Not Ashes specific per se, but I heard on SSN before that Trott now has the second highest batting average of all-time after Bradman, did I hear correctly?
Obviously it's early days etc and Hussey once had this but it's still impressive. What an asset he is to us.
Nope, only needs 13 more. He's on 1573 from 25 dismissals, so to stay ahead of Pollock he needs 26 X 61 = 1586.Yeah if he gets out without scoring he'll slip to I think 5th or 6th.
He needs 47 more, if he gets out, to stay in 2nd.
Happened in 5 successive Tests involving Sri Lankacbf checking the thread, but surely the failure of any side batting first to put on more than 280 odd in 4 Tests must be fairly unprecedented in recent Test history?
Meant Test series in Australia tbh. I can't imagine in recent times Australia will have failed to put on 300+ in the first innings of a Test match throughout a series.Happened in 5 successive Tests involving Sri Lanka
Dec 7-9, 06, Christchurch: SL 154 & 170 lost to NZ 206 & 119/5 by 5 wkts
Dec 15-18, 06, Wellington: SL 268 & 365 bt NZ 130 & 286 by 217 runs
and the three innings defeats by Bangladesh in Sri Lanka (89, 62 and 131).
But if you want a decent team and in the same series, then it might be a long time. (Mainly because 4+-match series have been rare this decade :P )
Conversely, England's overall batting average of 48.26 is currently the best they have ever got in a series down under, topping the 43.18 they managed in 1928/9.Australia currently average 29.57 runs per wicket in the series. That would be the lowest mark for Australia in a Test series since 1999.
Im not going to bother to check the numbers, I trust you. A +18 run differential per wicket at home over 15 years is insane. In fact Im trying hard to measure the significance of such a difference as it is hard to compute (my drunkeness may be only partially responsible)Conversely, England's overall batting average of 48.26 is currently the best they have ever got in a series down under, topping the 43.18 they managed in 1928/9.
The only touring team to have bettered this in a series in Australia is India, who averaged 62.46 in 1985/6 and 49.22 in 2003/4.
During Australia's dominant home period of 1993-2008, touring teams only scored an overall batting average of 26.92, with India the only team to get above 30 runs per wicket. Australia's own home batting average during this period was 44.50.
Sutcliffe's 734 is also the best Ashes total by an England opener.Cook has now had the 3rd most prolific tour of any Englishman in Australia. Just beat Jack Hobbs.
Only Hammond's 905 and Sutcliffe's 734 stand in his way now.
6th best Ashes for a Pom ever at home or away too.
According to Nasser that's the first time that the 6th, 7th and 8th wickets have all added 100 runs in Test history.First time in Ashes history numbers 7 and 8 have both scored tons.
& the 636/9 at lunch has now equalled the efforts of the 28/29 tourists.- England's 620/5 dec in the 2nd test is their second highest total down under. In Sydney in 1928 the touring MCC took an extra 120.1 overs to score 16 more runs...