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