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4th Test at Sydney (?) - Jan 5-9 2022
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stephen
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Yeah, at the rate covid is spreading there will be two teams unable to play due to asymptomatic cases in both camps.
Son Of Coco
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I can't wait to see Bazza from Tennant Creek open the bowling with his 56kph dobblers. The English team should be replaced by a bunch of Australians doing really bad English accents. Surely we could pretend to be English more effectively than this English team is pretending to be cricketers.
TheJediBrah
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Get's later and later every year. When I was a kid it started on the 2nd (and I'm pretty sure it actually started on New Years Day before that) but feels like every 5 years or so it gets pushed another day later. Piss weak. The back-to-back Melbourne + Sydney Tests used to be a real physical challenge for the players.
Starfighter
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The forecast is ultra-typical Sydney too:
Shady Slim
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yeah according to the notoriously unreliable apple weather it’s raining the entire week
Son Of Coco
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As long as we can squeeze in 12-13 hours play, we should get a result.
Well I don't think hours were precisely recorded back then, so we only have it in terms of days and balls bowled.
In terms of days we have 23 matches tied for finishing in 2 days (the teams who've lost in 2 days are England, Australia, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan):
Records | Test matches | Team records | Shortest matches (by days) | ESPNcricinfo.com
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In terms of balls bowled quite a few are draws for various reasons (abandoned, weather, etc). The record holder here is South Africa losing to Australia in 656 balls (109.2 overs) in Melbourne in 1932.
Records | Test matches | Team records | Shortest matches (by balls bowled) | ESPNcricinfo.com
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honestbharani
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Well I don't think hours were precisely recorded back then, so we only have it in terms of days and balls bowled.
In terms of days we have 23 matches tied for finishing in 2 days (the teams who've lost in 2 days are England, Australia, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan):
Records | Test matches | Team records | Shortest matches (by days) | ESPNcricinfo.com
Statsguru, ESPNCricinfo's searchable cricket statistics databasestats.espncricinfo.com
In terms of balls bowled quite a few are draws for various reasons (abandoned, weather, etc). The record holder here is South Africa losing to Australia in 656 balls (109.2 overs) in Melbourne in 1932.
Records | Test matches | Team records | Shortest matches (by balls bowled) | ESPNcricinfo.com
Statsguru, ESPNCricinfo's searchable cricket statistics database
Can you do this for post 1970s alone?
As in from 1970 and onwards, or 1980 and onwards?
honestbharani
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1970 onwards, perhaps? I find it very hard to define modern era but the WC time seems a good start. Maybe starting 1975?
Timeframe will be set as from 1 Jan 1975 onwards.
Going by days, the first one lost in 2 days in that timeframe was by the West Indies vs England at Leeds in 2000. Then Pakistan in Sharjah in 2002 to Australia, Zimbabwe in Cape Town (SA), Harare (NZ) in 2005 and Port Elizabeth (SA) in 2017. Then Afghanistan lost in Bangalore in 2019 and England in Ahmedabad 2021, both to India. The latest was Afghanistan losing to Zimbabwe in Abu Dhabi in 2021.
By balls faced, the shortest lost Test in that timeframe is the Ahmedabad pink ball Test between India and England in 2021 (shortest since 1935 for the record by the way for matches with a result). 842 balls (140.2 overs) were bowled in total in that Test.
Adders
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Is it possible to filter the results to only include matches in proper cricket countries and on proper wickets?
Then we'd have no matches considering 1930s had no proper cricket countries like in modern times.
honestbharani
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Sure.
