Brod's Cricket Stats (it interests me anyway)

[the joker]

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)

how many batsman scored over 3000, 2000 runs would be better. 39 would be close to an average test average

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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)

Was that loss the match against England in 1999/00 where Cronje and Hussain agreed to forfeit an innings each to achieve a result?

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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)

how many batsman scored over 3000, 2000 runs would be better. 39 would be close to an average test average

17 batsmen scores 3000+ runs in that period

33 batsmen score 2000+ runs in that period.

That actually makes Ponting look WORSE....
He has the 3rd lowest batting average of the 33 (only two lower, Haddin 36.18, McCullum 38.03

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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)

Was that loss the match against England in 1999/00 where Cronje and Hussain agreed to forfeit an innings each to achieve a result?

Correct

South Africa v England
5th Test
Jan 2000

ENGLAND WON BY 2 WICKETS

South Africa 8d/248
L Klusner 61*
DJ Cullinan 46
AD Mullaly 2/42
England 0d/0
South Africa 2nd Inn Forfeited
England 8/251
AJ Stewart 73
MP Vaughn 69
SM Pollock 3/53
M Hayward 3/61

South Africa won the 5 match series 2-1

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BBL Stats from the first three games

DEBUT - AW Robinson
DEBUT - ND Buchanan
16 - PJF Forrest achieved his highest T20 score (previous best was 13)
76 - BJ Haddin achieved his highest T20 score (previous best was 54)
4 - DA Warner scored his fourth T20 century (the equal most with CH Gayle)
3/27 - KW Richardson achieved his best T20 bowling analysis (previous 3/31)
46 - GJ Maxwell achieved his highest T20 score (previous best was 10)
11 - DP Nannes played for his 11th T20 team (a record)
1 v 2 - DP Nannes (164) v AC Thomas (136) First and second all time T20 wicket takers
DEBUT - MJ Buchanan
DEBUT - TJF Triffit

[CoverKing]

Dave Warner - became the first person to score 3 centuries in t20 cricket in a row. (all 3 were unbeaten)

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Century and 5wi

- Shakib Al Hasan became just the 21st player (28th occasion) to score a century and take five wickets in an innings in the same test, in the 2nd Test v Pakistan.
- Last player to achieve this was R Ashwin (India) only last month against the West Indies.
- Ian Botham is the only player to have achieved this more than twice, he was able to do it five times.

[Goat Herder]

Some interesting stats around Ponting and his last 47 Tests. Did an interesting comparison recently between a few of our batsman. Between 30/11/2008 - 30/11/2011 :

Hussey – 14x 50’s & 6x tons
Watson - 15x 50’s & 2x tons
Clarke - 11x 50’s & 8x tons
Ponting - 15x 50’s & 3x tons

Interestingly (well, I thought it was), Mark Taylor’s stats leading up to his ‘career-saving’ ton in the first test of the 1997 away Ashes series, and in the 3yrs preceding that innings he scored 2x tons and 9x 50’s – which is not much worse than Ponting.

Also highlights Watson's inability to convert scores into tons.

[Media Park]

Mahela Jayawardene just joined the 10,000 club...

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BBL Maidens

2 BW Hilfenhaus
1 J Botha

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Cosgrove in 2011/12

LIST A (81 runs @ 13.5)
43, 1, 6, 3, 3, 25

FC (137 runs @ 22.7)
5, 9, 37, 40, 36, 10

[brod]

- Australia's 122-run win means they've rediscovered their winning ways at the MCG after suffering two defeats in the last three years, to South Africa and England. Since 2000, Australia have won ten and lost two Tests here. The result also continues the trend of decisive results at this ground: the last drawn Test here was in 1997, since when there have been 14 successive decisive matches.

- Australia's second-innings total was propped up by the last two wickets, which added 74. Throughout the year, their lower order has done pretty well, despite the regular top-order failures: their average runs per partnership for the last two wickets is the third-best among teams in 2011, but their average partnership for the top six is third from the bottom.

[Jim05]

India have only passed 300 once in their last 16 innings away from home

[Jim05]

Kallis out for a duck. Pair for him this test.
Hey Brod do you have the stats on when the last test was that Kallis failed to make a run or take a wicket?
Would think probably never

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Kallis out for a duck. Pair for him this test.
Hey Brod do you have the stats on when the last test was that Kallis failed to make a run or take a wicket?
Would think probably never

Correct, has never happened.

Kallis least productive tests
- 0, DNB, 5/32 (Eng 98 - only time he has not scored in a test match)
- 1, DNB, DNB (Eng 95 - first test)
- 2, DNB, 0/33 (Aus 97)
- 0, 1, 1/4 (NZ 04)
- 0, 2*, 0/37 (Aus 11)

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South Africa v Sri Lanka 2nd Test

- South Africa were beaten in a Durban Test for the fourth consecutive time. Their previous losses came against Australia, England and India. It is also their fourth consecutive loss in a home Boxing Day Test match

- Sri Lanka's 208-run win is only their sixth outside the subcontinent (not involving Zimbabwe) and their maiden win in South Africa. Before this, they had two wins each in England and New Zealand and one in the West Indies.

- It is also their first win since the victory over India in Galle in July 2010. In 16 Tests since Muttiah Muralitharan's retirement, Sri Lanka have won one Test, lost five and drawn ten.

- Rangana Herath's match analysis of 9 for 128 is the second-best for Sri Lanka in South Africa after Muralitharan's 11 for 161 in Durban in 2000. It is also Herath's best match bowling performance surpassing his 8 for 133 against Australia in Galle earlier this year.

- Dale Steyn picked up his 17th five-wicket haul in just his 50th Test. Among South African bowlers, he is behind only Allan Donald and Makhaya Ntini, who have 20 and 18 five-wicket hauls respectively.

- de Villiers, with his 27th half-century moved to fifth on the list of South African batsmen with the most Test half-centuries.

- Jacques Rudolph, who made a comeback after five years, last scored a half-century in 2006 in Colombo. Since that innings, he has scored 187 runs in nine innings at an average of 20.77.

[Goat Herder]

Just a little bit of useless trivia - the Boxing Day Test was only the 6th time in history that 3 Tassie Shield players have ever appeared in the same Test team. Previously, Paine, Ponting & Hilfenhaus appeared in each of Paine's 4 Tests vs Pakistan in England (Lord's & Headingley) & India in India in 2010, and Ponting, Hilfenhaus and Doherty in the 1st Test of the home Ashes series at the Gabba last year.

IIRC, Krezja and Ponting played 2 Tests together (Krejza's only 2) and Booney & Greg Campbell definitely played at least some of the '89 away Ashes series together. Ponting and Shaun Young played (his) 1 Test together in the last test of the '97 away Ashes series.

Rivetting, ay??

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Rohit Sharma

Still to make his test debut (although Im guessing Perth will see this happen)

He has an amazing FC record

46 matches
3748 runs
63.52 average
12 centuries
16 half centuries

He has also played 94 times for India
72 ODI (Ave 34.80 - SR 79.14)
22 T20I (Ave 31.92 - SR 126.91)

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Australia v India (2nd Test)

- 100th Test played at SCG
- 10th time Australia has beaten india by an Innings (3rd at SCG)
- Last time Australia won by an Innimgs was in Brisbane 2009 v West Indies
- India have lost three of their last six away tests by an innings
- It is ithe first time since 1968 India have lost six straight away tests
- Michael Clarke became only the fifth player to score a triple century and take a wicket in the same test (Gooch, Jayasuriya, Gayle, Sehwag)
- In their last 22 innnings India have passed 300 only four times
- In the last two matches Ben Hilfenhaus has taken 15 wickets at 18.06. In contrast he took 7 wickets at nearly 60 in last seasons Ashes
- The three venues to host 100 tests (MCG, Lords, SCG) have all seen a home victory in the 100th match
- Sachin Tendulkar has now gone more than a year since his last Test century (2 Jan 2011) and 18 innings (the most ever in his test career)
- Since Tendulkar's last Test hundred he has scored six fifites (including two nineties and five scores avove 70)
- RT Ponting passed 22000 FC runs
- MJ Clarke passed his prevous highest Test score (168) and First Class score (201)
- MJ Clarke passed 5500 test runs and 10000 FC runs
- PM Siddle reached 100 Test wickets and 200 FC wickets

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South Africa

- Win their first home test series since 2008 when they beat Bangladesh