Lets add one less know fact about cricket

[Engle]

Gavaskar captured only 1 wkt in ODI's and only 1 wkt in Tests

In both instances it was that of the renowned Zaheer Abbas for 48 in ODI and 96 in Test

 

[ankitj]

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Tino Best's kryptonite is "Mind the Windows".

 

[The Hutt Rec]

I think Trent Boult has the highest score by a batsman to score all the runs in a partnership in a test, with 38 in conjunction with Ajaz Patel (0) vs India in Wellington last year.

 

[h_hurricane]

Australia haven't won in India since the second most prolific poster of all time joined CW. That is 15 long years and 75K posts.

 

[ankitj]

Australia haven't won in India since the second most prolific poster of all time joined CW. That is 15 long years and 75K posts.

It's a very important fact for CWers to know

 

[tony p]

Freddie Stocks of Notts in 1946, had the unusual double of making a century on debut and taking a wicket with his first ball he bowled, but they were in different matches, infact over 6 weeks apart.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

There was a poster here on cricket web who had a habit of writing weird poems. His poem on Ricky Ponting is really famous. There is a rumour that he is back and is the OP of this thread.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Martyn Moxon is one of only a few (single figures I think) to have a highest Test score of 99. Early in his innings he scored three that the umpire inexplicably signalled as Leg Byes.

 

[tony p]

Jason Gallian is the only player to be dismissed for 199 TWICE in first class cricket. Both in 2005.

 

[Engle]

David Lloyd (aka Bumble) scored just 1 Test 50+. It was the highest (214*) amongst those who only scored 1 Test 50.
He also scored just 1 ODI 50+ and it too was the highest (116*)amongst those who only scored 1 ODI 50.
(unless things have changed)

 

[SteveNZ]

Chris Gayle is the only batsman to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match

I don’t know if he’s the first, or only, or whatever but Mark Craig hit his first ball faced in Test cricket for six

 

[srbhkshk]

I don’t know if he’s the first, or only, or whatever but Mark Craig hit his first ball faced in Test cricket for six

but was that the first ball of the test?

 

[Daemon]

David Lloyd (aka Bumble) scored just 1 Test 50+. It was the highest (214*) amongst those who only scored 1 Test 50.
He also scored just 1 ODI 50+ and it too was the highest (116*)amongst those who only scored 1 ODI 50.
(unless things have changed)

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excellent

 

[SteveNZ]

but was that the first ball of the test?

Given he bats 8 and bowls spin, no.

 

[trundler]

Asad Shafiq has played the most consecutive tests for Pakistan. Alistair Cook, Allan Border, Sunil Gavaskar, AB De Villiers, Mahela Jayawardene, Brendan McCullum and Gary Sobers hold that record for their respective teams.

 

[SteveNZ]

Surely it's the only sport in the world where the active participants can spend the first couple of days of the event doing nothing but sitting on a balcony eating sandwiches.

I've always marvelled at that - not many sports where you can actively put on weight when you're in the act of playing it. There might be others but I'm certain none have the ability to do so like cricket does.

 

[SteveNZ]

Luke Vivian.

Needs his own thread. 5 pound bat, wackedy doo, the Viking coming out of the forest etc. I've seen him do unspeakable things to cricket balls, and some of those were on the field.

 

[Bolo.]

David Lloyd (aka Bumble) scored just 1 Test 50+. It was the highest (214*) amongst those who only scored 1 Test 50.
He also scored just 1 ODI 50+ and it too was the highest (116*)amongst those who only scored 1 ODI 50.
(unless things have changed)

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This is the best kind of utterly useless info. Shot.

 

[GIMH]

David Lloyd (aka Bumble) scored just 1 Test 50+. It was the highest (214*) amongst those who only scored 1 Test 50.
He also scored just 1 ODI 50+ and it too was the highest (116*)amongst those who only scored 1 ODI 50.
(unless things have changed)

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@OverratedSanity