Australia's batting in the '93 ashes

[mr_mister]

Was before my time but just glancing at the statistics, it struck me as pretty interesting.

All members of the top 7 averaged 40+ and scored at least one ton (Slater, Taylor, Boon, The Waughs, Border and Healy)

6 of the top 7 scored at least 400 runs, with Healy falling short of that but still contributing a respectable 292 runs @ 59 batting at 7.


How many of these things are records? Just seems like everybody was in amazing form

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Hmmmm. It was at Lord's in that series where the Australian top 4 all scored tons (well, Mark Waugh out for 99)

And of course, as I've mentioned many, many times before - I was at the ground the day Athers was run out for 99. Wonderful stuff.

They also racked up a massive score in one of the other Tests (Headingley?)

 

[mr_mister]

England in the 2010/11 ashes could lay a similar claim (6/7 for 40+ averages and 6/7 got at least one ton) but for Collingwood playing through the whole series and not even getting a fifty.

Only 2/7 achieved the 400 run barrier but there was one less test played which kinda evens that out

 

[Molehill]

England in the 2010/11 ashes could lay a similar claim (6/7 for 40+ averages and 6/7 got at least one ton) but for Collingwood playing through the whole series and not even getting a fifty.

Only 2/7 achieved the 400 run barrier but there was one less test played which kinda evens that out

Also, 3 of those matches were innings victories whilst at Brisbane only 3 batted in the 2nd dig (517-1).

Not easy to get over 400 runs from 6 innings which is what 4-7 were doing.

 

[TheJediBrah]

When was the last time a "6th Test" was played in cricket? Probably over 20 years

 

[Molehill]

When was the last time a "6th Test" was played in cricket? Probably over 20 years

I think the 1997 Ashes was probably the last time. Would've been quite good to have a 6th the last couple of series in England.

 

[Ali TT]

I think the 1997 Ashes was probably the last time. Would've been quite good to have a 6th the last couple of series in England.

Technically it was England's tour to the Carribbean the following winter as the first test, abandoned after ten overs, still counts even though an additional match was added to the schedule.

 

[Molehill]

Technically it was England's tour to the Carribbean the following winter as the first test, abandoned after ten overs, still counts even though an additional match was added to the schedule.

You'd be annoyed if you were one of the three who was out on that minefield counting against your average.

 

[Gremlin]

Hmmmm. It was at Lord's in that series where the Australian top 4 all scored tons (well, Mark Waugh out for 99)

And of course, as I've mentioned many, many times before - I was at the ground the day Athers was run out for 99. Wonderful stuff.

They also racked up a massive score in one of the other Tests (Headingley?)

I was barman to the Aussie team at their hotel in the Leeds test. Boon was on a ton not out.

I'll claim his early wicket on the following day.

 

[Burgey]

Hmmmm. It was at Lord's in that series where the Australian top 4 all scored tons (well, Mark Waugh out for 99)

And of course, as I've mentioned many, many times before - I was at the ground the day Athers was run out for 99. Wonderful stuff.

They also racked up a massive score in one of the other Tests (Headingley?)

I think it was the Sun which ran with “Waugh Fails” as its headline the next day.

 

[howitzer]

You'd be annoyed if you were one of the three who was out on that minefield counting against your average.

Credit to Stewart for surviving it too. The best 9 ever imo.

 

[honestbharani]

Credit to Stewart for surviving it too. The best 9 ever imo.

Quiney?


@Prince EWS

 

[howitzer]

Quiney?


@Prince EWS

It was a casual reference to that, yeah.

 

[AndrewB]

Less consistently solid than the 93 Australians, but Pakistan's batters v India in 1982-3 had fun:

Mohsin Khan: 341 @ 56.83
Mudassar Nazar: 761 @ 126.83
Javed Miandad: 594 @ 118.80
Zaheer Abbas: 650 @ 130.00
Saleem Malik: 227 @ 30.50
Imran Khan: 247 @ 61.75

Though I should point out that Imran was actually batting at 7: Mansoor Akhtar, Wasim Raja, Majid Khan and Haroon Rashid between them filled the other batting spot... and scored 50 @ 8.33.

In the 1938-9 SA v Eng series (the one with the 10-day final Test), Hutton, Gibb, Paynter, Hammond, Ames, Edrich and Valentine all averaged at least 40 for England, but Hutton didn't score a hundred. Mitchell, van der Bijl, Rowan, Nourse, Dalton and Melville also all average at least 40 for SA (though Dalton and Melville weren't always batting in the top 6).