Ashes Statistical Quirks and Questions

[Howe_zat]

Botham, Willis, Underwood?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Botham, Willis, Underwood?

Give that man a goldfish.

Was faintly surprised we never played Fred, Hoggy and Harmy together when each was over 200, but apparently not.

 

[NUFAN]

Bumble told as this stat on day 2's coverage.

Now for a new Ashes stat. That was the first time someone actually listened and took in what Lloyd was saying.

 

[Howe_zat]

Give that man a goldfish.

Was faintly surprised we never played Fred, Hoggy and Harmy together when each was over 200, but apparently not.

Was about to respond with that until I noticed you'd mentioned the date.

 

[GIMH]

Give that man a goldfish.

Was faintly surprised we never played Fred, Hoggy and Harmy together when each was over 200, but apparently not.

Fred got to 200 pretty late didn't he?

 

[Howe_zat]

Fred got to 200 pretty late didn't he?

Yeah, against SA in 2008. Harmy made a brief comeback ofc but Hoggard never did after getting dropped earlier that year.

 

[Cabinet96]

His failure to get to 200 means that Jason Gillespie is still the last crim batsman to make a double ton outside of Australia too.

His wicket did bring up a double century tho; he was Broad's 200th scalp. Meaning this is the first attack since 1982 where we're fielding a trio of double centurions. The last threesome, anyone?

If ding dong gets another century soon then it'll be the first time ever that England will have had three batsman with 20 centuries and three bowlers with 200 wickets.

 

[Furball]

Race to 8,000 between Cook, KP (and Clarke I think) could be quite interesting.

 

[King Pietersen]

KP now England's all-time leading international run scorer, with 13224 runs at 45.28, with his hundred yesterday taking him past Stewart and Gooch.

 

[Furball]

Someone to work out whether tea on the 14th day of the series is an Ashes record in terms of uninterrupted play in England.

 

[GIMH]

Someone to work out whether tea on the 14th day of the series is an Ashes record in terms of uninterrupted play in England.

And as they just took an early tea we could yet wind up with no actual lost overs

 

[Howe_zat]

Related - I wonder when was the last time a match in England had no play lost and was still a draw. Feeling it might be the sort of thing to throw at the get-on-with-it brigade that crops up whenever we're winning.

 

[Howe_zat]

Related - I wonder when was the last time a match in England had no play lost and was still a draw. Feeling it might be the sort of thing to throw at the get-on-with-it brigade that crops up whenever we're winning.

Answer: England v Pakistan at Lord's, 2006, 50 Tests ago.

 

[Furball]

Did we lose play in the Lord's Test v South Africa in 2008?

 

[Howe_zat]

Yup.

 

[Furball]

Fair enough, my only memory of that Test is South Africa batting for what felt like 6 months.

 

[Cabinet96]

Couldn't have lost that much. Certainly didn't cost us the game as such.

Fair enough, my only memory of that Test is South Africa batting for what felt like 6 months.

You weren't at Lords day 4

 

[Burgey]

Certainly didn't expect this Australian line up to be the first side in the series to pass 400, let alone 500.

 

[Tangles]

Clarke the difference.

 

[BoyBrumby]

When was the last time we retained/won the Ashes in three tests? Must be Donkey's years.