Brod's Cricket Stats (it interests me anyway)

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I have an interest in looking at the stats of players and teams in matches, series, careers, so this will be the home to all of this very useful information

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Can we ask you questions a la Spell-Check?

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Tasmania v NSW
Hobart
Twenty 20

- 97 Highest opening partnership in Australian Domestic T20 (Hughes/Warner)
- 18 Fastest Australian Domestic T20 fifty (Warner)
- 4/13 Best career T20 bolwing by S Smith (remains the only NSW bowler to take 4wi - also took 4/15 Jan 08) and continues his good T20 record (16 matches, 17 wickets @ 12.4, 6.91 RPO)
- 48 Highest career T20 score by T Paine and helps his poor T20 record 14 matches, batting ave 14.09
- 71* P Hughes continues his good T20 record (11 matches, 461 runs @ 57.62, 117.6 s/rate, 4 fifties)
- 279.16 3rd highest innings s/rate in Australia Domestic T20 (25 runs min) (Warner 67 off 24 balls)
- 266.67 4th highest innings s/rate in Australian Domestic T20 (25 runs min) (Paine 48 off 18 balls)

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You can ask...cant promise I can answer them

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South Africa v England
Durban
Test Match

- Innings & 98 First innings win in South Africa by England since 1964
- 500 First Class wicks (Swann - Steyn the last wicket of match)
- 9/164 Best Test bowling figures in a match (Swann)
- 5/54 Best Test bowling figures in an innings (Swann)
- 3/89 Best test bowling figures in a match and an innings (Dumminy)

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Australia v Pakistan
Melbourne
Test Match

- 0 First test duck after 37 innings (Haddin)
- 6 First test six (Hauritz)
- 42 Most test victories as captain (Ponting)
- 75 Highest Test score (Hauritz)
- 117 Nathan Hauritz finally has more FC wickets than Marcus North (bowling average Hauritz 43.66, North 42.65)
- 120 Highest Test score (Watson)
- 5/79 Best test bowling and first test 5wi (Aamer)
- 5/101 Best FC bowling and first FC 5wi (Hauritz)
- 6/159 Match bowling of Hauritz, his best test bowling is 6/158

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did ponting also become the player who has played in the most test victories in the world with 92 or 93 beating shane warnes record?
will end with 100 test victories at least and will never be beaten imo

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did ponting also become the player who has played in the most test victories in the world with 92 or 93 beating shane warnes record?
will end with 100 test victories at least and will never be beaten imo

Correct, Ponting now has 93 test wins, overtaking Warnes 92

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Tasmania v WA
Hobart
Twenty20

- 1 Golden duck on debut (Porter)
- 14 Highest T20 score (Knowles)
- 14 T20 wickets for Tasmania, equal all time highest (Drew)
- 18 T20 wickets for WA, equal all time highest (Heal)
- 47 Highest T20 score (Hasan)
- 1/28 Best T20 bowling (Knowles)
- 2/15 Best T20 bolwing (Heal)

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Victoria v NSW
Melbourne
Twenty20

- 27 most number of sixes in Domestic T20 (D Hussey)
- 41 Highest Domestic T20 score (Wade)
- 81.81% Winning % in Domestic T20 (Victoria) - they are the only side 50% or better, next best WA 9 win/10 losses (47.36%)

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179 - Test dismissals by Pakistani Kamran "Iron Gloves" Akmal, third best since 2000

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5- The number of Test bowlers (min 40 wickets) who have averaged under 30 in the last 2 years
23.6 (48 wickets) RJ Sidebottom
24.8 (87 wickets) DW Steyn
25.24 (46 wickets) Shakib Al Hasan
26.87 (129 wickets) MG Johnson
29.50 (44 wickets) BAW Mendis
9th- Where Nathan Hauritz places on this list (31.48 - 42 wickets)

4- The numer of Test batsmen (min 20 innings) who have averaged more than 60 in the last 2 years
77.54 (1861 runs) G Gambir
72.64 (1816 runs) TT Samaraweera
63.76 (1849 runs) DPM Jayawardene
62.83 (1822 runs) GC Smith
10th- The best placed Aussie on this list MJ Clarke 2128 runs @ 53.20

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182- Test wickets for Dale Steyn (after the 1st innings wicket of Sidebottom)

The current match is his 36th.
Only 3 players have reached 200 test wickets in 40 or less matches
36 CV Grimmett
38 DK Lillee
38 Waqar Younis

Steyn was equal 4th fastest to 150

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12- 5wi for Dale Steyn since 2005, second only behind Murali

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177- Test wickets for Dale Steyn since 2005, overtaken Kumble today for third most (Murali 260, Ntini 207)

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231*-
Highest 4th wicket partnership Aus v Pakistan (previous G Chappell/Yallop 217 in 1980)
Highest 4th wicket Test partnership at Bellerive (previous Border/Taylor 163 in 1989)
Equal 4th highest Test partnership at Bellerive (highest Jones, S Waugh 260* in 1989)

Still chasing the highest 4th wicket partnership for Australia in recent history
320 - JN Gillespie/MEK Hussey v Bangladesh 2006

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111*- Clarke's highest score v Pakistan (previous 37, with ave of 24.57)

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Victoria v Tasmania
Twenty20

58*- Finch Highest T20 score/First T20 Fifty
61- Paine Highest T20 score/First T20 Fifty
147-
Highest T20 Partnership for Victoria
2nd highest Australian T20 Partnership
12th highest T20 1st wicket Partnership
880- Hodge continues to extend the most Australian T20 runs
2418- Hodge continues to extend the most Twetny20 runs (David Hussey is second in both)

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352-
6th highest Test partnership for Australia
2nd highest Test 4th wicket partnership for Australia (388 Bradman/Ponsford, Leeds 1934)
Highest Test partnership at Hobart
2nd highest Test partnership by Australia in Australia (405 Barnes/Bradman, Syndey, 1940)
5th highest Test partnership v Pakistan
2nd highest Test 4th wicket partnership v Pakistan (437 Jayawardene/Samaraweera, 2009)

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1998- Of the 15 highest Test partnerships v Pakistan 13 of these have occured since 1998.
The other two
1st 446 Sobers/Hunte 1958
12th 269 Sobers/Walcott 1958