Talk:Lord's honours boards
- Did you know... that Australia's Warren Bardsley and Charles Kellaway were listed on the Lord's Honours Boards (pictured) 98 years after they had fulfilled the requirements due to the lack of a neutral board?
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Honours in the Rest of the World match, 1970
[edit ]This page currently states that the honours boards list achievements in test matches at Lords, which is true as far as it goes but is not complete. They also include achievements by players in the match played at Lord's by the Rest of the World cricket team in England in 1970. This was deemed to be a test match at the time, although is no longer considered to be so by authoritative sources such as Wisden, CricInfo StatsGuru and so on.
An interesting consequence of this is that a statement made in this article is not accurate:
"It is a rare occurrence for a player to make it onto both batting and bowling honours boards. Only seven players have done this. The players who have are England's Gubby Allen, Ray Illingworth, Ian Botham, Andrew Flintoff and Stuart Broad along with Australia's Keith Miller and India's Vinoo Mankad."
This is correct as far as test matches are concerned, but omits one rather significant cricketer: Sir Garfield Sobers. He took six wickets in the first innings for The Rest of the World in 1970 and therefore appears on both honours boards, even though he never took a five-for for West Indies in a Lord's test (he scored two test centuries for West Indies at Lord's, as well as the 183 he made in the 1970 match). The Lord's website clearly shows him on the bowling honours board at http://www.lords.org/history/honours-boards/bowling-visitors,84,AR.html. Intikhab Alam also took six wickets in this match (in the second innings), which is his only appearance on the Lord's boards.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how the article could be edited to reflect this? I think a separate section should be added mentioning the 1970 match, rather than changing the article header. BruceBanbury (talk) 13:28, 16 January 2013 (UTC) [reply ]
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[edit ][1] --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 11:04, 27 February 2019 (UTC) [reply ]