How many people have scored a century and conceded one in the same Test, as Moeen Ali did in the second Test against Sri Lanka?asked Ernest Andrews from Hampstead, London
This is a fairly common achievement in Tests: Moeen Ali's 155 not out and 1 for 136 against Sri Lanka in Chester-le-Street last week was the 11th such instance for England, including two by Ben Stokes in the last year or so - against New Zealand at Lord's last May, and v South Africa in Cape Town
in January, when he followed his whirlwind 258 with 1 for 100. Tony
Greig, Ian Botham and Andrew Flintoff also managed it twice, and Len
Braund and Maurice Tate once each. It's been done on 46 other occasions
by players from other countries. The most by a single nation is India's
14 - three by Vinoo Mankad,
two each by Harbhajan Singh and Vijay Hazare, and one by R Ashwin,
Chandu Borde, Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble, Bapu Nadkarni, Ravi Shastri and
Poly Umrigar. Australians have done it eight times (Greg Matthews three,
Keith Miller twice, Richie Benaud, George Giffen and Mitchell Johnson
once) and New Zealanders seven (Daniel Vettori three, Chris Cairns two,
Richard Hadlee and Jacob Oram one). Pakistan (Imran Khan, Intikhab Alam,
Mohammad Hafeez, Saqlain Mushtaq and Wasim Akram) and West Indies
(Garry Sobers three, Denis Atkinson and Darren Sammy one) have both
clocked up five. Aubrey Faulkner, Jimmy Sinclair and - perhaps the most
surprising name on this list - Graeme Smith achieved the feat for South
Africa. Smith took 2 for 145 as West Indies racked up 747 in Antigua
in 2005; he'd earlier scored 126. Grant Flower and Paul Strang did it
for Zimbabwe, and Chaminda Vaas for Sri Lanka - while Bangladesh's only
entry on the list came from Abul Hasan who, on his debut against West
Indies in Khulna in 2012-13, scored 113 from No. 10, then balanced the ledger neatly with bowling figures of 0 for 113.
Apparently there's only one England Test in which three players from the same county all scored centuries - which match was it?asked Andrew Jarvis from Scotland
There have now been 40 Tests in which England batsmen have managed three
or more centuries - the record remains five, against West Indies at Lord's in 2007. In only one of those matches were the centurions all from the same county: it was against West Indies at Lord's in 1969, when John Hampshire made 107 on his debut, Ray Illingworth 113, and Geoff Boycott
106 in the second innings. All three of them were born in Yorkshire,
although by then Illingworth had left his native county and was playing
for Leicestershire.
I noticed that when India were bowled out for 54 in the Champions
Trophy final there were no ducks. Was this the lowest international
total not to feature one?asked Lakshmi Narayanan from India
India's 54 in that Champions Trophy final against Sri Lanka in Sharjah
in 2000-01 was indeed the lowest international total not to include a
duck - everyone got off the mark, but the highest score was Robin
Singh's 11. Zaheer Khan was the only man out for 1. Next on the list for
ODIs is South Africa's 83 against England at Trent Bridge
in 2008; Makhaya Ntini finished with 0 not out, but all the dismissed
batsmen made runs. The record for Tests is 75, by Australia against
South Africa in Durban
in 1949-50 (five batsmen made 2, and another 2 not out), while the T20
record is Sri Lanka's 82 (with three batsmen out for 1) against India in Visakhapatnam in February 2016.
Superb achievement by Virat Kohli, but as with many other similar
(fastest to) ODI batting records, this one too will soon belong to the
mighty Hashim Amla. As he requires only 3 more 100's to get to 25 and he
has played in only 132 matches. What a legend of a player. And to think
people thought he wouldn't cut it as an international ODI player.
ASR09
on June 7, 2016, 7:28 GMT
Hi Steve, After reading the question about 3 centurions from same
county, I suddenly recalled that once India had fielded 7 players from
Karnataka in a test match against New Zealand at Mohali in late 90s
(1999 I think). I wanted to know what is the record number of players
belonging to same first class side, representing their nation in the
same match. And if possible for all formats - ODI, Test Matches and T20.
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