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Apologies[edit]

I'm sorry, I was wrong when I reverted your edit on Zak Crawley - his second century had not been dealt with in the prose section of the article. I've now dealt with it and will have a think about the best way to perhaps include tables in the article - it's now getting to the stage where we probably need to be thinking about that a bit more.

If I were to include a table of centuries, which may be appropriate, I would do it differently, however. The forcing of table column widths is unnecessary and there's no need to use a template when we're sorting numbers. I also think the amount of data you're including is inappropriate. I'd go something along the lines of this (I've removed the references for talk page purposes):

List of Test centuries scored by Zak Crawley
No.	Score	Date	Opponents	Venue	Ref
1	267	21 August 2020	Pakistan	Southampton
2	121	8 March 2022	West Indies	North Sound, Antigua

There's an argument about the position of the date column, but the detail from the website the data comes from is, in my view, unnecessary - we can always direct people to that website if we think it's appropriate. By creating a simpler, narrower and easier to read table we're adding value much more consistently I think - rather than bloating pages. You'll note as well that this doesn't require the use of a very long key and avoids the inappropriate use of flags. I appreciate that tables like this exist in a number of places. My view is that they shouldn't and that there are a number of WP:MOS issues created - particularly wrt WP:MOSFLAGS. Blue Square Thing (talk) 13:59, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers for the reply. The reason that I included that amount of data was because the information listed in the tables was often not discussed in the article. I think that what position and innings a century is scored is important enough information to be displaced. However I get your concern with the bloating of articles and the key is definitely too long. Smashedbandit (talk) 13:08, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The position point you make is interesting. I think that my main concern is that it's not information that a casual reader would necessarily understand. I'm not sure it's always "important" though - sometimes it is (say, a century from number 10 with the player scoring 99 of the 100 partnership with the number 11 (which I've seen happen btw...)), but I'm not sure that it's normally that important. It's the sort of thing that if it's important then we should really deal with it in prose I think. I'd say the innings is in most cases less important again - obviously a fourth innings chase when the chap at 8 scores a century in 86 balls - but, again, that's something I think we have to deal with in the prose of the article isn't it? Blue Square Thing (talk) 16:12, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of centuries[edit]

Hi. Please see WP:CRICSTYLE and WP:NOTSTATS with regards to not including these tables in articles, and this recent discussion at WT:CRIC too. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 12:25, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It would be useful if you could also review WP:OLINK and MOS:FLAGS. Thanks. Blue Square Thing (talk) 16:26, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Rassie van der Dussen[edit]

Hi. Please stop edit-warring at this article. Per WP:BRD, you should really have started a discussion about his infobox. I've done this for you. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 12:13, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Making wrong edits continously.[edit]

What makes you think Temba Bavuma is a middle-order batsman when we clearly bats at the top order for South Africa? At least make legitimate edits rather than spreading your own made up thoughts. Your knowledge of cricket itself is questionable. Yadplayz (talk) 19:28, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The portions listed on wikipedia go based off cricinfo which lists him as a middle order batsmen. Smashedbandit (talk) 01:34, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And that isn't practical. Cricinfo lists Mosaddek hossain as just a middle order batter despite him clearly being an allrounder and Soumya Sarkar as a middle order batter which is hilarious considering he always was an opener and only batted in the middle order a few times a year ago just for experimental purposes. Bavuma opens in T20Is, bats at #3 in ODIs and #4 in tests. Clearly a top-order batter. The reason why he still is listed as a middle-order batter is because Cricinfo still hasn't updated his batting position. He used to be purely a middle-order batter in the past which has changed now. Yadplayz (talk) 02:15, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You've been here five minutes, if you have an issue with how things are done here take it up in the WikiProject Cricket talk discussion. Smashedbandit (talk) 03:11, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've been here for 3 years. Getting frustrated continuously over my edits won't be helping you. Yadplayz (talk) 03:48, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Reverting edits[edit]

don't bother reverting any edits if you aren't gonna do it properly Gorgon Slayer (talk) 13:37, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me? Smashedbandit (talk) 04:48, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reverts[edit]

You can't revert more than once. You need to start a WP:BRD as another editor has already done. I'm resetting the double reverts and will report you for edit warring if you do not comply with BRD. If you doubt the WP:IPL people's actions re infoboxes, take it up with them. Bc Jvs UTC 12:10, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Usman Khawaja[edit]

ESPNcricinfo says 14 100s under the stats tab. Overview tab is not correct JK Nair (talk) 06:37, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No it does not it stills says 13 because the match has not ended. You have no even updated the full statistics. Wait until the end of the match to update them. Smashedbandit (talk) 06:50, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. Cool! 👍🏽 JK Nair (talk) 15:16, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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