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Strange records

shortpitched713

Cricketer Of The Year
Tomm NCCC said:
He is the only player, on more than 100 test wickets, to not make more than 50 runs all together in his test career. Incredible.
Does anybody have a list of the Test players with more Test wickets than runs? Would probably be a very short list. McGrath got off of it a while ago I believe, so they'd have to be fair batting bunnies.
 

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Chris Martin would almost certainly be on that list, as would Danish Kaneria.
 

Magrat Garlick

Rather Mad Witch
Perm said:
Chris Martin would almost certainly be on that list, as would Danish Kaneria.
Kaneria has made good runs against WI and England recently, so has just gone off the list.

However, those who are (with more than five Tests):

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar - 242 Test wickets, 167 Test runs (he had a withered right arm due to polio. Everyone popped it short at him, it went off the limp arm to short leg...)
Bruce Reid: 113 wickets, 93 runs
Martin: 104 wickets, 48 runs
Jack Saunders (Australia 1900s): 79 wickets, 39 runs
Bert Ironmonger (Australia 1920s and 30s): 74 wickets, 42 runs
Bill Bowes (England 1930s): 68 wickets, 28 runs
Narendra Hirwani (India 1990s): 66 wickets, 54 runs
Ken Farnes (England 1930s): 60 wickets, 58 runs
Roy Tattersall (England 1950s): 58 wickets, 50 runs
Eric Hollies (of Bradman-bowling fame): 44 wickets, 37 runs
Jeff Jones (Glamorgan and England 1960s): 44 wickets, 38 runs
Alfred Hall (South Africa 1920s): 40 wickets, 11 runs
Brett Schultz (South Africa 1990s): 37 wickets, 9 runs
David Larter (England 1960s): 37 wickets, 16 runs
Cuan McCarthy (South Africa 1948-1951): 36 wickets, 28 runs in 15 Tests!
Arshad Khan (Pakistan off-spinner 1990s-2000s): 32 wickets, 31 runs
Enamul Haque jnr (current Bangladesh sla): 32 wickets, 28 runs
Jasu Patel (India off-spinner with a legendary spell, 1950s): 29 wickets, 25 runs
David Renneberg (Australia 1960s): 23 wickets, 22 runs
Tom Goddard (England 1930s): 22 wickets, 13 runs
Len Coldwell (England 1960s): 22 wickets, 9 runs
Tom Dewdney (West Indies 1950s): 21 wickets, 17 runs
Jack Iverson (Australia leg-spinner early 1950s): 21 wickets, 3 runs
Jayantha Silva (Sri Lanka 1990s): 20 wickets, 6 runs
Norman Gordon (South Africa 1938-39): 20 wickets, 8 runs
David Terbrugge (South Africa 1998-2004): 20 wickets, 16 runs
Chester Watson (West Indies 1960s): 19 wickets, 12 runs
Michael Owens (New Zealand 1990s): 17 wickets, 16 runs
Chris Drum (New Zealand 2000s): 16 wickets, 10 runs
Ehteshamuddin (Pakistan 1980s): 16 wickets, 2 runs
Mohammad Zahid (Pakistan 1990s): 15 wickets, 7 runs - 10-for on debut
Brighton Watambwa (Zimbabwe 2000s): 14 wickets, 11 runs
Grahame Corling (Australia 1964): 12 wickets, 5 runs
Jalal-ud-Din (Pakistan 1980s): 11 wickets, 2 runs

Alf Valentine is almost on: 139 wickets, 141 runs (so close - in fact, he was behind all his career, until hitting 7 out of a final partnership of 35 in his final Test at Sabina Park, before Sobers won the match with his bowling)
 

andyc

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Lillian Thomson said:
To me the strangest record was the cover version of "You're the One that I Want" by Arthur Mullard and Hilda Baker.
Disappointed this has gone unnoticed tbh.
 

haroon510

International 12th Man
PhoenixFire said:
Ajit Agarkar has to be the crappest player ever to score a Test Hundred.
i agree with u. i wonder how he did a guy who got ducks in 8 test innings against Aus can make a test hundred against one of the strongest bowling sides England in presence of flintoff and hoggard. this has got to be a recoard lol
 

imagine

School Boy/Girl Captain
AB De Villiers (1607 runs) still have no duck in test career.
Geraint Jones just made a 0

I believe Aravinda de Silva holds the record of 75 Test innings before his first Test duck
 

shortpitched713

Cricketer Of The Year
Great post, Sir Samuel. Some interesting names on that list, Arshad Khan is one, I never knew he was such a batting bunny, but tbf, his only shot was the defensive block.
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
AB De Villiers (1607 runs) still have no duck in test career.
Geraint Jones just made a 0

I believe Aravinda de Silva holds the record of 75 Test innings before his first Test duck
Its over three years since that post. De Villiers was finally dismissed for a duck by Bangla Desh on 266th November last year, the day the terrorists attacked Mumbai.

By then he had scored a total of 2958 runs in 78 runs. He overtook both Aravinda's run of 75 innings before the first duck as well as his 2779 runs.
 

slugger

State Vice-Captain
Mark Richardson has 1 wicket.

caught and bowled top run scorer in pakistan inn of 571/8 dec

Yousuf Youhana C & B Richardson 203
 

GotSpin

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Just because somebody is, unlike you, capable of typing without performing a ritual massacre of both the English language and the rules of grammar, doesn't make it writing like a 35-year-old. Some of the most eloquent posters on this site are some of the youngest; it's time you got over yourself.
Get off your high horse. Don't dare to assume you know the slightest about my academic abilities
 

KiWiNiNjA

International Coach
Mark Richardson has 1 wicket.

caught and bowled top run scorer in pakistan inn of 571/8 dec

Yousuf Youhana C & B Richardson 203
A match at Christchurch were Mathew Sinclair also scored a double ton.
A year later at the same ground (pretty much the same time of year) it was Graham Thorpe and Nathan Astle who both scored double tons in the same match.

doesnt geoff allott have a record for not scoring at all while nathan astle scored a 100??
You're thinking of Danny Morrison in this match. A last wicket partnership of 106* that Morrison only scored 14 of. Of course, at the time Morrison was closing in on the record for Test match ducks.

The Allott innings was in this match, also in Auckland.
Allott scored a duck off 77 balls against SA while NZ tried to avoid following on. Rain eventually saved us.

Get off your high horse. Don't dare to assume you know the slightest about my academic abilities
Neil to eventually reply in another 3 years time.....
 
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KiWiNiNjA

International Coach
Yeah, I really meant nothing by it. Just funny to see the time in between posts....


Back to the strange records though, well, I suppose this is just trivia but...

Double Hundreds by New Zealanders
I remember back in 1997 when Bryan Young scored his 267*, it was a pretty small club of players. In fact, he became only the 6th player to score a 200 for New Zealand, and the first since Martin Crowe's 299 in 1991.

At that point in time the list was.
1949 Martin Donnelly (206)
1955 Bert Sutcliffe (230*)
1968 Graham Dowling (239)
1972 Glen Turner (223* and 259)
1991 Martin Crowe (299)
1997 Bryan Young (267*)

Quite a select group. I even remembering some collectors items with signatures from all 6 memebers of the 200 club. Bascially one every decade until Turner managed two in quick succession, then a big gap before Crowe's and Young's a short time after that.

But then Mathew Sinclair came along on debut and smashed 214 at the Basin. Did I tell you I was there? :p

Since then
1999 Mathew Sinclair (214)
2001 Mathew Sinclair (204*)
2002 Nathan Astle (222)
2003 Stephen Fleming (274*)
2004 Stephen Fleming (202)
2005 Lou Vincent (224)
2006 Stephen Fleming (262)
2009 Jesse Ryder (201)

Bearing in mind Sinclair's debut 214 was the Boxing Day of 1999, there were basically 7 consecutive years where a New Zealander scored a double ton. Doubling the list of 7 that covered almost 50 years.

Well, I thought it was interesting. Strange? Maybe not for some.
 
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Edged&Taken

U19 Vice-Captain
India made 407 and 407 in a test against Pakistan. This is the highest "duplicate" score by a team in a test match.

At an individual level, Duleep Mendis of Sri Lanka scored 105 in both innings against India. He is the only batsman to hit identical hundreds in both innings of a test match.
 

Zinzan

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Its over three years since that post. De Villiers was finally dismissed for a duck by Bangla Desh on 266th November last year, the day the terrorists attacked Mumbai.

By then he had scored a total of 2958 runs in 78 runs. He overtook both Aravinda's run of 75 innings before the first duck as well as his 2779 runs.
Indeed, pretty amazing effort that. Ross Taylor, the next man in line, would need to double his propensity to remain duck-less to match that record. He's still yet to duck in 39 innings.
 

Zinzan

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The Allott innings was in this match, also in Auckland.
Allott scored a duck off 77 balls against SA while NZ tried to avoid following on. Rain eventually saved us.
Hmm, looking at the scorecard, wondering why Bell would've batted as low as 7 in first innings of the 1st Test of that series?
 

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