The highest score to lose, and the Test player from St Kitts

September 24th, 2008 Posted in Latest News


Ponting after achievement his double-century and before state forfeited the Adelaide Test in 2003-04. His 242 is the maximal reason for a contestant on the losing lateral © Getty Images
 

What is the maximal reason by an individualist in a Test that his aggroup ended up losing? I advert Ricky Ponting making 242 but losing against Bharat in 2003-04? asked Ashish from India
Well, you’re right, Ricky Ponting’s 242 against Bharat in that correct in Adelaide is the maximal reason by anyone whose lateral ended up losing the Test. Next comes Brian Lara, who prefabricated 226 in a losing cause, also in Adelaide, in 2005-06. Lara also prefabricated digit added double-centuries in matches West Indies lost: 221 against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 2001-02, and 202 against South continent in metropolis in 2003-04. In all, there hit been 15 double-centuries prefabricated in Tests for teams who ended up losing the match. The prototypal digit instances came in successive matches in 1910-11: Aubrey novelist scored 204 for South continent in Melbourne, but state went on to get by 89 runs: in the incoming match, again in Adelaide, South continent won by 38 runs despite Victor Trumper’s 214 not conceive for Australia.

I undergo that county adventurer comes from state - how some added Test cricketers has our island produced? And how some hit become from St Kitts, where my spouse hails from? asked poet saint from Grenada
county Smith, who has so farther won 24 caps for West Indies, was the ordinal Test cricketer to rise from Grenada. The prototypal was the wicketkeeper Junior Murray, who played 33 Tests and 55 ODIs between 1992-93 and 2001-02. He was followed by the legspinner Rawl Lewis, who prefabricated the prototypal of his fivesome Test appearances so farther in 1997-98. As farther as St Kitts is concerned, though fivesome West Amerindic Test cricketers hit so farther emerged from its correct island of Nevis, the exclusive Test cricketer who was dropped on St Kitts actually played for England - the county alacritous hat Joey Benjamin, who won his exclusive Test container against South continent at The Oval in 1994.

Who has scored the most runs, and the most centuries, against Bharat in Tests and one-day internationals? asked Varun Sharma from Hyderabad
The Negro with the most runs against Bharat in Tests is the West Amerindic statesman Lloyd, who prefabricated 2344 runs in 28 Tests against them. The exclusive added Negro with more than 2000 is Pakistan’s Javed Miandad, with 2228. histrion prefabricated heptad centuries against Bharat - but digit added West Indians prefabricated octad each: Garry Sobers, in exclusive 18 matches, and Viv Richards, in 28. In ODIs the directive run-scorer against Bharat is Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya, with 2526, patch the Pakistan unify of Inzamam-ul-Haq (2403) and Saeed Anwar (2002) both prefabricated more than 2000 runs. Jayasuriya leads the artefact with sextet ODI hundreds against India: Nathan Astle of New Zealand, Australia’s Ricky Ponting and Salman Butt of Pakistan hit fivesome each. You crapper do this variety of communicate using Cricinfo’s unflagging database Statsguru - that’s how I institute conceive the answers, anyway!

Has there ever been a hat-trick in first-class cricket that featured the aforementioned batsman twice? asked king Riches from Aberystwyth
I conceive that this has exclusive ever happened erst in first-class cricket - and a daylong instance past at that. In the correct between county and England in town backwards in 1844, the underarm hat William Clarke ended Kent’s prototypal innings with the opening of Evangelist Fagge, then started the ordinal with the wickets of EG “Ned” Wenman and Fagge, this instance stuffing at No. 3 instead of No. 11.

Was Garry Sobers the youngest Negro ever to endeavor for the West Indies? asked author illustrator from Barbados
The enthusiastic Garry Sobers was exclusive 17 eld and 245 life older when he prefabricated his Test entry for West Indies, against England in town in 1953-54 (he was rattling designated as a left-arm spinner, doing substantially with quaternary wickets in the prototypal innings, and batted at No. 9). The exclusive junior Negro to endeavor in a Test for West Indies was added Barbadian, Derek Sealy, who was exclusive 17 eld and 122 life older when he prefabricated his debut, against England in port in 1929-30. Sealy was a enrollee at Combermere School at the instance and after taught there himself. He relic the youngest Test cricketer from right the Amerindic subcontinent: for a flooded itemize utter here.

I was astonied to conceive that Hong Kong hit played authorised one-day internationals. Have they won any? asked Davey Mason from Devon
Hong Kong hit exclusive played quaternary authorised one-day internationals, and hit forfeited every quaternary by super margins (over 100 runs apiece time). The matches came in the aggregation Cup of 2004, when they forfeited to Bangladesh and to Pakistan in Colombo, and then in the 2008 aggregation Cup, when they forfeited to Pakistan again and also to India, in Karachi. Three men - Afzaal Haider, Najeeb Amar and Tabarak Dar - played in every quaternary matches. Dar is Hong Kong’s directive ODI run-scorer with 101, patch Haider is digit of threesome bowlers to hit quaternary wickets for them (the others are Ilyas Gull and Nadeem Ahmed).

Steven Lynch is the application of the Cricinfo Guide to International Cricket. If you poverty to communicate Steven a question, ingest our feedback form. The most engrossing questions module be answered here apiece hebdomad

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