Cricketers with interesting records

[OverratedSanity]

Ok

 

[Burgey]

Yesssss

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Phil DeFreitas played 44 Tests, which is pretty interesting.

 

[Starfighter]

I find it more interesting that Derek Pringle played 30 tests. What the hell were they seeing in him?

Yesterday I watched highlights from a match in which DeFreitas and Lewis opened and Pringle was third seamer. With Tuffers as spinner that is a bowling attack that can truly be described as... rubbish.

Didn't stop Blair Hartland getting a pair though.

 

[fredfertang]

I find it more interesting that Derek Pringle played 30 tests. What the hell were they seeing in him?

NIBS (Next Ian Botham Syndrome)

There was a lot of it about in selectorial circles in those days

 

[Lillian Thomson]

NIBS (Next Ian Botham Syndrome)

There was a lot of it about in selectorial circles in those days

I quite liked David Capel.

 

[mr_mister]

Was Dom cork also selected under that rule

 

[fredfertang]

Initial reaction was to say no, but looking at the England side he debuted for perhaps he was

 

[fredfertang]

I quite liked David Capel.

Me too - nowhere near good enough but you couldn't fault him for effort

 

[Flem274*]

mark richardson was once a spin bowler who slogged cameos down the order

 

[harsh.ag]

Afridi was innocence. Lala forever.

 

[Kirkut]

Gavaskar scoring the fastest test ton against Marshall and Holding, his 100 came in 94 balls. Not the one you would expect from after 1975 World Cup.

 

[AndrewB]

I find it more interesting that Derek Pringle played 30 tests. What the hell were they seeing in him?

Yesterday I watched highlights from a match in which DeFreitas and Lewis opened and Pringle was third seamer. With Tuffers as spinner that is a bowling attack that can truly be described as... rubbish.

Didn't stop Blair Hartland getting a pair though.

To be fair to the England selectors, that attack (with Dermot Reeve as fourth seamer, no less) won both the matches where they all played. When they brought in the Actual Ian Botham (and David Lawrence) in the 3rd Test, the magic was gone and New Zealand drew easily.

 

[SteveNZ]

One that springs to mind is Tim Southees sixes record in tests.Has hit 61 at a much quicker rate then any other player in history.

Yet this is a record that infuriates all New Zealand cricket fans.

That has to be perhaps the only record (of a greatest nature, not lowest) in cricket history that to no extent excites that player's fan base (over the age of 13).

 

[buvi]

5 bowlers(played more than 50 tests)who have never bowled a single no ball in their career.

Cricket Facts 4 : 5 Bowlers who have not bowled a single "No Ball" » CricIndeed

 

[buvi]

Kapil Dev's famous 3 sixes in a row to avoid follow on. A great thing you will read tonight

Cricket Facts 3 : When Kapil Dev had his own way of avoiding the follow-on » CricIndeed

 

[buvi]

Read on some untold cricketing facts....

Cricket Facts Archives » CricIndeed

 

[Engle]

Harbajhan Singh captured over 10 times as many wickets (31 IIRC) as the next best Indian (3 wkts) in the series against Australia

 

[Starfighter]

To be fair to the England selectors, that attack (with Dermot Reeve as fourth seamer, no less) won both the matches where they all played. When they brought in the Actual Ian Botham (and David Lawrence) in the 3rd Test, the magic was gone and New Zealand drew easily.

Botham was probably worse than Lewis by that point of his career though. I love that Jones was bounced out by Pringle in the first test.

 

[_Ed_]

Didn't stop Blair Hartland getting a pair though.