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Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians

@ACScricket

3 months

Virat Kohli's current Test run aggregate of 8,848 is the same as the height in metres of Mount Everest. The next highest number to be both a player's career aggregate and the height of a mountain is only two places down the list - 8,586 for Virender Sehwag and Kanchenjunga.

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Jimmy Anderson is the oldest player to bowl the first ball of a Test since Lala Amarnath (41) in 1952.

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Bairstow has conceded 89 byes and leg byes in three Tests this series (and still has to keep in the second innings of this one). For comparison, in the most recent three Tests where Foakes kept wicket he conceded 18 byes and leg byes - so Bairstow is conceding 24 more per match.

David Higginson

@higs1980

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@brydoncoverdale This is so overlooked. What are the stats for runs per missed chance @ZaltzCricket ? Compare this to batting average and you get your answer

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Happy Birthday to arguably England’s greatest ever wicket-keeper, Alan Knott, born 9th April 1946. He played 95 Test matches between 1967 & 1981 scoring 4,389 runs at 32.75 including 5 centuries. He took 250 catches & made 19 stumpings. Knott played for Kent between 1964 & 1985.

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van der Dussen c Dutt b van der Merwe is the first case in an international of one player with the prefix "van der" in his name dismissing another. There have been two previous instances where two such players were involved on the same side - both c van der Gugten b van der Merwe

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Don Sibley in scoring 140* off 415 balls out of Surrey’s winning total of 501/5 v Kent, recorded the slowest first-class County Championship century ever by both balls faced and time spent at the wicket.

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40 years ago today Surrey were bowled out by Essex for 14 at Chelmsford. Surrey were 8-3 and then 8-8 before a Sylvester Clarke mow produced a boundary. Norbert Phillip 6-4 and Neil Foster 4-10 did the damage. It is the only sub-20 total in county cricket since the 2nd War.

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Very sad to hear of the death of mathematician Tony Lewis, who devised the Duckworth/Lewis method with fellow-Lancastrian Frank Duckworth. Frank and Tony (the tall one on the right) addressed @ACScricket in 2011 and gave us a revised target to work out at the end of their talk!

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Unfortunately we don't have any statistics on how often a bowler has hugged an outgoing batsman in gratitude for him getting out to what was almost certainly the last delivery of the bowler's international career.

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The ACS is very sad to hear of the death of our dear friend Peter Wynne-Thomas, the leading cricket statistician and historian. A founder member of @ACScricket , he served as our Secretary from 1974-2006. He was also Nottinghamshire CCC's librarian, archivist and recent president.

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Gary Ballance's retirement after just one Test for Zimbabwe gives him the curious record of highest batting average (without qualification) for a country: 155.00 GS Ballance (Zimbabwe) 144.00 KR Patterson (Australia) 112.00 AG Ganteaume (West Indies) 102.50 AE Trott (Australia)

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@kaustats Kausthub, you have not yet pointed out that, in their eighth away Test against Bangladesh, Pakistan have beaten them by an innings and eight runs on 8 December, thanks to Sajid Khan taking 8-42, just eight days after they beat them by eight wickets!

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@bbctms As we've said before, a player's fifties excluding those converted to hundreds is an odd stat to cite in this way, because if Joe Root scores another 43 today he'll drop out of this "elite club" as his fifties roll back to 59. This is the 90th time Root has reached a Test fifty.

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11 months

England go into the first Test match of the Ashes with an attack that has taken 1,777 Test match wickets, the highest combined tally of any attack operating at any time in Test match history.

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This is the first time in Test history that a batsman named Oliver has been dismissed and replaced at the crease by another batsman with the same name.

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#bbccricket "I'm sure there's a stat around that says when Rory Burns gets in he scores a lot of runs." There is - in 10 of the innings he's played this year he's scored 451 runs at an average of 50. Trouble is that in the other 5 he's scored 0 runs at an average of 0.

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Today's duck leaves Rahane with a lower batting average in this series than Bumrah.

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The answer to this is that yes, he is... but not in this innings! Incredibly, there have been two instances of a batter reaching a Test century with three consecutive sixes, and they're both by Ben Stokes. The first was vs SA at the Oval in 2017, with Keshav Maharaj the bowler.

Mhd Ali Shihab

@muhmdali_shihab

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@ACScricket Is Stokes the first cricketer to score hundred with Hattrick sixes in test cricket..?

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Happy 250th birthday to first-class cricket! Hampshire v England at Hambledon, beginning on 24 June 1772, is regarded as the first-ever first-class match. (Hampshire won!)

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Worst collapses in Test cricket 6 for 0: India (153-4 to 153-10) v SA at Cape Town 2023/24 5 for 0: NZ (37-2 to 37-7) v Aus at Wellington 1945/46 NZ (59-4 to 59-9) v Pak at Rawalpindi 1964/65 NZ (133-2 to 133-7) v SA at Hamilton 2011/12 Bang (134-5 to 134-10) v Zim at Harare 2013

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England's heaviest Test defeats by runs 562 by Aus, The Oval 1934 425 by WI, Old Trafford 1976 409 by Aus, Lord's 1948 405 by Aus, Lord's 2015 384 by Aus, Brisbane 2002/03 382 by Aus, Adelaide 1894/95 381 by Aus, Brisbane 2013/14 381 by WI, Bridgetown 2018/19 #WIvEng

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RIP West Indies’ glove man David Murray who died earlier today aged 72. A son of Everton Weekes he played 19 Test matches and 10 ODI’s. His international career saw him take a total of 73 catches & make 5 stumpings.

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Today is the ACS's 50th anniversary! On 3 March 1973, 30 cricket-lovers gathered at the Edgbaston ground in Birmingham and voted - by a majority of one - to form a new Association of Cricket Statisticians ('Historians' was added to the name 20 years later.)

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Since Mohammad Azharuddin's 121 in 1990, no Indian captain has reached 50 at Lord's, and they have averaged 15. 1996 Azharuddin 16 2002 Ganguly 5 & 0 2007 Dravid 2 & 9 2011 Dhoni 28 & 16 2014 Dhoni 1 & 19 2018 Kohli 23 & 17 2021 Kohli 42 & 20

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On 29th January 2009, iconic scorer Bill Frindall passed away. He was only 69 years of age. He scored every Test match in England from June 1966 until the end of the 2008 season - 246. He covered 377 Test matches overall home and away.

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If David Warner does not return to bat again tomorrow, he will break one of the oldest records in the book. Charles Bannerman's 165 out of 245 in the first Test of all is the highest % of a team total, but it's also the highest score at which a batsman has retired and not resumed

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Mitchell Starc achieved the worst ever analysis in World T20 final with his figures reading 4-0-60-0.

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Keaton Jennings has become the first batter to score centuries in four successive Roses innings. Herbert Sutcliffe and Geoff Pullar had done it in three. #LanvYor

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Only four men alive today played Test cricket before Elizabeth II came to the throne: Neil Harvey, Ronald Draper, Ken Archer and Coimbatarao Gopinath; all are younger than her. 86% of all Tests to date (2117 out of 2464) have been played during her reign.

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On 15th April 1986, Viv Richards playing for West Indies v England in Antigua scored the fastest Test century in history. He took 56 balls to get there & finished on 110* off 58. Viv’s record lasted for 30 years until Brendan McCullum got a ton in 54 balls for Kiwis v Australia.

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South Africa are the first Test team in history to exceed their first innings total in their second innings, on the first day of a Test match. 55 all out and then 62/3. #SouthAfrica #India

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Ray Illingworth, who sadly died today aged 89 played 787 first class matches including 61 Tests for England. He is one of only nine players who have taken 2,000 wickets and 20,000 runs in first class cricket.

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When Nathan Lyon bowled to Jimmy Anderson in the second innings, batsman and bowler had a combined total of 1181 Test wickets. While notable, this is not the record - when Muttiah Muralidharan bowled to (and dismissed) Anil Kumble in 2008, they had 1371 wickets between them.

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Teams coming back from 2-0 down to draw a Test series: South Africa vs England, 1927-28 England vs West Indies, 1953-54 South Africa vs England, 1956-57 England vs Australia, 2023 All were 5 match series.

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Most Test wickets among players who also have 10,000+ runs: 292 Jacques Kallis 92 Steve Waugh 57 Joe Root 46 Sachin Tendulkar

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On 30th May 1895, W G Grace became the first man to score 1,000 runs before the end of May. Given that his season did not start until 9th May it was a good effort. Included were 4 tons - 103*, 288, 257 and 169. This was the mark of someone who was setting the highest standard.

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Netherlands are going to lose to India by a smaller margin than South Africa did - which is probably logical, since they beat South Africa...

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Shortest complete three-Test series by balls bowled: 2775 England vs Australia 1888 3312 South Africa vs England 1895-96 (3378* England vs South Africa 2022) No other series is close, so if a result is reached this one will take third place, and be the shortest since 1900.

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David Bairstow was born on 1st September 1951. He played only 4 Tests and 21 ODIs, but was Yorkshire's regular keeper for 20 years, and his total of 1096 career dismissals is the 16th highest. He committed suicide in 1998, so never saw his son go on to play Tests too.

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Salute Dinesh Chandimal - 354* today for SL Army v Saracens - the highest score ever in a domestic first-class match in SL, and the first innings of exactly 354 in all first-class cricket anywhere.

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2 years

Congratulations to Ajaz Patel of @BLACKCAPS who became the third player in Test match history to take 10 wickets in an innings, earlier today. Jim Laker in 1956 and Anil Kumble in 1999 were the others, so he is in excellent company.

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Ross Taylor will retire with a unique record: with 110 Tests, 233 ODIs and 102 T20Is, he is the only player to make 100+ appearances in all three international formats. Virat Kohli should become the next to join the club, currently needing a further two Tests and five T20Is.

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6 months

@AnjulaHettige The captain can't "request the umpire to overlook" anything. He can just decline to appeal.

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Ireland are the only country to win their first women's Test before their first men's Test.

Raf Nicholson

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Some outlets are getting this right, but not all by any means, so just a quick PSA: IRELAND’S FIRST TEST WIN WAS 24 YEARS AGO.

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A 128-year-old record has just been broken: most runs conceded in an innings where the bowler's team went on to win. 2/190 MJ Leach vs Pakistan 2022 5/181 T Richardson vs Aus 1894 Places 5-7 on the list are all held by Shane Warne. Will Jacks's 6/161 in this match is eighth.

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@ACScricket

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Smallest range of scores of top 4 batsmen in a Test innings: 0 (0, 0, 0, 0) Aus vs Eng 1888 2 (1, 1, 0, 2) WI vs Aus 1981 2 (7, 6, 7, 5) Aus vs Eng 1997 2 (10, 8, 10, 8) Pak vs SL 2014 2 (1, 1, 2, 3) NZ vs Eng 2022 2 (4, 6, 5, 5) Eng vs NZ 2022 2 (15, 13, 14, 14) Ind vs Aus 2023

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2 years

Right now Root is 1120 runs ahead of every other England batsman this year, and that margin is only likely to increase since the next four on the list aren't playing. Think the current record for this must be the 881 by Viv Richards in 1976 (1710, next best Roy Fredericks 829).

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Test matches in which victory was achieved off the last scheduled ball: SA 161 & 219 vs Eng 253 & 128/8, Durban 1948 SL 355 & 302 vs NZ 373 & 285/8, Christchurch 2023 In both cases the scores were level before the final ball and the match was won with a bye off it.

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No player has ever started a Test innings with three consecutive sixes, so Mark Wood equals the record for most runs off one's first three balls. "Foffie" Williams also hit 16 (6, 6, 4) vs England at Bridgetown 1948; don't think there are any others (but not absolutely sure!).

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Sussex will be playing county cricket at Worcester on Coronation Day. Sussex always play on coronation days & are always away from home. In 1953, they were at Ilford, Essex. The last Coronation Day that Sussex did not play was 28/6/1838 but the club wasn’t founded until 1839!

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Ben Stokes will be playing his 100th Tests in the 128th which England have played since his debut. His team's current coach is the only player to reach 100 Tests at the earliest possible opportunity; Kapil Dev, Allan Border, Rahul Dravid and Alastair Cook played 100 out of 101.

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Gloucestershire's Tom Price is the 15th player to record a century and a hat-trick in the same first-class match, and it's the 17th instance. Mike Procter (also for Gloucestershire) and Sohag Gazi (the only man to achieve the feat in a Test) did it twice!

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10 months

If Travis has a brother, he should be fast-tracked into the national team immediately. Everyone knows that two Heads are better than one.

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7 months

Australia lost their last group match in 2019 (also against SA), lost to England in the SF and have now lost their first two games this year. It's the first time ever that they have lost four consecutive WC matches - and a bit of a comedown from winning 25 in a row from 1999-2011

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Cummins's supporting role gives him a curious distinction - lowest strike rate by anyone facing 60+ balls in an ODI in the 21st century. There were several lower ones in the early days of the format when slower scoring was the norm.

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When Stuart Broad bowled the first three batters of New Zealand in the 2nd innings of the 1st Test in Mount Maunganui, it was the first time that that had happened to an England bowler since Fred Trueman did it at Kingston, Jamaica in 1960.

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ACS member Stephen Blades has pointed out that Adam Lyth's century for Yorkshire against Leicestershire on Monday made him the most prolific first-class batter at Headingley, with 4,859 runs - overtaking Geoff Boycott's 4,824. #YorkshireCricket #CountyChampionship #YORvLEI

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Tom Hartley is the second bowler to see his first ball in Test cricket hit for six, after Sohag Gazi by Chris Gayle in 2012. That one was also the first ball of the match, and like Hartley, he was hit for another six by the same batter later in the over.

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SA are the first team to win a Test despite the captain being unable to bat. The only previous case where he absent in one innings was also by SA, at Trent Bridge in 1951 - Dudley Nourse didn't bat in the second inns due to a broken thumb, but had scored 208 with it in the first.

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Yashasvi Jaiswal is (as far as we can find) the first debutant to make an individual score higher than either of the opposition's all out totals; several others have made a score which was higher than one of them.

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Dhruv Shorey scored 252* & 150* in a recent Ranji Trophy match. He's the first to score 250 and 150 in the same FC match, one of a select few to score 400 in a match without 400 in a single innings, and the only one of them to remain not out in both.

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Daryl Mitchell of @BLACKCAPS has scored centuries in three successive Test matches against @englandcricket and he is the first visiting batter to the UK to do this in a Test series since Don Bradman did so for @CricketAus in 1930.

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Colin Cowdrey was born on 24th December 1932. He played 114 Test matches scoring 7,624 runs at 44.06 with 22 centuries. Cowdrey scored 41,719 runs at 42.89 with 107 centuries.

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@icelandcricket Always thought "without troubling the scorers" must have been made up by somebody who's never been a scorer. It's an awful nuisance having to deal with someone who goes for a duck when you're still filling in the final details of the previous wicket, how out, the partnership etc.

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Garry Sobers played 93 Teat matches for West Indies. He scored 8,032 runs at 57.78 & took 235 wickets at 34.03. He took 109 catches.

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Gordon Greenidge West Indies opener was born on 1st May 1951. He played 108 Test matches scoring 7,558 runs at 44.72 scoring 19 centuries. Greenidge also played 128 ODI’s totalling 5,134 runs at 45.03. He had a wonderful career.

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Of the three World Cups which have been held in a single group format, this is the first time that one team has won every match. In 1992 New Zealand topped the table with W7 L1, and in 2019 it was India themselves with W7 L1 NR1. Both lost to the fourth-placed team in the semis.

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RIP West Indies mystery spinner Sonny Ramadhin who took 158 Test match wickets in 43 matches at 28.98. He died today aged 92.

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The scores of New Zealand's top four batsmen were the first four Fibonacci numbers in order - this is unique. There is only one previous case of the first three: South Africa at Old Trafford 1929, with 1, 1 and 2 from Jack Siedle, Bob Catterall and Bruce Mitchell respectively.

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Nearly 60 members and guests of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians assembled at Grace Road yesterday for a lunch to celebrate 50 years of the Association. It was very good to see colleagues and friends again, four and a half years after we last met in person!

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David Warner's innings of 4, 3, out is unique in ODI history; all previous cases of players dismissed for 7 off three balls consisted either of a six and a single, or of 4, 2, 1 and run out attempting a second or as non-striker off a subsequent ball.

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At one point the predictor had Afghanistan with a 99.75% chance of winning the match. Now it must be just as surprised as everyone else is!

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Brian Booth, Australian Test cricketer has passed away, aged 89. He played 29 Test matches and scored 1,773 runs at 42.21 with 5 centuries. He made his debut in July 1961 and his final Test match was in January 1966. Booth’s first class average was 45.42 from 11,625 runs.

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The recently concluded match was the first Test, men's or women's, in which a team had one player make a double century and another take a ten wicket haul, but still lost. Tammy Beaumont's 208 is, by a mile, the highest score in a losing cause in a women's Test.

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Angelo Perera has today equalled the feat of Arthur Fagg by scoring two double-hundreds in a first-class match. AE Fagg 244 & 202* Kent v Essex at Colchester in 1938 AK Perera 201 & 231 Nondescripts v Sinhalese at Colombo 2018/19

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Highest Test scores made at more than a run a ball: 319/304 V Sehwag 2008 293/254 V Sehwag 2009 258/198 BA Stokes 2016 254/247 V Sehwag 2006 222/168 NJ Astle 2002 202/188 BB McCullum 2014 195/134 BB McCullum 2014 190/168 S Dhawan 2017 189/182 Z Crawley 2023

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Most Tests played by a pair together: 146 Tendulkar/Dravid 138 Anderson/Broad 137 Kallis/Boucher 132 Dravid/Laxman 130 Anderson/Cook 126 Jayawardene/Sangakkara 123 Broad/Cook 122 Tendulkar/Kumble 120 Tendulkar/Laxman

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Most Test wickets against any one opponent: 195 SK Warne vs Eng 167 DK Lillee vs Eng 164 CEL Ambrose vs Eng 157 GD McGrath vs Eng 153 SCJ Broad vs Aus 149 JM Anderson vs Ind 148 IT Botham vs Aus 145 CA Walsh vs Eng 141 H Trumble vs Eng 135 CA Walsh vs Aus

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Most Test centuries against any single opponent: 19 DG Bradman vs England 13 SM Gavaskar vs West Indies 12 JB Hobbs vs Australia; SPD Smith vs England 11 SR Tendulkar vs Australia 10 GS Sobers vs England; SR Waugh vs England; KC Sangakkara vs Pakistan; JE Root vs India

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Congratulations to celebrated Australian cricket bookseller, Roger Page, who was given Life Membership of the ACS at its 50th AGM. When the Association was formed in 1973, Roger took a leading role in recruiting Australian members to the ACS. He continues this work today.

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Ben Stokes's declaration edges Jimmy Anderson closer to yet another record: this is the 78th time that his team has batted but he hasn't. He's just two short of the mark of 80 "did not bats" in a career - held, unsurprisingly, by another regular number 11, Glenn McGrath.

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A statistical milestone of our very own - after being stuck in the nervous 4990s for a while, we have now reached 5000 followers! Many thanks to you all, and we hope you will continue to enjoy following our tweets.

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Think Durham's 517 is the highest total by a team which was still made to follow on. In the two instances of a team scoring 500+ and losing by an innings, that team batted first.

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On 1st July 1996, Hampshire’s Kevan James took four wickets in four balls and then scored a century against the Indian touring team. No one has ever repeated this feat before or since in first class cricket.

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Jimmy Anderson's 12 is the highest Test score by a man in his 40s since Rangana Herath made 14* in his final Test in 2018, and the highest for England since Alec Stewart in 2003. Both of which essentially just mean it's his own highest score in that time!

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On 31st May 1973 New Zealand’s Glenn Turner became the 1st man since World War 2 to score 1,000 runs by end May. He reached the milestone with a back foot drive at Northampton. Turner’s Test scores in ‘73 did not match his early season brilliance. He tallied 116 runs in 5 innings

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@ACScricket

11 months

Most century partnerships for England: 15 - JB Hobbs & H Sutcliffe 14 - AN Cook & AJ Strauss 13 - AN Cook & KP Pietersen 11 - JE Root & JM Bairstow Record for all countries is 20 - R Dravid & SR Tendulkar.

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11 months

When making statements like "Australia haven't successfully chased 250+ to win an Ashes Test since 1948", it helps to give context by mentioning how many times they've attempted it: 31, of which they've lost 18 and drawn 13. When chasing 250-299, their record is lost 4, drawn 3.

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@ACScricket

3 years

Until today, Green was the most common surname in England never to have been shared by a male Test cricketer. That distinction (such as it is) now passes to the surname Moore - Peter Moor has played Tests for Zimbabwe, but there hasn't yet been a Moore.

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1 year

There have been exactly 6,400 Test innings in which the team was bowled out. Only one of those (South Africa vs England 1924) was inside 15 overs. If nothing else, you have to admire Babar Azam's optimism in believing that his bowlers could produce a second such case on demand.

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5 months

The last 365 days have seen every currently possible method of dismissal occur in international cricket (given that handled the ball is no longer in the Laws). Of course there have been many cases of the five most common, and 8 hit wickets (two of them by Mujeeb Ur Rahman).

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Everyone involved with @ACScricket will be saddened by the passing of Derek Underwood. In 86 Test matches he took 297 wickets at 25.83 the highest number of wickets by any English spinner. He snared 2,465 1st class wickets at 20.28 & took 10 wickets in a match 47 times. RIP.

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Lowest "second highest" score after a century: AK Markram 106/D Elgar 12 GN Yallop 121/KJ Hughes 16 Kapil Dev 129/three others 17 GP Thorpe 119*/two others 17 C Bannerman 165*/TW Garrett 18* SR Tendulkar 122/SV Manjrekar 18 HW Taylor 109/AW Nourse 19

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@ACScricket

11 months

On reaching her century late in the 2nd day of the Women’s Ashes Test match, Tammy Beaumont became only the fourth English cricketer to score a century in a Test match, in an ODI and in a T20I. The other three are Dawid Malan, Jos Buttler and Heather Knight. An elite club.

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@ACScricket

2 years

On 29th May 1902 @englandcricket picked an X1 who all had scored first class centuries. Wilfred Rhodes, who scored 39,969 runs at 30.81, batted at No11 scoring 38*. @CricketAus were then bowled out for 36 with Rhodes, no doubt irritated by his batting position, taking 7-17.

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Almost missed another Anderson milestone: playing today takes his Test career over the 20 year mark, surpassing Garry Sobers and Mushtaq Mohammad to move into 16th place on the list of longest careers.

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@ACScricket

1 year

England have never had an active Test player who was older than the UK PM, but Jimmy Anderson comes closest - two years younger than Rishi Sunak. WG Grace was a year younger than the Earl of Rosebery but did not play in the 1894-95 Ashes, the only Tests during Rosebery's tenure.

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This was Bangladesh's 19th Test victory. Only six of those have been achieved without Shakib Al Hasan in the team, and four of those were against Zimbabwe or Afghanistan. Their only Shakibless wins against anyone else are Mount Maunganui last year and this one.

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@ACScricket

3 years

West Indies have twice won a Test by one wicket. Pakistan have twice won a Test by fewer than 20 runs. One of them is about to get their third... unless of course it's a tie.

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@ACScricket

3 years

106 years today, one of the most famous cricketers of all passed away. WG Grace died only aged 67. He topped 1,000 runs in 28 seasons, 2,000 in 5. WG hit 152 on his Test debut in 1880 and up until 1899, an England team without him was unthinkable. He scored his last ton aged 56.

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