Safest Records

[GotSpin]

Here are some more

1. The only instance of a bail flying to the boundary after the batsman was bowled - Robert Burrows (Worcestershire) bowled by Huddleston(Lancashire) 1911. Total distance the bail flew 67 yards, 6 inches
   

Thats amazing..I''d pay to see that

 

[Barney Rubble]

[*]The only instance of a bail flying to the boundary after the batsman was bowled - Robert Burrows (Worcestershire) bowled by Huddleston(Lancashire) 1911. Total distance the bail flew 67 yards, 6 inches

Perhaps it's only happened once in first-class cricket, but I know someone who did that in an Under 18 game (on a full size boundary) a few years back.

 

[Boofra]

Lara's record of being the only player to score a first-class 100, 200, 300, 400 & 500.

For a player to score 300 is very rare...scoring a quadruple century has only happened a handful of times...and as we know bringing up half a thousand runs in a single innings has only been achieved once out of what must be hundreds of thousands of first-class games. So for someone else to come along and score one of each would be pretty unlikely to say the least.

 

[Hodgo7]

Akram's 257 - for someone batting at number 8 in a test match- is unlikely to be broken.

Maybe if they send in some 'night watchmen.

 

[ClownSymonds]

Akram's 257 really was amazing. You get down to number 8 and figure you can wrap up the innings for another 50 runs or so, and then the specialist bowler batting at 8 smacks a massive double century in quick time. It would be like Shane Warne doing it nowadays.

 

[SJS]

Maybe if they send in some 'night watchmen.

Well considering the fact that the record that Wasim broke for this belonged to Wood of Australia and was made in the century before last (1902) of 134 runs, I think we can rest assured that it is not going to happen in a hurry.

The fact that he broke it by 257 versus 134 makes it very very difficult indeeed.

I cant think of another record that was broken by this kind of margin and after more than a hundred years !!!

 

[ClownSymonds]

Well considering the fact that the record that Wasim broke for this belonged to Wood of Australia and was made in the century before last (1902) of 134 runs, I think we can rest assured that it is not going to happen in a hurry.

The fact that he broke it by 257 versus 134 makes it very very difficult indeeed.

I cant think of another record that was broken by this kind of margin and after more than a hundred years !!!

Yeah, and half the reason why it's so difficult to break is that whoever is trying to it has to be batting with the tail pretty much the whole way through their innings, at least after the accompanying batsman gets out. One normally does not get much support from 9, 10, and 11. And that doesn't even have to be taken into consideration unless the batsman coming in at number 8 has significantly more skill than a number 8 normally would. A specialist bowler, or even an all-rounder other than Kallis can't be expected to hit 250 in almost any situation.

 

[steds]

Noone will take Robert Key's 'ugliest player to play test cricket' record anytime soon.

 

[SJS]

Akram's 257 really was amazing. You get down to number 8 and figure you can wrap up the innings for another 50 runs or so, and then the specialist bowler batting at 8 smacks a massive double century in quick time. It would be like Shane Warne doing it nowadays.

And the most surprising thing is that in fifty test matches, from his 41st test to his 90th test, Akram never scored even a single fifty. In these fifty tests he scored 821 runs at 11.4 each !!

Yet bang in the middle of this very very ordinary by even a tail enders standards spell, he scores a 254 not out !!

It was totally unexpected. Coming from Warne, its equivalent would be more like an innings of 400 !!

 

[Neil Pickup]

Numbers ten and eleven Chandu Sarwate (124*) and Shute Bannerjee (121) adding 239 for the last wicket for India against Surrey in May 1946.

Sarwate opened in the second dig and got one...

This was some last-wicket liaison, too.

 

[Dissector]

How about New Zealand's infamous 26 all out against England? I suspect that not even Zimbabwe or Bangladesh are likely to sink that low.

http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/TEAM/LOWEST_INNS_SCORES.html

Here is the list. The closest in the last 40 years was India's 42 in 1974. A bit suprisingly Bangladesh with a lowest of 86 doesn't make it to the main list.

 

[jack_sparrow]

Some other records that will be very hard to beat:
Murali's 5-wicket haul record in tests (48 and running)
Tendulkar's one-day centuries record (38 and running)
Bradman's 974 runs in a test series or alternatively his achievement of scoring a triple and two doubles in that series.
Everton Weekes scoring 5 centuries in consecutive innings
Gooch's 456 run aggregate in a test

One a more idiosyncratic note I am not even sure this is a record but India dropped three catches off three consecutive balls in a test against Zimbabawe recently. It will be a long time before that happens again, I think.

My team did that yesterday. So its broken now.

 

[_Ed_]

How about New Zealand's infamous 26 all out against England? I suspect that not even Zimbabwe or Bangladesh are likely to sink that low.

http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/TEAM/LOWEST_INNS_SCORES.html

Here is the list. The closest in the last 40 years was India's 42 in 1974. A bit suprisingly Bangladesh with a lowest of 86 doesn't make it to the main list.

Someone, PLEASE, break it!

 

[What-A-Player]

South Africa scoring 36 and 45 in Both Innings v/s Australia

Ambrose, 7 for 1

Samis 30+ of an over (or was that extras)

 

[Adamc]

South Africa scoring 36 and 45 in Both Innings v/s Australia

Ambrose, 7 for 1

Samis 30+ of an over (or was that extras)

I don't think the second one actually occurred...you're probably thinking of Courtney Walsh's 5 for 1 or Sarfraz Nawaz's 7 for 1. I might be wrong. Sami's never been hit for 30+ either (the Test record is 28 and ODI record is 30, neither held by Sami).

 

[What-A-Player]

I don't think the second one actually occurred...you're probably thinking of Courtney Walsh's 5 for 1 or Sarfraz Nawaz's 7 for 1. I might be wrong. Sami's never been hit for 30+ either (the Test record is 28 and ODI record is 30, neither held by Sami).

Wasnt he 7 for 1 or it was at some point

Sami- I cant find the match, that longest over..

 

[Dasa]

Wasnt he 7 for 1 or it was at some point

He had a spell of 7 for 1 out of a total 7-20odd.

 

[ClownSymonds]

Wasnt he 7 for 1 or it was at some point

Sami- I cant find the match, that longest over..

I think Sami's over was 15 balls or something like that, against Bangladesh.

 

[cricket_fan23]

Personally I think one that'll stand for a long time is Wasim Akram's 12 sixes in a Test innings. It takes a ridiculously aggressive outlook to hit 12 big ones in an innings, and even when you consider the kind of batsmen around in today's game (Gilly, Freddie, Afridi, KP, Razzaq, Symonds, Kemp) and the fact that none of them have got close so far.

Disagree completely.

If anything that's one of the more gettable one's. Wouldn't be surprised if it were in the near future.

Certainly compared to the other's mentioned.

 

[Pratters]

Yeah I suppose, but still, it's quite remarkable that the record has stood for so long. Interestingly enough, Lara would have needed to score exactly 400 (out of 593) to break the record, so it's equivalent to someone scoring 400 in the first ever Test innings, and Lara's 375 117 years later being the next highest.

That Bannerman record is test cricket's longest standing record if we ignore stuff like player to score first run in test cricket etc if I am not wrong.