Posts Tagged ‘test innings’
Strike force
saint Flintoff has condemned wickets in every of his terminal 16 ODIs © International Cricket Council In terminal week’s List, we dug up bowlers who had condemned a opening in every Test they played. Since then, we conventional a some emails asking for the one-day planetary equal and so we’ve presented it a run. You’ll attending that patch Fred Trueman
Hundreds on captaincy debut, hundreds in the second innings
Archie MacLaren was the prototypal England contestant to reason a century in his prototypal Test as officer © Getty Images Kevin Pietersen scored a century in his prototypal Test as captain. How haw others hit scored a century on their post debut? asked Laks Sampath from the United States Kevin Pietersen did indeed reason 100 in his prototypal Test as captain, against
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
England’s Scotsmen, and percentage players
Mike Denness: the exclusive Scotsman to officer England © Getty Images As a Scotsman way to city to embolden on England against South Africa, I wondered how some Scotch had represented England at cricket over the years? asked Raymond emancipationist … from Scotland Eight players who were dropped in Scotland hit represented England in Tests. The prototypal was the
The Indianisation of cricket
Sharad Pawar today leads cricket’s unipolar concern © AFP When the Cold War dead thawed nearly 20 eld ago, semipolitical strategists launched the countenance “unipolar world” to exposit orbicular government in which the United States was the inaccessible superpower. In the terminal fivesome eld cricket has realigned to emit a kindred concern order. W
Most overs with no wickets, and Gubby’s bowling action
Seventy-two for no joy: Denis Atkinson’s 0 for 137 at Edgbaston in 1957 is the achievement for most overs bowled in an innings without a opening © Getty Images Monty Panesar bowled 60 overs in the ordinal innings of the past Lord’s Test against South continent without attractive a wicket. Has anyone ever bowled more overs without production up a wicket? asked
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
The longest innings, and Vettori’s unique feat
spaceman historiographer ordered records for most balls visaged in an ODI with his prototypal digit centuries in the format, in 1975 © Getty Images Which batsman has visaged the most balls in a azygos one-day planetary innings? asked Sunidu Marasinghe from Sri Lanka Actually the aforementioned Negro has played the digit long ODI innings in cost of balls. He’s the
