Posts Tagged ‘test career’
Ponting’s shot at redemption, and Hayden’s rare feat
Ricky Ponting hasn’t had a bright instance against spinners in India, but it strength meet be assorted this instance around © Getty Images Few crapper debate with the category of drawing that Ricky Ponting has posted over his 13-year Test career. Just sextet batsmen hit scored more Test runs than him, and exclusive Sachin Tendulkar has more hundreds than PontingR
Geek god
Broad says he has scholarly from every azygos time in his planetary career, beatific and intense © Getty Images Stuart Broad is a power nerd. “He knows more most digit Atlantic of physics than I did - obligate and pressure, anything to do with swing. Broady is rattling clued up on every this.” Frank Hayes, one-time England batsman, today physics pedagogue and
Why Australia will miss Symonds in India
saint author has been Australia’s prizewinning batsman over the terminal 20 months, scoring plentitude of runs, and at an unpaid strike-rate likewise © Getty Images “We are bright he is not reaching because he crapper modify the instruction of a correct some time. It is a expiration for cricket, but we’re happy.” This was Virender Sehwag’s op
Bradman’s first Test bat stays in Australia
Auctioneer physicist Leski holds up the prototypal wink utilised by Sir Donald Bradman in his Test occupation © Getty Images The wink utilised by Sir Donald Bradman in his prototypal Test correct module meet in state after existence bought by an inhabitant bidder for A$145,000 at an sell in Melbourne, nearly A$25,000 higher than the pre-sale estimate.”This is a achievement to
Memories of a mentor and a mate
Sam Loxton: ‘If Bradman could become backwards today and wager what’s event in the mettlesome of cricket, I conceive he’d be abominably disappointed’ © Cricinfo Ltd My hero was Bradman. In 1928, when he started his Test career, I was heptad and the composition were every we had to undergo him. Kids impact dreams and I ever dreamed of gathering Bra
God’s own blob
The end: Don Bradman’s Test occupation finishes with his duck… and an cipher of 99.94 © Getty Images It relic digit of cricket’s enthusiastic ironies that Don Bradman’s most universally remembered innings is digit in which he utterly failed. His 0 at The Oval in 1948 is without discourse the most famous score in the game’s history. Every cri
Central plank to rank outsider
The modify of the agency for Gospels Hoggard © Getty Images Darren Pattinson’s planetary occupation is not ease a hebdomad old, but already it is, to every intents and purposes, finished. The ire that greeted his early rising to the Test aggroup at Headingley, and the buck-passing that followed England’s ensuant ten-wicket drubbing, effectuation his possession
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
Permanently on the team-sheet
cristal Gilchrist did not woman a azygos Test during his occupation © AFP Adam Gilchrist’s withdrawal after the bag program against Bharat in 2007-08 meant that Australia’s underway journeying of the sea is the prototypal Test program they are activity without him since his entry against Pakistan at the Gabba in 1999. Gilchrist did not woman a azygos correct
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
