The Records and Milestones thread

[Bijed]

In the current Bangladesh vs WI game, the WI top 5 have all been out bowled. It's the first time that a top 5 have all been out bowled in 128 years and the first time they've all been bowled by spin.

 

[Starfighter]

Bangladesh beat the West Indies (or whatever they're called now) by an innings and 184 to attain their largest victory by a huge margin and their first ever by an innings. First time making the opposition follow on too. Not sure about time, but did it in two days and 4 1/2 hours which if not the fastest would have to be close.

 

[bagapath]

Also bowling points = (no of wickets*global batting average)-runs conceded

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

After that record of the top order of Windies...I decided to look and see who's got the most wickets by the 'bowled' method:

Murali, obviously, with 167 of his 800 wickets were clean bowled. Translates to 20.87%

Next on the list is James Anderson, with 116 of his 565. Percentage 20.53%

Almost similar % to Murali.

So the next guy on the list, Shane Warne, also took 116 wickets, But his % was way lower: 16.38%.Ball of the century there. lol

And just for a little more fun. Bowler with over 100 wickets bowled, and the highest percentage is John Statham. 102 of his 252 wickets. 40.47%


The overall (50+ wickets bowled qualify) highest percentage is 61.36%...Tom Richardson of the 1890s. 54 of his 88 wickets clean bowled.

 

[AndrewB]

Surprisingly few bowlers have bowled 100 Test wickets - apart from those mentioned it's only Trueman (103), Wasim (102) and Waqar (102).

 

[Coronis]

I’d be curious about who had the highest percentages of other dismissals. Would be interesting and perhaps quantify (to some degree) Pakistans fielding.

 

[Bijed]

Yasir Shah has become the fastest bowler to take 200 test wickets - he's taken 3 tests fewer than Grimmett

 

[trundler]

It's an incredible achievement. Especially taking into account the difference in over rates between Grum and Yasir's time. 6 wickets a match at 28 is baffling too.

 

[mr_mister]

Yeah I know. He loves to buy a wicket does Yasir

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Big difference is Grimmett usually had Tiger O'Reilly at the other end to fight for wickets with. Shah has had Bilal Asif and before him Zulfiqar Babar, with all due respect they are simply nowhere near the same calibre

 

[Starfighter]

It's an incredible achievement. Especially taking into account the difference in over rates between Grum and Yasir's time. 6 wickets a match at 28 is baffling too.

This is where the modern game comes into play. Grimmett's strike rate was 67, Yasir's is 54. Basically because batsmen (especially from SENAW) can't defend against spin anymore (thx T20) and have attack as their only real method of runscoring these days spinners now have strike rates comparable to fast bowlers from a few years ago. So Yasir has to bowl less to take the same number of wickets (and being a spinner can bowl a very high proportion of the overs). In comparison Gibbs played in a very defensive area and had a strike rate of 88 so took 'only' 3.9 wickets a test for a comparable average to Yasir's (29.09 vs 28.43) even though both bowled a similar no. of balls per match (343 vs 332). Grimmett bowled 392 balls per match, significantly more.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Was doing random records search on stats guru and noticed that Mushfiqur Rahim is only 'keeper' in test cricket history to score 2 double centuries

 

[AndrewB]

Big difference is Grimmett usually had Tiger O'Reilly at the other end to fight for wickets with. Shah has had Bilal Asif and before him Zulfiqar Babar, with all due respect they are simply nowhere near the same calibre

Didn't make a huge different to his wicket-taking rate: he took 129 wickets in 21 matches when O'Reilly wasn't playing, and 88 in 15 when he was.

 

[Borges]

Who is this Ajay Rohera? Apparently, scored the highest ever score (267*) by a first class debutant.

 

[trundler]

Is Indian domestic cricket really first class?

 

[Borges]

I suppose Miyagis can keep arguing endlessly about what is really first class. Nevertheless, it is a record alright, if cricinfo is to be believed.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Didn't make a huge different to his wicket-taking rate: he took 129 wickets in 21 matches when O'Reilly wasn't playing, and 88 in 15 when he was.

Kinda surprises me tbh, but thanks anyway

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Latham - highest ever score for an opener carrying his bat

 

[Starfighter]

Latham - highest ever score for an opener carrying his bat

Haha! Bugger off Alastair Cook.

 

[Bijed]

As OS and PEWS established in the match thread, Sarfraz Ahmed and Faf du Plessis' pairs in the 1st SA vs Pakistan test mark the first time both captains have bagged a pair in a test match