Come to think of it, it would probably be an easier job to write about this player. Ten times less work, at least! Bobo. 20:39, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * If you do, bear in mind that CA seems to have a typo in his place of death. :) JH (talk page) 20:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Noted - I didn't notice that the first time I read the page - thank you Jhall. Bobo. 03:49, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Frinfo, the original confusion was between Frank Nicholson and John Nicolson (cricketer), and resulted in a single composite called John Nicholson (cricketer) with more of the name of the latter but more of the career of the former. I should have deleted the composite when I separated the two out back in Feb 06. Johnlp (talk) 22:19, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for clarifying, John. Bobo. 03:49, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

With that thought in mind...
I've just finished Northamptonshire redlinks. If there are any errors I have overlooked, please fix them as necessary. Bobo. 20:03, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire redlinks. Bobo. 03:47, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

High scoring test navigation box
Looking at Muralitharan's page I notice that there are navigation boxes for >=400 and >=700 test wickets. Looking at Tendulkar's page there is no equivalent for batters. Anyone able to produce one for, say, 10K test runs?--Peter cohen (talk) 08:09, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually they do exist.. On Tendulkar's page, go to the bottom and on the Achievements of Sachin Tendulkar box hit show: they're all in there. AllynJ (talk | contribs) 08:36, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah I see. I suppose what I have demonstrated is that the navigation isn't obvious.--Peter cohen (talk) 07:54, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Cricket
I've been doing some housekeeping on the portal which was out of date re the FA and FL items it was displaying. I've removed five demoted items, most of which were a bit embarrassing to be on show as examples of our "best work". The display selection routines have only 10 out of 25 FA summaries available and there is only one FL on display out of 30. If anyone would like to help with increasing these, it would improve the portal by providing greater variety. BlackJack | talk page 07:51, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Sussex
Sussex redlinks Bobo. 17:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Cricket on the main page
Tendulkar is in the news.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to chose Australia's next top model! ) 02:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * With the pictured slot too.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to chose Australia's next top model! ) 02:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Worcestershire
Worcestershire redlinks - 17 down, one to go! Same disclaimer as always, if anyone finds any stupid errors, please fix. Bobo. 03:03, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. There are definitely fewer redlinks than that. I have about 30 remaining at User:Loganberry/Worcs, where I maintain what I think is an accurate list. An initial glance at your redlinks shows that quite a few are simple spelling differences - for example you have Mohammad Amjad, who exists at Mohammed Amjad. I will have a look through at some point, but at the moment all I've done is to remove "Vikram Rawnsley" (presumably a conflation of Vikram Solanki and Matthew Rawnsley) and a duplicate Alamgir Sheriyar. Loganberry (Talk) 23:19, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Madras cricketers?
I know we have a Category:Chennai cricketers, but it's a subcat of Category:Indian Premier League cricketers and seems to contain only IPL players. However, there isn't a Category:Madras cricketers. Where should I put someone like this John Stephenson who played for Madras before WW2? Loganberry (Talk) 23:31, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * We can create it of course. Is Madras the forerunner of the current Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy?  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model! ) 01:28, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It is, so it goes into Tamil Nadu cricketers I think.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model! ) 01:29, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Great. My Indian history/geography let me down there, but it all makes sense; thanks. Loganberry (Talk) 17:57, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

WP:CRIQ
The quiz is three years old today. Moondyne 09:37, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * And many more of 'em. BlackJack | talk page 06:55, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Female cricketers
A question for y'all. Where are we with notability status of female cricketers? Are all female cricketers who have appeared in a women's Test, One-day, or any other other first-class or List A match notable? Anyone link me up to a decision we may or may not have made somewhere along the line? I figure there can't be many articles on female cricketers lurking around and let's be honest, I can never have too many projects on the go at once! Bobo. 17:16, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * There was this discussion not long ago, Bobo. The thinking seems to be that any of the match types you mention would confer WP:N.  We really should draw up a definition for inclusion in WP:CRIN.  BlackJack | talk page 06:41, 23 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you BlackJack. I knew the conversation had occurred, but I wasn't sure where it was located - I haven't been the most active editor recently and my keeping up with WikiProject policy clarifications has been down as of late. I will think about writing articles on first-class women's cricketers. Bobo. 13:04, 23 October 2008 (UTC)


 * One possible problem is that I'm not sure that "first-class" or "List A" have ever been defined for women's cricket. JH (talk page) 08:11, 23 October 2008 (UTC)


 * CricketArchive do have wf and wa (corresponding to f and a for first-class/List A in men's cricket) classifications for women's cricket, and a document on the ICC website classifies various women's matches as being "official cricket". I don't think there is any real debate about whether women's Tests and ODIs count, the question is on matches CA classes as wf/wa, such as the women's County Championship, non ODIs in the Women's European Championship, etc... Andrew nixon (talk) 08:49, 23 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Further to this, what about those with codes waus1 to waus261? These are all from a women's limited overs Australian domestic competition - from the Australian Women's Cricket Championships 1972/73 to the Women's National Cricket League 2007/08. If the answer is a firm no, this is fair enough. Bobo. 19:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Steve Croft / Steven Croft - duplicate?
Whilst checking for articles on Rev Steve / Steven Croft (soon to become Bishop of Sheffield) I found the above two articles. It looks like they are both about the same cricketer. I'm no Wiki expert, so I don't know how to flag them for merger if this is appropriate, but I guess you guys are best placed to check them. 217.205.240.129 (talk) 21:44, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You're right and thanks for pointing it out. Steven Croft is the more advanced article and I think Steven is Croft's preferred name so I've proposed that we merge the two articles as Steven Croft leaving Steve Croft as a redirect.  If that is approved, then Steve Croft will be available for you to use for the Reverend Croft if you wish.  BlackJack | talk page 06:54, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed and steve rdrs to steven at the moment SGGH speak! 16:33, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Coverage of "To Do" lists
At the top of this page, we have "Notable 20th and 21st century players and topics without an article", and also "Notable players and other topics without articles from the late 18th century and early 19th century cricket are identified at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/redlinks". So what about players from the late 19th century, who apparently aren't included in either of those? Could the latter list perhaps be redefined as "...from prior to the 20th century" to ensure that there isn't a gap? JH (talk page) 09:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The redlinks list is constantly changing and really it is no longer necessary to highlight the 18th century as there is little if anything else still to be introduced. I agree with you that items in this list should cover the whole of the 19th century and I would for practical purposes take that up to 1914, so I've amended the label and the workspace headings accordingly.  Apart from the really obscure early players whose names appear once in a team list only, we now have an article for every player who made his debut before 1815.  As for the obscure ones, they are mentioned in the relevant season reviews.  BlackJack | talk page 13:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

How to disambiguate?
Once again, asking before I do anything stupid. While I haven't listed their players from the 1970s and before as of yet, how would y'all disambiguate D. Das (Assam, 1983-4) and D. Das (Assam, 1970-1)? D. Das (1970s Assam cricketer) and D. Das (1980s Assam cricketer) seem rather long-winded but seem to be the best solution I can come up with.

Feel free to fix yourself on User:Bobo192/Assam if you can come up with any better ideas. Bobo. 02:53, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

User:CricketBot/stubs
This is in the to-do list at the top of the talk page but it seems to need update. Any chance of it being re-run? BlackJack | talk page 13:59, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Featured list removal candidates/List of World XI ODI cricketers
I really think there can be more to this list, so I have FLRC'd it for now, to try and get a really good list going. Comments are welcome SGGH speak! 12:20, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Books written by Ashley Mallett
Has anybody else read some of Mallett's books? If so what do you think of them in terms of accuracy. I thought that Mallett was a bit sloppy and spotted quite a few stats errors and the like. Also I noted that in his biog of Doug Walters, he keeps on referring to Walters' wife as "Carolyn" and then "Caroline".  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 06:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Talk:County Championship
Please see the proposal to rename this article to disambiguate it from one about the little known rugger competition. The proposer had already made the move and then removed it back again over his redirect before coming to us with his proposal. BlackJack | talk page 15:05, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * To be fair the Rugby County Championship is a reasonably well known competition, although it's importance has greatly diminished in the professional era. Have added my two-penneth worth to the talk page.bigissue (talk) 16:01, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Has the rugby union project been notified of the proposal? Nev1 (talk) 16:43, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

As a supporter of both these sports, I have to agree that the correct action has been taken here. RU does have a county championship but cricket has THE County Championship. GeorgeWilliams (talk) 09:33, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Mike Procter
A bit of POV pushing over there. I think it might be the old ghuy again.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 04:57, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I have sprinkled the controversy section with cn and who tags, and have left a BLP reminder on the talk page. I have also given it a couple of refs, external links and the new infobox. Quite a first-class record Procter has there. SGGH speak! 10:12, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Question about tour and season categories
Would it be better to arrange articles in category listings so that they are sorted by date rather than by the default first character? It would mean inserting "|date" in all relevant category allocations so I suppose the constraint is it being worth the effort. It depends on how important the category listings actually are. --GeorgeWilliams (talk) 10:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think you've answered it yourself, George. I'm not sure it would be worth the effort unless we do it for single categories only where there is a problem with the sequence.  BlackJack | talk page 14:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Category:Limpopo cricketers
Have I made a mistake by adding cricketers to this category and then creating it? Do they fall under an alternative name for a franchise, where these articles should be placed instead? If I have made a mistake, we could probably CSD C2 it. If I've inconvenienced things, I do apologize. Bobo. 10:52, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * They're a first-class team so I don't see any problem with the category. Andrew nixon (talk) 11:33, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for clarification, Andrew. I have a subpage for Limpopo cricketers containing all their first-class players, I can now set at completing as many as I feel capable. Bobo. 11:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)