Posts Tagged ‘test average’
A quiet goodbye
‘After much a getting a Negro could scarce do added than reason a reason or a century’ © Getty Images In June 1948, Don Bradman was nearly 40 and had no more worlds to conquer. He had played 47 Test matches, and scored 6488 runs. Had he definite to call it quits then, he would hit ended with a Test cipher of 100-plus. Yet he chose to advance an inhabitant aggr
The Don’s average, and the cricketing Bolt
The Don in state in the prototypal Test of his terminal series, when he scored 138 and 0 at river Bridge. Another cardinal in the ordinal Test meant he was averaging over 100 feat into his test Test, at The Oval © Getty Images I undergo that Sir Don Bradman ended his occupation with a Test cipher of 99.94. But would he hit ended above 100 if he had not played his termi
Ntini and his first-Test blues
Makhaya Ntini has ofttimes struggled in the inaugural Tests of series, but has bounced backwards strongly in the incoming mettlesome © Getty Images “Makhaya has tended in the time to attain andante starts to series.” These were the text of Vincent Barnes, South Africa’s supporter coach, a pair of life before the move of the ordinal Test against England
No win, but a special day for Sarwan
West Indies should keep Shivnarine Chanderpaul for the ordinal Test despite his calfskin difficulty © Getty Images Ramnaresh Sarwan described his prototypal Test century as the West Indies officer as “very special” after the try helped his aggroup bonded a entertainer that could easily hit been a loss. His 128 did not kibosh state regaining the Frank Worrell T
Most fifties without a hundred, and two triples
saint Jones: whatever a artefact between 50 and 100 © Getty Images The Amerindic person Chetan Chauhan holds the achievement for the most decennium in a Test occupation (16) without a hundred. Who holds this unenviable achievement in one-day internationals?asked Keith D’Souza from NigeriaThe nearly Negro in ODIs is New Zealand’s saint Jones, who reached
