ataraxia
Hall of Fame Member
Well if he'd tried to score a bit more slowly he might have got his team a first-innings lead. As it happens, the teams finished equal on first innings. Who progresses to the final in case of a draw or tie?
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Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats
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SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
In his 100th CPL match, Shimron Hetmyer scored an unbeaten 111*
Victor Ian
International Coach
...at the moment. I presume that doesnt hold througb time. Who had the most?
On drive
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
At the moment, yes, I amended the post slightly. I presume Bradman would have had this honour at some point in history
Well in the first ever test innings, Charles Bannerman opened and scored 165 before retiring out with the score at 240/7, so would've jointly held the records for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th wicket partnerships
On drive
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Hmm, guess some qualifier would have to be added like a minimum of 50 or 100 tests played after the first ever test before we start considering the achievement
Jane Austen
State Regular
Mahala Jayawardene was a joint holder of the third wicket record Test partnership with Kumar Sangakkara for SL v SA.In 2006 they put on 624,which is still both the record Test partnership AND the record first-class partnership for ANY wicket!
Then,in 2008/09,Jayawardene,together with Thilan Samaraweera,put on 437 v Pakistan which was the then highest Test 4th wicket partnership.
Jane Austen
State Regular
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At his retirement from Tests in 1948 he jointly held the following Test partnership records:
2nd wicket of 451 with Bill Ponsford v England in 1934---this was the record Test partnership for ANY wicket ( equalled by Mudassar Nazar and Javed Miandad) until beaten by Andrew Jones and Martin Crowe (467) in 1990/91.
5th wicket of 405 with Sid Barnes v England in 1946/47.After Bradman was first out for 234,Barnes was subsequently dismissed for 234 as well, claiming he did this on purpose so as to have the same score as the great man.
6th wicket of 346 with Jack Fingleton v England in 1936/37.
Just to mention you're correct about Don Bradman.
At his retirement from Tests in 1948 he jointly held the following Test partnership records:
2nd wicket of 451 with Bill Ponsford v England in 1934---this was the record Test partnership for ANY wicket ( equalled by Mudassar Nazar and Javed Miandad) until beaten by Andrew Jones and Martin Crowe (467) in 1990/91.
5th wicket of 405 with Sid Barnes v England in 1946/47.After Bradman was first out for 234,Barnes was subsequently dismissed for 234 as well, claiming he did this on purpose so as to have the same score as the great man.
6th wicket of 346 with Jack Fingleton v England in 1936/37.
Also 4th wicket of 388 with Ponsford v England in 1934.
He briefly held the record for all of 2nd-6th: his partnership of 276 with Hassett in 1946 was the record for about 7 months, then it was broken twice in consecutive matches (319 by Melville & Nourse; 370 by Compton & Edrich).
Jayawardene also set the record partnership for the 6th wicket (351 with P Jayawardene) in November 2009, so for a couple of months he was involved in 3 of the record partnerships.
Les Ames was also briefly the joint record-holder for 3 wickets: he shared in the then highest partnerships for the 4th (249 with Sandham in 1930), 5th (242 in 1933 with Hammond) and 8th (246 in 1931 with Allen) wickets.
A couple of other curiosities:
When Tip Foster scored 287 on his debut in 1903, he also (jointly) broke the record partnership for both the 5th wicket (192 with Braund) and 10th wicket (130 with Rhodes).
And William Scotton was involved in four record partnerships, mainly by staying in for a long time: in the last three he added
- 18 out of 92 with Shrewsbury for the 6th wicket
- 37 out of 151 with Walter Read for the 9th wicket*
- 34 out of 170 with WG Grace for the 1st wicket.
*this meant Read was joint record-holder for 3 wickets - he'd helped to break Scotton's first two record stands by this point - but this was back in 1884 when the records were being broken regularly.
Victor Ian
International Coach
I suspected the first test was going to ruin this. Someone who later held their bat in a completed innings would need to beat 4 of those to tie. Possible.
Perhaps a fair qualifier could be after Hobbs debuted as CW mostly doesnt give a turd about batsmen before him
Victor Ian
International Coach
Thanks guys. You make CW great.
I guess so but in an alternative universe, Bannerman might've only scored 20 and in that case the records would've been shared across a wider mix of those who batted in that series.
mackembhoy
International Vice-Captain
Players to take successive hat-tricks in first class cricket is 7
Henry Crocombe the latest to join the list.
Henry Crocombe the latest to join the list.
I guess they aren't counting Freeman's (in 1868) as being in the County Championship.
Rao achieved the feat in his first two first-class matches (and then took a second hat-trick in the second game for good measure).
mackembhoy
International Vice-Captain
The CC started officially in 1890 so that would be why.
In good company there (I mean with Dean Headley obviously).
Jane Austen
State Regular
For no particular reason other than I've just thought of it, there are two records held by a cricketer of many years ago,one of which can never be equalled.
Bill Ashdown was a very fine Kent batter at a time when Kent were strong in batting.During Ashdown's career he would have been competing for a place with the likes of Hardinge,Ames,Valentine,Legge,AJ Evans--more famous perhaps for escaping from a WW1 PoW camp,recieving the MC and as an author---Fagg,and,of course, the incomparable Woolley,all of whom played Tests.
Ashdown scored 22589 runs at an average of 30.73.He also scored TWO triple centuries.Worse,much worse, players have played Test cricket.
However Ashdown is the ONLY cricketer to have scored at least two triple centuries without ever obtaining Test status.
That is fairly remarkable.
However,Bill Ashdown is and always will be, the ONLY player to play first-class cricket in England both before The First World War and after WW2.In 1914,aged only 15,he played for GJV Weigall's X1 v Oxford University--Weigall was a Kent grandee.Then ,in 1948,he was persuaded to play in a festival match at Harrogate for Maurice Leyland's X1 v A Rext of the World X1 and scored 42 & 40---not bad for a 48 year-old!
He also took 602 wickets with his medium-fast bowling.
Bill Ashdown was a very fine Kent batter at a time when Kent were strong in batting.During Ashdown's career he would have been competing for a place with the likes of Hardinge,Ames,Valentine,Legge,AJ Evans--more famous perhaps for escaping from a WW1 PoW camp,recieving the MC and as an author---Fagg,and,of course, the incomparable Woolley,all of whom played Tests.
Ashdown scored 22589 runs at an average of 30.73.He also scored TWO triple centuries.Worse,much worse, players have played Test cricket.
However Ashdown is the ONLY cricketer to have scored at least two triple centuries without ever obtaining Test status.
That is fairly remarkable.
However,Bill Ashdown is and always will be, the ONLY player to play first-class cricket in England both before The First World War and after WW2.In 1914,aged only 15,he played for GJV Weigall's X1 v Oxford University--Weigall was a Kent grandee.Then ,in 1948,he was persuaded to play in a festival match at Harrogate for Maurice Leyland's X1 v A Rext of the World X1 and scored 42 & 40---not bad for a 48 year-old!
He also took 602 wickets with his medium-fast bowling.