Random things you may not know

[Furball]

andy zaltzman has informed me england's fifty-to-century rate since the start of the 2013 ashes is 24% compared to the rest of the world at 34.5%, and that the other top seven teams are at 37%

Is he counting top 7 batsmen or everyone in that stat?

 

[AndrewB]

Is he counting top 7 batsmen or everyone in that stat?

Everyone: before the current Test England batsmen since July 2013 had made 31 hundreds and 98 (other) fifties. Cook had 3 hundreds and 20 fifties; Root had 8 hundreds and 18 fifties.
If you only count #1-7, it's 31 hundreds and 89 fifties, which is about 26%.

 

[aussie tragic]

Dennis Lillee holds the record for most wkts after 50 Tests

He had 262 wkts @ 23.40 after his 50th test in 1981.


Dale Steyn came close to breaking it 30 years later though as he had 260 wkts @ 22.90 after his 50th in 2011

 

[Burgey]

In the summer of 1979-80, which cricketer scored 111 not out and took 8/13 in the same match?

It was me, ftr. For Wenty Waratahs Under 10/1s vs St Bernadette's at Pitt Park, Merrylands.

 

[Furball]

Most adults would dominate an u10 game.

 

[cpr]

seniors league had been suspended though, so it was a case of get a game where you can.

 

[Daemon]

Saw this while watching the India - WI test earlier -

Ashwin gets a 5-fer nearly every 1.94 matches. Murali 1.99.

Barnes on the other hand did it every 1.125 matches.. (1.95 in FC)

 

[GIMH]

Edit-spark

 

[Burgey]

Saw this while watching the India - WI test earlier -

Ashwin gets a 5-fer nearly every 1.94 matches. Murali 1.99.

Barnes on the other hand did it every 1.125 matches.. (1.95 in FC)

Ravi Ashwin - better than Murali and rapidly chasing down Barnes.

 

[Burgey]

At giving press conferences.

 

[Daemon]

Ur hilarious keep going

 

[Black_Warrior]

At giving press conferences.

Hey Burgey, here's a random thing you may not know.

With the current cricket schedule, by the time the season comes to a close, India is expected to replace Australia as the number 1 test team.

Your thoughts on that?

 

[aussie tragic]

Given the upcoming Sri Lanka - Australia test series, I noticed that Sri Lanka has only ever beaten Australia once in 33 years of Test Cricket (Australia 17W, 1L, 8D).

Here is the match 1st Test: Sri Lanka v Australia at Kandy, Sep 9-11, 1999 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

Pretty sure that was the game where Steve Waugh and Gillespie ran into each other.

Sri Lanka actually won that series too.

Can we claim Coverdale reads CW due to his opening paragraph, or was this a well known fact
Preview - Form, history against brittle Sri Lanka in series opener | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

Once upon a time, Sri Lanka beat Australia in a Test series. Like most fairy tales, it was a little bit gruesome - Steve Waugh and Jason Gillespie met grisly fates during Sri Lanka's win in the first Test - and somewhat miraculous - persistent rain in the second and third Tests ensured draws that gave Sri Lanka a 1-0 victory. In the coming years, their achievement took on even more mythic proportions. Immediately following that series in 1999, Australia won a world-record 16 consecutive Tests. For a good couple of years, Sri Lanka were the last of the giant-killers.

Yet the happy ending of that tour was just that - an ending. Never again have Sri Lanka beaten Australia in a Test, let alone a series.

 

[Burgey]

Hey Burgey, here's a random thing you may not know.

With the current cricket schedule, by the time the season comes to a close, India is expected to replace Australia as the number 1 test team.

Your thoughts on that?

The Test rankings are like rolling opinion polls. They fluctuate a fair bit in the absence of a truly dominant side, and are dependent on who's playing at any given time. If India has the WI followed by a set of home test matches, I'd expect them to be at or near the top. If they were playing away in SA, England, NZ or here, less so. Same goes for Australia and for that matter pretty much everyone else. FWIW I actually don't know who the best test side is atm, which if nothing else makes life pretty interesting.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Damn it Burgey.. I don't ask you these questions for you to give me these boring, reasonable explanations

 

[andruid]

That one Peter Ongondo was once briefly among the top 20 ODI bowlers in the world. Twas in the mid noughties with the introduction of the WCL and the Africa v. Asia limited overs series.

Those were halycon days.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Sri Lanka played MDKJ Perera at 7 and MDK Perera at 8 in their first dig at Pallekele.

Surely they're just trolling us now.

 

[nazia08]

Yeah Interesting , Thanks to add this..

 

[aussie tragic]

There are 2 records that have stood since the 1870-80's and yet both of them were so close to being broken in the same Test

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63818.html

Highest % of runs in an innings
67.34% - 165* out of 245 C. Bannerman Australia v England at Melbourne 1876-77
66.84% - 123 out of 184 M. J. Slater Australia v England at Sydney 1998-99
63.50% - 134 out of 211 C. G. Greenidge West Indies v England at Manchester 1976

Best Bowling in a Sydney Test
12-87 C. T. B. Turner Australia v England 1887-88
12-107 S. C. G. MacGill Australia v England 1998-99
12-128 S. K. Warne Australia v South Africa 1993-94

 

[mr_mister]

Slater's innings that day was so good. **** his entire 1998 was amazing