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Cricket stats. Author of The Moon is Toast. Worked on 91 Tests for BBC's Test Match Special from 2009 to 2019.

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Andrew Samson
3 years
India are the 1st team to lose all 20 wickets in a Test to catches.
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England are the first team to take 10 wickets with seam in one innings and 10 wickets with spin in the other innings of a Test.
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Andrew Samson
2 years
Youngest to reach 10 000 Test runs: AN Cook 11 479 days JE Root 11 480 days They were both 31 yrs, 157 days old but Cook had one less leap day.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Women's Test cricket is quite good. Can we have more please?
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6 years
Cook: Test career M 161 Inns 291 NO 16 Runs 12472 HS 294 Avg 45.35 100 33 50 57 Mins 37308 Balls 26562 Dots 20038 Ones 3803 Twos 980 Threes 281 Fours 1445 (incl 3 all-run) Fives 4 Sixes 11
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Yesterday Moeen Ali became the first player to have scored 100+ career runs in all 6 batting positions from 4 to 9 in Test cricket.
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Andrew Samson
6 years
England did not lose 10 wickets in a session between 1938 and 2016. Today is the 3rd time they have done this in 2 years (24 Tests). Others: v Bangladesh at Mirpur 2016 and v NZ Auckland 2018.
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Andrew Samson
7 months
India are the first team to lose 6 wickets without scoring a run in a Test innings.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
England's best bowling figures in Chennai: 1st inns: Bess 26-5-76-4 2nd inns: Leach 26-4-76-4. It is the 1st time in Tests that a team has had identical best bowling figures in each innings in Overs-Runs-Wkts.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
England's averages for the series v India to date: J Root: 386 runs at 128.66. The rest: 513 runs at 13.86.
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3 years
David Warner is the first opener to be dismissed for a pair twice in Ashes Tests.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Cameron Green scored 228 runs at 32.57 and took 13 wickets at 15.76 in the Ashes series. No Australian has scored more runs at a higher average and taken more wickets at a lower average in a Test series.
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Andrew Samson
6 years
Sam Curran is the first player to reach each of his first 3 Test fifties with a six.
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Andrew Samson
4 years
Teams dismissing opposition twice in a Test with no bowlers who took 1st inns wkts taking 2nd inns wkts: Eng v Aus The Oval 2019 1st: Archer 6, Curran 3, Woakes 1 2nd: Broad 4, Leach 4, Root 2 Eng v SL Galle 2021 1st: Anderson 6, Wood 3, Curran 1 2nd: Bess 4, Leach 4, Root 2
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Teams losing all 20 wickets on days 4 & 5 of a scheduled 5-day Test to lose: Bangladesh v New Zealand Wellington 2001 Bangladesh v Pakistan Mirpur 2021
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Andrew Samson
4 years
India used 20 players in this series. No touring team had won a Test series using more than 16 players before this.
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Andrew Samson
6 years
Players born on Christmas Day have scored more Test runs for England - 18604 (Cook, Trescothick, S Jones, Lees & Cornford) than players born on any other day of the year. 2nd: 24 Nov - 18218 (Barrington, Botham, Sutcliffe, Titmus, Jenkins, Kabir Ali).
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Andrew Samson
3 years
The first official County Championship match was in 1890. The first Sheffield Shield match was in 1892. Today is the first time that there has been play in both competitions on the same day.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Of the last 8 times England have batted first in a Test and made 350+ they have now lost 4 by an innings: v Ind Mumbai 2016 v Ind Chennai 2016 v Aus Perth 2017 v NZ Mount Maunganui 2019
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Andrew Samson
2 years
Nathan Lyon is the first bowler to be hit for 250 sixes in Test cricket. 2nd most is Rangana Herath 194 (where known)
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Ajaz Patel is the first bowler to take the first 10 wickets to fall in a Test match.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
... and Ben Foakes is the first keeper to take 2 stumpings on his birthday in a Test match.
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Andrew Samson
2 years
Number of first-class/List A/T20 overs bowled between the ages of 20 and 24: Stuart Broad 2357 Jimmy Anderson 2032 Ollie Stone 795 Saqib Mahmood 591 Matthew Fisher 549 Mark Wood 412
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Jimmy Anderson took 30 first-class wickets at 9.40 in the season. This is the best average in an English season by a bowler taking 30+ wickets since Dick Pougher in 1894 (56 @ 9.35).
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Trescothick lbw b Stevens today is the first time a bowler aged 42+ dismissed a batman aged 43+ in the County Championship since J Emburey (43) c Irani b Childs (44) Northamptonshire v Essex at Chelmsford in 1996.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Australia have been involved in 16 Test matches with a win by 10 runs of less or by 1 wicket. Of these they have won 4 and lost 12. Since 1952 they have won 0 and lost 9 of these matches.
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Andrew Samson
4 years
And Australia's unbeaten streak at The Gabba ends at 31 Tests. Pakistan's 34 at Karachi from 1955 to 2000 will remain the world record for a while.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Rashid Khan has now bowled 79.3 overs in this Test match. The most he has bowled in a season in the IPL is 68.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
West Indies are the first team to chase 300+ in one Test and defend a target of <250 in their next Test.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
India on Day 5 of Tests in 2021: Batting: 831 runs at 39.57 runs per wicket Bowling: 20 wickets at 12.65 runs per wicket
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Hitting first ball in Test cricket for England for 4 since 1978: D Gower 1978 A Lamb 1982 A Stewart 1990 D Cork 1995 R Johnson 2003 C Woakes 2013 D Sibley 2019 #bbccricket
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Andrew Samson
5 years
10th wicket partnership in the 2nd innings that is higher than team's 1st innings total in a Test: 120 R Duff/W Armstrong Aus (1st inns 112) v Eng Melb 1902 76* B Stokes/J Leach Eng (1st inns 67) v Aus Leeds 2019
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Andrew Samson
2 years
Matt Henry is the first player to score a fifty at number 11 and take 7 wickets in an innings in a Test match.
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Andrew Samson
6 years
And here is an update of most wickets in year of Test debut: 54 (avg 22.62) TM Alderman (Aus) 1981 49 (avg 23.20) CEL Ambrose (WI) 1988 48 (avg 21.02) JJ Bumrah (Ind) 2018 46 (avg 26.23) ST Finn (Eng) 2010
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Joe Root is the first player to make the top score of a Test (both teams) 6 times in a calendar year. 5: V Richards 1976, Zaheer Abbas 1982, Mohammad Yousuf 2006, K Sangakkara 2006, G Smith 2008.
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Andrew Samson
4 years
Kraigg Brathwaite has now been a milestone (100,200,300 etc) wicket 3 times: T Boult 200, J Anderson 500, S Broad 500. The batsman who has been milestone wicket most often is Jacques Kallis 5 times: J Anderson 100, A Caddick 100, S Warne 300, Z Khan 300, C Walsh 500
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Jimmy Anderson becomes the 216th bowler to take 1 000 first-class wickets. He also quite likely to be the last to do this.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Players who faced two hat-trick balls in the same innings in a Test: Mohammad Ashraful Bdesh v Ind Dhaka 2004 Joe Root Eng v Ind Lord's 2021
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Andrew Samson
4 years
Since December 2013 Australia have conceded 300+ in the 4th innings of a Test 7 times. No other team has conceded more than 3.
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Andrew Samson
7 years
Malan and Bairstow's 237 partnership is now the highest 5th wicket partnership that isn't the highest 5th wicket partnership of the Test in which it was made.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Teams that declared the 3rd innings of a Test after lunch on the final day and won: New Zealand beat Sri Lanka at Kandy in 1984 India beat England at Lord's 2021
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Andrew Samson
3 years
The first eleven batters to come to the crease in the Surrey v Glamorgan match at The Oval all reached 30. This is the first time this has happened in all first-class cricket.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Highest 10th wkt partnership in the 4th innings to win a first-class match: 78* K Perera/V Fernando SL v SA Durban 2019 77* T Leather/R Oxenham Aus v Madras Madras 1936 Prev highest in Tests: 57* Inzamam-ul-Haq/Mushtaq Ahmed Pak v Aus Karachi 1994
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Andrew Samson
4 years
Australia have now lost a wicket on 111 44 times in Test cricket compared to 29 wickets on 87.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
This is England's first Test match at Lord's where the opposing XI has more first-class appearances (93 - Murtagh 72, Stirling 15) at the ground coming into the game than the England XI (88). #bbccricket
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Average target set by captain declaring 10+ times: RT Ponting 451 (21) AN Cook 442 (10) V Kohli 429 (14) MJ Clarke 428 (13) Misbah-ul-Haq 420 (11) AJ Strauss 413 (10) JE Root 402 (10) WJ Cronje 397 (12) CH Lloyd 396 (10) GC Smith 387 (22) MA Taylor 386 (12) AR Border 372 (15)
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Andrew Samson
3 years
David Warner has faced 708 balls from Stuart Broad in Test cricket. Off the first 535 of these he scored 325 runs and was dismissed 5 times - avg 65.00, SR 60.74. Off the 173 balls since then he has scored 64 runs and been dismissed 9 times - avg 7.11, SR 36.99.
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Andrew Samson
6 years
Test match results last 3 years 2016: P 47, Won bat 1st 27, won bat 2nd 13, Drawn 7, <=4 days: 16 2017: P 47, Won bat 1st 26, won bat 2nd 14, Drawn 7, <=4 days: 23 2018: P 48, Won bat 1st 33, won bat 2nd 10, Drawn 5, <=4 days: 27
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Andrew Samson
3 years
While he was one of the truly great bowlers, my favourite Dale Steyn stat is his batting record in Boxing Day Tests: He scored 400 runs in 15 innings at 33.33 with 2 x 50 and including his 5 best scores.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Devon Conway is the 12th South African-born player to make a century on his Test debut. 6 of these are for South Africa and 6 for other countries (Eng 4, Aus 1, NZ 1).
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Andrew Samson
4 years
Batsmen younger than Zak Crawley to make 250 in a Test innings: G Sobers, D Bradman, L Hutton & G Smith
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Andrew Samson
4 years
Sri Lanka become the 1st team to have 5 bowlers with a part over in the bowling figures in a Test innings. Fenando 31.1 Rajitha 2.1 Shanaka 28.5 Kumara 21,1 Karunaratne 6.5
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Andrew Samson
7 months
Aiden Markram is the first player to make a century in a Test innings where nobody else scored more than 12. Previous best in any inns: G Gooch 91* Eng v NZ The Oval 1978 out of 138-3. Previous best in all out inns: G White 73 SA v Eng CT 1906.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
The first two Wimbledon men's singles champions, Spencer Gore (1877) and Frank Hadow (1878) both played first-class cricket. As far as I know Ash Barty (Brisbane Heat 2015/16) is the first significant cricketer to win a Wimbledon singles title since then.
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Andrew Samson
6 years
Sam Curran (271 runs at 45.16 and 10 wkts at 23.00) is the 1st player in Test cricket to have scored 250+ runs at 45+ and taken 10 wickets at <=23.00 in his first 4 Tests.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Taking the first wicket to fall in a Test innings most often: JM Anderson 100 GD McGrath 97 Kapil Dev 82 RJ Hadlee 71 CA Walsh 70 WPUJC Vaas 68 Wasim Akram 66 CEL Ambrose 63 SM Pollock 62 DW Steyn 62
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Taking the match-ending wicket to win a Test most often: 22 S Warne (Aus) 18 M Muralitharan (SL) 18 R Ashwin (Ind) 14 R Herath (SL) 13 Waqar Younis (Pak) 12 G McGrath (Aus) 12 D Steyn (SA)
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Andrew Samson
2 years
All 5 targets of 250+ in Tests since 1 June have been successfully chased. Before then teams set 250+ had won 67 of 899 times - just 7.45%.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
First 5 wickets in a Test innings all ct keeper: BJ Haddin Aus v Ind Brisbane 2014 JC Buttler Eng v Ind Leeds 2021
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Andrew Samson
6 years
Jasprit Bumrah has scored 10 runs in 10 Test inns (avg 1.42), but India have scored a total of 144 runs while he has been batting.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Most dismissals of one batsmen in a series: 7 J Siedle by C Grimmett SA v A 1935/36 7 T Goddard by B Statham SA v E 1960 7 D Gower by G Lawson Eng v A 1989 7 M Atherton by G McGrath E v A 1997 7 M Ali by N Lyon Eng Aus 2017/18 7 D Warner by S Broad Aus v Eng 2019
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Most consecutive Test tosses lost by SA captains: 8 GC Smith 2008-09 6 PW Sherwell 1906-10 6 JE Cheetham 1954-55 6 WJ Cronje 1999-00 6 SM Pollock 2001-02 6 F du Plessis 2019-20 World record: 10 N Hussain 2000-01
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Andrew Samson
5 years
There were 4 draws (all rain-affected) out of 39 Tests in 2019. At 10.25% this is the lowest percentage of draws in Tests in a calendar year since 1932 (0 draws in 7 Tests).
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Andrew Samson
7 months
Stubbs (Tristan) joins Butt (Harry) - Eng v SA Port Elizabeth 1896 - as the only players to have been dismissed twice on their first day of Test cricket.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
England did not lose 10 wickets in a session between 1938 and 2016. They have done this 4 times in their last 34 Tests: v Ban Mirpur 2016 v NZ Auckland 2018 v Ind Nottingham 2018 v Ire Lord's 2019
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Babar Azam has now reached double figures in his last 26 ODI innings. Only two players have a longer such sequence: 29 Javed Miandad (1987-89) 27 Kumar Sangakkara (2003-04)
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Andrew Samson
2 years
Number of Test centuries made in <100 balls in England 1880-2021: 10 2022: 3 so far.
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Andrew Samson
6 years
India have been bowled out for under 200 in 8 of the last 9 Test innings they have had in England (2014 & 2018).
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Australian captains to win the toss, bowl and lose the Test against England in England: R Ponting Birmingham 2005 T Paine The Oval 2019
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Most first-class wickets (current players): 1002 JM Anderson 869 TJ Murtagh 836 SCJ Broad 807 MDK Perera 793 PM Pushpakumara 762 N Wagner 684 SR Harmer 679 RMGK Sirisoma 655 PM Siddle
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Dom Sibley's 18* is the lowest score made by an England opener batting though a full first session of the first day of a Test since Chris Smith 12* v Pakistan at Karachi in 1984.
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Andrew Samson
7 years
This SA v India series is the first 3-match Test series in which 120 wickets fell.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Wagner this series To Smith: 116 balls, 22 runs 4 wkts, avg 5.50. To Warner: 44 balls, 21 runs, 3 wkts, avg 7.00. Combined: 160 balls, 43 runs, 7 wkts, avg 6.14.
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Andrew Samson
4 years
Lahiru Thirimanne is the 1st fielder to take 5 catches off one bowler (Lasith Embuldeniya) in a Test inns. There have been 8 cases off 4 including 1 by a sub.
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Andrew Samson
7 years
Youngest to 12 000 runs: A Cook 33 yrs, 13 days A Tendulkar 35 yrs, 176 days. Tendulkar is youngest to 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000 Cook is youngest to 7000, 8000, 9000, 10000,11000, 12000 #bbccricket
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Andrew Samson
3 years
The ball that Keshav Maharaj bowled to take South Africa's 2nd Test hat-trick was the 111th potential hat-trick ball bowled by a South African since Geoff Griffin took South Africa's 1st hat-trick v England at Lord's in 1960.
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Andrew Samson
6 years
Most wickets in 4th inns of Tests won by England: 52 @ 22.48 JM Anderson 52 @ 18.19 MM Ali 48 @ 22.79 SCJ Broad 35 @ 15.77 RGD Willis
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Highest total conceded without an extra in Test cricket: 329 Eng v Ind Chennai 2021 328 Ind v Pak Lahore 1955 252 Eng v SA Durban 1931 (Bowling team listed first)
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Andrew Samson
8 years
Youngest to reach 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000 & 6000 runs: S Tendulkar Youngest to reach 7000, 8000, 9000, 10 000 A Cook
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Andrew Samson
6 years
Jordan Clark's hat-trick for Lancs v Yorks today is the 1st in first-class cricket in which all 3 victims (Root, Williamson, Bairstow) had each made 3000+ Test career runs at the time.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Most wickets in 4th innings of Tests won by England: S Broad 66 @ 20.27 J Anderson 60 @ 20.90 M Ali 55 @ 19.00 B Willis 35 @ 15.77
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Andrew Samson
4 years
Players who have scored a fifty and taken a wicket in each of their first two ODIs: Curtis Campher
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Rashid Khan's 99.2 overs in this match is the most by a bowler in a Test since 1998 - Muttiah Muralitharan SL v Eng at The Oval (113.5-41-220-16).
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Most Test ducks by players with Test 100s: 36 SCJ Broad 22 SR Waugh 22 MS Atapattu 20 MA Atherton 20 DL Vettori
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Tests to reach 2 wins: Afghanistan 3 Australia 3 England 4 Pakistan 9 West Indies 12 South Africa 13 Sri Lanka 20 India 30 Zimbabwe 31 New Zealand 55 Bangladesh 60
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Steve Smith batting on Day 1 in Tests: 2219 runs at 116.78. Batting on days 2-5: 4124 @ 49.68.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Dom Bess is the first England spinner to take the first 5 wickets in a Test innings since Derek Underwood (who took the first 7) v Aus at Adelaide in 1975.
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Andrew Samson
7 years
The last England XI with all players born in England was v SL at Galle in 2003. The current team is only the 3rd Test since 1989 with all eleven born in England. #bbccricket
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Andrew Samson
7 years
Moeen Ali's hat-trick is the first in Test cricket with 3 left-handed batsmen as victoms
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Andrew Samson
4 years
This is the first time since February 1999 v NZ at Auckland that South Africa have gone into Test with no batsman with a career average of 40+.
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Andrew Samson
6 years
Chris Woakes Test career at Lord's currently: Test 3, Runs 244 at 122.00, Wickets 16 at 9.93.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
Darren Stevens County Championship 2021: 650 runs @ 43.33/39 wtks @ 18.58 The only older player who has scored more runs at a higher avg and taken more wickets at a lower avg in a Championship season is Wilfred Rhodes: 1234 runs @ 44.07/52 wkts @ 17.84 in 1925 aged 47.
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Andrew Samson
4 years
There are lots of comparisons of the American election to Test cricket. It seems to me more like one of those horrible ODIs from the early 1990s where the team batting second chasing 150 nudges and nurdles their way to a win in 49.5 overs.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
Tom Blundell is the 75th player to open the batting in a Test match having never opened before in first-class cricket and he becomes the first of those to make a century in that match. Previous best: 93 Irfan Pathan Ind v SL Delhi 2005.
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Andrew Samson
5 years
100 runs, 3 wickets & 6 catches in a Test: FE Woolley 133* & 11, 2-1 & 1-36, 6 ct Eng v Aus Syd 1912 JH Kallis 224, dnb & 3-35, 6 ct SA v SL CT 2012 BA Stokes 47 & 72, 0-34 & 3-35, 6 ct, Eng v SA CT 2020
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Andrew Samson
6 years
There have been 66 ties in 58 795 first-class matches. So, it has occurred once every 890 matches.
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Andrew Samson
4 years
Fawad Alam is the first Pakistani to convert each of his first 3 Test 50s into 100s. George Headley holds the world record having converted his first 6 50s into 100s.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
150 in most consecutive Tests: 4 KC Sangakkara 2007 3 WR Hammond 1928-29 3 DG Bradman 1937 3 Zaheer Abbas 1982-83 3 Mudassar Nazar 1983 3 TWM Latham 2018-2019 3 JE Root 2021
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Andrew Samson
2 years
Keshav Maharaj is the 1st bowler to take 7 wickets in the 4th innings of consecutive Tests.
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Andrew Samson
3 years
New Zealand's next scheduled Test match is v Bangladesh at Mount Maunganui on 1 January. New Zealand conditions are not spin-friendly. Will Ajaz Patel be dropped after taking 10 wickets in an innings?
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