Cricket Statistics and Trivia

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Re: Cricket Statistics and Trivia

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Puneet is back with his trivia :)
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Yeah ..you'll be served  with other interesting trivia soon :)
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Jacques Kallis became the first cricketer to reach 8,000 runs and 200 wickets in Tests and One-Day Internationals.

Sanath Jayasuriya has achieved the 8,000-200 double in one-dayers while Sir Garfield Sobers has done the same in tests.

Kallis is also South Africa’s all-time highest run-scorer in both forms of the game.
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Most sixes in an ODI innings

Yesterday, Boucher scored 147 runs against Zim ..he hit 10 sixes in his innings.
Here is a list for "Most sixes in an ODI innings"

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11 ST Jayasuriya SL v Pak at Singapore 1995/96
11 Shahid Afridi Pak v SL at Nairobi 1996/97
10 MS Dhoni Ind v SL at Jaipur 2005/06
10 MV Boucher SA v Zim at Potchefstroom 2006/07
9  Ijaz Ahmed Pak v Ind at Lahore in 1997/98
9  Shahid Afridi Pak v Ind at Kanpur 2004/05
9  L Vincent NZ v Zim at Bulawayo 2005/06
9  RT Ponting Aus v SA at Johannesburg 2005/06 
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Most 50s from the top of the order in an ODI inns

Here is a list of Limited-overs International matches in which four
batsmen from the top of the order scored 50s for their sides.

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Eng (320-8) v Aus  Birmingham    Aug 22, 1980  W
GA Gooch 108; G Boycott 78; CWJ Athey 51; RO Buthcer 52

Zim (271-6) v NZ   Harare        Nov  8, 1992  L
A Flower 56; GW Flower 63; DL Houghton 50; MH Dekker 55

SL  (339-4) v Pak  Mohali        May 24, 1997  W
ST Jayasuriya 96; MS Atapattu 53; PA de Silva 90; A Ranatunga 80

SL  (295-7) v Pak  Kimberley     Apr  7, 1998  L
ST Jayasuriya 57; RS Kaluwitharana 54; PA de Silva 90; A Ranatunga 86

SAf (363-3) v Zim  Bulawayo      Sep 23, 2001  W
G Kirsten 66; HH Gibbs 125; JH Kallis 83; JN Rhodes 54*

Aus (434-4) v SAf  Johannesburg  Mar 12, 2006  L
AC Gilchrist 55; SM Katich 79; RT Ponting 164; MEK Hussey 81

Ind (289-3) v Eng  Indore        Apr 15, 2006  W
AR Uthappa 86; RS Dravid 69; Yuvraj Singh 63*; SL Raina 53

SAf (418-5) v Zim  Potchefstroom Sep 20, 2006  W
LL Bosman 88; AN Peterson 80; JH Kallis 50; MV Boucher 147*
Source: Aslam in r.s.c
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Here's an intereting one...atleast one person (read sandeep) will like it.

In the recently concluded DLF series ('concluded' as far as the Indian team is concerned), Sachin outsocred the whole top-order combined.

He scored 222 runs is 4 innings, which is more than that of Dravid (39 runs in 4 inn)+Sehwag (28 runs in 4 inngs) +Raina (73 runs in 4 inngs) + Dhoni (43 runs in 3 inngs) + {Kaif (22 runs in 2 inngs)+Yuvraj (0 runs in 2 inngs)} combined!!

You can add Agarkar, Sreesanth and Munaf also ..if you like.
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Puneet's statistics and trivia are always interesting. And this one is interesting in its own right, but he has left out Mongia...
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Mongia played just 1 game...and I left him out to make this "trivia" more interesting. The other played all 4 games.
Did you notice the curlty brackets {} I used for Kaif+Yuvraj ..combined 4 games.
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That was an interesting one and I indeed loved it :)
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Obviously he's very early in his career, but here are some of Tharanga's feats in Limited-overs Internationals.

Best conversion rates of 50s into 100s (qualification - at least 5 centuries):

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  %    100 50
66.67   6   3   WU Tharanga (SL)
39.02  16  25   HH Gibbs (SAf)
37.50   6  10   VVS Laxman (Ind)
36.84   7  12   DI Gower (Eng)
36.36  12  21   ME Trescothick (Eng)
35.40  40  73   SR Tendulkar (Ind)
35.00   7  13   Zaheer Abbas (Pak)
31.57  20  43   Saeed Anwar (Pak)
30.00  12  28   CH Gayle (WI+)
Best century to innings ratio (qualification - at least 5 centuries):

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  %   100s Inn
20.69   6   29   WU Tharanga (SL)
11.67   7   60   Zaheer Abbas (Pak)
11.17  40  358   SR Tendulkar (Ind)
 9.84  12  122   ME Trescothick (Eng)
 8.66  11  127   CG Greenidge (WI)
 8.65  16  185   HH Gibbs (SAf)
 8.51  12  141   CH Gayle (WI+)
 8.20  20  244   Saeed Anwar (Pak)
 8.15  22  270   SC Ganguly (Ind+)
 8.00  20  250   RT Ponting (Aus+)
Highest batting average ignoring 'not outs' (qualification - at least 1000 runs):

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 Ave    In  NO   Runs
43.19   32   7   1382   KP Pietersen (Eng+)
42.87   60   6   2572   Zaheer Abbas (Pak)
40.43  127  13   5134   CG Greenidge (WI)
40.25  167  24   6721   IVA Richards (WI)
40.14  358  35  14370   SR Tendulkar (Ind)
40.03   29   0   1161   WU Tharanga (SL)
40.03   34   0   1361   BC Broad (Eng)
From Aslam's post in r.s.c.
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Re: Cricket Statistics and Trivia

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I didn't get the second one. How come Tharanga's century to innings ration is over 20?
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6x100/29 = 20.69 > 20.
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Five players from one side scoring 30 or more runs

In today's game between SL and Pak, 5 SL players scored 30 or more runs. Here's the complete list.

Here is a list of Limited-over International matches in which 5 players from one side scored 30 or more runs.

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WI  (292-6) v BD   Dhaka    Oct  8, 1999  W
JC Adams 56; WW Hinds 40; S Chanderpaul 92*;
RL Powell 34; NAM McLean 39

Aus (291-6) v Zim  Sydney   Jan 28, 2001  W
AC Gilchrist 63; ME Waugh 36; SR Waugh 36; MG Bevan 74*;
DS Lehmann 36

Ind (348-5) v BD   Dhaka    Dec 27, 2004  W
V Sehwag 70; SR Tendulkar 47; SC Ganguly 55;
RS Dravid 60; Yuvraj Singh 69 (M Kaif 29*)

Ken (284-7) v Zim  Bulawayo Feb 26, 2006  W
AO Suji 35; SO Tikolo 98; TM Odoyo 38; T Mishra 45;
JK Kamande 32*

SL  (253)   v Pak  Jaipur   Oct 17, 2006  ?
WU Tharanga 38; ST Jayasuriya 48; DPMD Jayawardene 31;
KC Sangakkara 39; MS Atapattu 36
Notes:
1. Kenyans were batting in contiguous positions (3-7).

2. Sri Lankans are the only ones to achieve this feat from the top of
the order (1-5).

From: Aslam's post in r.s.c
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In his last 18 test matches (Bangladesh and Zim excluded),
Sachin has scored just 726 runs at an average of 27.9 runs per inngs (with 1 century and 4 fifties)
Contrast this with his career average of 55.4!
Of these 18 matches, 13 were played on home soil.
Here is the link:

Now lets consider Dada ..the man who was dropped becuase he was consistently failing in test matches.
Here are Dada's stats in his 18 matches (prior to him being dropped). I've removed Zim and B'desh
Link (remove the last 4 matches - those were his "comeback" matches).

768 runs at an average of 29.5 (with 2 centuries and 3 fifties).
Of these 18 matches, 13 were held on Indian soil.
:devil:
If instead of 18, I include 20 matches (ie. matches from Aus series too), then Sachin's average shoots to 47! while Ganguly's becomes 34.

But this clearly shows the slump that Sachin is going through..and maybe the weightage (sometimes bias) that is attached to his name.
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Re: Cricket Statistics and Trivia

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I wonder what was Sachin's average before these 18 matches!!
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