Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats

[Thala_0710]

Afghanistan have given debuts to more teenagers in their test cricket history than England have

 

[Thala_0710]

For reference England have played 1089 tests in their history, Afghanistan have played 11

 

[Molehill]

For reference England have played 1089 tests in their history, Afghanistan have played 11

Hmm, but apparently Rashid Khan is still not 27 years of age!!

 

[Coronis]

Afghanistan have given debuts to more teenagers in their test cricket history than England have

No. of teenage players for each side in tests (youngest player in brackets)

Pakistan - 54 (Hasan Raza 14 years 227 days)
India - 30 (Sachin Tendulkar 16 years 205 days)
Bangladesh - 29 (Mohammad Sharif 15 years 128 days)
West Indies - 20 (Derek Sealy 17 years 122 days)
New Zealand - 17 (Daniel Vettori 18 years 10 days)
Australia - 16 (Ian Craig, 17 years 239 days)
South Africa - 15 (Kwena Maphaka 18 years 270 days)
Sri Lanka - 14 (Sanjeewa Weerasinghe 17 years 189 days)
Zimbabwe - 14 (Hamilton Masakadza 17 years 352 days)
Afghanistan - 10 (Mujeeb ur Rahman 17 years 78 days)
England - 8 (Rehan Ahmed 18 years 126 days)
Ireland - 0 (Matthew Humphreys 20 years 208 days)

Also age related - no players have played for Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Ireland after hitting age 40. And 53/106 40+ players have been English.

 

[mailadobe49]

While Jacques Kallis's career statistics show a remarkable average of over 55 in 72 of his 166 matches against teams including minnows Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.

he notably failed to maintain a 55+ average in any of his 154 matches against other presumably stronger cricketing nations (without zimbabwe and Bangladesh).

 

[capt_Luffy]

While Jacques Kallis's career statistics show a remarkable average of over 55 in 72 of his 166 matches against teams including minnows Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.

he notably failed to maintain a 55+ average in any of his 154 matches against other presumably stronger cricketing nations (without zimbabwe and Bangladesh).View attachment 49300

You posted Sangakkara's stats.....

 

[sayon basak]

This might be already mentioned, but Merv Hughes is the only bowler in Test cricket history to take a hat-trick in three overs. This happened in 1988 at WACA, Perth:
First wicket: Wicket of Curtly Ambrose on the final ball of an over.
Second wicket: Final wicket (Patrick Patterson) of the West Indies innings with the first ball of his next over. The West Indies first innings got over.
Third wicket: Then in the second innings of West Indies Hughes removed the opener Gordon Greenidge with the first ball.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/west-indies-tour-of-australia-1988-89-61901/australia-vs-west-indies-2nd-test-63497/full-scorecard

 

[Jane Austen]

Mohammad Ashrafal,at the age of 17 years and 61days,is the youngest player to score a Test century---not particularly absurd but a little bit awesome.
Mohammad Ashrafal scored this century,114,on debut facing Murali and in an innings defeat---perhaps a little more awesome.
However,no fewer than fifteen players who subsequently made Test centuries on debut were born BEFORE the Bangladeshi prodigy,including Stephen Cook who made his debut Test century 14,yes 14,years later!---Now that IS absurd.