Most Matches without winning side

New Zealander Bert Sutcliffe, played 42 matches between 1949 and 1965 without ever finishing on the winning side - New Zealand did win a couple of Tests during his career, but he managed to miss those particular games. Next come Bryan Strang of Zimbabwe (26 Tests, no wins), Bangladesh's Shahriar Nafees (24), and Barry Sinclair of New Zealand (21 Test).

 

Best Bowling Figures and Pair in a Test Match

Surrey and England bowler George Lohmann has got the best bowling figures in a Test in which he bagged a pair with the bat he took 15 wickets for 45 runs - 7 for 38 and 8 for 7 - but also bagged a pair against South Africa in Port Elizabeth... in 1895-96. There are ten other instances of a player taking ten or more wickets in a Test but also bagging a pair, two of them by Muttiah Muralitharan. George Alfred Lohmann Born June 2, 1865, Kensington, London, and died December 1, 1901, Worcester, Cape Province, South Africa (aged 36 years 182 days). George Lohmann has a right to up there with the greatest Test bowlers of all time. Rated by contemporaries as the most difficult opponent, he bowled at little more than medium pace but was able to make the ball seam both ways, and his constant experimentation led to variations in angle, flight and pace.

Most No Balls Bowled in a Test Match

Sri Lanka's Champaka Ramanayake bowled most no-balls by one bowler in a Test match? The known record for no-balls in a Test is 26, by Sri Lanka's Champaka Ramanayake against Australia in Colombo in 1992-93. It was very costly to Sri Lanka c...onceded 90 extras in all in that match, which Australia (who conceded only 30) ended up winning by just 16 runs. It should be said that we don't have precise records for many early matches, but I think it's unlikely anyone has bowled more than 26. Pakistan Left Arm fast bowler also quite high in this particular list he bowled 25 no-balls against New Zealand in Christchurch in 1993-94, 24 against South Africa in Johannesburg the following season, and 21 against Zimbabwe in Peshawar in 1998-99, giving him three entries in the top eight.

 

 

Wasim Bari was the first wicket keeper by taking seven catches in a Test inning

Pakistan Wasim Bari was the first wicketkeeper taking seven catches in a Test innings? But as the first instance of this involved two men: for Pakistan against West Indies in Kingston in 1976-77, Majid Khan stepped in for the injured Wasim Bari, who had been hit in the face while batting, and took 4 catches in the second innings; then Wasim Bari returned later and held on to three more. Since then there have been four instances of a wicketkeeper taking seven catches in an innings. The first was by Wasim Bari (on his own this time) against New Zealand in Auckland in 1978-79, and he has been followed by Bob Taylor (England v India in Bombay, 1979-80), Ian Smith (New Zealand v Sri Lanka in Hamilton, 1990-91) and Ridley Jacobs (West Indies v Australia in Melbourne, 2000-01).

 

 

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).

 

 

Andrew Strauss dismissed four times by Nathan Hauritz

Andrew Strauss was dismissed four times running in one-day internationals by Nathan Hauritz in 2009. This is a record in ODIs? Andrew Strauss is one of nine batsmen to have been dismissed in four successive one-day international innings by... the same bowler. Devon Smith of West Indies is on that list twice - he fell four times in a row to Elton Chigumbura of Zimbabwe in December 2007, and again to Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez early in 2011. The latest addition to the list is Yuvraj Singh, who fell four times running to England's James Tredwell earlier this year. But two men have been out to the same bowler five times in a row in ODIs: Gary Kirsten fell to Dominic Cork five times in January 1996, while Collins Obuya of Kenya had similar trouble against his fellow legspinner Graeme Cremer of Zimbabwe early in 2009.

 

Asif Iqbal Lovely Batting Style

Asif Iqbal is a former Pakistani cricketer. Soft spoken, gentle yet compelling, graceful and elegant are some phrases which describe his personality and his batting style

The Australian cricket team in England, 1878

From left, standing: Fred Spofforth, J. Conway (manager), F.E. Allan; Seated, center: G.H. Bailey, Tom Horan, T.W. Garrett, D. Gregory, A. Bannerman, H. Boyle; Front: C. Bannerman, W. Murdoch, J. Blackham.

 

Australian cricket team in England 1882

From left, standing: Tom Garrett, George Bonnor, Harry Boyle, Hugh Massie, George Palmer, C.W. Beale (manager), John Blackham. Sitting: George Giffen, Fred Spofforth, Tom Horan, Percy McDonnell, Billy Murdoch, Alec Bannerman.

 

Stan McCabe rubs his chest after being struck by a ball in body line series between England v Australia in 1930's

Len Hutton's 364 against Australia remains the longest Test innings in terms

Sid Barnes, traps Lala Armanath lbw in the first official Test between Australia and India at the MCG.in Feb 1948