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Featured listList of Australia Test cricket records is a featured list, which means it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Arthur Mailey's best Test bowling figures of 9 wickets for 121 runs has been the Australian cricket record for 96 years?

Flags used in tables of records

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I note that the flag used for South Africa is the current flag adopted in 1994, regardless of when the event took place. It is rather anachronistic to use the new ensign for times when it was unheard of! I strongly suggest that for all entries prior to 1994, the former flag be used. This principle has been applied in olympic records lists (I note, e.g. that the communist regime flag and the post communist flag of Romania were used depending on the date). Should there be any cricket records for India prior to 1947, the older Red Ensign should be used. Ptilinopus (talk) 00:13, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

@Ptilinopus: I have just finished a complete overall of this list based on List of Sri Lanka Test cricket records, a featured list. As part of the overhaul, I have addressed the error that you have raised above and have displayed the flag that was in use at the time the record was set. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 11:26, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Typo?

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Hi Ian, glad you're around! Is this sentence correct? "When the eleventh wicket has fallen, there is no more batsman left so the innings is closed." Should be 'tenth'? - and something like 'there are no batsmen to join/partner the eleventh'? JennyOz (talk) 12:00, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jenny, thanks for this. I have corrected the article. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 00:17, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Ian. As RB would say "maaarrrvellous"! JennyOz (talk) 02:20, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Use of the "=" sign

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I realise I was gravely mistaken in this edit summary: the "=" sign is used in several tables to indicate joint holders, but not others. Personally, I think it's ugly, but in any case we should be consistent. What do other editors think? StAnselm (talk) 20:41, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]