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And, who has taken the most Test wickets without ever managing ten in a match?
Steven Lynch06-Mar-2018Was Mominul Haque the first to score two centuries in the same Test for Bangladesh? And who was the first for the other countries? asked Humana Hossain from Bangladesh
That splendid double by Mominul Haque recently – 176 and 105 against Sri Lanka in Chittagong – was indeed the first such double for Bangladesh. It was the 83rd instance in all Tests of a feat first achieved by Australia’s Warren Bardsley in 1909, when he made 136 and 130 against England at The Oval.The first to score twin centuries for the other Test-playing countries were as follows: England – AC “Jack” Russell in 1922-23; West Indies – George Headley in 1929-30; South Africa – Alan Melville in 1947; India – Vijay Hazare in 1947-48; Pakistan – Hanif Mohammad in 1961-62; New Zealand – Glenn Turner in 1973-74; Sri Lanka – Duleep Mendis in 1982-83; Zimbabwe – Grant Flower in 1997-98.My high school teacher always said, of ODIs, “three run-outs and you’re sure to lose”. When a team is chasing a big target, you can probably expect more run-outs – but how often do teams batting first win if they have at least three? asked David Norman from New Zealand
The difference is perhaps not quite as big as you might expect. As I write there have been 214 one-day internationals in which the team batting first suffered three or more run-outs. Of those, the majority did lose – 125 – but 89 of the teams still won. By chance both these scenarios occurred in successive games in England’s current one-day series in New Zealand. In the second match, in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand lost after having four run-outs in the first innings of the match. But in the next game, in Wellington, England won by four runs despite three men being run out. This was the first such instance since November 2015.Don Bradman scored a record 974 runs during the 1930 Ashes. Is it true that he did not hit a six during that series? asked Ibrahim Kamara from Sierra Leone
Yes, it’s true: Don Bradman’s 974 runs in England in the five Tests in England in 1930 – still a record for any Test series – did not include any sixes. He did hit 98 fours though, a record at the time. It’s since been surpassed by Viv Richards (112 fours in England in 1976) and Brian Lara (121 in England in 1995).Bradman actually hit only six sixes in the 52 Tests of his 20-year career, preferring to keep the ball on the ground. Four of those came in England in 1934: two during his 304 at Headingley, and one in each innings at The Oval, where he scored 244 and 77. He had hit his first Test six during the 1932-33 Bodyline series, off Hedley Verity in Adelaide, and added another more than 13 years later during his 201 against India in Adelaide in 1947-48. Four of those sixes came after he had passed 200.Bob Willis took 325 Test wickets without ever getting a ten-wicket haul•Adrian Murrell/Getty ImagesWho’s the youngest bowler to take five wickets in an innings in an ODI? asked Hemant Narayan from India
This record changed hands recently, when Afghanistan’s offspinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman took 5 for 50 against Zimbabwe in Sharjah last month. Mujeeb, who was born in March 2001, was 16 years 325 days old at the time.He claimed the record previously held by his Afghanistan team-mate Rashid Khan, who was 18 years 178 days when he took 6 for 43 against Ireland in Greater Noida in March 2017. Wasim Akram was 18 years 266 days when he took 5 for 21 for Pakistan against Australia in Melbourne in 1984-85.Mujeeb will be 17 by the time Afghanistan play their first Test, so will miss out on the chance of becoming the youngest to take a five-for in a Test: Nasim-ul-Ghani was aged 16 years 307 days when he took 5 for 116 for Pakistan against West Indies in Georgetown in 1957-58.Who has taken the most Test wickets without ever managing ten in a match? asked Savo Ceprnich from South Africa
So far two men have taken more than 300 Test wickets without the aid of a ten-for. Bob Willis claimed 325 for England with a best match return of 9 for 92 against New Zealand at Headingley in 1983, while Brett Lee took 310 for Australia, including 9 for 171 against New Zealand in Adelaide in 2008-09. That was the only time Lee took nine a match: Willis did it four times.As I write (after South Africa’s first Test against Australia), Morne Morkel has 297 wickets in 84 Tests, with a best match return of 8 for 196 against Australia in Adelaide in 2012-13. For the full list of bowlers without ten-fors, click here.
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Peshawar Zalmi started well chasing 207 but things went downhill from them after Saim Ayub was run out.
Associated Press18-Feb-2024Opening batters Jason Roy and Saud Shakeel shared a beefy 157-run stand as a reshuffled Quetta Gladiators made a triumphant start in the Pakistan Super League with a 16-run win over Peshawar Zalmi on Sunday.Roy scored a breezy 75 off 48 balls and left-handed batter Shakeel, who waited for 33 games to get his first opportunity in the PSL, made an equally fine 74 off 47 deliveries that lifted Quetta to 206 for 5.Babar Azam (68) and Saim Ayub (42) provided Peshawar with a brisk start of 90 off 51 balls before Peshawar’s chase got wobbled in the latter part of the innings and they were eventually held to 190-6.Related
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New captain Rilee Rossouw of South Africa was one of the major changes Quetta had made this season. Quetta relieved their long-time skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed after failing to qualify for the playoffs for four successive seasons.Quetta has also brought in the Australian duo of Shane Watson as their head coach and Shaun Tait as bowling coach while also picking Mohammad Amir in the draft for the first time after the left-arm pace bowler played the last eight seasons for Karachi Kings.Amir (1-29) bowled brilliantly upfront and was duly rewarded with the late wicket of Rovman Powell in his last over.Roy and Shakeel capitalized on Peshawar’s wayward pace bowling with fast bowler Aamer Jamal spraying the ball all over and Pakistan Under-19 player, Mohammad Zeeshan, failing to hit the right lengths during the powerplay.Jamal was taken off after going for 29 runs off his two overs, but Peshawar missed a specialist spinner in the middle overs to contain Quetta’s free-scoring openers.Captain Babar’s decision to try out the offspin of Ayub also didn’t work out well as Shakeel smashed him for three straight sixes in one over and raised a strong opening stand with Roy off 92 balls.Peshawar hit back briefly at the death through Salman Irshad (3-38) after Englishman Luke Wood broke the tall opening stand when Shakeel holed out to Babar. Roy was splendidly caught low at midwicket when he couldn’t clear Irshad’s low full toss as Quetta lost four wickets for 34 runs.The needless run-out of Ayub in the ninth over got Peshawar off the hook and legspinner Abrar Ahmed (2-29) picked up the key wickets of Babar and Tom Kohler-Cadmore (18) in one over to seal the game for Quetta.
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Cricinfo looks back at ten of Tendulkar’s best three-figure knocks
Cricinfo staff10-Dec-2005
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119 not out v England, Old Trafford, 1990
England pile up 519 on a benign pitch and India reply with 432. England stretch the lead to 407, and though the pitch is still good and the bowling (Malcolm, Fraser, Lewis, Hemmings) not terribly menacing, India find themselves in deep water at 127 for 5 with only one recognised batsman left. And he’s only 17 years old. Tendulkar battles for nearly four hours, grimly but never dourly, and ends the day with 119. India lose only one more wicket, ending up with 343. With one more session, they might even have won.148 v Australia, Sydney, 1991-91
It is Shane Warne’s debut and Sachin Tendulkar, abetted by Ravi Shastri (206), give him a harsh welcome to international cricket. After Kapil Dev and Manoj Prabhakar grab three wickets apiece to restrict Australia to 313, Tendulkar joins Shastri at the score on 201 and both plunder runs off Warne. A 197-run partnership ends when Shastri becomes Warne’s first Test wicket but Tendulkar carries on to steer India to a vital 150-run lead as he remains unbeaten on 148, his first Test century in Australia. However despite Shastri’s four-wicket haul, Australia hang on for a draw.114 v Australia, Perth, 1991-92
The fastest pitch in Australia has been reserved for the last Test. India have been beaten already, only humiliation awaits. Batting first, Australia score 346. Tendulkar enters at a relatively comfortable 100 for 3, but watches the next five wickets go down for 59. Sachin is the next man out … at 240. He has scored 118 of the 140 runs added while he was at the crease, and made them in such an awe-inspiring manner that commentators are asking themselves when they last saw an innings as good.122 v England, Edgbaston 1996
India, opting to bat first, collapse to 214 before England ride on the
Man-of-the-Match Nasser Hussain’s fine 128 to gain a 99-run lead. On a third day’s wicket offering uneven bounce India look set to crumble without a fight. No other batsman reaches even 20 as Tendulkar stands firm displaying superior technique, moving either back or forward with decisive footwork to make 122 off 177 balls.169 v South Africa, Cape Town, 1996-97
Batting first, South Africa make a matchwinning 529. Playing only for honour, India find themselves groveling before Donald, Pollock, McMillan and Klusener. Tendulkar and Mohammad Azharuddin get together at 58 for 5, and start spanking the bowling as if they were playing a club game in the park. They add 222 for the sixth wicket in less than two sessions, and Tendulkar has 26 boundaries in his score of 169. Even Donald says that he felt like clapping.155 not out v Australia, MA Chidambaram Stadium, 1997-98
Seventy-one runs in arrears, India start the second innings and despite Navjot Singh Sidhu’s 64 find themselves only 44 in front when Sachin Tendulkar joins Rahul Dravid. The duo has to contend with Shane Warne bowling from round the wicket and into the rough. Tendulkar, who has practiced against Laxman Sivaramakrishnan and a few other bowlers on artificially created rough patch before this series, decides to take apart Shane Warne. In a breathtaking assault, with the match hanging in balance, he deploys his unique slog sweeps against the spin to steer India past Australia and snatch a matchwinning 347-run lead.
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136 v Pakistan, Chennai, 1998-99
Few Indian batting performances have been as heroic, or as tragic. Chasing 264 in the fourth innings of a low-scoring match, India experience a familiar top-order collapse and are sinking fast at 82 for 5. Tendulkar finds an able ally in Nayan Mongia, and rebuilds the innings in a painstaking, un-Tendulkarlike manner. After helping add 136 for the sixth wicket, Mongia departs to an ungainly pull, and Sachin’s back is also giving way. Tendulkar shifts up a gear or two and starts dealing only in boundaries. But one error of judgment and it’s all over. Saqlain Mushtaq defeats his intended lofted on-drive with a magical ball that drifts the other way, catches the outer part of Tendulkar’s bat and balloons up to mid-off. The tail disgrace themselves and India fall short by a gut-wrenching 13 runs.155 v South Africa, Bloemfontein, 2001-02
On the first day on an overseas series, India’s plight is a familiar one – four down for 68, with all the wickets going just the way the South Africans expected – to rising balls. Tendulkar has a debutant for company, with another to follow. He takes 17 balls to score his first run, but 101 come off the next 97 deliveries. It isn’t the prettiest of Tendulkar’s Test tons, but it is one of the most savage, characterised by pulls and vicious upper-cuts. The South Africans have a plan for India, and Tendulkar makes a mockery of it. By the time Tendulkar’s innings ended, India are reasonably well-placed, though they go on to lose the Test.176 v West Indies, Kolkata, 2002-03
Trailing by 139 runs after the first innings, India are struggling to stay in the game at 87 for 4 when Tendulkar decides to stamp his class on the match. The full array of his strokeplay was on display as Tendulkar feasts on the West Indian attack with some gorgeous cover-drives and straight-drives. He finishes with 176 of the finest runs – including 26 fours peppered to all parts of Eden Garden – as India end up saving the match quite comfortably.
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241 not out v Australia, Sydney 2004
Tendulkar returns to form with a double-century, playing an innings which is quite distinct from any of his earlier efforts. After being caught driving outside off stump several times prior to this Test, here in a monk-like fashion, he abstains from any loose driving and collects his runs mainly on the on side. With Laxman in sublime form at the other end, Tendulkar chooses to hang on his back foot and slowly works his way to his then highest Test score. It doesn’t give India victory, though, as Steve Waugh, playing his last Test, hangs on to enable Australia draw the game.