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Best bowling figures Figures Bowler For Vs Venue Date 4-17 CJD de Villiers Eag Som Hyderabad 16 Oct 2009 4-21 AB McDonald Vic RCB Bangalore 15 Oct 2009 4-23 DJ Bravo T&T Som Bangalore 12 Oct

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Highest individual innings Runs Batsman For Vs Venue Date 104* AG Puttick CC Ota Hyderabad 10 Oct 2009 99* J-P Duminy CC RCB Bangalore 08 Oct 2009 83 PJ Hughes NSW T&T Hyderabad 16 Oct 2009

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Winner (2009) – New South Wales (beat Trinidad & Tobago in final by 41 runs). Summary of results Team Mts Won Lost Tied Won% New South Wales 6 5 1 0 83.33 Trinidad and Tobago 6 5 1 0 83.33 Victoria 5 2 3

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Suresh Raina today became the 265th player to represent India in a Test match. More importantly he did so having appeared in 98 ODIs. This is now a new record of maximum ODIs a player has appeared in before making his Test debut. Australia’s Andrew Symonds held the previous record, who had appeared in 94 ODIs before he made his Test debut in 2004. Interestingly the previous Indian record was on

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India were asked to follow on for the 32nd time in their Test history after hosts Sri Lanka skittled them out for 276 runs in the first innings of the Galle Test.Of the previous 31 instances, India have been made to follow on 14 times on Indian soil, while 17 have come during away Tests. Here's a quick glance of what the numbers indicate and whether India will be able to save this Test.- India

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Just one day into the Galle Test and Indians are already on the backfoot, thanks to lacklustre performance of the bowlers. With 256 runs on the board and only two wickets down, only one team can dictate terms from here onwards. History tells us that India have never won a Test in which opposition has raised 200+ runs on the opening day losing 2 or fewer wickets. So Indians have their task cut

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Chasing a victory target of 440 runs against Australia in the Lord’s Test, Pakistan got off to a good start. They were 152 for one at one stage and looked set to give Australia a run for their money. However, the introduction of part-timer Marcus North into the attack proved a master-stroke that turned the game on its head. North took a career best 6 for 55 and Australia won the game by 150 runs.

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The first of five match series between England and Australia at Rose Bowl (Southampton) marked a historic occasion for the One-Day Internationals. This was the 3000th match in ODI history. By a quirk of fate, the 3000th ODI was played between the sides who contested the first ever ODI in 1971. It took ODIs nearly 10 years to complete century of matches. The first 1000 matches were completed in a

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18864Runs scored in the tournament1708 Number of fours hit in the tournament720Number of wickets to fall in the tournament618Runs scored by Sachin Tendulkar - most scored by any batsman in the Tournament. This was also the maximum runs aggregated by a batsman in a single edition of IPL.585Sixes hit in the tournament165Average first innings total in the tournament127The highest individual score in

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England saved the Cardiff Test by the skin of their teeth. The last pair of James Anderson and Monty Panesar batted for 37 minutes to steer England to safety. Here is a glance at some of the drawn Test matches with narrowest of margins.Last wicket pair saving an innings defeat(by taking their side’s match-aggregate to at par or just ahead of opponent’s total)Ahead by For Vs Venue

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The suspense over MS Dhoni's participation in the Sri Lanka series will be over today, when five wise-men sit together to pick the squad for the series. However this has brought the issue of excessive cricket in the limelight again. During the Asia Cup also Dhoni had raised his concerns about too much cricket. Although Dhoni is the only Indian cricketer to speak openly, most of the Indian

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Ajantha Mendis turned the game on its head when it looked like that the Indians will achieve the modest victory targetof 274 quite comfortably. Introduced after nine overs, when India were cruising at 76 for one with Virender Sehwag hitting everything as per his wish, Mendis changed the projection of the game with his double strike in the first over and from there was no respite for the Indian

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Chasing a victory target of 300 runs, India defeated Pakistan by 6 wickets in Asia Cup match with 47 balls still remaining to be bowled. In the history of ODIs this is the second biggest victory in terms of balls remaining for a side chasing a target of 300 or more. Have a look: Balls Countries Venue Year Target Victory margin 75 SL v Eng Leeds 2006 325 8 wkts 47 Ind v Pak

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In the second final of CB Series, Sachin Tendulkar broke a world record that almost went unnoticed.When his score reached 9, Tendulkar became only the second batsman after Sir Don Bradman to make 5000 or more runs against a particular opponent in all forms of International Cricket (Tests, ODIs and T20-Is). On 38, he broke Sir Don's world record of 5028 runs against England. Now Sachin has 5082

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Praveen Kumar who played an important role in India's 9-run win over Australia in the second final of CB Series today, got an Indian record on his name which went unnoticed, well almost. At 21 years 154 days Praveen is now the YOUNGEST Indian to win Man of Match award in a tournament final. Praveen snatched this record from Sachin Tendulkar (who else!)Youngest Indians to win MoM award in

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The 'Seniors versus youngsters' has been a hot topic of debate in Indian cricket in recent times.The youngsters may not have exactly set the stage on fire, but the fact that the seniors have not really pitched in when they needed to has not made matters simple.The seniors, especially the batsmen, have proved to be India's biggest downfall in the ongoing CB tri-series. On the other hand, the

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ICC might now look at the possibility of adding a new mode of dismissal in the rule books – Bucknored. This is the mode that genuinely describes Rahul Dravid’s dismissal today. Bucknor’s decision to rule Rahul Dravid out caught behind when the bat was nowhere near the ball was so shockingly poor that even a normally cool Dravid was forced to utter - "How many more.....?"As Harsha Bhogle promptly

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The win against India today was Australia's 15th in a row since the Melbourne Test against South Africa in December 2005 when it registered a 184-run win. Australia is now heading for world record of most consecutive wins in Test cricket. The current record is of 16 consecutive wins also held by Australia between 1999 and 2001.Interestingly Australia's victory march was interrupted by India last

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Australia today handed India its third biggest defeat in Test matches. It was the sixth time India was losing a Test by 300 runs margin. Interestingly three of India's six biggest defeats have come against Australia. Also, all of these defeats have come after 1990.Opponent Margin Venue Season CaptainAustralia 342 runs Nagpur 2004-05 Rahul DravidPakistan

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This is how the openers, middle order batsmen and lower-order batsmen of the two sides performed in the Melbourne Test. The middle-order of both sides had almost identical success or failure depending upon how you perceive it.It was the performance of the openers (and to some extent lower order) that made all the difference in the end. Openers Balls Runs Avg SR

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Rahul Dravid is continuing with his new found affection for the stonewalling. After getting support from Indian thinktank which did not find anything wrong with Dravid's first innings effort of scoring 5 runs off 66 balls, Dravid produced another gem in the second innings, scoring 16 in 114 balls. He might have tried to even 'better' his first innings performance, but an edge through gully -

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Ghosts of the Oval Test returned back to haunt Rahul Dravid today, who made a tortured 5 off 66 balls at Melbourne while opening the Indian innings.At Oval in 2007 Dravid batted on the fourth day in a manner as if he was trying to save the game for India, forgetting that it was actually England (and not India) who was 319 runs behind! Dravid batted for 140 minutes on that day scoring a painful 12

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Sourav Ganguly today became only the seventh Indian to complete century of Test matches.Interestingly he is the oldest among Indians to accomplish this feat at 35 years 171 days, breaking Sunil Gavaskar’s Indian record. Sachin Tendulkar is the youngest Indian to do so, while Rahul Dravid took least time (from the date of debut) in playing his 100th Test.Indian players with 100 Test

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Sourav Ganguly today became only the third Indian batsman to aggregate 500 runs in a three-match series. At the end of fourth day's play, Ganguly's series aggregate stands at 506 runs at an average of 101.20. He, in fact, can get the Indian record on his name tomorrow. Virender Sehwag holds the distinction of highest run-aggregate in a three-match series for India. The details: Batsman

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The 70 extras conceded by India in Pakistan's first innings are the second most conceded by any side in an innings in Test history. West Indies -with 71 extras against Pakistan about 20 years back- still top the chart, but it is highly unlikely that they will remain there tomorrow. India can become the first side to concede 100 extras in an innings.The following table lists the sides conceding

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Younis - Yousuf pair today made entry into the record books as the most prolific pair to bat against India. By the time Younis Khan was bowled trying to employ a reverse sweep against Harbhajan Singh, the duo had aggregated 1,372 runs in just nine innings -in which they have batted together against India- at a mind blowing average of 171.50, moving ahead of West Indian pair of Gordon Greenidge

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Iran Pathan reached his maiden Test hundred in style - hitting Danish Kaneria for a six to move from 96 to 102. He, in the course, became only the seventh Indian to perform this feat. Tendulkar has done so as many as four times! The following table lists Indian batsmen reaching the three figure mark with a six. Pathan follows into the foot-steps of Kapil Dev, who also performed this feat while

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Sourav Ganguly completed his maiden double century in Bangalore Test. His innings is now the seventh highest by an Indian batsman. Incidentally Ganguly's 239 is the highest score by an Indian left-hander. The following table has the details: Highest innings by Indian batsmen Score Batsman Opponent Venue Season309 V Sehwag v Pakistan Multan 2003-04281 VVS Laxman v

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Yuvraj's 169 in Bangalore Test was not just the highest of his Test career, it was a treat for the spectators as well. Scoring 169 runs in just two sessions is no mean achievement by any yardstick. Yuvraj, in fact, performed the rare feat of scoring a century in a session. Only three Indians have done so before Yuvraj (not two as mentioned at various places in Indian media) - none on the first

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Mohammad Sami is turning out to be more successful with the bat than with the ball for Pakistan in this series. In three innings in the series so far Sami has batted for more than seven hours and has been involved in two useful partnerships with Misbah-ul-Haq. In the first innings of Delhi Test, Misbah and Sami added 87 runs for the ninth wicket – the highest partnership for this wicket for

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In the Kolkata Test Wasim Jaffer followed his first innings marathon innings of 202 with yet another impressive show in the second dig,scoring 56 at a brisk pace. Jaffer, in the course, became only the fifth Indian batsman to score a double century and a fifty in the same Test. Jaffer is only the second Indian opener after Sunil Gavaskar to perform this feat. Jaffer is the first Indian to do so

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· India went into this Test with only two specialist pacers (Zaheer Khan and Munaf Patel). While the strategy of playing with two pacers seems to be a defensive one, it has paid rich dividends for India at least in recent times. Out of 12 such Tests played since 2005, India has won 8 and lost only one. Interestingly India has a higher winning percentage in away matches than the matches at home

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When concept of a free-hit was introduced by the ICC to penalise a bowler bowling a no-ball, it was believed that this novel idea would be a great hit among the spectators. With no fear of getting out, batsman can hit the ball out of the ground. However this new idea has not lived upto the hype it generated. In the six games of this India-Australia series so far nine free-hits have been seen. On

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Chasing a huge victory target at Nagpur to remain in the series, Indians would have fancied their chances when Ganguly and Tendulkar put on a solid century opening partnership, which was followed by another useful partnership for the second wicket between Ganguly and Pathan. India should have pulled off a memorable victory from this position, however some inexplicable captaincy from Dhoni (which

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So India managed to grab defeat from the jaws of victory at Manchester. Losing seven wickets in first 25 overs with only 114 runs on the board, the match was almost over for England. Inexplicably skipper Rahul Dravid preferred to play safe rather than go for a kill, removed pacers and employed spinners in tandem. This tactical blunder from Dravid changed the direction of the game altogether.As

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Rahul Dravid's reluctance in enforcing the follow-on in Oval Test might have robbed India of a great victory, but his 'safety-first' approach made him the first Indian captain to win a Test series in England in 21 years. India has always been a formidable side at home, but somehow it could not transform the potential it had into wins while playing abroad. That India registered its first Test

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Lead For Opponent Venue Season Result 563 England West Indies Kingston 1929-30 Drawn445 Australia England Brisbane 2006-07 Won399 England Australia Brisbane 1928-29 Won380 Australia England The Oval 1934 Won340 Australia West Indies Sydney 1968-69 Won326 West Indies England Georgetown 1929-30 Won324 Australia

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What will Rahul Dravid do? Will he enforce follow-on in the Oval Test or not? Traditionally enforcing the follow-on is believed to be an aggressive tactics and those captains, who prefer not to enforce it, are made out to be of defensive or negative mindset.However statistics portray a different picture altogether. There is hardly any evidence that enforcing the follow-on actually works. The

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It was not just English bowlers who suffered during Indian onslaught, wicket-keeper Matt Prior had a nightmarish match also.On the opening day of the Test, he conceded 21 byes, which is a record for the first day of a Test match.Prior conceded 12 more on day two and got his name entered in the list of worst wicket-keeping performances.He is now at the joint second place in this list.

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A look at the scorecard of the Oval Test reveals an interesting statistics. All eleven Indian batsmen moved into double figures. This provided the 11th such instance in Test cricket and fourth for India. The details:County Score Opponent Venue Season LowestEngland 475 Australia Melbourne 1894-95 11South Africa 385 England Johannesburg 2005-06 10England

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India's first innings total of 664 in the Oval Test is their fourth highest total in Test cricket against all opponents. The details:Total Opposition Venue Season Result705-7d Australia Sydney 2003-04 Drawn676-7 Sri Lanka Kanpur 1986-87 Drawn675-5d Pakistan Multan 2003-04 Won664 England The Oval 2007 Match in Progress657-7d Australia

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Anil Kumble today established a new world record of a batsman scoring his maiden Test hundred after playing most number of Tests. Oval Test is Kumble's 118th Test and he surpassed Sri Lanka's Chaminda Vaas' record who was playing his 97th Test when he scored his maiden 100.The following table lists top-5 batsmen taking most Tests to score their maiden Test hundred:Test# Batsman For

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The rain gods saved India from a certain defeat at Lord's. This provided the 16th instance in Test cricket history of a side hanging onto a draw with 9 wickets down in the fourth innings of a Test. This was the second such instance for India. Interestingly first ever such instance also belonged to India - vs England at Manchester in 1946.Twice India have been at the receiving end - both times

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There were as many as 14 LBW dismissals in the Lord's Test- seven for both sides. This equals the existing record of most such dismissals in a Test in England. The details:LBW Teams Venue Season14 Eng v WI The Oval 200014 Eng v Ind Lord’s 200712 Eng v WI Lord’s 198411 Eng v Aus Lord’s 197511 Eng v NZ Lord’s 199411 Eng v NZ

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When he had Andrew Strauss snapped by Rahul Dravid as his 150th catch on the opening day of Lord’s Test, Anil Kumble achieved a world record of different type on his name.This was the tenth time Kumble was dismissing a batsman in his nineties - most by any bowler in Test annals. He was previously at level with former teammate Kapil Dev with nine such instances. The accompanying table has the

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On the third day of Kandy Test between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, Kumar Sangakkara scored an unbeaten 222 - his second double century in successive innings.Sangakkara had also made an unbeaten 200 in Sri Lanka's only innings in second Test at P.Sarvanamuttu Stadium in Colombo. With this Sangakkara became only the fourth batsman in Test cricket history to score double centuries in successive

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Fighting a lost battle in the second Test at Mirpur Mohammad Ashraful decided that enough was enough and put Indian bowling attack to sword.Almost all bowlers were hit to all corners of the ground in the highly entertaining innings of 67 which lasted for only 46 minutes. Ashraful faced 41 balls in all and hit 12 fours and two sixes. During the course of his innings Ashraful raced to his fifty in

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Wicketkeeper batsman MS Dhoni got himself a couple of world records by scoring an unbeaten 139 in the third and final Afro-Asia Cup match on Sunday.Coming into bat with Asia XI tottering at 72 for five, Dhoni added 218 runs (off just 178 balls) with skipper Mahela Jayawardene for the sixth wicket establishing a new partnership record for this wicket in one-day internationals.The previous record

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Sourav Ganguly made a grand comeback into Indian ODI side in the Nagpur one-dayer against West Indies. Playing his first game in more than 16 months Ganguly was all set to score a sparkling century when Dwayne Smith's direct hit found him short of his crease at non-striker end.Ganguly thus joined the select band of cricketers who have suffered the ignominy of getting run-out on 98 or 99. It is

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Munaf Patel has been the pick of Indian bowlers in the ongoing St. Kitts Test taking three wickets out of the five to fall in West Indies’ innings including the prized scalp of Brian Lara. But he entered the record books for wrong reasons on day two as he was carted for six consecutive fours in one single over by Ramnaresh Sarwan. This provided only the fifth instance in Test cricket history of a

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When Rahul Dravid asked West Indies to bat again after bundling out the hosts for a paltry 215 and gaining a first innings lead of 373, it provided only the 25th instance of an Indian captain enforcing the follow-on on the opposition.Overall it was the 269th instance of a side enforcing the follow-on in Test cricket. England have imposed this ignominy on most number of occasions on the opponents

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India's remarkable run in ODIs has given them a golden opportunity to achieve a new milestone.Jamshedpur one-dayer will be India's 615th ODI. In the 614 previous games, India have won 293 and lost 294. In addition 3 games were tied and 24 were abandoned. Thus India stand a chance to first equal their tally of defeats and then surpass it with their tally of wins if they continue their winning

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Andrew Flintoff got a very intriguing record on his name in the Mohali Test that almost went unnoticed. Flintoff had a presence there at the crease for sometime on each and every day of the Test, which is a very rare occurrence in Test cricket.Flintoff was unbeaten on 4 at the end of first day’s play when rain and bad light allowed only 50.3 overs. He was still unbeaten on 26 at the end of

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In his last seven innings (starting from Kolkata ODI vs South Africa) Yuvraj has made a score of at least 35, which is a new Indian record. The previous best sequence for India was of six consecutive innings, jointly held by Sanjay Manjrekar (in 1991), Virender Sehwag (in 2002) and Sachin Tendulkar (twice – in 2003 & 2003-04).Eight more batsmen - Australia's Graham Yallop and Geoff Marsh,

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Indian wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni got two world records on his name during the fifth and final one-dayer against Pakistan at Karachi.By remaining unbeaten on 77,Dhoni lifted his career batting average to 53.95, which is the highest for any batsman having scored at least 1,000 runs in one-day internationals. Dhoni moved ahead of Australia's Michael Bevan.Highest career average in ODIs:(Min

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In a limited-overs game, side batting first wins by runs and that batting second by wickets. This is what we all have seen over the years and how it is written in the record-books -of course excepting the rare instances of a side conceding a match. Even when the result was made on the basis of run-rate in case of rain / weather interruptions, it was only in line with the established cricketing

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In the first one-day international between India and Pakistan in Peshawar , Inzamam-ul Haq provided only the third instance in ODI history of a batsman getting out obstructing the field, when he intercepted a throw from Super sub Suresh Raina with his bat to avoid being run-out.Others to suffer this fate in ODIs are:1. Rameez Raja (99), versus England at Karachi in 1987-88. He intercepted the

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Irfan Pathan became 33rd player in cricket history and only the second Indian to claim a Test match hat-trick, when he dismissed Salman Butt, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf off the fourth, fifth and sixth ball of his first over in Karachi Test. The first and only other Indian to make a hat-trick is Harbhajan Singh, who did so against Australia at Kolkata in 2000-01.A total of 36 hat-tricks have

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The Faisalabad Test will always find a special mention in the annals of Test cricket for a number of reasons. The batsmen from either side took full advantage of the flattest track one would ever see and made runs with the ridiculous ease. 1702 runs were scored in the match for the loss of 28 wickets – a daily average of more than 340 runs and less than six wickets! A total of 15 centuries were

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from the fifth day of Faisalabad Test:0 – Number of wickets taken by Harbhajan Singh in the series after bowling 81 overs and conceding 355 runs.4 – Number of centuries scored by Younis Khan in last four Tests against India, becoming only the fourth batsman to score four consecutive centuries against a particular country after Don Bradman (twice v England), Neil Harvey (v South Africa) and

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Cricinfo has mentioned MS Dhoni's 93-ball hundred as the fourth fastest by any wicketkeeper. As per my records, it is the seventh fastest. Here it is:Balls Keeper (Score) Countries Venue Season81 Kamran Akmal (102*) Pak v Ind Lahore 2005-0684 AC Gilchrist (122) Aus v Ind Mumbai 2000-0184 AC Gilchrist (113*) Aus v Zim Perth 2003-0486 AC Gilchrist (162) Aus v NZ W'ton

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from the third day of Faisalabad Test0 – Number of centuries scored by Indian wicket-keepers against Pakistan before MS Dhoni’s hundred2 – Number of centuries scored by Dravid against Pakistan as captain, equalling Sunil Gavaskar’s Indian record.4 – Number of sixes hit by MS Dhoni – more than any other Indian wicket-keeper in an innings against Pakistan.9 – Century partnerships between Rahul

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From the second day of Faisalabad Test3 – Number of times Pakistan have made 500 runs in last 3 innings – 636 for 8 decl vesrsus England at Lahore, followed by 679 for 7 decl against India at Lahore and 588 in Faisalabad.4 - Number of wickets taken by RP Singh – second best figures by any Indian pacer on first appearance against Pakistan (Best : 5 for 104 by Manoj Prabhakar at Karachi in 1989-90)

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A different way of looking at cricket stats!Day 1, Faisalabad Test0 – Number of wickets taken by spin duo of Kumble and Harbhajan. For the second successive time in the series, this pair has gone wicket-less on the opening day.3 – Number of left-arm pacers played by India. First such instance in Indian Test cricket history.22- Runs conceded by Irfan Pathan in one single over to Inzamam & Afridi.

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A total of 107 one-day internationals were played during the calendar year 2005, including the seven Combined XI games. The year started with Tsunami relief fund match between a World XI and an Asian XI at Melbourne. Buoyed by the success of this match, ICC also granted official status (amid strong protests from statisticians the world over) to the three-match series between Asia XI and Africa XI

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A total of 48 Tests were played between ten Test playing nations in the calendar year 2005, out of which 36 produced result. And yes, there was also a farce in the name of Super 'Test' between Australia and an ICC World XI, which was accorded the official status by the ICC -- clearly because of commercial reasons. This 'Test' has been included in this statistical analysis, though yours truly

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Fellow ACS member Kendix David - the man behind ICC's cricket rating - has been kind enough to inform about ICC's recent decision to change the definitions of OFFICIAL Test and ODI.This, I feel,was necessary after continuing critism from leading cricket statisticians world over. This is what David wrote in his email:"In the light of a series of recent ICC decisions to grant official status to

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Two wides and one no-ball, this was all what Indian bowlers and fielders conceded as extras in the sixth one-dayer against Sri Lanka at Rajkot. It was a refreshing change from the past when Indians would invariably give away a lot of runs in byes and leg-byes. Not to forget the numerous wides and no-balls sent down by our bowlers.The three extras in Sri Lankan innings are the least conceded by

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni set a plethora of records during his brilliant innings of 183 not out in the third one-dayer against Sri Lanka at Jaipur. Some major are:- When he reached 50, Dhoni became first Indian wicketkeeper to score a fifty against Sri Lanka in India. Interestingly, he held the previous highest score by an Indian wicketkeeper against Sri Lanka in India with his 38 at Nagpur on October

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Super Series suffers status static Even as the International Cricket Council (ICC) is going hoarse, shouting from rooftops about how successful the Super Series in Australia has been, some noted statisticians have taken umbrage to the entire show being given official status, and have accused the ICC of adopting double standards. Englishman Bill Frindall, one of the world's top statisticians,

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The wicket of Marcus Trescothick on the fifth and final day of Oval Test was something special for Shane Warne since it gave him a world record.Trescothick’s was Wicket # 168 for Warne against England in his 31st Test, which put him ahead of countryman Dennis Lillee in the list of bowlers capturing most wickets against a particular country. Lillee had taken 167 wickets in 29 Tests - also against

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England have regained the Ashes for the first time since 1986-87. If one were to choose a single English player who made the biggest impact on the series, it can not be one other than Freddie Flintoff.Making his first appearance in the Ashes contests, Flintoff gave one of the best all-round performance in a series in the history of the Test cricket. That it was after a gap of more than 30 years a

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On the third day of the fourth Test in Nottingham, England brought an end to Australia's long-lasting streak of not facing a follow-on.The last team to enforce follow-on on Australia was Pakistan under Javed Miandad at Karachi in September 1988. Australia went on to lose that Test by an innings margin.Since then, Australia have played a record 190 Tests in almost 17 years without suffering the

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Australia’s Adam Gilchrist became the leading run-scorer wicket-keeper in the history of Test cricket during the just concluded Manchester Test against England. Gilchrist ended the Test with a tally of 4,572 runs to go ahead of England’s Alec Stewart’s run-aggregate of 4,540 runs in 82 Tests (although Stewart played in 133 Tests, he kept wickets in 82 Tests only).Interestingly Gilchrist needed 11

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The five sixes hit in England’s second innings of Manchester Test took their series aggregate of sixes to 26 (four sixes were hit in the first Test at Lord’s,16 in the second Test at Birmingham and six in the third Test at Manchester). This is now the most number of sixes hit by any side against Australia in a Test series. The previous record was of 23 sixes hit by South Africa in four match

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The wicket of India's Irfan Pathan in the opening match of Indian Oil Cup tri-series helped Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan register a new world record.Pathan's wicket was the 368th wicket for Muralitharan in one-day internationals. He also has taken 549 wickets in Tests to register a combined aggregate of 917 wickets in international cricket.With the wicket of debutant Venugopal Rao

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The Indian team for tri-series in Sri Lanka has been announced.The five wise-men of Indian cricket have preferred Ashish Nehra over Ajit Agarkar for the Tri-Series in Sri Lanka, however a look at the performance of these two players since 2003 World Cup portrays a different picture altogether.This is how two players have performed since 2003 World Cup:Bowler Mts Wkts Ave. Best 4W SR RpO

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The cricket scoring in Indian domestic matches is ready for a radical change from the coming season. Noting the proceedings of the game by putting dots, crosses, circles etc. in the notebooks is soon going to be a thing of past. The notebooks that scorers will now carry will be the computer kind, and the mouse will replace their blue, black, red and green pens and pencils. The Association will be

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The International Cricket Council seems to have developed the knack of inviting the wrath of cricket statisticians. In recent times, every single decision it has taken -- having an impact on cricket statistics -- has not gone well with the custodians of cricket statistics and records.ICC's latest ruling that allows a player to be replaced with a substitute during the course of a match has made

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In the third match of NatWest Series, Australia’s Mike Hussey got a world record on his name. Hussey was dismissed after making a well compiled 84 (off 83 balls) in this game helping Australia in putting up a decent total. Interestingly it was for the first time that Hussey got out in his career of seven ODIs. Having made his debut against India at Perth in February 2004, Hussey’s scores in

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Kevin Pietersen played a scintillating innings of 91 in the Bristol one-dayer to give Australia their fourth consecutive loss of the tour. Pietersen has now aggregated 649 runs in 10 innings of 13 ODIs at an average of 162.25. Both his aggregate and average are the highest for any player in ODI history after playing exactly 10 innings.By an odd coincidence the previous record in this category was

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Pakistan seem to have developed a habit of making a comeback in the series after losing the opening Test. In three series of the last four they have played, Pakistan have managed to level the series after suffering huge defeat in the first Tests. Interestingly on all of the three occasions Inzamam-ul-Haq lead from the front,scoring a century on each occasion which settled the issue.Following are

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Pakistan beat West Indies by 136 runs in Kingston Test to level the series 1-1. The defeat gave Brian Lara an entirely unwanted record on his name. Lara has now appeared in 54 LOST matches for West Indies. With this he joined England's Alec Stewart to share the record of appearing in maximum number of LOST matches. However Lara's defeat-percentage of 46 is much higher than Stewart's 41. Among the

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Even as Brian Lara got out for a duck in the second innings of Kingston Test, his first innings heroics was enough to accord him a world record. Lara has now aggregated 6,006 runs in HOME matches- highest aggregate for any batsman in Test cricket. Lara surpassed England's Graham Gooch's tally of 5,917 runs. Interestingly Lara moved ahead of Gooch in 13 Tests and 29 innings fewer than him.Leading

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Like a large number of fellow statisticians I have often been pained at the absence of a statistical annual, which could give a clear view of the domestic cricket in India season after season. It is very easy to tell who has scored maximum runs in English County Cricket. Pick the latest Wisden or go to Cricinfo record section and you have the answer in seconds. But nowhere you will get the answer

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West Indies, by losing the third ODI against Pakistan at Gros Islet, recorded their worst sequence of losses in one-day internationals. This was their ninth loss at a trot, which ‘bettered’ their previous record of eight consecutive defeats in 1999-00 season – all under Brian Lara’s captaincy. The accompanying table lists all instances of five or more consecutive defeats for West Indies.Mts From

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Probably world’s best coach technically. The 56-year old Australian has a flair for the big occasion. He scored a century in his first and final Tests, scored centuries in both innings of his debut Test as captain and in between established a reputation as one of the finest thinkers of the modern game.Failed in 2000 for talking more about his pay-cheque than his vision for Indian cricket. Since

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Bill Frindall, world's most respected cricket statistician, is not taking the Tsunami relief fund match in to his records. He is not going to include the Super Series Test and ODIs scheduled to be played between World XI and Australian XI either. And he has the reasons to defy ICC's dictat.Infact ICC's decision of granting official status to Tsunami relief fund match had not gone well with the

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The St.John's Test was a statistician's delight as a plethora of records were established on the fifth and final day. Some of them are:West Indies’ total of 747 is the seventh highest in Test cricket and HIGHEST against South Arica. The previous highest total against South Africa was 654 for 5 by England at Durban in 1938-39.The combined aggregate of both sides’ first innings in St.John’s Test

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Chris Gayle rewrote the record books on the fourth day at the Antigua Recreation Ground in St. John’s. The lanky West Indian opener became the first batsman in Test cricket history to score a triple-century against South Africa. Before Gayle, the record of playing highest individual innings against South Africa was held by Australia’s Don Bradman with an unbeaten 299 at Adelaide in 1931-32.A

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Jacques Kallis became the leading run-scorer for South Africa during his innings of 147 in the first innings of St.John’s Test against West Indies. Already the highest run-scorer for South Africa in shorter version of the game, Kallis surpassed Gary Kirsten’s aggregate of 7,289 runs in Test cricket. Incidentally Kallis did so in 8 Tests and 21 innings lesser than Kirsten. With his 147 Kallis also

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In one of the best displays of power-hitting, Shahid Afridi just tore the Indian bowling apart in the Kanpur one-dayer. It took Afridi only 45 balls to reach his hundred, which is the fastest hundred against India and the second joint fastest hundred in all ODIs after his own 37-ball hundred against Sri Lanka (in 1996-97) and alongwith Brian Lara (v Bangladesh at Dhaka in 1999-00.However the most

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Pakistan registered a remarkable win over India to level the series 2-2 in the fourth ODI at Ahmedabad. The match also provided the fifth instance of a side achieving the winning target against India off the last possible ball of the match. Interestingly three times out of five such instances Pakistan have inflicted the defeat including that famous last ball six by Javed Miandad in the

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Marvan Atapattu, by scoring 127 against New Zealand in the first Test match at Napier, joined the selected band of cricketers who have managed to score at least a century against all other Test playing countries. Atapattu is the fifth member of this exclusive club which includes Australia’s Steve Waugh, South Africa’s Gary Kirsten and India’s Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar.

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It was amazing to see so many fours and sixes being hit in the Visakhapatnam match between India and Pakistan. Indian batsmen hit 34 fours and nine sixes and Pakistan paid back with 28 fours and seven sixes. In all 344 runs came in boundaries in the entire match! There has been only one better effort than this in the history of One-Day Internationals. In the World Cup 1996 match between Sri Lanka

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Younis Khan yesterday added his name to the ever-increasing list of batsmen who have reserved their best performance for India. Younis is the 34th batsman to score a double century against India.Of these as many as 25 also achieved their career-best score against India. A detailed look into the career statistics of these players reveals some interesting facts. West Indian Faoud Bacchus made 250

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Younis Khan’s epic innings of 267 is now the highest individual innings on Indian soil by a visiting batsman. Younis bettered West Indian Rohan Kanhai’s 46 years old record. Incidentally Younis’ performance is the second best among all individual performances on Indian soil – for or against India after VVS Laxman’s 281 at Calcutta in 2000-01.The following table lists the highest individual scores

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Kumble played important part in Indian victory at Kolkata Test by picking up seven wickets in the second innings and ten wickets in the match. Kumble has now appeared in 31 WON matches for India. His tally is the highest for a specialist bowler -well ahead of Kapil Dev (24), Harbhajan Singh (18),Bishan Singh Bedi (17) and Javagal Srinath (17).In fact only Sachin Tendulkar has made appearance in

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Sachin Tendulkar completed 10,000 runs in Test cricket when his score reached 27 on the opening day of Kolkata Test. Tendulkar became the second Indian and only the fifth batsman in Test history to do so. He, however, is the only one to aggregate 10,000 runs both in ODIs and Tests.Tendulkar needed 195 innings to complete his 10,000 runs, which makes him the joint fastest along with West Indies’

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Rahul Dravid achieved a landmark on the third day of Mohali Test, which no body seems to have taken notice of. The 103 runs partnership for the second wicket between Sehwag and Dravid was the 50th century partnership involving Dravid. He became only the third Indian and seventh batsman overall to accomplish this feat. Dravid’s frequency of 1.74 Tests for a century partnership at an average is

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