Talk:Third Test, 1948 Ashes series

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Harvey, Barnes, Brown, Johnson, Loxton and Hassett were members of Bradman's Invincibles who won the First, Second and Fourth Ashes series Test matches of 1948 and drew the Third?
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Orphaned references in Third Test, 1948 Ashes series[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Third Test, 1948 Ashes series's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "sco5":

  • From Ron Hamence with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948: "5th Test England v Australia at The Oval August 14–18 1948". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  • From Lindsay Hassett: "5th Test England v Australia at The Oval Aug 14–18 1948". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  • From Sam Loxton with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948: "5th Test England v Australia at The Oval Aug 14–18 1948". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  • From Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948: "5th Test England v Australia at The Oval August 14–18 1948". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2007-12-12.

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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 13:50, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar?[edit]

"The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain" - I was expecting to see "were". I know that there is sometimes ambiguity about "was/were" and "is/are" but the way I am reading this sentence, "was" really doesn't feel right, since the subject of the verb is Day 4 and half of Day 5. I am now curious whether I am misreading in some way! TheGrappler (talk) 21:51, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're right YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 23:08, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]


The 747-7 score mentioned in the background sections was against Essex, not Gloucestershire. The runs were made in a single day's play (probably that was the record). Bradman made well over 150. I remember hearing Trevor Bailey, long after retirement, commentating on a Test Match, denying that he had bowled to Bradman that day - whoever he was bowling to, he managed to send down 37 overs, the second most-used of the Essex bowlers, according to the scorebook. Cricket's a funny game.Delahays (talk) 21:25, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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