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Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats
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You might be right if you add "since the Second World War": here's one where 4 LBG bowlers each took at least 1 wicket (SA in England, 1907, 2nd Test at Leeds - they also each took at least 1 wicket in the 1st innings of the 1st Test at Johannesburg in 1905-6):
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Just noticed that Farokh Engineer had batted at every batting position bar 11. So decided to take a look.
Even more impressive we do have 3 players in test history who have batted at every position in tests; Syd Gregory, Wilfred Rhodes, Vinoo Mankad.
Nasim-ul-Ghani and Ben Stokes are also listed as batting at every position but technically Nasim never batted at 1 and Stokes never batted at 2. (openers are listed as a single category on that page)
There’s no list I can find that lists the amount of positions players have bowled at sadly.
But just looking at the ones mentioned, Rhodes bowled at every position from 1-8. Nasim 1, 3-7. Stokes 2-7
Four of them have at least 1 century and 1 5’fer. On the other hand, Gregory only bowled 5 overs in his career and never took a wicket. (100 overs in his FC career for 2 wickets)
Truly some very awesomely adaptable players for their teams.
Even more impressive we do have 3 players in test history who have batted at every position in tests; Syd Gregory, Wilfred Rhodes, Vinoo Mankad.
Nasim-ul-Ghani and Ben Stokes are also listed as batting at every position but technically Nasim never batted at 1 and Stokes never batted at 2. (openers are listed as a single category on that page)
There’s no list I can find that lists the amount of positions players have bowled at sadly.
But just looking at the ones mentioned, Rhodes bowled at every position from 1-8. Nasim 1, 3-7. Stokes 2-7
Four of them have at least 1 century and 1 5’fer. On the other hand, Gregory only bowled 5 overs in his career and never took a wicket. (100 overs in his FC career for 2 wickets)
Truly some very awesomely adaptable players for their teams.
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
The Crapinfo pages give you the option to see averages by bowling positions. I was looking up Moeen who batted from 1-10 and bowled 1-6 it seems.
capt_Luffy
International Coach
Counting Opening as a single position, Abdul Razzaq did so in ODI
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Yeah but then I have to go through player by player which is eh. Like, I don’t even think I’ve heard of Nasim-ul-Ghani before. (probs read his name on scorecards and not noted it - 16/37 player) Also apparently the 8th youngest test player ever. Good to learn about someone who I likely wouldn’t have really ever looked at. Or been like oh look another “teenager” from Pakistan
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Why would you tell me that? Now I’m actually gonna go look them all up 1 by 1
stupid stats obsessed brain
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Ok so I have actually checked these out and found a winner. I’m not checking through the 187 players who have bowled at 8 looking for some more tied for second place.Why would you tell me that? Now I’m actually gonna go look them all up 1 by 1
So tying with Rhodes at 8 different bowling positions (there may be more!) are Charlie Davis, Sourav Ganguly, Saeed Ahmed, Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes. (Worrell, only bowled up to 7th, being the best bowler of the W’s) All of these guys bowled in positions 2-9 and all of them batted at 6 or more different positions (7 for Weekes and 8 for Ahmed). Walcott of course, also kept.
And the winner is… Majid Khan! Bowled in all positions 1-9 (took wickets in 1-7). Also batted at every position from 1-8.
Nobody has taken a wicket bowling from 11th position. At 10th, Alfred Lyttelton took 4, Barrington took 3 and Boucher, Taslim Arif and Taylor took 1 each.
There have been 3 occasions where 10 bowlers were used since 2000 (all 3 matches drawn). In 2 of them, the 11th bowler was also used. Both of these matches came against the West Indies on the same ground (St. Johns). In both matches Chanderpaul scored a ton, in both matches Brian Lara was out for 4.
And thats bedtime
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In the innings where Barrington took 3-4 at the #10 bowler, Boycott took 3-47 as the #8. South Africa also used 10 bowlers in the match (neither keeper bowled, but everyone else did), although 4 of them just bowled 2 overs apiece in England's brief second innings (15-0).
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Only 6 batsmen have ever scored double centuries in consecutive innings in test cricket. Hammond, Bradman, Kambli, Sangakkara, Clarke and Kohli.
Hammond did it twice, so there’s one thing he has over Bradman.
Hammond and Bradman also had a triple century as part of theirs.
None were in the same test match.
Closest to doing it in the same test were
Chappell 247* and 133
Lara 221 and 130
Gooch 333 and 123
or Flower’s 142 and 199*
Hammond did it twice, so there’s one thing he has over Bradman.
Hammond and Bradman also had a triple century as part of theirs.
None were in the same test match.
Closest to doing it in the same test were
Chappell 247* and 133
Lara 221 and 130
Gooch 333 and 123
or Flower’s 142 and 199*
There was also Border scoring 150* and 153 in the same Test.
The first of Hammond's back-to-back 200s (1928-9 Ashes) were his first two Test hundreds. He then scored 119* and 177 in the next match.
Clarke scored 329*, 18, 210 in consecutive innings in the same year as his back-to-back 200s - only player to score 4 double hundreds in a calendar year.
Bradman had the run of 254, 1, 334, 14, 232 in the 1930 Ashes.
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
Sums up Bradman's problem right there - so bloody inconsistent.
ataraxia
International Coach
This but unironically. Ironing out his problems with starting, he should've averaged 130.
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
27/80 innings (33.8%) out below 30 runs. Still feel this is way better than pretty much every other batsman. Some other top players for example.. Tendulkar 159/329 (48.3%), Smith 96/206 (46.6%), Lara 110/232 (47.4%), Sobers 77/160 (48.1%), Hammond 67/140 (47.9%), Richards 85/182 (46.7%) all ranging in that 45-49% range.
As befitting great openers to not get out at the start of the innings, Hutton 62/138 (44.9%), Hobbs 40/102 (39.2%) and Sutcliffe 34/84 (40.5%) are better.
Interestingly, Gavaskar by comparison to the other 3 is easily the worst of the top batsmen, with 108/214 (50.5%)
capt_Luffy
International Coach
Hobbs and Sutcliffe particularly stands out (as you would expect, especially from Hobbs)
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Definitely the best combo if you want a more guaranteed good start to the innings. 26/39 times partnering they passed 50. One of those where they didn’t being interrupted by rain. And one where they did being them batting 4/5 (due to order reversal because of rain)