Brod's Cricket Stats (it interests me anyway)

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Mark Boucher 500 catches

- Most catches in Test Cricket

Other keepers to have 250+ catches
379 Gilchrist
366 Healy
343 Marsh
265 Dujon
250 Knott

Boucher has played by far the most matches, yet has only 15th most stumpings (22)

Most stumpings
52 Oldfield
46 Evans
38 Kirmani
37 Gilchrist

Only because I love Boucher, Oldfield would have had Grimmett and O'Reilly for most of his career, Gilly had Warney (and MacGill). Would Evans and Kirmani have had dominant spinners? I think the ridiculous amount of catches is testament to the quicks he's kept to, rather than his skills. Donald and Pollock earlier on, Steyn, Morkel, Nel recently, Kallis throughout the whole journey...

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Day 2 South Africa v Australia

Aussies collapse 8/10
- Biggest ever test collapse by Australia

23 wickets fell
- 4th most ever in a days play (the other three occured before 1903)
- Most is 27 (Eng v Aus, Lords 1888)

47
- Australia's lowest score since they scored 36 (Australia's lowest ever score in 1902 v England)
- Australia's previous lowest score v South Africa was 75 in 1950
- The last time a country scored less than 47 was England 46 v West Indies 1994

Four innings in a day
- 3rd time in test history all four innings have been played on a single day. (the previous two times though there was not a wicket taken in the fourth innings)
- First time a batsman for both sides was dismissed twice in a day (Clarke & Rudolph)

Nathan Lyon 14
- Highest score in Australian second innings
- 8th time number 11 batsman has top scored, although this is the lowest individual score of the eight

Quick 5 fwicket hauls
- Watson's 5/17 in 5 overs is the fourth fastest ever (ERH Toshack took 5/2 in 2.3 overs in 1947)
- Philanders 5/15 in 7 overs is the 12th fastest

Philander on debut 8/78
- 5th best match bowling figures for South Africa on debut (best SF Burtke 11/196 in 1962)

Jacques Kallis 0
- Had been 56 innings since his last test duck

South Africa win?
- If South Africa win the first innings deficit of 148 will be the largest turn around to win
10th wicket partnership of 26
- The 10th wicket partnership accounted for more than half of the team score, only the second time this has happened. The other was a partnership of 107 (out of 209) by England v West indies in 1980

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South Africa v Australia..so far

- Vernon Philander becomes the 20th South African to take 5wi on debut
- Shane Waston records the 2nd best bowling figures for an Aussie at Newlands
- South Africa lose six wickets for less than ten runs for the 9th time
- Michael Clarke becomes the 18th Australian to score 5000 test runs
- Brad Haddin becomes the 4th Australian keeper to score 2000 test runs and achieve 1000 dimissals

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SR Tendulkar

- First player to score 15000 test runs
- First player to bat in 300 test innings

MS Dhoni

- First Indian keeper to reach 200 dismissals

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21
- Lowest Test innings score at the fall of the 9th wicket, beating Australias' own record set against England at The Oval in 1896.

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MS Wade 2011/2012

First Class
1 vs NSW
108 & 80 vs Tas
29 & 60 vs WA

List A
21 vs NSW
31 vs Tas
120 vs WA

JL Pattinson 2011/12

First Class
2/57 & 3/54 vs Tas
3/27 & 1/78 v WA

List A
2/41 v Sri Lanka
2/70 vs Qld
1/64 vs Tas
3/31 vs WA

T20
1/32 vs South Africa
2/17 vs South Africa

PR George 2011/2012

First Class
5/36 & 0/71 vs NSW
3/83 & 2/31 vs WA
3/126 vs NSW
4/112 vs Tas

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An Indian statistician on twitter posted the following:

And (Darren) Bravo scores 136, which means after 12 Tests he has scored 941 runs at 47.05... exactly Lara's stats after 12 Tests

Quirky!

[Ewok]

Darren Bravo is an absolute ripper,saw him play in the U19 World Cup a couple of years ago and said to a mate then he looks like a Lara clone ,is total class and will score 5000 test runs. After watching some of his latest ton v India my opinion hasn't changed. The most exciting batting prospect to enter world cricket in the last 5 years by far. Hope he shows us that class when the Windies come out here next.

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Darren Bravo is an absolute ripper,saw him play in the U19 World Cup a couple of years ago and said to a mate then he looks like a Lara clone ,is total class and will score 5000 test runs. After watching some of his latest ton v India my opinion hasn't changed. The most exciting batting prospect to enter world cricket in the last 5 years by far. Hope he shows us that class when the Windies come out here next.

Only 5000?

[Ewok]

Darren Bravo is an absolute ripper,saw him play in the U19 World Cup a couple of years ago and said to a mate then he looks like a Lara clone ,is total class and will score 5000 test runs. After watching some of his latest ton v India my opinion hasn't changed. The most exciting batting prospect to enter world cricket in the last 5 years by far. Hope he shows us that class when the Windies come out here next.

Only 5000?

I made that original claim before he'd even played senior international cricket,but yeah he could well get a lot more. Hope so cause if he does cricket followers are in for a treat

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Mahela Jayawardene 10,000

Mahela Jayawardene became the ninth batsman overall and the second Sri Lankan batsman to reach the 10,000-run mark in ODIs. He now has 10,004 runs at an average of 33.45 with 15 centuries and 61 fifties.

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Best batting average over a span of 52 Tests

DG Bradman (Aus)
Nov 30, 1928 - Aug 18, 1948
6996 runs @ 99.94

RT Ponting (Aus)
Mar 8, 2002 - Nov 27, 2006
5813 runs @ 74.52

GS Sobers (WI)
Aug 22, 1957 - Apr 3, 1968
5468 runs @ 72.90

JH Kallis (ICC/SA)
Apr 19, 2001- May 1, 2006
5127 runs @ 71.20

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Best batting average over a span of 52 Tests

DG Bradman (Aus) twenty years
Nov 30, 1928 - Aug 18, 1948
6996 runs @ 99.94

RT Ponting (Aus) four years
Mar 8, 2002 - Nov 27, 2006
5813 runs @ 74.52

GS Sobers (WI) eleven years
Aug 22, 1957 - Apr 3, 1968
5468 runs @ 72.90

JH Kallis (ICC/SA) five years
Apr 19, 2001- May 1, 2006
5127 runs @ 71.20

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Ponting and Gambhir, since Feb 2010
Batsman Tests Innings Runs Average 100s/ 50s
Ricky Ponting 13 25 636 26.50 0/ 5
Gautam Gambhir 14 25 704 29.33 0/ 6

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RT Ponting since Jan 2007

47 matches
3172 runs
39.16 ave
6 centuries
8 ducks

Looking at players to have scored more than 3000 test runs since 1 jan 2007, Ponting has
- Lowest batting average
- Least centuries
- 2nd most ducks (Hussey has 10)

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3 in a row

Debutants who have claimed Man of the Match

- Philander
- Cummins
- Pattinson

only debutant in this match in Boult

[Jim05]

Heard an interesting one on ABC yesterday.
James Pattinson is the first bowler since Rodney Hogg to claim 5 in an innings in both of his first two tests

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Dean Brownlie...half centuries in first three matches

Brownlie becomes only the third Kiwi to achieve this in test cricket
(The other two Sutcliffe and Reid, both legends in NZ cricket)

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VD Philander

- In six test bowling innings he has taken four 5 wicket hauls. He is only the third player (CTB Turner and Tom Richardson) to achieve this

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South Africa v Sri Lanka 1st Test

- South Africa have now won 13 of 17 tests at Centurion (with only one loss)
- The Sri Lakan loss was thier 11th innings loss since 2000 (fouth against South Africa)
- Sri Lanka last won a Test in July 2010, since then they have played 14 matches (four losses, ten draws)
- Bouchers 65 is only his second half centruy since 2010, in that time he has scored 260 runs at 20.00
- The 61 last wicket partnership between Boucher and Tahir is South Africa's highest tenth wicket stand against Sri Lanka