Brod's Cricket Stats (it interests me anyway)

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Best batsmen at positions 8-11 since 1950 (Qual: 50 innings) Batsman Innings Runs Average 100s/ 50s
Mark Boucher 52 1424 34.73 2/ 9
Shaun Pollock 99 2330 32.81 2/ 7
Kapil Dev 65 1967 32.78 2/ 13
Daniel Vettori 128 3317 31.59 4/ 18
Ian Smith 75 1667 27.78 2/ 6
Syed Kirmani 76 1598 27.55 1/ 6
Kiran More 57 1180 26.81 0/ 7
Nicky Boje 52 1125 26.78 0/ 3
Chaminda Vaas 144 2785 25.55 1/ 12
Richard Hadlee 81 1641 24.49 1/ 8

Not much of a surprise that four of those players are wicketkeepers. The others, very versatile players to have in the side when you want batting depth.

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Bangladesh lead 5 game ODI series against NZ 2-0 after 3 games. This will be the first ODI series against a full strength Full Member nation that Bangladesh do NOT lose

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18y 294d - N Maddinson - Youngest NSW player to score century on First Class debut

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1000/100 - MG Johnson - In the 1st test v India became the 12th Australian to take 100 wickets and score 1000 runs in test cricket

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Sachin Tendulkar is getting older, and his skills are getting better and better. At the ripe age of 37 years and 169 days, Tendulkar has become the first batsman to get to 14,000 Test runs. Even better than the fact that he got there was the manner in which he raced from 13,000 to 14,000. If the question were asked, "Is Tendulkar playing the best he ever has?", the answer could well be, "Yes, he is."


Tendulkar reached 13,000 early this year, against Bangladesh in Chittagong. At the end of that match, he had 13,091 runs; since then, he has required only 12 more innings to crack the 14,000 mark, averaging more than 84 during this period, which is the highest he has ever averaged to get from one 1000-run mark to the next. Twelve innings is the least he has needed ever, and he has scored an amazing four hundreds and three fifties - including a 98 in the previous Test - during this period.

From cricinfo.com

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8 - Double centuries scored against Australia in the last decade (6 by Indian batsmen, including 2 by Tendulkar and Laxman each()

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Couple of stats of relevance in the 2nd test

"The highest target chased in Bangalore has been 194 by Australia against India in 1998. India chased 151 against New Zealand in 1995 successfully."

Only on four previous occasions have Australia successfully defended a target below 200 in away Tests. The last time they did it was in 1992 against Sri Lanka in Colombo when they defended 180. The other three wins came before 1910."

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8/35 - D Pattinson - career best FC figures
214 - U Khwaja - career best FC score

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SR TENDULKAR

49 - Centuries (most in Test cricket)
20 - Scores above 150 (most)
11 - Centuries against Australia (second most - behind Hobbs)
6 - Scores above 150 against Australia (most)

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NM HAURITZ

5 - Conceeded 100 runs in an innings in past 12 months
153 - Most runs conceeded in an innings

COMPARING THE SPIN BOWLERS
(last 12 months)

(Hauritz-Harbhajan Singh- PP Ojha)
TESTS --10--10--8
WICKETS--38--38--30
AVERAGE--35.65--42.47--41.60
S/RATE--65.7--86.1--84.5
5WI --2--1--0

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752 - G Gooch - Most runs in 3 test series (v India 1990) 3 hundreds, 2 fifties

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ASHLEY NOFFKE FIRST CLASS CAREER

118 matches

3766 runs
26.9 ave
2 hundreds

386 wickets
29.4 ave
18 5wi
1 10wm

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59- SR Tendulkar - Test half centuries
72- CA Pujara - First Test half century, in second test innings
96- A Blizzard- First FC half century, in third FC innings

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COMPARING THE SPIN BOWLERS
(last 12 months)

(Hauritz-Harbhajan Singh- PP Ojha)
TESTS --10--10--8
WICKETS--38--38--30
AVERAGE--35.65--42.47--41.60
S/RATE--65.7--86.1--84.5
5WI --2--1--0

Wow, what a stat!

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20y 67d- KS Williamson - Youngest centurian in ODI cricket for NZ..had scored only 13 runs in first 4 ODI's

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1270 - SR Tendulkar runs in 2010. India play five more test matches (3 v NZ in India, 2 v SA in SA) this calendar year. Can he break the record set by Mohammad Yousef set in 2006 of 1788 runs?

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Best Test spinners against top teams since Jan 2009-Sept 2010 (Qual: 250 overs)
Bowler Tests Wickets Average Strike rate 5WI/ 10WM
Graeme Swann 18 83 24.95 51.0 6/ 0
Shakib Al Hasan 10 45 33.00 67.7 3/ 0
Nathan Hauritz 12 44 33.56 66.8 2/ 0
Harbhajan Singh 10 41 35.80 74.9 2/ 0
Rangana Herath 8 35 36.34 70.8 4/ 0
Saeed Ajmal 8 30 37.13 79.1 1/ 0
Sulieman Benn 12 42 37.54 80.3 3/ 0
Danish Kaneria 10 41 39.60 65.9 3/ 0
Daniel Vettori 10 34 40.41 91.2 0/ 0
Muttiah Muralitharan 8 31 41.74 78.6 1/ 0

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Best openers in Tests since 1970 (Qual: 3000 runs)
Batsman Tests Runs Average 100s/ 50s
Virender Sehwag 74 6660 55.50 20/ 20
Dennis Amiss 39 3274 53.70 11/ 9
Graeme Smith 83 6935 51.75 21/ 26
Geoff Boycott 66 5482 51.23 16/ 29
Matthew Hayden 103 8625 50.73 30/ 29
Sunil Gavaskar 119 9607 50.29 33/ 42
Justin Langer 65 5112 48.22 16/ 18
Herschelle Gibbs 68 5242 47.22 14/ 21
Saeed Anwar 54 3957 47.10 11/ 25
Roy Fredericks 48 3804 46.39 8/ 22

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11 - V Sehwag - Consecutive matches with a score of fifty or more. The streak (equal record with Viv Richards, Gambhir) was broken in Bangalore when he scored 30 & 7

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Tamim Iqbal, Bangladesh's talismanic opener, has been named Test Player of the Year by the Wisden Cricketer magazine.Tamim beat contenders Graeme Swann and Virender Sehwag, who came second and third.

The award is calculated by the marks out of 10 that the Wisden Cricketer's reporters give each player at every Test