Sunday, 13 October 2013

Sohag Gazi Shines First Player to Take Hat-Trick & Century in a Same Match


Sohag Ghazi had plenty of reasons to celebrate first Test against New Zealand at Chittagong Oct 13, 2013, although Test petered out into a draw. Sohag Gazi’s became the first cricketer to score a hundred and take a hat-trick in the same match. Gazi’s performance on the final day will be memorable for sure, A Test hat-trick, and 2nd only by a Bangladesh bowler, gave him a singular place in cricket history He also completed a six-wicket haul to join team-mate Shakib Al Hasan on the list of cricketers who have scored a century and taken five or more wickets in a Test. Sohag Gazi named Man of the Match for his brilliant all round performance by record creating century and five-wicket haul. 


Player Bat  Bowl  Team  Opposition  Ground  Match Date 
JH Sinclair  106 6/26 South Africa  v England  Cape Town  1 Apr 1899 
GA Faulkner  123 5/120  South Africa  v England  Johannesburg  1-Jan-10
C Kelleway  114 5/33 Australia  v South Africa  Manchester  27-May-12
JM Gregory  100 7/69 Australia  v England  Melbourne  31-Dec-20
MH Mankad  184 5/196  India  v England  Lord's  19-Jun-52
DS Atkinson  219 5/56 West Indies  v Australia  Bridgetown  14-May-55
KR Miller  109 6/107  Australia  v West Indies  Kingston  11-Jun-55
R Benaud  100 5/84 Australia  v South Africa  Johannesburg  7-Feb-58
OG Smith  100 5/90 West Indies  v India  Delhi  6-Feb-59
PR Umrigar  172*  5/107  India  v West Indies  Port of Spain  4-Apr-62
GS Sobers  104 5/63 West Indies  v India  Kingston  13-Apr-62
BR Taylor  105 5/86 New Zealand  v India  Kolkata  5-Mar-65
GS Sobers  174 5/41 West Indies  v England  Leeds  4-Aug-66
Mushtaq Mohammad 201 5/49 Pakistan  v New Zealand  Dunedin  7-Feb-73
AW Greig  148 6/164  England  v West Indies  Bridgetown  6-Mar-74
Mushtaq Mohammad  121 5/28 Pakistan  v West Indies  Port of Spain  1-Apr-77
IT Botham  103 5/73 England  v New Zealand  Christchurch  24-Feb-78
IT Botham  108 8/34 England  v Pakistan  Lord's  15-Jun-78
IT Botham  114 6/58, 7/48  England  v India  Mumbai  15-Feb-80
IT Botham  149*  6/95 England  v Australia  Leeds  16-Jul-81
Imran Khan  117 6/98, 5/82  Pakistan  v India  Faisalabad  3-Jan-83
IT Botham  138 5/59 England  v New Zealand  Wellington  20-Jan-84
Wasim Akram  123 5/100  Pakistan  v Australia  Adelaide  19-Jan-90
PA Strang  106*  5/212  Zimbabwe  v Pakistan  Sheikhupura  17-Oct-96
JH Kallis  110 5/90 South Africa  v West Indies  Cape Town  2-Jan-99
JH Kallis  139*  5/21 South Africa  v Bangladesh  Potchefstroom  25-Oct-02
R Ashwin  103 5/156  India  v West Indies  Mumbai  22-Nov-11
Shakib Al Hasan  144 6/82 Bangladesh  v Pakistan  Dhaka  17-Dec-11
Sohag Gazi  101*  6/77 Bangladesh  v New Zealand  Chittagong  9-Oct-13

Friday, 11 October 2013

England Youngest Player in Test Match, One-day International & T20I

England's youngest Test player remains Brian Close, who was 18 years 149 days old when he made his debut against New Zealand at Old Trafford in 1949. Four other Englishmen won their first caps aged 19: Jack Crawford (1905-06), Denis Compton (1937), Ben Hollioake (1997) and Ian Peebles (1927-28). Although Brian Close played just 22 Tests, his international career lasted until 1976 - when, aged 45 years 140 days, and again at Old Trafford.  He also ended up as the 11th-oldest England Test cricketer. So in ODI Ben Hollioake, at 19 years 195 days in 1997, was also England's youngest player in a one-day international, at 2nd place Stuart Broad was only 20 years 67 days in 2006 is the youngest of 11 20-year-olds to have played.  England's youngest player in a T20I is Stuart Broad, again in 2006: Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler were also under 21 when they made their debuts in 2011.
Brian Close ways out of the way of a Michael Holding bouncer, England v West Indies, Old Trafford, July 10, 1976

Player Played his First Four Tests against Four Different Countries.

Tony Dodemaide of Australia did do it in 1987-88, when his first four Tests against New Zealand, Sri Lanka, England and Pakistan were successive matches for Australia, so it wasn't a case of him being in and out of the side. Tony Dodemaide started his career as a fast-bowling all-rounder and appeared in 10 Tests and 24 One Day Internationals for Australia, taking 534 first-class wickets for Victoria and Sussex. In spite of healthy batting and bowling averages for an all-rounder at test level Tony only made 10 Test appearances. On his debut, he took six wickets in the second innings against New Zealand in Melbourne in 1987
But it wasn't unique, even then: the Scottish-born Middlesex and England opener Eric Russell had played his first five Tests against different countries during the 1960s (Pakistan, India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand). Since then three others have replicated Russell's feat: Robin Peterson, the South African slow left-armer;  and current New Zealand quick bowler; Trent Boult,  and the Bangladesh fast bowler Hasibul Hossain, who actually only played five Tests, all against different opposition. 


Most ODI Runs without Playing a Test

The only man to have scored more runs in ODI  without playing in a Test is Steve Tikolo of Kenya, who made 3421 runs in 134 matches. Indian Rohit Sharma, who lies 2nd on the list, recently became the first man from a Test-playing country to appear in 100 ODIs without winning a Test cap, another Indian Suresh Raina held the previous record with 98 ODI before his Test debut. Another Kenyan Thomas Odoyo (2418 Runs) and Kennedy Otieno (2016 Runs), Ireland's William Porterfield (2060 Runs) have all reached 2000 runs without winning a five-day cap. Therefore; from Test-playing countries are Kieron Pollard of West Indies (1869 runs) and Australia's David Hussey (1763 Runs).

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.

Played most Test matches without ever bowling?

Over ten years, Ian Healy was the pulse of the Australian team. From his shock selection and humbling beginning in Pakistan in 1988-89, he worked and willed himself to become the most successful wicketkeeper of them all.  Ian Healy leads this list. He never turned his arm over during the course of 119. Second is the leading non-wicketkeeper, New Zealand Stephen Fleming of New Zealand, with 111: the only other man to play a century of Tests without ever bowling is Andrew Strauss, who won exactly 100 caps.
11 Oct 1999 Ian Healy of Australia the usual wicketkeeper, in the unusual position of bowling, during the tour match between the Zimbabwe President's XI and Australia at Bulawayo

50,000 Runs in all Forms of Cricket

England prolific batsman Graham Gooch, with 67,057 runs in all formats with 44,846 in first-class cricket, and 22,211 in List A games. On the 2nd place not far behind is Graeme Hick, with 64,372. At 3rd place is at Sir Jack Hobbs, the old Surrey and England opener, whose 61,670 runs all came in first-class cricket and constitute the overall record for that.  The record includes all first-class, List A’ one-day matches and T20 games).

Graham Gooch batting in the Benson & Hedges Cup final, Essex v Northamptonshire, Lord's, July 21, 1980
Player  Span  Mat  Inns  NO  Runs  HS  Ave  100 50
GA Gooch  1973-2000  1194 1591 123 67057 333 45.67 172 356
GA Hick  1983-2008  1214 1537 183 64372 405*  47.54 178 307
JB Hobbs  1905-1934  834 1325 107 61760 316*  50.7 199 273
FE Woolley  1906-1938  978 1530 84 58959 305*  40.77 145 295
G Boycott  1962-1986  922 1316 206 58521 261*  52.72 159 312
EH Hendren  1907-1937  833 1300 166 57611 301*  50.8 170 272
DL Amiss  1960-1987  1062 1530 160 55942 262*  40.83 117 289
CP Mead  1905-1936  814 1340 185 55061 280*  47.67 153 258
WG Grace  1865-1908  870 1478 104 54211 344 39.45 124 251
CG Greenidge  1970-1992  963 1325 108 53703 273*  44.12 125 277
IVA Richards  1971-1993  1007 1262 124 53207 322 46.75 140 271
MW Gatting  1975-1998  1102 1369 202 51025 258 43.72 106 268
H Sutcliffe  1919-1945  754 1098 124 50670 313 52.02 151 230
MR Ramprakash  1987-2012  931 1221 167 50651 301*  48.05 131 245
WR Hammond  1920-1951  634 1005 104 50551 336*  56.1 167 185
SR Tendulkar  1988-2013  954 1120 116 50024 248*  49.82 142 244
TW Graveney  1948-1972  777 1266 166 48940 258 44.49 122 239
AJ Lamb  1972-1995  951 1235 171 48160 294 45.26 108 264
KWR Fletcher  1962-1988  1158 1561 232 47613 228*  35.82 65 285
Zaheer Abbas  1965-1987  782 1077 125 46083 274 48.4 127 230
GM Turner  1964-1983  768 1100 123 45130 311*  46.19 117 214
MC Cowdrey  1950-1976  779 1208 145 44697 307 42.04 110 243
JH Edrich  1956-1978  724 1133 122 44582 310*  44.09 104 227
KJ Barnett  1979-2005  1004 1284 130 44157 239*  38.26 78 245
AI Kallicharran  1966-1990  888 1197 122 43986 243*  40.91 102 231
TW Hayward  1893-1914  712 1138 96 43551 315*  41.79 104 218
A Jones  1957-1983  933 1452 93 43206 204*  31.79 58 236
MJK Smith  1951-1975  777 1221 156 42938 204 40.31 69 256
Javed Miandad  1973-1998  841 1039 174 42636 311 49.29 93 240
CH Lloyd  1963-1986  865 1073 168 42147 242*  46.57 91 241
DL Haynes  1976-1997  795 1055 116 41681 255*  44.38 89 248
R Dravid  1990-2013  856 1014 129 41651 270 47.06 89 242
ME Waugh  1985-2004  802 1008 117 41518 229*  46.59 108 218
RT Ponting  1992-2013  793 982 118 41422 257 47.94 116 210
A Sandham  1911-1937  643 1000 79 41284 325 44.82 107 165
RA Smith  1980-2003  869 1140 147 41082 209*  41.37 88 212
AJ Stewart  1981-2003  951 1208 134 40936 271*  38.11 67 242
DW Randall  1971-2000  955 1269 142 40756 237 36.16 58 236
W Larkins  1972-2002  967 1309 79 40736 252 33.11 85 182
L Hutton  1934-1955  513 814 91 40140 364 55.51 129 177
SG Law  1988-2009  810 1021 97 40089 263 43.38 100 199