Brod's Cricket Stats (it interests me anyway)

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SR Watson 185* (96 balls)

15 - Most sixes in a ODI (previous record 12 -X Marshall)
69 - balls - 3rd fastest ODI hundred by Australian (Fastest 66 - Hayden)
79.74% - Highest percentage of score by one bastman in ODI match (previous record 69.48% - IVA Richards)
150 - Most run in boundaries in a ODI (previous record 126 - Gibbs)
185* - Highest ODI score by Australian (previous record 181 - Hayden)

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Also the highest score in the 2nd innings of a ODI match, MS Dhoni had 183.

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Ross Taylor is the only player in Test cricket to have batted more than 20 times and score more than 1500 runs and NEVER scored a duck

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Team-wise batting stats in Tests since Oct 13, 2007 (retirement of Lara and Inzamam)
Sri Lanka 41.19
India 39.73
Sth Africa 39.63
Australia 36.56
England 35.97
N Zealand 28.15
W Indies 27.98
Pakistan 27.86
Bangladesh 23.13

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Team-wise batting stats in Tests since Oct 13, 2007 (sine the retirement of Lara and Inzamam)
.....100s per test...50s per100
Sri Lanka 1.43 1.70
India 1.45 2.05
South Africa 1.50 1.30
Australia 1.21 2.54
England 1.18 2.04
New Zealand 0.72 3.35
West Indies 0.83 2.56
Pakistan 0.58 4.47
Bangladesh 0.47 4.00

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BAW Mendis 6/16

- First 6 for in a T20I
- Equal 4th best Twenty20 figures

Top 5 Twenty20 bowling figures
6/5 AV Suppiah (Somerset)
6/14 Sohail Tanvir (Rajasthan)
6/15 SR Abeywardene (Panadura)
6/16 TG Southee (Essex)
6/16 BAW Mendis (Sri Lanka)

Best by an Aussie
6/25 MG Dighton (Tasmania)
1 of only 11 players to take 6 for in Twenty20 cricket

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MS Dhoni

2011 Test Average 14.60

Overall 37.45
In India 43.20
Outside subcontinent 28.25
Since July 2010 25.72

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MG Johnson 6/31

- Career best ODI figures
- Career best List A figures (first time taken 6wi)
- Only 5th Australian to take 6wi in ODI (KH MacLeay is the one not listed below)
- 4th best Australian ODI figues
The three better are
7/15 GD McGrath v Namibia
7/20 AJ Bichel v England
6/14 GJ Gilmour v England

B Lee 350 wickets

- 7th player to take 350 ODI wickets
- Of the 7 players to take 350 wickets has the 2nd best average 23.03 (GD McGrath 22.02)

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BV Vitori (Zim) 5/30

- 6th best bowling on ODI debut

5 best ODI debut efforts

6/22 FH Edwards (WI)
5/21 AIC Dodemaide (Aus)
5/26 SHU Karnain (SL)
5/27 A Codrington (Can)
5/29 AA Donald (SA)

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Test hundreds by
- AN Cook (72 matches)
- KP Pietersen (78)
- AJ Strauss (89)

Three behind the English record of 22 by
- WR Hammond (85 matches)
- MC Cowdrey (114)
- G Boycott (108)

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NM Lyon 5/34

- 32nd Australian to take 5wi on debut (9th spin bowler)
The most recent (since 1985)
8/214 JJ Krejza
5/55 SR Clark
5/47 B Lee
5/39 SH Cook
6/58 AIC Dodemaide
6/78 PL Taylor
- 2 Australians have take 5wi twice on debut (RAL Massie and CV Grimmett)
- 14th player to take a wicket with his first ball (2nd Australian)
The most recent (since 1960)
MKGCP Laksitha 2002
NM Kulkarni 1997
RK Illingworth 1991

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SR Watson 0 (first ball)

- Shane Watson became the 27th Australian to be dismissed first ball of an innings
The recent batsmen (since 1978)
ML Hayden (twice)
JL Langer (twice)
MJ Slater
GR Marsh (twice)
DC Boon (twice)
RB Kerr

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Career bests in 1st Test SL v AUS

5/79 - HMRKB Herath (innings)
8/133 - HMRKB Herath (match)
3/55 - RAS Lakmal (innings)
4/78 - RAS Lakmal (match)
23 - RJ Harris

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Brad Haddin

Test batting average
Home 1077 runs @ 44.87
Away 853 runs @ 31.59
In Asia 188 runs @ 20.88

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SE Marsh & MK Hussey
258 - 4th wicket partnership

- Highest 4th wicket partnership by any against Sri Lanka
- 2nd highest for any wicket by Australia against Sri Lanka

SE Marsh 141

- 19th Australian to score hundred on test debut
- Only second batting at number 3 (Bill Ponsford the other)

M Hussey 68.5

- Test batting average since start of the ashes

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Rebirth of MEK!

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228* Mohammed Hafeez & Imran Farhat

- 9th highest ODI Opening partnership
- Highest ODI Opening partnership for Pakistan
- Only 3rd highest ODI Opening partnership in 2011
WU Tharanga & TM Dilshan
282 v Zimbabwe 10.3.11
231* v England 26.3.11

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Australia v Sri Lanka 2 nd test

2000 SR Watson

- Watson became the 50th Australian to score 2000 test runs, when he reached 25

21000 MEK Hussey

- Hussey passed 21000 FC runs when he reached 139

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HMRKB Herath took his 700th First Class wicket in the 2nd innings of the 3rd test v Australia.
(Australia's leading FC wicket taker in that match was MG Johnson 284)

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MEK Hussey continues to close on RT Ponting (First Class Runs)

After 3rd Test

RT Ponting
21456 runs
55.72 ave
73 Hundreds
94 Fifties

MEK Hussey
21217 runs
52.91 ave
57 Hundreds
97 Fifties