2011 Pataudi Trophy stats thread

[BoyBrumby]

Embrace your inner nerd.

Share the milestones, achievements & quiddities of the statistical bent related to the ongoing series that catch your eye.

A few obvious ones to kick things off:

- The first test at Lords was both the 2000th overall and 100th between England and India.

- England's winning margin in the second test at Trent Bridge of 319 runs was their highest ever over India in terms of runs.

- England's total of 710/7d in the first innings of the third test is their highest since WW2 and third overall.

- During their first wicket stand at Edgbaston Andrew Strauss & Alastair Cook passed Michael Slater & Mark Taylor's aggregate to move to fourth in the overall list of prolific opening partnerships.

- Cook's 294 in the third test is the sixth highest ever score by an Englishman.

- England currently have six batsman (Cook, Bell, Pietersen, Prior, Bresnan & Broad) averaging over 50 for the series, India have only one averaging over 40 in Rahul Dravid.

- Tim Bresnan stands on the verge of winning his ninth consecutive test from debut.

Any more? All contributions welcome.

 

[GIMH]

If we win this by an innings, Alastair Cook will have been on the field for the whole match

 

[BoyBrumby]

If we win this by an innings, Alastair Cook will have been on the field for the whole match

Or by 10 wickets, tbf. Assuming he opens.

 

[Howe_zat]

If Broad gets 78 more runs, he'll be the only player besides Hadlee to do the double of 20 wickets and 250 runs in a 4-match series.

 

[GIMH]

Won't he need one wicket to do that as well

 

[Howe_zat]

He already has 21.

 

[GIMH]

Thought I read he had 19. Carry on...

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Alastair Cook scored in one innings more than the Indian team have managed in each innings of the first 3 tests.

 

[four_or_six]

Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan have scored more runs in total (336) than VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar (315).

 

[four_or_six]

My thought process in the following stat:

England batsmen have scored two double centuries in one series. This hasn't happened since *goes to statsguru* ah... Ashes 2010/11. Oops! KP and Cook again, too.

To be fair, the instance before that is two in the same match in India in 1985.

 

[Xuhaib]

haha...total ownage.

 

[smash84]

you mean pwnage

 

[Xuhaib]

you mean pwnage

stop playing Counter Strike sitting in those dodgy internet cafe's

 

[wpdavid]

England have won as many test in this series as in the five previous home series against India combined.

If I had the energy, the current batting averages for the series would make grim reading for the Indians - possibly only Dravid & Dhoni in a top 10 otherwise made up of Englishmen.

 

[four_or_six]

Can a statsguru guru tell me if I've done this right? It looks as though Strauss is about to become our top winning player ever:

All-round records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Howe_zat]

Yep, that's right. Good find.

 

[GIMH]

Check out Stuart Broad's stats in wins!!!

 

[BoyBrumby]

On wins:

- Tim Bresnan stands on the verge of winning his ninth consecutive test from debut.

Is this unprecedented? 9 wins out of 9 from debut can't have happened too often.

 

[Howe_zat]

Check out Stuart Broad's stats in wins!!!

Christ.

For those that cba to look, it's even stranger than his home/away difference:

Overall: 1335 runs at 29; 128 wickets at 32. In wins that becomes 734 runs at 38.63 and 84 wickets at 23.77.

Over the last two years, he's averaged 27 with bat and ball. In wins that becomes 12 matches, 467 runs at 42.45, 56 wickets at 20.48.

 

[Howe_zat]

Is this unprecedented? 9 wins out of 9 from debut can't have happened too often.

I don't know what the longest streak from debut is, but Eldine Baptiste played in 10 Tests and won them all. I think that's the longest 100% record.