Can you beat for the cricket guru title?

[Waughney]

no and no

 

[Jamee999]

10

 

[Waughney]

no

 

[Sudeep]

Individual or Team score?

 

[Waughney]

Individual score. Someone tallied all the individual scores in test cricket and found which score happened the most.

 

[Sudeep]

34.

 

[Waughney]

Its less than 34 and more than 10

 

[Sudeep]

18.

 

[Waughney]

Still no

 

[luckyeddie]

I heard this, and of course I totally and utterly disagreed with it at the time, because I thought it was 0 too.

The following ripped from Steven Lynch's column, correct as at March 2004....
(the original question was about the lowest individual total which had never been made, but I left the reply to that in for authenticity:


The last time I was asked that question the answer was 228 – but that's now been done, by Herschelle Gibbs for South Africa v West Indies at Cape Town in January 2003. So the lowest score never made in a Test is now … 229. For the record, the only other scores under 250 which have never been recorded in a Test are 238, 245, 248 and 249. The most-common score in Tests is, not surprisingly, 0 (7368 instances, including not-outs), followed by 1 (2963). Perhaps slightly oddly, more batsmen have made 4 (2390) than 2 (2323).



So it WAS 0 after all.

 

[Andre]

16

 

[Waughney]

OK, my sources were wrong . I read somewhere that it was 16 . So its over to either Jamie999 or Luckyeddie both of you answered correctly

 

[Andre]

An Australian study found that the most common score by and Australian Test cricketer is 16.

 

[luckyeddie]

Let Jamie have it. Ian Botham said it (16) on TV last year - and he said that 'it didn't sound right to him' either.

Probably that drongo Dermot Reeve told him.
He's usually wrong about everything on C4.

 

[luckyeddie]

An Australian study found that the most common score by and Australian Test cricketer is 16.

As a small exercise, I've just gone through the first 10 test matches ever played.

I looked at every individual score, counting the zeroes and sixteens (as a point of interest, I allowed an 'extras' score of 16 but not one of 0 as this could skew the results in the event of low innings totals (40 to win, that sort of thing) - I needn't have worried).

The first score of 16 was made in the fourth test match - there had been 21 zeroes before that.

After 10 games, there had been 4 scores of 16 and 45 scores of 0.

I think that this 'study' Botham referred to last year was a load of porkys.

 

[biased indian]

so who is asking next question

 

[Sudeep]

Jamee.

 

[Waughney]

Except I don't think he knows it yet.

 

[Jamee999]

I know it now though.

Where were the best 1980's,ODI, bowling figures taken?

 

[Waughney]

Imran Khan Pak. 1984-85 INDIA Sharjah 6-14