Showing posts with label County Championship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label County Championship. Show all posts

Friday 11 October 2013

Umpire officiated in the Most County Championship Matches

Old Kent player Tommy Spencer headed in the list, he officiated in no fewer than 570 Championship matches in an umpiring career that stretched from 1950 to 1980. Four others stood in more than 500: Frank Chester 531 (1922-55), David Constant 523 (1969-2006), Harry Baldwin 517 (1932-62) and Alan Whitehead 511 (1970-2005). Constant spent a record 38 seasons on the English first-class panel (he was only 27 when he joined it in 1969), and Whitehead 36.

Tuesday 8 October 2013

The youngest double-centurion in the County Championship

Surrey batsman Dominic Sibley made 242 runs against Yorkshire at the Oval on 26 Sep 2013 is the youngest player to score a double-century in county cricket, a record previously held by David Sales, for Northamptonshire v Worcestershire at Kidderminster in 1996, when he was about seven months older than Sibley, who turned 18 on September 5. But the only younger man to score a double-century in English first-class cricket was WG Grace, who was nine days younger than Sibley when he made 224 for England v Surrey at The Oval in 1866.  Dr. William Gilbert is also known as W G Grace, MRCS, LRCP was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is considered by many historians to have been the greatest cricketer of all time. However; there have been 11 younger double-centurions in all first-class Cricket seven on them scored in Pakistan where there are sometimes doubts about the accuracy of birth records. Top of the list is Pakistan Hasan Raza who was 15 years 215 days old when he scored 204 not out for Karachi Whites against Bahawalpur in Karachi in 1997-98.
Dr. William Gilbert is also known as W G Grace

Dominic Sibley completes his double hundred, Surrey v Yorkshire, County Championship, Division One, The Oval, 3rd day September 26, 2013

Hasan Raza batting on debut when it was claimed he was 14 ... that was later disputed by his own board, Pakistan v Zimbabwe, Sheikhupura, October 20, 1996 

Thursday 16 May 2013

Consecutive Triple Centuries in County Championship

Former Australian opener Justin Langer is the only person to score consecutive triple-centuries in the County Championship. In 2006, Justin Langer had two matches for Somerset, as a replacement overseas player, and in the second of them hit... 342 against Surrey in Guildford (the highest score ever made there). Not surprisingly, perhaps, Somerset signed Langer up full time for the 2007 season - he'd just retired from Test cricket then - and in his first match as their captain (nine months after his previous innings for them) he scored 315 against Middlesex in Taunton as Somerset made their way to 850 for 7, their high-ever total (the 688 for 8 in Langer's previous match in Guildford slipped down to third). For the record, only eight other men have scored two or more Championship triple-centuries: Wally Hammond, Graeme Hick and Michael Hussey each scored three, while Bill Ashdown (Kent), Jack Brown (Yorkshire), John Crawley (Hampshire), Murray Goodwin (Sussex) and Percy Holmes (Yorkshire) all made two.
 

Derbyshire's opener Chesney Hughes scored 270 not out but lost.

Derbyshire's 22 years old opener Chesney Hughes scored 270 not out but lost. This the highest score to result in defeat as he carried his bat for 270 not out in that County Championship match against Yorkshire but his side st...ill ended up losing by an innings. Only eight higher scores have been made in a defeat - and the one at the top of the list was also in a Derbyshire match, although they actually won that one: Percy Perrin made 343 not out for Essex in Chesterfield in 1904, but Derbyshire won by nine wickets after Essex were all out for 97 in their second innings. And I discovered from Andrew Samson's online statistical blog that only one higher individual score than Hughes' has been made in an innings defeat: Vijay Hazare's 309 for the Rest against Hindus in Bombay in 1943-44 (Hazare shared a stand of 300 in a follow on with his brother Vivek, whose contribution was 21).