Test #1836 Records : Chanderpaul remains the lone man standing among the falling West indians

Test #1836 West Indies in England 2007 (4^th Test) at Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

The latest test series between West Indies and England resulted in the same manner as did the every series in the new millennium. After winning the first test of the new millennium played at Edgbaston from June 15^th to 17 th inside three days by a huge margin of an innings and 93 runs, they are yet to register a test victory against England. West Indies went on to surrender The John Wisden Trophy in 2000 series by losing three of the next four tests with the rain ruined third test played at Old Trafford ending in a draw. Thus they ended their supremacy of last 27 years of 20^th century during which they never lost a test series to England.

Odds were never in their favor to regain the John Wisden Trophy even before they started the 2007 series. Yes, not even before Brian Lara announced his retirement from the international Cricket immediately after the World Cup debacle. However they did put up a good show in the first test at Lord's though weather ruined the proceedings and helped West Indies in escaping the test match with a draw. If Chanderpaul's absence in the 2^nd test was itself a major blow for the West Indies, they took another crushing blow when their captain Ramnaresh Sarwan suffered a series ending injury in the second test before even taking a batting stance. There after things went from bad to worse with Chris Gayle not being able to take off at all and their stop-gap skipper Daren Ganga having a horrible existence at the crease since taking over the captaincy with scores of 5 & 9, 5 & 0 , 0 & 6. The Brilliance of Bravo and Resilience of Chanderpaul could not stop West Indies from losing last three tests even though it looked as if West Indies might avoid a defeat while Chanderpaul and Bravo were batting in last two tests. So England extends their streak of not losing a test match to West Indies to sixteen and West Indies requires a tremendous amount of reversal in their cricketing fortunes even to dream of regaining the John Wisden trophy when they host England in 2009.

Following are some of the statistical highlights of the fourth test of the 2007 series:

Though England dominated the test series from every imaginable angle, one batsman they could not corner was Shivnarine Chanderpaul. Chanderpaul topped the batting averages for both sides but ended up on the losing side as he did in 2004 notching up plethora of test records in the process. He batted for more than 1000 minutes without getting dismissed while making 116* in the 2^nd innings of the 3^rd test at Old Trafford and 136* & 70 in the 4^th test at Chester-le-Street. This is the third time he recorded this feat in his test career. Only five other batsmen achieved this record in test history and none of them had done it more than once. Following is the list of all such occasions.

Player	Vs	Venue	Series	Inns	Score	C.Runs	Mts	T.Mts	B/F	T. B/F	TEST#
Shoaib Mohammad	NZ	Karachi	1990/91	1st	*203	203	656	656	411	411	1151
	NZ	Lahore	1990/91	1st	105	308	351	1007	223	634	1152

Nasser Hussain	SA	Port Elizabeth	1999/00	2nd	*70	70	303	303	211	211	1475
	SA	Durban	1999/00	1st	*146	216	635	938	463	674	1480
	SA	Cape Town	1999/00	1st	15	231	85	1023	70	744	1482

Rahul Dravid	BD	Dhaka	2000/01	2nd	*41	41	50	50	49	49	1512
	Zim	New Delhi	2000/01	1st	*200	241	551	601	350	399	1515
				2nd	*70	311	152	753	91	490
	Zim	Nagpur	2000/01	1st	162	473	408	1161	301	791	1517

Jacques Kallis	Zim	Harare	2001/02	1st	*157	157	381	381	272	272	1562
				2nd	*42	199	65	446	54	326
	Zim	Bulawayo	2001/02	1st	*189	388	581	1027	443	769	1563
	Ind	Bloemfontein	2001/02	1st	68	456	219	1246	138	907	1564

Shivnarine ChanderPaul	Ind	Port of Spain	2001/02	2nd	*67	67	260	260	162	162	1599
	Ind	Bridgetown	2001/02	1st	*101	168	365	625	231	393	1601
	Ind	St. John’s	2001/02	1st	*136	304	675	1300	510	903	1602
	Ind	Kingston	2001/02	1st	58	362	213	1513	148	1051	1604

Sachin Tendulkar	Aus	Sydney	2003/04	1st	*241	241	613	613	436	436	1680
				2nd	*60	301	108	721	89	525
	Pak	Multan	2003/04	1st	*194	495	493	1214	348	873	1693
	Pak	Lahore	2003/04	1st	2	497	10	1224	6	879	1695

Shivnarine ChanderPaul	BD	Kingston	2003/04	1st	*101	101	271	271	190	190	1703
	Eng	Lord’s	2004	1st	*128	229	383	654	270	460	1707
				2nd	*97	306	231	885	152	612
	Eng	Edgbaston	2004	1st	45	351	146	1031	86	698	1708

Shivnarine ChanderPaul	Eng	Old Trafford	2007	2nd	*116	116	413	413	257	257	1835
	Eng	Chester-le-Street	2007	1st	*136	252	406	819	257	514	1836
				2nd	70	322	255	1074	163	677

Just for the record : Hanif Mohammad of Pakistan holds the record for batting for longest period in a single test match with his marathon knock of 337 in 970 minutes against West Indies at Bridgetown in 1957/58 whereas Aussie Opener Mark Taylor with 334* (720 mts) & 92 (218 mts) against Pakistan at Peshawar 1998/99 is close second with 938 mts of batting before getting dismissed. However Stephen Fleming of New Zealand holds the record for batting longest period of 956 minutes without getting dismissed in a single test with the scores of 274* (653) & 69* (303) against Sri Lanka at Colombo (PSS) in 2003. Fleming however was dismissed for a duck in the next match after batting for just 5 mts thus missing the 1000 mts mark.

Chanderpaul's latest 1000+ minutes batting between dismissals also makes him the owner of another interesting record. For the second time in his career he now has witnessed 20 or more wickets falling consecutively at the other end while he himself remained not out. In the third test at Old Trafford he came into bat at 88 for 3 and remained unbeaten at the close of West Indian innings, thus seeing seven of his teammates losing their wickets. In the fourth test at Chester-le-Street , Chanderpaul came into bat at 34 for 3 and remained not out again for 136 witnessing seven more wickets falling at the other end. In the second innings of the same test he stepped in at 38 for 3 and saw six wickets falling at the other end before becoming the last batsman out in the innings for 70.

However Chanderpaul’s unbeaten tenure at the crease which made him saw 20 of his side's dismissals is still one dismissal short of his record 21 dismissals he witnessed during his record 1513 minutes of unbeaten batting against India in 2001-02 as he saw 6 wickets falling during his 2^nd innings knock of 67* at Port of Spain, 6 wickets during 101* at Bridgetown, 6 wickets during 136* at St. John's and 3 wickets during his 1^st innings knock of 58 at Kingston. No other batsmen in the history of test cricket batted with such patience and perseverance to endure so many wickets falling at the opposite end. The closest to Chanderpaul's record is 18 dismissals shared by Jacques Rudolph of South Africa and Kumara Sangakkara of Sri Lanka. Rudolph made 154* at Auckalnd and 93* & 0 at Wellington in 2003-04 series against New Zealand whereas Sangakkara made 100* at Christchurch and 156* & 8 at Wellington against the same opposition in 2006-07. They both came at the fall of first wicket in their unbeaten innings.

When the West Indian skipper Daren Ganga was out lbw to the first ball of the test match bowled by Ryan Sidebottom, he not only became the 26^th player to be dismissed by the first ball of a Test Match but also just the third captain to have suffered the ignominy. At Headingley in 1926, acting as a stop-gap captain in the absence of the appointed captain Herbie Collins just like Darren Ganga, Warren Bardsley of Australia became the first captain to have suffered the fate of getting out to the first ball of a test match.. Seventy three years later Sri Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuriya fell to the first ball of the match, bowled by Australia’s Glenn McGrath at Galle in 1999-00. For the entire list of batsmen who were out to the first legitimate delivery of a test match refer to the table in my posting on Test #1832 which saw India's opener Wasim Jaffer shouldering his arms to an incoming delivery from Bangladesh's Mashrafe Mortaza to lose his stumps to the first ball of a test match and provide 25^th such instance.

For the Trivia buffs : When AC MacLaren of Australia was out to the first ball of the Melbourne test in 1894/95 of the bowling of Arthur Conningham, he provided first such instance. It was also Arthur Conningham's first delivery in his test career . Mohsin Khan's dismissal with the first ball of 1983/84 test at Jalandhar by Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar's first ball dismissal by Imran Khan at Jaipur provides the only two instances in test cricket a wicket falling to the first ever ball bowled at a particular venue.

Sunil Gavaskar of India and Hannan Sarkar of Bangladesh are the only batsmen to have suffered fate of losing their wicket to the first ball of a test match on three separate occasions whereas Geoff Arnold of England (2), Richard Hadlee of New Zealand (2) , Kapil Dev of India (2) and Pedro Collins of West Indies (3) are the only bowlers to have taken a wicket with the first delivery bowled in a test match on more than one occasion. Hannan Sarkar also holds the record for getting out to the first delivery of a test match in three consecutive tests, which as of today are his last three matches of his test career.

Keith Stackpole of Australia in 1973/74 at Auckland against New Zealand and Wasim Jaffer against Bangladesh at Chittagong followed up their first ball dismissal of a test match with another duck in their second innings. SJ Cook of South Africa and LV Garrick of New Zealand were out to the first ball of a test match while making their test debut. Except Zimbabwe batsmen of all test playing nations have at least one batsmen or bowler involved in a first ball dismissal in a test match.

During his first innings knock of 136* Chanderpaul crossed the 's 7000 test runs milestone and became the 7^th West Indian and 30^th test cricketer to have done so. Following is the list of all players with 7000 or more test runs.

Player	Country	Tests	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	100s	50s	Avg	S/R
Lara, B C	West Indies	131	232	6	11953	*400	34	48	52.89	60.52
Border, A R	Australia	156	265	44	11174	205	27	63	50.56	40.98
Waugh, S R	Australia	168	260	46	10927	200	32	50	51.06	48.65
Tendulkar, S R*	India	137	220	23	10922	*248	37	43	55.44
Gavaskar, S M	India	125	214	16	10122	*236	34	45	51.12
Ponting, R T*	Australia	110	183	25	9368	257	33	36	59.29	58.95
Dravid, R *	India	109	185	22	9366	270	24	47	57.46	42.50
Gooch, G A	England	118	215	6	8900	333	20	46	42.58	49.20
Javed Miandad	Pakistan	124	189	21	8832	*280	23	43	52.57
Inzamam-ul-Haq*	Pakistan	119	198	22	8813	329	25	46	50.07	54.04
Richards, I V A	West Indies	121	182	12	8540	291	24	45	50.24
Stewart, A J	England	133	235	21	8463	190	15	45	39.55	48.67
Kallis, J H*	South Africa	107	182	29	8430	*189	24	44	55.10	42.76
Gower, D I	England	117	204	18	8231	215	18	39	44.25	50.60
Boycott, G	England	108	193	23	8114	*246	22	42	47.73
Sobers, G S A	West Indies	93	160	21	8032	*365	26	30	57.78
Waugh, M E	Australia	128	209	17	8029	*153	20	47	41.82	52.27
Hayden, M L*	Australia	89	159	13	7739	380	27	27	53.01	60.08
Atherton, M A	England	115	212	7	7728	*185	16	46	37.70	37.32
Langer, J L	Australia	105	182	12	7696	250	23	30	45.27	54.23
Cowdrey, M C	England	114	188	15	7624	182	22	38	44.07
Greenidge, C G	West Indies	108	185	16	7558	226	19	34	44.72
Taylor, M A	Australia	104	186	13	7525	*334	19	40	43.50	41.61
Lloyd, C H	West Indies	110	175	14	7515	*242	19	39	46.68
Haynes, D L	West Indies	116	202	25	7487	184	18	39	42.30
Boon, D C	Australia	107	190	20	7422	200	21	32	43.66	40.97
Kirsten, G	South Africa	101	176	15	7289	275	21	34	45.27	43.35
Hammond, W R	England	85	140	16	7249	*336	22	24	58.46
Chanderpaul, S*	West Indies	104	178	24	7182	*203	16	43	46.64	43.32
Chappell, G S	Australia	87	151	19	7110	*247	24	31	53.86

Finally England's Andrew Strauss stuck some batting form and made a fine 77 in the first innings. In the second innings he completed 3000 runs in Test Cricket and became the 143 cricketer to do so and 34^th from England. Following is the list of all English cricketers who aggregated 3000 or more runs in a test career:

Player	Country	Tests	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	100s	50s	Avg	S/R
Gooch, G A	England	118	215	6	8900	333	20	46	42.58	49.20
Stewart, A J	England	133	235	21	8463	190	15	45	39.55	48.67
Gower, D I	England	117	204	18	8231	215	18	39	44.25	50.60
Boycott, G	England	108	193	23	8114	*246	22	42	47.73
Atherton, M A	England	115	212	7	7728	*185	16	46	37.70	37.32
Cowdrey, M C	England	114	188	15	7624	182	22	38	44.07
Hammond, W R	England	85	140	16	7249	*336	22	24	58.46
Hutton, L	England	79	138	15	6971	364	19	33	56.67
Barrington, K F	England	82	131	15	6806	256	20	35	58.67
Thorpe, G P	England	100	179	28	6744	*200	16	39	44.66	45.90
Trescothick, M E*	England	76	143	10	5825	219	14	29	43.80	54.52
Compton, D C S	England	78	131	15	5807	278	17	28	50.06
Hussain, N	England	96	171	16	5764	207	14	33	37.19	40.39
Hobbs, J B	England	61	102	7	5410	211	15	28	56.95
Botham, I T	England	102	161	6	5200	208	14	22	33.55	60.71
Edrich, J H	England	77	127	9	5138	*310	12	24	43.54
Graveney, T W	England	79	123	13	4882	258	11	20	44.38
Vaughan, M P*	England	67	120	9	4846	197	16	14	43.66	52.47
Lamb, A J	England	79	139	10	4656	142	14	18	36.09	51.40
Sutcliffe, H	England	54	84	9	4555	194	16	23	60.73
May, P B H	England	66	106	9	4537	*285	13	22	46.77
Dexter, E R	England	62	102	8	4502	205	9	27	47.89
Gatting, M W	England	79	138	14	4409	207	10	21	35.56	45.16
Knott, A P E	England	95	149	15	4389	135	5	30	32.75
Butcher, M A	England	71	131	7	4288	*173	8	23	34.58	42.02
Smith, R A	England	62	112	15	4236	175	9	28	43.67	45.65
Amiss, D L	England	50	88	10	3612	*262	11	11	46.31
Greig, A W	England	58	93	4	3599	148	8	20	40.44
Hendren, E H	England	51	83	9	3525	*205	7	21	47.64
Hick, G A	England	65	114	6	3383	178	6	18	31.32	48.89
Flintoff, A*	England	67	110	6	3381	167	5	24	32.51	64.17
Woolley, F E	England	64	98	7	3283	154	5	23	36.08
Fletcher, K W R	England	59	96	14	3272	216	7	19	39.90
Strauss, A J*	England	40	75	2	3012	147	10	9	41.26	51.02

Final Statistical Tidbit: Matt Prior's 324 runs from 6 innings he came into bat in this series is the new record for a wicket keeper's debut test series eclipsing the previous best of 264 by Adam Gilchrist in his maiden test series against Pakistan in 1999/00.

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Test #1835 Records : England retains the John Wisden Trophy

Test #1835 West Indies in England 2007 (3rd Test) at Old Trafford, Manchester.

An amazing return catch by England's latest bowling sensation Monty Panesar to dismiss debutant Sammy proved out to be the turning point of the West Indies chase for a record total for a win in the third test match played at Old Trafford. It not only changed the whole complexion of the contest but also left the subsequent happenings as a matter of academic interest. Had Sammy stayed at the wicket for another hour West Indies could have cruised to a miraculous victory and Sammy would have a made a dream all-rounder debut. But Panesar's crucial breakthrough took all the tension out of Michael Vaughan's mind and England clinched a series winning test victory at Old Trafford by 60 runs. Panesar for his first 10fer deservedly won the Man of the Match award.

A Test Match which had several statistical highlights like batsmen from opposing sides (Alastair Cook and Shivnarine Chanderpaul) hitting a century and a in the same test, Darren Sammy claiming seven wickets in an innings on test debut, Harmison crossing the 200 wicket milestone in test career and Monty Panesar ending a 10 year long period of an English spinner going without a 10-wicket haul in a test match, more than anything else the total number of extras conceded by a both teams came within six sundries of and all time record. Though West Indies' fourth innings total was the highest in the test match they ended up losing the match like they did against India just a year back thus providing tenth such instance.

Here are the details of the statistical highlights of the test match #1835:

Darren Sammy's second innings haul of 7 for 66 provides the 124^th occasion of a test debutant claiming 5 or more wickets in an innings. He becomes the 9^th West Indian to do so. Following is the list of all the instances of a player returning with five wicket haul in an innings on Test Debut in chronological order.

Player	For	1st	inns	2nd	inns	Test Series	Venue	M	Figs
Kendall, T	Aus	6	67	2	78	1876-1877 AUS v ENG	Melbourne	8	109
Midwinter, W E	Aus	5	78	1	23	1876-1877 AUS v ENG	Melbourne	6	101
Shaw, A	Eng	3	51	5	38	1876-1877 AUS v ENG	Melbourne	8	89
Morley, F	Eng	5	56	3	90	1880 ENG v AUS	The Oval	8	146
Cooper, W H	Aus	6	155	-	DNB	1881-1882 AUS v ENG	Melbourne	9	200
Peel, R	Eng	3	68	5	51	1884-1885 AUS v ENG	Adelaide	8	119
Ferris, J J	Eng	3	61	6	38	1886-1887 AUS v ENG	Sydney	9	103
Turner, C T B	Aus	6	15	2	53	1886-1887 AUS v ENG	Sydney	8	68
Ashley, W H	SA	2	19	5	64	1888-1889 SAF v ENG	Cape Town	7	95
Rose-Innes, A	SA	5	43	0	16	1888-1889 SAF v ENG	Port Elizabeth	5	59
Smith, C A	Eng	5	19	2	42	1888-1889 SAF v ENG	Port Elizabeth	7	61
Martin, F	Eng	6	50	6	52	1890 ENG v AUS	The Oval	12	102
McLeod, R W	Aus	5	53	1	39	1891-1892 AUS v ENG	Melbourne	6	92
Lockwood, W H	Eng	6	101	-	DNB	1893 ENG v AUS	Lord’s	6	101
Richardson, T	Eng	5	49	5	107	1893 ENG v AUS	Old Trafford	10	156
Trott, A E	Eng	0	9	8	43	1894-1895 AUS v ENG	Adelaide	8	52
Heseltine, C	Eng	4	119	5	43	1895-1896 SAF v ENG	Old Wanderers	5	67
Middleton, J	SA	5	64	4	66	1895-1896 SAF v ENG	Port Elizabeth	9	130
Rowe, G A	SA	5	115	-	DNB	1895-1896 SAF v ENG	Old Wanderers	5	115
Noble, M A	Aus	1	31	6	49	1897-1898 AUS v ENG	Melbourne	7	80
Bradley, W M	Eng	1	81	5	37	1899 ENG v AUS	Old Trafford	6	149
Barnes, S F	Eng	3	72	5	50	1901-1902 AUS v ENG	Sydney	6	139
Braund, L C	Eng	5	53	1	39	1901-1902 AUS v ENG	Sydney	7	101
Saunders, J V	Aus	4	119	5	43	1901-1902 AUS v ENG	Sydney	9	162
Warren, A	Eng	5	57	1	56	1905 ENG v AUS	Headingley	6	113
Lees, W S	Eng	2	61	5	82	1905-1906 SAF v ENG	Old Wanderers	8	108
O’Connor, J D A	Aus	3	110	5	40	1907-1908 AUS v ENG	Adelaide	8	150
Carr, D W	Eng	5	113	1	58	1909 ENG v AUS	The Oval	7	282
Simpson-Hayward, G H T	Eng	6	43	2	59	1909-1910 SAF v ENG	Old Wanderers	8	102
Hordern, H V	Aus	3	51	5	38	1910-1911 AUS v SAF	Melbourne	8	105
Foster, F R	Eng	5	58	0	14	1911-1912 AUS v ENG	Sydney	7	197
Hall, A E	SA	5	43	0	16	1922-1923 SAF v ENG	Cape Town	11	112
Macaulay, G G	Eng	2	19	5	64	1922-1923 SAF v ENG	Cape Town	7	83
Parker, G M	SA	6	152	-	DNB	1924 ENG v SAF	Edgbaston	6	152
Grimmett, C V	Aus	6	100	1	23	1924-1925 AUS v ENG	Sydney	11	82
Bissett, G F	SA	6	50	6	52	1927-1928 SAF v ENG	Cape Town	8	136
Hammond, W R	Eng	5	115	-	DNB	1927-1928 SAF v ENG	Old Wanderers	5	57
Promnitz, H L E	SA	5	58	0	14	1927-1928 SAF v ENG	Old Wanderers	5	72
Wall, T W	Aus	3	123	5	66	1928-1929 AUS v ENG	Melbourne	8	189
Bell, A J	SA	6	81	-	DNB	1929 ENG v SAF	Lord’s	6	159
Allom, M J C	Eng	5	34	3	74	1929-1930 NZL v ENG	Christchurch	8	55
Mahomed Nissar	Ind	5	93	1	42	1932 ENG v IND	Lord’s	6	135
Langridge, J	Eng	3	123	5	66	1933 ENG v WIN	Old Trafford	7	79
Marriott, C S	Eng	5	37	6	59	1933 ENG v WIN	The Oval	11	96
Farnes, K	Eng	5	24	2	63	1934 ENG v AUS	Trent Bridge	10	179
Smith, C I J	Eng	0	8	5	16	1934-1935 WIN v ENG	Bridgetown	5	24
Ward, F A	Aus	2	138	6	102	1936-1937 AUS v ENG	Brisbane	8	240
Gordon, N	SA	5	49	5	107	1938-1939 SAF v ENG	Old Wanderers	7	162
Perks, R T D	Eng	5	100	1	99	1938-1939 SAF v ENG	Kingsmead	6	199
Copson, W H	Eng	5	56	3	90	1939 ENG v WIN	Lord’s	9	152
Johnson, I W G	NZ	6	43	2	59	1945-1946 NZ v AUS	Wellington	8	134
Bedser, A V	Eng	5	63	1	14	1946 ENG v IND	Lord’s	11	145
Pollard, R	Eng	5	24	2	63	1946 ENG v IND	Old Trafford	7	87
Tuckett, L	SA	5	68	1	127	1947 ENG v SAF	Trent Bridge	6	195
Johnson, H H H	WI	0	81	5	47	1947-1948 WIN v ENG	Kingston	10	96
Laker, J C	Eng	6	15	2	53	1947-1948 WIN v ENG	Bridgetown	9	198
McCarthy, C N	SA	0	20	6	43	1948-1949 SAF v ENG	Kingsmead	6	63
Bailey, T E	Eng	5	93	1	42	1949 ENG v NZL	Headingley	6	169
Cresswell, G F	NZ	1	31	6	49	1949 ENG v NZL	The Oval	6	168
Melle, M G	SA	5	113	1	58	1949-1950 SAF v AUS	Ellis Park	6	171
Berry, R	Eng	5	37	6	59	1950 ENG v WIN	Old Trafford	9	116
Valentine, A L	WI	8	104	3	100	1950 ENG v WIN	Old Trafford	11	204
Moir, A M	NZ	6	155	-	DNB	1950-1951 NZL v ENG	Christchurch	6	155
Ironside, D E J	SA	5	104	-	DNB	1953-1954 SAF v NZL	Ellis Park	8	88
Appleyard, R	Eng	5	84	0	40	1954 ENG v PAK	Trent Bridge	7	123
Heine, P S	SA	1	32	7	66	1955 ENG v SAF	Lord’s	6	147
Meckiff, I	Aus	5	125	3	52	1957-1958 SAF v AUS	Wanderers	8	177
Taylor, J O	WI	5	109	-	DNB	1957-1958 WIN v PAK	Port-of-Spain	5	109
Kumar, V V	Ind	0	9	8	43	1960-1961 IND v PAK	Delhi (Feroz SK)	7	132
McKenzie, G D	Aus	1	81	5	37	1961 ENG v AUS	Lord’s	6	118
Burke, S F	SA	5	125	3	52	1961-1962 SAF v NZL	Cape Town	11	196
Pollock, P M	SA	3	61	6	38	1961-1962 SAF v NZL	Kingsmead	9	99
King, L A	WI	5	86	-	DNB	1961-1962 WIN v IND	Kingston	7	64
Coldwell, L J	Eng	7	99	0	15	1962 ENG v PAK	Lord’s	9	110
Larter, J D F	Eng	2	138	6	102	1962 ENG v PAK	The Oval	9	145
Arif Butt	Pak	6	101	-	DNB	1964-1965 AUS v PAK	Melbourne	7	118
Taylor, B R	NZ	5	86	-	DNB	1964-1965 IND v NZL	Calcutta	5	86
Abid Ali, S	Ind	5	57	4	88	1967-1968 AUS v IND	Adelaide	7	116
Shepherd, J N	WI	5	104	-	DNB	1969 ENG v WIN	Old Trafford	5	104
Mohammed Nazir	Pak	4	64	7	66	1969-1970 PAK v NZL	Rawalpindi (CS)	11	130
Lillee, D K	Aus	5	84	0	40	1970-1971 AUS v ENG	Adelaide	5	124
Shuttleworth, K	Eng	0	81	5	47	1970-1971 AUS v ENG	Brisbane	5	128
Massie, R A L	Aus	8	84	8	53	1972 ENG v AUS	Lord’s	16	137
Dymock, G	Aus	3	68	5	51	1973-1974 AUS v NZL	Adelaide	7	102
Edmonds, P H	Eng	5	100	1	99	1975 ENG v AUS	Headingley	6	92
Lever, J K	Eng	7	46	3	24	1976-1977 IND v ENG	Delhi (Feroz SK)	10	70
Botham, I T	Eng	0	20	6	43	1977 ENG v AUS	Trent Bridge	5	134
Malone, M F	Aus	5	63	1	14	1977 ENG v AUS	The Oval	6	77
Hogg, R M	Aus	5	53	2	45	1978-1979 AUS v ENG	Brisbane	7	109
Doshi, D R	Ind	6	152	-	DNB	1979-1980 IND v AUS	Chepauk	8	167
Alderman, T M	Aus	5	47	2	31	1981 ENG v AUS	Trent Bridge	9	130
Hogan, T G	Aus	5	52	0	49	1982-1983 SRL v AUS	Kandy	6	116
Cook, N G B	Eng	3	70	5	36	1983 ENG v NZL	Lord’s	8	125
Kuruppuarachchi, A K	SL	5	68	1	127	1985-1986 SRL v PAK	Colombo (CCC)	7	85
Taylor, P L	Aus	6	78	2	76	1986-1987 AUS v ENG	Sydney	8	154
Dodemaide, A I C	Aus	3	110	5	40	1987-1988 AUS v NZL	Melbourne	7	106
Hirwani, N D	Ind	3	61	5	48	1987-1988 IND v WIN	Chepauk	16	136
Mallender, N A	Eng	3	72	5	50	1992 ENG v PAK	Headingley	8	122
Such, P M	Eng	6	67	2	78	1993 ENG v AUS	Old Trafford	8	145
Cork, D G	Eng	6	132	0	22	1995 ENG v WIN	Lord’s	8	115
Klusener, L	SA	6	78	2	76	1996-1997 IND v SAF	Calcutta	8	139
Mohammad Zahid	Pak	3	70	5	36	1996-1997 PAK v NZL	Auckland	8	106
Shahid Nazir*	Pak	5	53	2	45	1996-1997 PAK v ZIM	Sheikhupura	7	98
Rose, F A*	WI	6	100	1	23	1996-1997 WIN v IND	Kingston	7	123
Cook, S H	Aus	4	64	7	66	1997-1998 AUS v NZL	Perth	7	75
Wiseman, P J*	NZ	2	61	5	82	1997-1998 SRL v NZL	Colombo (RPS)	7	143
Shahid Afridi*	Pak	5	52	0	49	1998-1999 PAK v AUS	Karachi (NS)	5	101
Chandana, U D U*	SL	5	64	4	66	1998-1999 SRL v PAK	Dhaka	6	179
Perry, N O*	WI	1	79	5	70	1998-1999 WIN v AUS	Kingston	6	149
Lee, B*	Aus	5	57	1	56	1999-2000 AUS v IND	Melbourne	7	78
Naimuir Rahman*	BD	6	132	0	22	2000-2001 BAN v IND	Dhaka	6	154
Mohammad Sami*	Pak	7	99	0	15	2000-2001 NZL v PAK	Karachi (NS)	7	114
Blignaut, A M	Zim	8	84	8	53	2000-2001 ZIM v BAN	Bulawayo (QSC)	8	110
Manjural Islam*	BD	6	81	-	DNB	2000-2001 ZIM v BAN	Bulawayo (QSC)	6	81
Katich, SM	Aus	0	8	5	16	2001 AUS v ENG	Leeds	6	90
Edwards, F H *	WI	1	79	5	70	2002-2003 WIN v SRL	Kingston	6	90
Kirtley, R J*	Eng	5	109	-	DNB	2003 ENG v SAF	Trent Bridge	8	114
Anderson, J M*	Eng	7	46	3	24	2003 ENG v ZIM	Lord’s	5	138
Johnson, R L*	Eng	5	19	2	42	2003 ENG v ZIM	Chester-le-Street	6	100
Shabbir Ahmed*	Pak	3	61	5	48	2003-2004 PAK v BAN	Karachi (NS)	8	109
Langeveldt, C K*	SA	8	104	3	100	2004-2005 SAF v ENG	Cape Town	5	96
Clark, S R *	Aus	5	78	1	23	2005-2006 SAF v AUS	Cape Town	9	89
Sammy, D J G*	WI	1	32	7	66	2007 ENG v WIN	Old Trafford	8	98

Its very rare that batsmen from opposing sides record a century and a fifty in the same test match. England's Alastair Cook's (60 & 106) and West Indies' Shivanrine Chanderpaul's (50 & 116*) provides 34^th occurrence of a batsmen from each side of a test match hitting a fifty and a hundred in the same test match. Table below lists all such occurrences.

Player Name	For	1st		2nd		Vs	Venue	Series	Test Seq
Collins, HL	Aus	114		60		Eng	Sydney	1924-25	158
Hobbs, JB	Eng	115		57
Sutcliffe, H	Eng	59		115
Bradman, DG	Aus	79		112		Eng	Melbourne	1928-29	178
Sutcliffe, H	Eng	58		135
Roach, CA	WI	122		77		Eng	Bridgetown	1929-30	187
Sandham, A	Eng	152		51
Headley, GA	WI	114		112		Eng	Georgetown	1929-30	192
Hendren, EH	Eng	56		123
Compton, DCS	Eng	147		103	*	Aus	Adelaide	1946-47	282
Morris, AR	Aus	122		124	*
Melville, A	SA	189		104	*	Eng	Trent Bridge	1947	285
Compton, DCS	Eng	65		163
Compton, DCS	Eng	53		113		SA	The Oval	1947	289
Mitchell, B	SA	120		189	*
Walcott, CL	WI	54		108		Ind	Calcutta	1948-49	308
Weekes, EdeC	WI	162		101
Mushtaq Ali	Ind	54		106
Barrington, KF	Eng	101		94		Aus	Sydney	1962-63	539
Burge, PJP	Aus	103		52	*
Butcher, BF	WI	52		118		Aus	Adelaide	1968-69	645
Sobers, GStA	WI	110		52
Walters, KD	Aus	110		50
Boycott, G	Eng	58		119	*	Aus	Adelaide	1970-71	678
Stackpole, KR	Aus	87		136
Zaheer Abbas	Pak	85		101		Aus	Adelaide	1976-77	789
Walters, KD	Aus	107		51
McCosker, RB	Aus	51		107		Eng	Trent Bridge	1977	806
Boycott, G	Eng	107		80	*
Gavaskar, SM	Ind	111		137		Pak	Karachi (NS)	1978-79	833
Javed Miandad	Pak	100		62	*
Hughes, KJ	Aus	117		84		Eng	Lord’s	1980	885
Boycott, G	Eng	62		128	*
Wasim Akram	Pak	52		123		Aus	Adelaide	1989-90	1135
Jones, DM	Aus	116		121	*
Atherton, MA	Eng	131		74		Ind	Old Trafford	1990	1149
Smith, RA	Eng	121	*	61	*
Tendulkar, SR	Ind	68		119	*
Jones, AH	NZ	122		100	*	SL	Hamilton	1990-91	1164
Gurusinha, AP	SL	119		102
Kirsten, G	SA	102		133		Ind	Calcutta	1996-97	1341
Azharuddin, M	Ind	109		52
Kirsten, G	SA	77		108	*	Aus	Adelaide	1997-98	1397
Waugh, ME	Aus	63		115	*
Wajahatullah Wasti	Pak	133		121	*	SL	Lahore (Gaddafi)	1998-99	1447
Arnold, RP	SL	123		56	*
Flower, A	Zim	183	*	70		Ind	Delhi (Feroz SK)	2000-01	1515
Dravid, RS	Ind	200	*	70	*
Lehmann, DS	Aus	160		66		WI	Port-of-Spain	2002-03	1639
Lara, BC	WI	91		122
Habibul Bashar	BD	71		108		Pak	Karachi (NS)	2003	1655
Yasir Hameed	Pak	170		105
Dravid, RS	Ind	222		73		NZ	Ahmedabad (GS)	2003-04	1660
Astle, NJ	NZ	103		51	*
Dilshan, TM	SL	63		100		Eng	Kandy	2003-04	1672
Vaughan, MP	Eng	52		105
Tendulkar, SR	Ind	241	*	60	*	Aus	Sydney	2003-04	1680
Katich, SM	Aus	125		77	*
Kallis, JH	SA	73		130	*	WI	Cape Town	2003-04	1681
Lara, BC	WI	115		86
Richardson, MH	NZ	93		101		Eng	Lord’s	2004	1700
Strauss, AJ	Eng	112		83
Vaughan, MP	Eng	103		101	*	WI	Lord’s	2004	1707
Chanderpaul, S	WI	128	*	97	*
Kallis, JH	SA	111		50	*	Aus	Sydney	2005-06	1780
Ponting, RT	Aus	120		143	*
Cook, AN	Eng	60		104	*	Ind	Nagpur	2005-06	1785
Jaffer, W	Ind	81		100
Ganga, D	WI	135		66	*	Ind	Basseterre	2006	1807
Laxman, VVS	Ind	100		63
Cook, AN	Eng	60		106		WI	Old Trafford	2007	1835
Chanderpaul, S	WI	50		116	*

The combined total of extras conceded by both teams in this test came very close to the current record for the most number of extras totaled by both teams in a test match. The previous highest also involved West Indies when they along with

Pakistan

in the 1976-77 Bridgetown test combined to concede 173 extras. Following is the list of all the instances wherein the two teams combined to total 125 extras or more in a test match.

Extras	%Sc	Bat#1	Bat#2	Venue	Season	Test Seq
173	12.37	Pak	WI	Bridgetown	1976-77	797
167	12.79	Eng	WI	Old Trafford	2007	1835
149	10.44	WI	Aus	Perth	1988-89	1110
140	10.44	Aus	WI	Adelaide	1988-89	1114
140	9.69	NZ	Eng	Lord’s	2004	1700
137	8.69	Eng	WI	Lord’s	2004	1707
136	11.37	Aus	WI	Georgetown	1990-91	1167
135	8.94	Aus	WI	Port-of-Spain	2002-03	1639
134	10.5	Aus	WI	Bridgetown	1998-99	1453
129	11.58	SAf	Pak	Wanderers	1994-95	1283
127	10.06	WI	Eng	Bridgetown	1989-90	1143

When Steve Harmison had Jerome Taylor caught by England’s batting hero Alastair Cook in the short leg for 11 he became the 11th English bowler to reach the 200 wicket milestone in a test career. He now becomes the 52nd cricketer in test cricket to take 200 or more wickets in a test career. Following is the list of all players who took 200 or more wickets in tests.

Player	Country	Career	Tests	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Avg	Best	5w	10w
Warne, S K	Australia	1992-2007	145	6784.1	1762	17995	708	25.42	8/71	37	10
Muralitharan, M*	Sri Lanka	1992-	110	6117.3	1585	14649	674	21.73	9/51	57	19
McGrath, G D	Australia	1993-2007	124	4874.4	1470	12186	563	21.64	8/24	29	3
Kumble, A *	India	1990-	115	5973.2	1438	15779	552	28.59	10/74	33	8
Walsh, C A	West Indies	1984-2001	132	5003.1	1144	12684	519	24.44	7/37	22	3
Kapil Dev	India	1978-1994	131	4623.2	1060	12867	434	29.65	9/83	23	2
Hadlee, R J	New Zealand	1973-1990	86	3460.4	809	9611	431	22.30	9/52	36	9
Pollock, S M*	South Africa	1995-	107	4030.5	1205	9648	416	23.19	7/87	16	1
Wasim Akram	Pakistan	1985-2002	104	3771.1	871	9779	414	23.62	7/119	25	5
Ambrose, C E L	West Indies	1988-2000	98	3683.5	1001	8502	405	20.99	8/45	22	3
Botham, I T	England	1977-1992	102	3549.3	788	10878	383	28.40	8/34	27	4
Marshall, M D	West Indies	1978-1991	81	2930.4	613	7876	376	20.95	7/22	22	4
Waqar Younis	Pakistan	1989-2003	87	2704.0	516	8788	373	23.56	7/76	22	5
Imran Khan	Pakistan	1971-1992	88	3106.0	727	8258	362	22.81	8/58	23	6
Lillee, D K	Australia	1971-1984	70	2834.1	652	8493	355	23.92	7/83	23	7
Donald, A A	South Africa	1992-2002	72	2586.3	661	7344	330	22.25	8/71	20	3
Willis, R G D	England	1971-1984	90	2699.1	554	8190	325	25.20	8/43	16	0
Vaas, W P U*	Sri Lanka	1994-	96	3447.4	786	9216	313	29.44	7/71	11	2
Gibbs, L R	West Indies	1958-1976	79	4205.7	1313	8989	309	29.09	8/38	18	2
Ntini, M*	South Africa	1998-	75	2637.4	578	8465	308	27.48	7/37	17	4
Trueman, F S	England	1952-1965	67	2447.4	522	6625	307	21.58	8/31	17	3
Underwood, D L	England	1966-1982	86	3463.0	1239	7674	297	25.84	8/51	17	6
McDermott, C J	Australia	1984-1996	71	2764.2	583	8332	291	28.63	8/97	14	2
Bedi, B S	India	1966-1979	67	3441.0	1096	7637	266	28.71	7/98	14	1
Garner, J	West Indies	1977-1987	58	2195.5	576	5433	259	20.98	6/56	7	0
Gillespie, J N*	Australia	1996-	71	2372.2	630	6770	259	26.14	7/37	8	0
Statham, J B	England	1951-1965	70	2495.2	595	6261	252	24.85	7/39	9	1
Holding, M A	West Indies	1975-1987	60	2066.4	459	5898	249	23.69	8/92	13	2
Benaud, R	Australia	1952-1964	63	2727.2	805	6704	248	27.03	7/72	16	1
McKenzie, G D	Australia	1961-1971	60	2629.5	547	7328	246	29.79	8/71	16	3
Chandrasekhar, B S	India	1964-1979	58	2549.1	584	7199	242	29.75	8/79	16	2
Harbhajan Singh*	India	1998-	57	2527.0	520	7108	238	29.87	8/84	19	4
Abdul Qadir	Pakistan	1977-1990	67	2810.2	608	7742	236	32.81	9/56	15	5
Bedser, A V	England	1946-1955	51	2424.4	574	5876	236	24.90	7/44	15	5
Srinath, J	India	1991-2002	67	2517.2	599	7196	236	30.49	8/86	10	1
Hoggard, M J*	England	2000-	63	2179.1	463	7122	235	30.31	7/61	7	1
Sobers, G S A	West Indies	1954-1974	93	3432.3	974	7999	235	34.04	6/73	6	0
Caddick, A R	England	1993-2003	62	2259.4	500	6999	234	29.91	7/46	13	1
Lee, B*	Australia	1999-	59	2046.3	410	7301	231	31.61	5/30	7	0
Gough, D	England	1994-2003	58	1969.5	368	6503	229	28.40	6/42	9	0
Vettori, D L*	New Zealand	1997-	73	2930.5	728	7847	229	34.27	7/87	13	3
Lindwall, R R	Australia	1946-1960	61	1970.2	419	5251	228	23.03	7/38	12	0
Cairns, C L	New Zealand	1989-2004	62	1949.4	414	6410	218	29.40	7/27	13	1
Grimmett, C V	Australia	1925-1936	37	2408.3	736	5231	216	24.22	7/40	21	7
Streak, H H	Zimbabwe	1993-2005	65	2259.5	595	6079	216	28.14	6/73	7	0
Kallis, J H*	South Africa	1995-	107	2382.5	620	6756	213	31.72	6/54	4	0
Hughes, M G	Australia	1985-1994	53	2047.3	499	6017	212	28.38	8/87	7	1
Saqlain Mushtaq*	Pakistan	1995-2004	49	2345.0	541	6206	208	29.84	8/164	13	3
Roberts, A M E	West Indies	1974-1983	47	1778.4	382	5174	202	25.61	7/54	11	2
Snow, J A	England	1965-1976	49	1928.3	415	5387	202	26.67	7/40	8	1
Harmison, S J*	England	2002-	53	1919.4	376	6149	201	30.59	7/12	8	1
Thomson, J R	Australia	1972-1985	51	1589.3	300	5601	200	28.01	6/46	8	0

Final Tidbit: Darren Sammy now becomes the 2,486th cricketer to play in test cricket and 266^th from West Indies.

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Answers to SportsQuiz Group Anniversary Quiz

Here are the answers to the CricketQuiz Prepared for SportsQuiz Group.

The first ever radio broadcast of any type of cricket match played in any part of the world was a benefit match played in 1922/23 season for this batsman and fetched around 490 pounds. Name the batsman.

ANSWER: CHARLES BANNERMAN

Fred Trueman supposed to have said about a particular cricketer like this "If he played cricket the way he talked, he would have had people queuing up to get into the ground instead of queuing up to leave". Name the cricketer whom Fred Trueman was referring to.

ANSWER: GEOFF BOYCOTT

Nicknamed as Happy Jack, he is the only player from the first test eleven of England to have played in more than seven tests and scored a test hundred. Name this English Cricketer.

ANSWER: GEORGE ULYETT

Which English test captain killed himself by first shooting himself in the chest and when it did not turn out to be fatal shot again aiming at his head. He was the first person to have achieved a particular feat that Michael Vaughan did against West Indies in the recently concluded Leeds test.

ANSWER: ARTHUR SHREWSBURY

In one of the most dramatic test matches ever played this cricketer broke his left arm. Recollecting the incident he said later "It was a good length ball from Hall which flew, unaccountably and broke my arm just above the wrist. It made the most awful noise.” Though he got retired hurt at that point, he did return to the field when the ninth wicket fell and stood at the non-strikers end to watch David Allen defend the final two deliveries of the match with his side still needing six runs for a win. His courageous move saved an imminent defeat for his side. Name this arguably the bravest batsman of all-time.

ANSWER: MICHAEL COLIN COWDREY

This cricketer holds the record for best bowling figures in a test match by a captain for his country. Shane Warne in his 2001 autobiography claimed that he was probably the biggest influence in his career. Name the cricketer being referred here.

ANSWER: ALLAN ROBERT BORDER

He was a tremendous success when he visited Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) while playing for Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagaram XI during the 1930-31 season. He hit a fifty and two hundreds in the three innings he batted on that tour. These centuries were not termed first class when he played but were later given that status by Association of Cricket Statisticians while tabulating his record. In the same season while batting in the semi finals and finals of the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament, he failed to make a significant contribution towards his team's championship. Considered as one of the greatest batsman his middle name was chosen from his mother's maiden name. Name this incomparable genius.

ANSWER: SIR JACK BERRY HOBBS

Identify the cricketer in the picture who is regarded as one of the greatest fielders of all-time and was named by Don Bradman as the twelfth man in his dream team.

ANSWER: WALLY HAMMOND

He is one of the very few cricketers to have represented two nations in test cricket and provides perhaps the only recorded occasion of catching his own team member while substituting for an injured player in the opposition. Name the player being referred here.

ANSWER: BILLY MURDOCH

This great cricketer is the only batsman to have got dismissed for every score from 96 to 100. He also holds the record for being the first cricketer to have achieved a particular feat that Matthew Hayden of Australia repeated five consecutive times. Name the cricketer.

ANSWER: CLEM HILL

While driving two of his team mates on route to London to play in a charity match in late 1950s, this cricketer crashed his car into a cattle truck. One of the passengers in the car who had hit a century on his test debut was sleeping in the back seat at the time of the crash and injured his spinal cord badly which sent him into a coma. That cricketer never regained his consciousness and died three days after the accident. Name the cricketer who was driving the car at that time and endured the guilt of being responsible for the death of his fellow teammate and a close friend for a very long time.

ANSWER: SIR GARFIELD SOBERS

One of the greatest batsmen of all time, in a Ranji Trophy Semi-final of early 1980s, surprised everyone that was present at the ground both on and off the field when he came into bat after the sixth wicket fell and took guard as left handed batsman. Though he is a right handed batsman he did successfully defend sixty of the 66 deliveries he received batting left handed. But his action was not taken kindly by his critics especially he being the captain of his side. Name the cricketer who chose to bat left handed in that innings even though he made all but four of his first class runs batting right handed.

ANSWER: SUNIL MANOHAR GAVASKAR

There is a connection between all the answers to the above questions which would lead you to the name of the only cricketer who is deliberately left out. Identify the connection and the missing player.

ANSWER: ALL THE CRICKETERS, WHOSE NAMES WERE ANSWERS TO THE FIRST TWELVE QUESTIONS HAVE HELD THE WORLD RECORD FOR MOST NUMBER OF RUNS IN TEST CRICKET AS SHOWN IN THE TABLE BELOW. OBVIOUSLY THE CRICKETER WHOSE NAME IS DELIBERATELY LEFT OUT IS BRIAN CHARLES LARA, CURRENT RECORD HOLDER OF MOST RUNS IN A TEST CAREER.

Players Holding Highest Aggregate Record 1877 - Todate
Record held till the Year	Record	Player	Country	Career
1880	239	Bannerman, C	Australia	239 @ 59.75
1883	638	Ulyett, G	England	949 @ 24.33
1885	860	Murdoch, W L	England	908 @ 31.31
1901	1277	Shrewsbury, A	England	1277 @ 35.47
1923	3412	Hill, C	Australia	3412 @ 39.22
1936	5410	Hobbs, J B	England	5410 @ 56.95
1969	7249	Hammond, W R	England	7249 @ 58.46
1971	7459	Cowdrey, M C	England	7624 @ 44.07
1980	8032	Sobers, G S A	West Indies	8032 @ 57.78
1982	8114	Boycott, G	England	8114 @ 47.73
1992	10122	Gavaskar, S M	India	10122 @ 51.12
2004	11174	Border, A R	Australia	11174 @ 50.56
Todate	11953	Lara, B C*	West Indies	11953 @ 52.89

Hope you all have enjoyed the Quiz and thanks to those who sent their answers. Minhaj Alam is the only participant to have cracked it all.

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Quiz for SportsQuiz Group Anniversary

Hi Fellow Cricket lovers,

Posting here is the Quiz I have prepared for SportsQuiz Group second anniversary on Cricket. Thought most of you will be interested in the questions and may like to participate by sending answers to my email ID : vjeedigunta@gmail.com or to the moderator of SportsQuiz Group Prateek Vijayavargia’s email ID: svijayavargia@yahoo.ca.

Here are the Questions:

The first ever radio broadcast of any type of cricket match played in any part of the world was a benefit match played in 1922/23 season for this batsman and fetched around 490 pounds. Name the batsman.
Fred Trueman supposed to have said about a particular cricketer like this "If he played cricket the way he talked, he would have had people queuing up to get into the ground instead of queuing up to leave". Name the cricketer whom Fred Trueman was referring to.
Nicknamed as Happy Jack, he is the only player from the first test eleven of England to have played in more than seven tests and scored a test hundred. Name this English Cricketer.
Which English test captain killed himself by first shooting himself in the chest and when it did not turn out to be fatal shot again aiming at his head. He was the first person to have achieved a particular feat that Michael Vaughan did against West Indies in the recently concluded Leeds test.
In one of the most dramatic test matches ever played this cricketer broke his left arm. Recollecting the incident he said later "It was a good length ball from Hall which flew, unaccountably and broke my arm just above the wrist. It made the most awful noise.” Though he got retired hurt at that point, he did return to the field when the ninth wicket fell and stood at the non-strikers end to watch David Allen defend the final two deliveries of the match with his side still needing six runs for a win. His courageous move saved an imminent defeat for his side. Name this arguably the bravest batsman of all-time.
This cricketer holds the record for best bowling figures in a test match by a captain for his country. Shane Warne in his 2001 autobiography claimed that he was probably the biggest influence in his career. Name the cricketer being referred here.
He was a tremendous success when he visited Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) while playing for Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagaram XI during the 1930-31 season. He hit a fifty and two hundreds in the three innings he batted on that tour. These centuries were not termed first class when he played but were later given that status by Association of Cricket Statisticians while tabulating his record. In the same season while batting in the semi finals and finals of the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament, he failed to make a significant contribution towards his team's championship. Considered as one of the greatest batsman his middle name was chosen from his mother's maiden name. Name this incomparable genius.
Identify the cricketer in the picture who is regarded as one of the greatest fielders of all-time and was named by Don Bradman as the twelfth man in his dream team.

He is one of the very few cricketers to have represented two nations in test cricket and provides perhaps the only recorded occasion of catching his own team member while substituting for an injured player in the opposition. Name the player being referred here.

This great cricketer is the only batsman to have got dismissed for every score from 96 to 100. He also holds the record for being the first cricketer to have achieved a particular feat that Matthew Hayden of Australia repeated five consecutive times. Name the cricketer.

While driving two of his team mates on route to London to play in a charity match in late 1950s, this cricketer crashed his car into a cattle truck. One of the passengers in the car who had hit a century on his test debut was sleeping in the back seat at the time of the crash and injured his spinal cord badly which sent him into a coma. That cricketer never regained his consciousness and died three days after the accident. Name the cricketer who was driving the car at that time and endured the guilt of being responsible for the death of his fellow teammate and a close friend for a very long time.

One of the greatest batsmen of all time, in a Ranji Trophy Semi-final of early 1980s, surprised everyone that was present at the ground both on and off the field when he came into bat after the sixth wicket fell and took guard as left handed batsman. Though he is a right handed batsman he did successfully defend sixty of the 66 deliveries he received batting left handed. But his action was not taken kindly by his critics especially he being the captain of his side. Name the cricketer who chose to bat left handed in that innings even though he made all but four of his first class runs batting right handed.

There is a connection between all the answers to the above questions which would lead you to the name of the only cricketer who is deliberately left out. Identify the connection and the missing player.

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Test #1833 & #1834 Records : Thumping Victories for India & England

A victory by an innings and 239 runs by India against Bangladesh at Mirpur and another thumping win by an innings and 283 runs by England against West Indies at Leeds with both matches concluding in less than nine sessions should give an indication of how vast a gulf that existed between the two sides in each of these two tests which started on the same day. Both these victories or defeats depending on from whose side are you looking at figure among the top sixteen test margins by which a result was decided.

Test #1833 India in Bangladesh 2007(2^nd Test) at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

It was clearly evident at Mirpur that Bangladesh is still miles behind to be able to put up a descent show in a test match on all five days and need to work a lot to become a really competitive and consistent test side. Their young talent can always come up on top of any side in the world on a day or two but to sustain the fight in a test match for a longer duration they certainly need a lot more than the youthful exuberance and flamboyance. No doubt they have good bowlers, excellent fielders and exciting batsmen, but they keep falling in packs quite frequently. Hardly can two or three of their batsmen bat longer than a couple of sessions and very rarely a batsman stays longer at the wicket to accumulate a century or let the batsman at the other end hit a century. Till such time at least two or three of their batsmen shows some consistency and staying power at the wicket, the brilliance of the likes of Ashrafuls, Rafiques and Mortazas will inevitably be wasted.

Just consider the fact that there have been just twelve centuries hit by their batmen in their seven years of test history during which they played 46 tests. In its 46 test match history only Habibul Bashar and Mohammad Ashraful with three centuries apiece have hit more than one century in a test career. Except for once never in an innings two batsmen could reach a hundred run mark. I strongly believe till two of their batsmen can hit a hundred in the same test innings more frequently, at least on flat batting tracks like the one at Mirpur, Bangladesh need not be considered as a worthy opponent by any team. Even though they put up a great show on one day of a test match any current test playing nation can come back and win from any situation like Australia did at Fatullah last year. The last time two of their batmen hit a hundred in the same innings they ended up claiming a first innings lead against a full fledged West Indian team that was captained by Lara and included Gayle, Sarwan, Chanderpaul and Ridley Jacobs in their batting lineup. Bangladesh ended up setting up a target and forced West Indies to play out for a draw at Gros Islet in 2004.

It seems to me that Bangladesh will need to contend with some consolation victories and an occasional upset in ODIs against major teams till they change their psyche and realize that they need to approach different forms of the game in different ways to register a victory or for that matter even a creditable draw in the five day game against any test playing nation without having any intervention from rain gods.

Currently they look capable of beating a test side just from Zimbabwe and as if to prove that point their only test victory till date out of the 46 tests they played since attaining the test status in 2000, was achieved against a depleted Zimbabwe test side in 2004-05 at Chittagong. Of course, the fortunes of Zimbabwe cricket were just started to go downhill very fast at that time and within eight months they were stripped of their test status. In remaining 45 tests Bangladesh could draw just five tests including the first test of the current series. Rain played a major role on more than one occasion in all those matches.

With Whatmore leaving the Bangladesh's national team, Captain Habibul Bashar' position too being in jeopardy and their most experienced batsman Javed Omar registering a very rare King Pair, Bangladesh needs to find ways to achieve mental toughness to stay and fight with a strong will to succeed to keep up their test status, otherwise ICC might give them a break from test cricket like they did to Zimbabwe.

Their performance against their neighbors within a couple of months of being on top of the world with two remarkable wins in ICC World Cup was not only a very disappointing one for their home crowds but also a wake up call for the ICC while considering to grant test status to other teams like Ireland. The kind of pathetic displays they put up in both forms of the game against the same team that they embarrassed, humiliated and sent packing prior to the second round in the World Cup leaves more doubts in the minds of those who thought at last the Tigers have come out of their wilderness.

Following are some of the statistical highlights of this test match:

By hitting a century each Wasim Jaffer, Dinesh Karthik, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar in a mammoth India's first innings total of 610/3 decl have provided the first instance of top four batsmen(no.1,no.2, no.3 & no.4) hitting a century in an innings of a test match. There are only five other instances of top three batsmen (no.1,no.2 & no.3) hitting a hundred in a test innings, the first of which occurred in 1924 in the 2^nd test between England and South Africa at Lord's. Following is the list that provides the details of all those occasions along with the latest record.

Top Order Batsmen with Hundreds	Team Total	For	Vs	Venue	Series	Test Seq
JB Hobbs(211),H Sutcliffe(122) & FE Woolley(134*	531/2 decl	Eng	SA	Lord’s	1924	T0154
CC McDonald(110),AR Morris(111) & RN Harvey(133)	600/9 decl	Aus	WI	Port of Spain	1954/55	T0404
WM Lawry(210),RB Simpson(201) & RM Cowper(102)	650/6 decl	Aus	WI	Bridgetown	1964/65	T0589
SM Gavaskar(172),K Srikkanth(116) & M Amarnath(138)	600/4 decl	Ind	Aus	Sydney	1985/86	T1034
MA Taylor(111),MJ Slater(152) & DC Boon(164*)	632/4 decl	Aus	Eng	Lord’s	1993	T1224
HH Gibbs(147),G Kirsten(220) & JH Kallis(157*)	600/3 decl	SA	Zim	Harare	2001/02	T1562
MH Richardson(145),L Vincent(106) & SB Styris(119)	630/6 decl	NZ	Ind	Mohali	2003/04	T1662
KD Karthik(129),W Jaffer(138+), R Dravid(129) & SR Tendulkar(122*)	610/3 decl	Ind	BD	Mirpur	2007	T1833

Rahul Dravid with his 65th century stand in 109 tests eclipsed Steve Waugh's record for most number of century stands in test cricket. Following is the list of all batsmen who have figured in at least 50 century stands in a test career

No of Century Stands	Batsman	For	Tests	Inns	Frequency of Partnership
65	R Dravid	Ind	109	232	1.67
64	SR Waugh	Aus	168	260	2.62
63	AR Border	Aus	156	265	2.47
62	BC Lara	WI	131	232	2.11
61	RT Ponting	Aus	110	183	1.8
60	SR Tendulkar	Ind	137	220	2.28
58	SM Gavaskar	Ind	125	214	2.15
50	Javed Miandad	Pak	124	189	2.48

Javed Omar with a first ball duck in both innings joined eleven other cricketers to have registered a 'King Pair'. By all probabilities Zaheer Khan may have became the first bowler in test history to have claimed a wicket with the first ball he bowled in each innings of a test match. It will be really a painstaking exercise to research those details, but we can safely say that he definitely is the first bowler to have taken the wicket of the same batsman with the first delivery of each innings. Following is the list of all instances of a 'King Pair' achieved in Test cricket:

Player	For	Test Series	Venue	Season	Test Seq
W Attewell	Eng	Lord Sheffield’s XI in Australia 1891/92 (2nd Test)	Sydney Cricket Ground	1891/92	t0036
EG Hayes	Eng	Marylebone Cricket Club in South Africa 1905/06 (4th Test)	Newlands, Cape Town	1905/06	t0091
AEE Vogler	SA	South Africa in Australia 1910/11 (1st Test)	Sydney Cricket Ground	1910/11	t0111
Tommy Ward	SA	South Africa v Australia Triangular Tournament 1912 (1st Match)	Old Trafford, Manchester	1912	t0121
RJ Crisp	SA	Australia in South Africa 1935/36 (5th Test)	Kingsmead, Durban	1935/36	t0251
Colin Wesley	SA	South Africa in England 1960 (3rd Test)	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	1960	t0494
Gary Troup	NZ	India in New Zealand 1980/81 (1st Test)	Basin Reserve, Wellington	1980/81	t0897
Dave Richardson	SA	Pakistan in South Africa 1994/95 (Only Test)	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	1994/95	t1283
Adam Huckle	Zim	Pakistan in Zimbabwe 1997/98 (2nd Test)	Harare Sports Club	1997/98	t1412
AB Agarkar	Ind	India in Australia 1999/00 (2nd Test)	Melbourne Cricket Ground	1999/00	t1479
AC Gilchrist	Aus	Australia in India 2000/01 (2nd Test)	Eden Gardens, Calcutta	2000/01	t1535
Javed Omar	BD	India in Bangladesh 2007 (2nd Test)	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	2007	T1833

Note: Agarkar had a first ball duck in the innings he played in the test matches that preceded and succeeded the King Pair where as RJ Crisp may have registered a King Pair in the previous test that he played. Crisp had a first ball duck in the first innings of the 3^rd test of the same series at Newlands, Cape town and the information about number of balls received in his second innings duck which lasted for just one minute is not available. Both Dave Richardson and Adam Gilchrist had hit a hundred in the test they played prior to registering the ‘King Pair’.

During his second innings knock of 67 of 41 balls in 46 minutes Mohammad Ashraful raced to his fifty in just 27 minutes of 26 deliveries thus becoming the new record holder of scoring the fastest test fifty in terms of number of minutes taken in recorded history. However he missed an opportunity to eclipse the record for fastest fifty in terms of number of balls received by just 3 deliveries. Jacques Kallis' 50 of 24 balls scored against Zimbabwe at Cape Town in 2004-05 still stands as the fastest fifty in test cricket for taking fewest deliveries.

It is to be noted that many test matches prior to record keeping of a batsman's scores in terms of minutes and deliveries faced has become a norm may have had instances which might find a place among the list shown below. For example , Australia’s Victor Trumper supposed to have taken just 22 mts for his fifty during his innings of 63 against South Africa at Johannesburg in 1902-03 which may have taken no less than 45 minutes but there is no substantial evidence for it and hence is not figured in the list of fastest fifties.

*Fastest Fifties in terms of No. of Minutes batted*
27 mts	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh v India	Dhaka (SBNS)	2007
28 mts	JT Brown	England v Australia	Melbourne	1894-95
29 mts	SA Durani	India v England	Kanpur	1963-64
30 mts	EAV Williams	West Indies v England	Bridgetown	1947-48
30 mts	BR Taylor	New Zealand v West Indies	Auckland	1968-69
*Fastest Fifties in terms of No. of balls faced*
24 balls	JH Kallis	South Africa v Zimbabwe	Cape Town	2004-05
26 balls	IT Botham	England v India	Delhi	1981-82
26 balls	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan v India	Bangalore	2004-05
26 Balls	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh v India	Dhaka (SBNS)	2007
27 balls	Yousuf Youhana	Pakistan v South Africa	Cape Town	2002-03
30 balls	Kapil Dev	India v Pakistan	Karachi	1982-83

NOTE : The number of deliveries that Ian Botham took for his has been has been now revised to 28. Wisden 2006 adds a note in the list of fastest 50s (p.223) - Botham was previously said to have reached his 50 v India in 26 balls but recent research suggests that this omits two no balls.

India’s first-innings lead of 492 and its margin of victory by an innings and 239 runs are both their highest ever in Tests erasing the previous best of 400 run first innings lead and an innings and 219 run victory attained in the same test match, against Australia Kolkata in 1997-98.

Anil Kumble's 549th victim was also his 138^th lbw victim. When he dismissed Mohammad Sharif in Bangladesh's first innings, he equaled Shane Warne's record for most number of lbw victims in a Test career. Kumble did not get another lbw victim in the match though he took 3 more wickets to take his tally of wickets in test cricket to 552 from 115 tests @ 28.58. He now becomes the fourth bowler in test history to reach the 550 wicket milestone.

Player	Country	Career	Tests	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Avg	Best	5w	10w
Warne, S K	Australia	1992-2007	145	6784.1	1762	17995	708	25.42	8/71	37	10
Muralitharan, M*	Sri Lanka	1992-	110	6117.3	1585	14649	674	21.73	9/51	57	19
McGrath, G D	Australia	1993-2007	124	4874.4	1470	12186	563	21.64	8/24	29	3
Kumble, A *	India	1990-	115	5973.2	1438	15779	552	28.59	10/74	33	8

Indian batsmen survived the first day of the test match without losing a single wicket though four of their batsmen came to the crease as both the openers Karthik and Jaffer retired ill. This provides the 16^th occasion of same side batting a completed day's play without losing a wicket. And only 4^th time it happened on the first day of a test match.

Last year Virendra Sewhag and Rahul Dravid batted out entire fourth day against Pakistan at Lahore. They added 258runs on the fourth day in a 410-run opening stand on a day ended 15 overs short of allotted 90 overs because of bad light . So that can not strictly figure among the instances of same pair batting through out a completed day's play like the one that Dravid shared in a partnership with VVS Laxman in that famous 2001-02 test at Kolkata, during which the pair batted out the entire on fourth day adding 335.

There are three more instances of an unrestricted day’s play (except for couple of overs for bad light at the end of the day) end without a singe wicket falling that included more than two batsmen.

1. Against WI in 1978/79 series at Eden Gardens, Calcutta, Gavaskar and Vengsarkar have started the 4th day at 70/1 and took it to 361/1 before declaring the innings. Then SFA Bacchus & David Murray opened the batting for WI and ended the day at 15/0.

2. On the second against Australia in 1998/99 series at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica Brian Lara & Pedro Collins have started the day at 37/4(14.3 Overs). Pedro Collins was retired hurt when the score reached 56/4 (23.1Overs). JC Adams then came into bat and both he and Lara took the score to 377/4 (105 overs).

3. On the 5th and final day of 3rd test between India and Australia in 1986/87 series , Ravi Shastri & Dilip Vengsarkar started the day at 291/5 and took the score to 517/5 before India declared the innings closed. Australia started their innings with Geoff Marsh (2*) & David Boon (5*) and batted till the end of the day without losing a wicket (9/0).

Following is the list of all instances of same pair batting through an entire day's play:

Player 1	Player 1	For	Vs	Venue	Series	Day	Score Progress	Test Seq#
JB Hobbs	H Sutcliffe	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	1924/25	3rd	283/0	t0159
*DS Atkinson	+CC Depeiaza	WI	Aus	Bridgetown	1954/55	4th	187/6 to 494/6	t0406
MH Mankad	P Roy	Ind	NZ	Madras	1955/56	1st	234/0	t0420
CC Hunte	GS Sobers	WI	Pak	Kingston	1957/58	3rd	147/1 to 504/1	t0450
GS Sobers	FMM Worrell	WI	Eng	Bridgetown	1959/60	5th	279/3 to 486/3	t0485
WM Lawry	*RB Simpson	Aus	WI	Bridgetown	1964/65	1st	263/0	t0589
GR Viswanath	Yashpal Sharma	Ind	Eng	Madras	1981/82	2nd	178/2 to 395/2	t0918
AP Gurusinha	A Ranatunga	SL	Pak	Colombo(PSS)	1985/86	5th	83/3 t 323/3	t1043
GR Marsh	MA Taylor	Aus	Eng	Trent Bridge	1989	1st	301/0	t1125
ST Jayasuriya	RS Mahanama	SL	Ind	Colombo(RPS)	1997	3rd	39/1 to 322/1	t1374
ST Jayasuriya	RS Mahanama	SL	Ind	Colnmbo(RPS)	1997	4th	322/1 to 587/1	t1374
VVS Laxman	RS Dravid	Ind	Aus	Calcutta	2000/01	4th	254/4 to 589/4	t1535
JA Rudolph	HH Dippenaar	SA	BD	Chittagong	2003	2nd	84/2 to 364/2	t1640
+KC Sangakkara	*DPMD Jayawardene	SL	SA	Colombo(SSC)	2006	2nd	128/2 to 485/2	t1810

Less than a week after West Indies saw England snatch the initiative by scoring 553/5 decl after put into to bat by Ramnaresh Sarwan, Habibul Bashar suffered even worse fate at the hands of Indian top order by inviting India to bat first after winning the toss. His bowlers could not even take a single wicket on the opening day as India lost just three wickets on their way to a mammoth total of 610/3 decl. This provides the ninth instance of a team piling up a total of 600 or more runs after being put into bat first by the Toss winning Captain. Following is the list of all such occasions.

Totals	Toss Winning Captain	For	Vs	Venue	Series	Result	Test Seq
735-6d	HH Streak	Zim	Aus	Perth	2003-04	Aus by Inns & 175 runs	T1661
653-4d	M Azharuddin	Ind	Eng	Lord’s	1990	Eng by 247 runs	T1148
621-5d	DJ Nash	NZ	SA	Auckland	1998-99	Match Drawn	T1446
619	GS Sobers	WI	Aus	Sydney	1968-69	Aus by 382 runs	T0646
610/3 d	Habibul Bashar	BD	Ind	Mirpur	2007	Ind by Inns & 239 runs	T1833
605-9d	BC Lara	WI	Aus	Bridgetown	2002-03	Aus by 9 wkts	T1643
604-6d	BC Lara	WI	SA	Pretoria	2003-04	SA by 10 wkts	T1682
601-7d	DI Gower	Eng	Aus	Leeds	1989	Aus by 210 runs	T1121
601-8d	L Hutton	Eng	Aus	Brisbane	1954-55	Aus by Inns & 154 runs	T0391

Last but not least, though Sachin Tendulkar while reaching his 37^th hundred did not produce the flourish and flamboyance that fetched him most of his previous centuries, he did extend the record for most number of centuries in a test career and will continue to do so till Ricky Ponting catches him, which I reckon will not happen at least this year.

Test #1834 West Indies in England 2007 (2^nd Test) at Headingley, Leeds.

What a difference the absence of two of the side's best and consistent batsmen makes? West Indies' batting woes resurfaced within a week of salvaging a well earned draw at Lord's in the first test. Shivnarine Chanderpaul had to miss the second test at Leeds and skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan suffered a tour ending injury after crashing to the fence and injuring his shoulder while fielding. Added to that Michael Vaughan playing his first test in eighteen months played a superb innings and announced his return to test cricket with a scintillating hundred. Both Kevin Pietersen and Matt Prior resumed their batting form from where they left off in the first test. On top of those sterling batting deeds Ryan Sidebottom, recalled to the test side after a long gap of six years and missing 78 tests during the period delivered crushing blows in both innings to leave West Indies innings in an utter misery. And as a bonus Steve Harmison too recovered some of his lost confidence and bowling rhythm with a late burst of three wickets to mop up the West Indian tail in the second innings to finish the test match.

It was really an awful batting display by West Indies in both innings on a flat batting track on which England piled up a massive total of 570/7 decl during the first two days of the test match. Their batsmen all combined failed to reach Pietersen's majestic 226 in either of the innings falling short of 80 runs in the first and 85 runs in the second. Their combined total of 287 in two innings (146 & 141) was still 42 runs in arrears of combined total of 329 by Michael Vaughan(103) and Kevin Pietersen(226) in just one innings. Barring Bravo who remained not out with the only fifty scored by a West Indian player none of the their batsmen could score more than 26 runs in either of the innings.

It puts into contest how big Pietersen's double hundred was. It was one of the biggest and best aggressive innings played by an English batsman in recent times. At last he past his previous highest score of 158 in tests and has broken the hoodoo of getting dismissed on that score which he did thrice. Pietersen after 25 tests now has 2448 runs @ 54.40 with 8 hundreds. He has already aggregated more runs and hundreds than any of the illustrious batting triumvirate of Tendulkar, Lara and Ponting did at that stage of their career. Looking at the following table one thing is very clear that we need to predict only when he will be surpassing the records set by the three batting greats and need not worry about whether he will do it.

Name	Tests	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	100s	50s	0s
Kevin Pietersen	25	47	2	2448	226	54.40	8	9	2
Ricky Ponting	25	40	3	1473	127	39.81	3	8	0
Sachin Tendulkar	25	37	3	1522	165	44.76	5	8	3
Brian Lara	25	41	1	2283	375	57.07	4	13	2

Following are some of the statistical highlights of this test match:

No wonder the absence of captain in both innings of a test match resulted in a heavy defeat for West Indies. Historically no side could win or draw a test match when a batsman was absent hurt/ absent ill in both the innings of a test match.

Batsman Absent	For	Vs	Venue	Series	Test Seq
WH Lockwood	Eng	Aus	Sydney(4th)	1894-95	t0045
GL Jessop	Eng	Aus	Leeds	1909	t0103
JW Hearne	Eng	Aus	Melbourne(2nd)	1920-21	t0136
JB Hobbs	Eng	Aus	Leeds	1921	t0142
JM Gregory	Aus	Eng	Brisbane	1928-29	t0176
EL Bartlett	WI	Aus	Sydney(2nd)	1930-31	t0201
DG Bradman	Aus	Eng	The Oval	1938	t0266
JWH Fingleton	Aus	Eng	The Oval	1938	t0266
JA Hayes	NZ	Ind	Madras	1955-56	t0420
JDC Goddard	WI	Eng	The Oval	1957	t0443
NC O’Neill	Aus	Ind	Bombay	1964-65	t0567
LG Rowe	WI	Aus	Port-of-Spain(3rd)	1972-73	t0718
D Ganga	WI	NZ	Wellington	1999-00	t1478
SP Jones	Eng	Aus	Brisbane	2002-03	t1623
RR Sarwan	WI	Eng	Leeds	2007	t1834

This statistic becomes far more worse when the captain himself fails to appear for batting in both the innings. The three tests that had the captains absent hurt resulted in thumping wins for the opposition. The 1938 Oval test which had the skipper Don Bradman along with another main batsman Jack Fingleton absent hurt resulted in the biggest victory margin in test cricket, innings and 579 runs for England. Jon Goddard's absence in 1957 at the same venue resulted in an innings and 237 runs defeat for West Indies whereas Sarwan's inability to bat in both the innings of the recently concluded Leeds test resulted in another crushing defeat for the Caribbeans by an innings and 283 runs. All three of these results figure among the top 34 innings defeats margins (200 runs or more) as shown in the list below.

Win	Margin	Los	Venue	Series	Inn1			Inn2		Inn3
Eng	Inn. & 579 runs	Aus	The Oval	1938	Eng	903	7	Aus	201	Aus	123
Aus	Inn. & 360 runs	SA	Wanderers	2001-02	Aus	652	7	SA	159	SA	133
WI	Inn. & 336 runs	Ind	Calcutta	1958-59	WI	614	5	Ind	124	Ind	154
Aus	Inn. & 332 runs	Eng	Brisbane	1946-47	Aus	645		Eng	141	Eng	172
Pak	Inn. & 324 runs	NZ	Lahore (Gaddafi)	2001-02	Pak	643		NZ	73	NZ	246
WI	Inn. & 322 runs	NZ	Wellington	1994-95	WI	660	5	NZ	216	NZ	122
WI	Inn. & 310 runs	Ban	Dhaka	2002-03	Ban	139		WI	536	Ban	87
NZ	Inn. & 294 runs	Zim	Harare	2005	NZ	452	9	Zim	59	Zim	99
Eng	Inn. & 285 runs	Ind	Lord’s	1974	Eng	629		Ind	302	Ind	42
Eng	Inn. & 283 runs	WI	Headingley	2007	Eng	570	7	WI	146	WI	141
Pak	Inn. & 264 runs	Ban	Multan (CS)	2001-02	Ban	134		Pak	546	Ban	148
Eng	Inn. & 261 runs	Ban	Lord’s	2005	Ban	108		Eng	528	Ban	159
Aus	Inn. & 259 runs	SA	Port Elizabeth	1949-50	Aus	549	7	SA	158	SA	132
SL	Inn. & 254 runs	Zim	Bulawayo (QSC)	2003-04	Zim	228		SL	713	Zim	231
SL	Inn. & 240 runs	Zim	Harare	2003-04	Zim	199		SL	541	Zim	102
Ind	Inn. & 239 runs	Ban	Mirpur	2007	Ind	610	3	Ban	118	Ban	253
Eng	Inn. & 237 runs	WI	The Oval	1957	Eng	412		WI	89	WI	86
Eng	Inn. & 230 runs	Aus	Adelaide	1891-92	Eng	499		Aus	100	Aus	169
SA	Inn. & 229 runs	SL	Cape Town	2000-01	SL	95		SA	504	SL	180
Aus	Inn. & 226 runs	Ind	Brisbane	1947-48	Aus	382	8	Ind	58	Ind	98
WI	Inn. & 226 runs	Eng	Lord’s	1973	WI	652	8	Eng	233	Eng	193
Eng	Inn. & 225 runs	Aus	Melbourne	1911-12	Aus	191		Eng	589	Aus	173
Aus	Inn. & 222 runs	NZ	Hobart	1993-94	Aus	544	6	NZ	161	NZ	161
SA	Inn. & 219 runs	Zim	Harare	1999-00	Zim	102		SA	462	Zim	141
Ind	Inn. & 219 runs	Aus	Calcutta	1997-98	Aus	233		Ind	633	Aus	181
Aus	Inn. & 217 runs	WI	Brisbane (Ex)	1930-31	Aus	558		WI	193	WI	148
Eng	Inn. & 217 runs	Aus	The Oval	1886	Eng	434		Aus	68	Aus	149
SL	Inn. & 215 runs	Eng	Colombo (SSC)	2003-04	Eng	265		SL	628	Eng	148
Eng	Inn. & 215 runs	NZ	Auckland	1962-63	Eng	562	7	NZ	258	NZ	89
Eng	Inn. & 209 runs	Zim	Lord’s	2000	Zim	83		Eng	415	Zim	123
SA	Inn. & 208 runs	SL	Colombo (SSC)	1993-94	SL	168		SA	495	SL	119
Eng	Inn. & 207 runs	Ind	Old Trafford	1952	Eng	347	9	Ind	58	Ind	82
Eng	Inn. & 202 runs	SA	Cape Town	1888-89	Eng	292		SA	47	SA	43
Aus	Inn. & 200 runs	Eng	Melbourne	1936-37	Aus	604		Eng	239	Eng	165

England's Ryan Sidebottom after making his test debut against Pakistan at Lord's in 2001 made his second test appearance thus moving out of the One Test Wonders Club after a gap of six years during which England played 78 tests. It is the third longest gap of a player appearing in a test after his maiden test appearance in terms of test matches missed. Brad Hogg of Australia too had similar kind of hiatus between his first two test appearances. Having made his debut against India at Delhi 1996-97, he waited for six long years before he could make his second appearance in tests against West Indies at Georgetown 2002-03.

The top two longest gaps between first and second test appearances belong to two players from England who ended their test careers with just two of those appearances. HL Jackson missed 96 tests in a twelve year gap between his debut at Manchester in 1949 against New Zealand and his final test at Leeds against Australia in 1961 whereas KV Andrew missed 79 tests between his first test at Brisbane in 1954-55 against Australia and his last test at Manchester in 1963 against West Indies.

West Indies now has more than ten days to recoup themselves and digest the fact that their captain is lost for the rest of the series. However they can expect Chanderpaul to return to the side in time for the 3rd test which will be starting at Manchester on June 7th. They also need to use their tour game against MCC at Durham in between or else the promise they have shown in the first test will not be materialized during this test series.

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Test #1831 & #1832 Records : Rain plays the major role in two drawn tests

Test #1831 West Indies in England 2007 (1^st Test) at Lord’s Cricket Ground, St John’s Wood.

With a magnificent hundred on his test debut, Matt Prior of England, who stole the show at Lord's in their test series opener against the West Indies and may have very well ended the England selector's long time search for a wicket keeper batsman. At 25 years and with a dream debut in test cricket, by all probabilities Prior may have cemented his place as the wicketkeeper/batsman in England's test side for a very long time to come. Prior also became the 635th Englishmen and 2,483rd cricketer to play in a test match. In a rain ruined test five English batsmen hit a century, four of them coming in one innings. Monty Panesar exhibited his art more skillfully than any other left arm spinner would have done on the flat batting track. However, after the West Indian tail wagged for long enough to ensure the first innings lead was reduced to 116 runs a result was never looked like a possibility. With just 20 overs of play on the final day just ten overs bowled on either side of a 4 hour interruption and the match petered out into a tame draw

Following are some of the statistical highlights of this test match:

Matt Prior's hundred on debut makes him the 81^st cricketer and 17^th Englishmen to have hit a century on debut. He also became just the third wicket keeper to have achieved the feat and the first from England. Only two wicket keepers in the history of test cricket have started their careers with a century on debut and they are both from Sri Lanka. Brendon Kuruppu (201 not out against New Zealand in 1986-87) and Romesh Kaluwitharana (132 not out against Australia in 1992). Matt Prior also became the fifth batsman to score a hundred on debut at Lord’s - after Harry Graham, John Hampshire, Sourav Ganguly and Andrew Strauss. His century is 196^th three figure innings at Mecca of cricket and puts his name on the Board of Honors at Lord's.

To complement Matt Prior's batting feats, Monty Panesar too entered the Lord's Hall of Fame Wall by claiming a five-for. His 6 for 129 haul is 151^st time a bowler took five or more wickets in an innings at Lord's. . His bowling figures are also the best since Bishan Singh Bedi took 6 for 226 in 1974. However having five his victims dismissed for lbw is a very rare occurrence. It happened only four times before and on all occasions the bowler was not a spinner. Terry Alderman against Pakistan at Melbourne, 1989-90, Curtly Ambrose against England at Barbados, 1989-90, Richard Johnson against England at Chester-le-Street, 2003 and Mohammad Zahid of Pakistan against New Zealand at Rawalpindi, 1996-97 are the only others to have nailed five lbws in a single innings prior to Monty Panesar's five lbw victims at Lord’s, 2007 .

Five hundreds from English batsmen in the first test at Lord’s (four in the first and one in the second) provides the only the third instance in Test history of one team notching up five centuries in a test match. Unlike in Lord's test in the other two matches, all five centuries were hit in the same innings in the Pakistan-Bangladesh test match at Multan in 2000-01 and in the Kingston Test between West Indies and Australia in 1955. However there are 8 other instances a side notching up 4 hundreds in an innings as shown in the table below prior to the occurrence in Lord's Test between West Indies and England.

Team	100	Result	Opposition	Ground	Series	Test Seq#
Australia	5	won	v West Indies	Kingston	1954-55	Test 408
Pakistan	5	won	v Bangladesh	Multan	2001-02	Test 1560
Pakistan	4	Drawn	V India	Faisalabad	2005-06	Test 1781
South Africa	4	Drawn	V West Indies	St. John's	2004-05	Test 1750
West Indies	4	Drawn	V South Africa	St. John's	2004-05	Test 1750
England	4	drawn	v Australia	Nottingham	1938	Test 263
West Indies	4	drawn	v India	Delhi	1947-48	Test 304
Pakistan	4	won	v India	Faisalabad	1982-83	Test 945
West Indies	4	drawn	v India	St John’s	1982-83	Test 956
Pakistan	4	won	v Sri Lanka	Galle	1999-00	Test 1501
Sri Lanka	4	won	v India	Colombo (SSC)	2000-01	Test 1559
New Zealand	4	drawn	v Australia	Perth	2001-02	Test 1573
New Zealand	4	drawn	v India	Mohali	2003-04	Test 1662
England	4	Drawn	V West Indies	Lord's	2007	Test 1831

Daren Ganga became the 239^th cricketer and 31^st West Indian to aggregate 2000 test runs. He achieved this milestone when he passed the 13 run mark during his second innings knock 31*. Following is the list of all West Indian Cricketers who have 2000 or more runs in a test career.

Player	Country	Tests	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	100s	50s	Avg	S/R
Lara, B C	West Indies	131	232	6	11953	*400	34	48	52.89	60.52
Richards, I V A	West Indies	121	182	12	8540	291	24	45	50.24
Sobers, G S A	West Indies	93	160	21	8032	*365	26	30	57.78
Greenidge, C G	West Indies	108	185	16	7558	226	19	34	44.72
Lloyd, C H	West Indies	110	175	14	7515	*242	19	39	46.68
Haynes, D L	West Indies	116	202	25	7487	184	18	39	42.30
Chanderpaul, S*	West Indies	102	174	22	6810	*203	14	41	44.80	43.03
Kanhai, R B	West Indies	79	137	6	6227	256	15	28	47.53
Richardson, R B	West Indies	86	146	12	5949	194	16	27	44.40
Hooper, C L	West Indies	102	173	15	5762	233	13	27	36.47	50.27
Weekes, E D C	West Indies	48	81	5	4455	207	15	19	58.62
Kallicharran, A I	West Indies	66	109	10	4399	187	12	21	44.43
Gayle, C H*	West Indies	65	115	4	4336	317	7	26	39.06	55.99
Fredericks, R C	West Indies	59	109	7	4334	169	8	26	42.49
Sarwan, R R*	West Indies	66	119	8	4303	*261	9	26	38.77	44.98
Worrell, F M M	West Indies	51	87	9	3860	261	9	22	49.49
Walcott, C L	West Indies	44	74	7	3798	220	15	14	56.69
Dujon, P J L	West Indies	81	115	11	3322	139	5	16	31.94
Hunte, C C	West Indies	44	78	6	3245	260	8	13	45.07
Gomes, H A	West Indies	60	91	11	3171	143	9	13	39.64
Butcher, B F	West Indies	44	78	6	3104	*209	7	16	43.11
Adams, J C	West Indies	54	90	17	3012	*208	6	14	41.26	37.57
Campbell, S L	West Indies	52	93	4	2882	208	4	18	32.38	40.26
Hinds, W W*	West Indies	45	80	1	2608	213	5	14	33.01	47.77
Jacobs, R D	West Indies	65	112	21	2577	118	3	14	28.32	47.79
Nurse, S M	West Indies	29	54	1	2523	258	6	10	47.60
Logie, A L	West Indies	52	78	9	2470	130	2	16	35.80
Headley, G A	West Indies	22	40	4	2190	*270	10	5	60.83
Stollmeyer, J B	West Indies	32	56	5	2159	160	4	12	42.33
Rowe, L G	West Indies	30	49	2	2047	302	7	7	43.55
Ganga, D*	West Indies	42	74	2	2018	135	3	9	28.03	39.50

West Indies managed to score 437 in the first innings of the Lord’s test without any batsman scoring a hundred. There are 36 instances in test history when a team scored more runs than West Indies' 437 against England which had no individual hundred the highest total being that of India’s 524 for 9 against New Zealand at Kanpur in 1976. Mohinder Amarnath top scored with 70 in that innings while five others got past fifty. In test cricket history, 92 times a team could amass a total of 400 or more without including a single centurion in the batting order, but only thrice did the total reach the 500 mark as shown in the list below.

Team	Score	Result	Opposition	Ground	Series	Test Seq#
India	524/9d	drawn	v New Zealand	Kanpur	1975-76	Test 786
South Africa	517	drawn	v Australia	Adelaide	1997-98	Test 1397
Pakistan	500/8d	won	v Australia	Melbourne	1981-82	Test 913

During West Indies' 1^st innings total of 437 all out, everyone except their no.11 batsman Corey Collymore reached double figures. Thus they very narrowly missed the chance of becoming the eleventh team in history of test cricket to have had all the 11 batsmen in an innings reaching double figures. Their record of ten batsmen reaching double figures in a test innings provides the 79^th such occasion. Following is the list of all instances in which eleven batsmen reached double figures in an innings.

For	vs	Inn	Test	Series	venue	score	wkts	Test Seq#
Eng	Aus	1st	2nd	1928-29	Sydney	636	10	Test 177
SA	Aus	1st	3rd	1931-32	Melbourne	358	10	Test 214
Eng	Aus	2nd	2nd	1894-95	Melbourne	475	10	Test 43
SA	Eng	1st	3rd	1905-06	Old Wanderers	385	10	Test 90
Aus	Ind	1st	5th	1947-48	Melbourne	575	8	Test 295
Ind	NZ	1st	2nd	1976-77	Kanpur	524	9	Test 786
Aus	SL	2nd	1st	1992-93	Colombo (SSC)	471	10	Test 1194
Ind	Pak	1st	5th	1952-53	Calcutta	397	10	Test 360
Ind	NZ	1st	1st	1967-68	Dunedin	359	10	Test 630
Eng	WI	1st	4th	2004	The Oval	470	10	Test 1712

Overall, Ramnresh Sarwan's first outing as captain proved out to be a good one for the West Indies. At last they have shown some signs of stability with batting and were averted a follow-on situation with relative ease . But their bowling and fielding still needs to improve a lot in order to attain even an iota of their past glory.

England

seems to be the best place and side that they can ask for to begin that long and arduous journey. By avoiding the follow-on and drawing the first test, even though the weather played a major supporting role, and keeping the series is still wide open West Indies has already taken the first baby step. I won't be surprised if with a little bit of luck and return of form to Chris Gayle they clinch the John Wisden Trophy by the end of the test series.

Test #1832 India in Bangladesh 2007 (1^st Test) at Bir Shrestha Shahid Ruhul Amin Stadium, Chittagong.

Bangladesh wasted a great opportunity of winning a test match against a real test nation to the utter disappointment of the great crowd gathered and barged on trees and building surrounding the Chittagong Stadium. An Indian win was never on cards after rain and bad light played a spoilsport and almost 8 sessions of play was lost. It was a real brave and bold decision by Rahul Dravid that put life into the test match and his sportive declaration set a target of 250 runs in 43 overs. His decision would have easily boomeranged had the Bangladeshi batsmen, especially their captain Habibul Bashar, realized what a rare opportunity it was. He and Javed Omar played two of the most boring innings ever considering the circumstances, they could have at least attempted to take singles, twos and occasional boundaries and could have put India under tremendous pressure. On a flat batting track against an Indian bowling attack depleted by Anil Kumble's absence on the field was a real gift by Dravid which the Bangladeshi skipper did not even choose to unwrap. Both Tendulkar and Ganguly used the opportunity to plunder the Bangladeshi bowlers on a batting paradise with individual hundreds whereas Dravid and Dinesh Karthik helped themselves with fifties in India's first innings. RP Singh and VRV Singh took three wickets each in Bangladesh's innings and Mashrafe Mortaza played the innings of the match and took four wickets after starting the test match in a sensational manner by clean bowling Wasim Jaffer with the first ball of the test. His efforts did not go in vain as he was rightly awarded the Man of the Match honor. But the main statistic of the match remained the interruption of play because of rain and bad weather on every day of the test match

Following are some of the other statistical highlights of this test match:

Wasim Jaffer's first ball dismissal provides the 26^th instance of a wicket falling with the first legitimate ball of the test match. Following is the list of all such instances.

Opener	For	Vs	Venue	Mode	Fielder	Bowler	Series	Test Seq
MacLaren, AC	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	caught	Trott, GHS	Coningham, A	1894-95	43
Hayward, TW	Eng	SA	The Oval	lbw		Vogler, AEE	1907	95
Bardsley, W	Aus	Eng	Headingley	caught	Sutcliffe, H	Tate, MW	1926	165
Sutcliffe, H	Eng	NZ	Christchurch	caught	James, KC	Badcock, FT	1932-33	225
Worthington, TS	Eng	Aus	Brisbane	caught	Oldfield, WAS	McCormick, EL	1936-37	255
Hunte, CC	WI	Pak	Port-of-Spain	caught	Hanif Mohammad	Fazal Mahmood	1957-58	453
Barlow, EJ	SA	Aus	Kingsmead	c and b		McKenzie, GD	1966-67	615
Fredericks, RC	WI	Ind	Port-of-Spain	bowled		Abid Ali, S	1970-71	683
Stackpole, KR	Aus	NZ	Auckland	caught	Parker, JM	Hadlee, RJ	1973-74	736
Gavaskar, SM	Ind	Eng	Edgbaston	caught	Knott, APE	Arnold, GG	1974	741
Naik, SS	Ind	WI	Calcutta	caught	Murray, DL	Roberts, AME	1974-75	750
Morrison, JFM	NZ	Eng	Christchurch	caught	Hendrick, M	Arnold, GG	1974-75	758
Mohsin Khan	Pak	Ind	Jullundur	lbw		Kapil Dev	1983-84	962
Gavaskar, SM	Ind	WI	Calcutta	caught	Dujon, PJL	Marshall, MD	1983-84	971
Gavaskar, SM	Ind	Pak	Jaipur	caught	Javed Miandad	Imran Khan	1986-87	1069
Raman, WV	Ind	NZ	Napier	lbw		Hadlee, RJ	1989-90	1138
Cook, SJ	SA	Ind	Kingsmead	caught	Tendulkar, SR	Kapil Dev, N	1992-93	1200
Kirsten, G	SA	WI	Cape Town	caught	Jacobs, RD	Ambrose, CEL	1998-99	1440
Jayasuriya, ST	SL	Aus	Galle	caught	Waugh, ME	McGrath, GD	1999	1460
Garrick, LV	WI	SA	Kingston	caught	Pollock, SM	Donald, AA	2000-01	1544
Das, SS	Ind	WI	Bridgetown	bowled		Dillon, M	2001-02	1601
Hannan Sarkar	BD	WI	Dhaka	bowled		Collins, PT	2002-03	1630
Hannan Sarkar	BD	WI	Gros Islet	lbw		Collins, PT	2004	1701
Hannan Sarkar	BD	WI	Kingston	lbw		Collins, PT	2004	1703
Wasim Jaffer	Ind	BD	Chittagong	bowled		Mortaza, M	2007	1832

Jaffer's dismissal of the third ball he faced in the second innings saved him from the ignominy of recording a king pair. His double ducks in the match provides the 446^th occasion of a batsman recording a pair.

Making their maiden test appearances Saqibul Hasan became the 47th cricketer to represent Bangladesh and Ramesh Powar became the 257th cricketer to represent India. As many as 2,485 cricketers have now played in test cricket in 1,832 matches.

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ANSWERS AND WINNERS OF QUIZTION OF THE DAY CONTEST

Answer to WCQOD #01 of March 13th, 2007

The cricketers shown in the pictures in the question are

1. Martin Crowe of New Zealand at Auckland, 1992
2. Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa at Leeds in 1999
3. Ajay Jadeja of India at the Oval in 1999
4. Neil Johnson of Zimbabwe at Lord's in 1999
5. Clive Lloyd of West Indies at Lord's in 1975
6. Aravinda De Silva of Sri Lanka at Lahore in 1996

They all hit a century against Australia in World Cup. The only player missing in that list, Chris Harris of New Zealand, had also hit a century against Australia at Madras in 1996. Kevin Pietersen of England joined this exclusive band of cricketers during WC2007 by hitting the only hundred against the eventual champions Australia.

Answer to WCQOD #02 of March 14th, 2007

The non-cricketing personalities shown in the pictures in the question are

1. Sangeeta Bijlani, wife of Mohd Azharuddin
2. Masaba Richards, daughter of Vivian Richards and Bollywood actress Neena Gupta.
3. Russell Crowe, cousin of Martin & Jeff Crowe. Russell' father Alex and Martin & Jeff's father David are brothers.
4. Angad Bedi, son of Bishan Singh Bedi.

They all related to famous cricketers who led their countries in World Cup matches. I apologize for my oversight in mentioning that they have all captained their country's teams in World Cup matches. Bishan Singh Bedi was not the captain of the India when he played in 1975 World Cup. Srinivasan Venkataraghavan took over the mantle of leading the country just for the World Cup for his experience in English conditions though Bedi was the captain for most of the test matches and other ODIs played from 1974-1978. He also led India during 1979 English tour taking over the captaincy from Sunil Gavaskar.

Answer to WCQOD #03 of March 15th, 2007

The first two photographs are from the closing stages of the two tied matches of World Cup at Edgbaston in WC1999 and at Durban in WC2003. Third photograph is that of Lance Klusener of South Africa. He was one of the not out batsmen when both those matches ended. Ireland and Zimbabwe produced the third tied match in 2007 World Cup making it a hat-trick.

Answer to WCQOD #04 of March 16th, 2007

Ridley Detamore Jacobs of West Indies carried his bat through for 49 runs against Australia in a Group B match in the ICC WC 1999

Answer to WCQOD #05 of March 17th, 2007

Darren Lehmann hit 28 runs against Namibia at Potchefstroom in WC2003. Rudi van Vuuren was the bowler. He holds the unique distinction of being the only person to have represented a country at both the Cricket World Cup and the Rugby World Cup.

Answer to WCQOD #06 of March 18th, 2007

Ireland’s victory over Pakistan is the 10th instance of a non-test nation beating a test playing nation at the world cup if we do not consider the match that was granted to Kenya won by a walkover without a ball bowled as New Zealand chose not to play because of safety concerns. The other nine instances are Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in 1979, Zimbabwe beat Australia by 13 runs in 1983, Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in 1992, Kenya beat West Indies by 73 runs in 1996, Bangladesh beat Pakistan by 62 runs in 1999, Kenya beat Zimbabwe by 7 wickets, Kenya beat Bangladesh by 32 runs, Kenya beat Sri Lanka by 53 runs and Canada beat Bangladesh by 60 runs in 2003.

Ireland’s victory is notable in that they are only the second team to win after bowling first; the first was Kenya beating Zimbabwe in the 2003 World Cup.

Answer to WCQOD #07 of March 19th, 2007

1. Wesley Winfield Hall, the former West Indies fast bowler lost his son in a drowning incident.
2. Craig Wright, the Scotland Captain flew back home during WC2007 to attend the funeral of his aunt after hearing about her death.

Answer to WCQOD #08 of March 20th, 2007

Vivian Richards was the first person to reach 1000 world cup runs. He finished his World Cup career with 1013 runs from 23 matches in four outings (1975,1979,1983 & 1987). Sourav Ganguly was dismissed for 89 leaving him 1 run short of the 1000 run milestone. Brian Lara began the day on 993, and surpassed the 1000 mark finishing the day with 44 not out and a total of 1037 World Cup runs.

Sachin Tendulkar (1796), Ricky Ponting (1134), Javed Miandad (1083), Aravinda da Silva (1064) and Mark Waugh (1004) are the other five batsmen to have completed 1000 runs in World Cup history.

Ganguly did reach the milestone in his next match and finished the WC2007 with 1006 runs. By the time the WC2007 ended Ricky Ponting took his total to 1537 and Brian Lara to 1225. The 2007 WC proved out to be a happy hunting ground for four more cricketers namely Sanath Jayasuriya (1165), Adam Gilchrist (1085), Stephen Fleming(1075) and Herschelle Gibbs (1067) as they too have joined these cricketers after Brian Lara by completing 1000 runs in a World Cup Career. However the highest run-getter of WC2007 missed the milestone by 13 runs

Answer to WCQOD #09 of March 21st , 2007

Terry Blake, the ECB marketing director, came out with this novel method for the 1999 World cup.

Answer to WCQOD #10 of March 22nd , 2007

There were three instances of a batsman making 150+ and the opponents total could cross that score were Zimbabwe's 235 against India in WC1983 with Kapil Dev hitting 175*, Netherlands' 168 against South Africa in WC1996 with Andrew Hudson making 161 and Sri Lanka's 216 against India in 1999 with Sourav Ganguly hitting 183. Later in WC2007 West Indies made 219 when Mathew Hayden hit 158 against them.

The four occasions in which the opponents completed innings totals were less than the highest run-scorers even though the scores were less than 150 were India's 132 for 3 against England in 1975 with Dennis Amiss making 137, Namibia's 45 against Australia in 2003 with Matthew Hayden (88), Andrew Symonds(59), Darren Lehmann (50) all making more runs than their opponent's total, Kenya's 104 against West Indies in 2003 with Chris Gayle making 119 and Bermuda's 78 against Sri Lanka in WC2007 with Mahela Jayawardene making 85.

Answer to WCQOD #11 of March 23rd, 2007

Jacob Oram was at the receiving end when Canada's John Davison hit fifty of just 25 balls against New Zealand in 2003 World Cup. But Davison's achievement could not beat Brian Lara's fifty of 23 deliveries and Wavell Hinds' fifty of 24 that came ten days prior to his own team. Davison also holds the best bowling figures record in first class cricket since Jim Laker's 19 wicket haul at Old Trafford against Australia in 1956.

Answer to WCQOD #12 of March 24th, 2007

The first World Cup match that had an upward revision of target because of Duckworth/Lewis method was played between Australia and Netherlands at Potchefstroom in WC2003. Australia batted first, then rain interrupted the play twice, resulting in the match being reduced to 36 overs per side. Australia made 170 for 2 after 36 overs and Netherlands were set a revised target of 198 from 26 overs using the Duckworth/Lewis Method. Netherlands however were all out for 122 of 30.2 overs leaving the Aussies as winners by 75 runs.

Answer to WCQOD #13 of March 25th, 2007

Glenn McGrath. He too acknowledged this fact while giving his acceptance speech after receiving the Player of the tournament award for WC2007. He did not get a chance to bat in WC 2007. In fact none of Australia's 9,10,11 batsmen went to the crease in any of their 11 games of WC2007. McGrath just batted once in WC2003 when he made 3* against New Zealand.

Answer to WCQOD #14 of March 26th, 2007

David Robert Shepherd is the man in the picture. He holds the record for umpiring in most number of matches in World Cup history, a total 46. Steve Bucknor with 44 matches of officiating at the end of WC2007 still two matches short of Shepherd's record. It will be intact for at least four more years.

Answer to WCQOD #15 of March 27th, 2007

1. Grange Cricket Club Ground , formerly known as Raeburn Place is located in Edinburgh, Scotland where Scotland played against Bangladesh and New Zealand during WC1999.
2. St Helen’s Cricket Ground is located in Swansea, Wales hosted the WC1983 game between Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
3. Sophia Gardens is located in Cardiff, Wales where Australia and New Zealand played a Group B game in WC1999.
4. Castle Avenue is the cricketing venue of Ireland's capital city Dublin. Bangladesh and West Indies played here in WC1999.
5. Gymkhana Club Ground is in Nairobi, Kenya where Kenya beat Sri Lanka in WC2003. This ground would have hosted another match had New Zealand did not forfeit the match for safety concerns.
6. VRA Ground is located in Amstelveen, Netherlands where Kenya and South Africa played in WC1999.

The common factor for all the above grounds is that they are all in located in non-test playing nations, and hosted World Cup matches when the World Cup was hosted by a test-playing nation nearby.

Answer to WCQOD #16 of March 28th, 2007

The Match in question was WC1979 encounter between India and Sri Lanka. It was played at Manchester, on 16th and 18th June 1979. 17th June being a Sunday was a rest day during those times in England. Sri Lanka batted first and made 238 for 5 in their allotted quota of 60 overs on 16th June before weather stopped the play. India started their innings on 18th June and were all out for 191.

The player in the picture is SRD Wettimunty who top scored in the match with 67.

Answer to WCQOD #17 of March 29th, 2007

Pakistan and West Indies were the two teams that were involved in one wicket victories in WC1975 and WC1987. At Birmingham in WC1975 DL Murray (61*) and Andy Roberts (24*) shocked the Pakistanis by a stunning last wicket partnership of 64 runs and took West Indies past Pakistan's total of 266/7 of 60 overs. Twelve years later Pakistan took the revenge by reversing the result with Abdul Qadir (16*) and Saleem Jaffar (1*) added 14 runs for the last wicket to take their side's total to 216 for 7 of the last ball of the match. Javed Miandad of Pakistan and Sir IVA Richards of West Indies in the playing elevens of both those matches.

In the last game of the Super Eights of WC2007 West Indies for the third time took part in a one wicket result. England beat them by 1 wicket at Kensington Oval thus giving them a dubious distinction of being part of all three of the one wicket results in World Cup history.
Answer to WCQOD #18 of March 30th, 2007

The first two instances of three bowlers claiming three wickets each prior to West Indies and New Zealand encounter of WC2007 took place between New Zealand against Bangladesh at Chelmsford in WC1999 which the Kiwis won by 6 wickets. In bowling out Bangladesh for 116 Geoff Allot took 3/30, Chris Cairns took 3/19 and Gavin Larsen 3/19. Just two days later the second instance occurred with Pakistan bowling out Scotland for 167 at Chester-le-Street. Pakistan won by 94 runs in that match as Wasim Akram with 3/23, Shoaib Akhtar with 3/11 and Abdul Razzaq 3/38 claiming three wickets each.

Later in the WC2007 Australian bowlers provided the fourth and latest instance when they defeated England by seven wickets at North Sound with Nathan Bracken taking 3/33, Shaun Tait 3/41 and Glen McGrath 3 for 62.

Answer to WCQOD #19 of March 31st, 2007

The Two Bowlers shown in the pictures are Gary Gilmour of Australia and Asantha De Mel of Sri Lanka. They are the only bowlers in World Cup history to have taken 5 or more wickets in two consecutive innings. Gary Gilmour returned with figures of 6 for 14 against England in the semi-finals and 5 for 48 against West Indies in the finals of WC1975. Eight years later Sri Lanka's Asantha De Mel :emulated the feat by taking 5 for 39 against Pakistan and 5 for 32 against New Zealand in WC1983.

Answer to WCQOD #20 of April 1st, 2007

The Incident was the failing of a drugs test by star Australian leg spinner Shane Warne and the ban on him which led to his departure from South Africa on the eve of their first match of WC2003 against Pakistan. The Match was Australia vs. Pakistan at Johannesburg, 11 February 2003. Australia posted a formidable total of 310/8 in 50 overs after reeling at 86/4 in the 16th over. Andrew Symonds making his World Cup debut scored a punishing 143* off just 125 balls. In reply Pakistan was bowled out for just 228 in the 45th over losing the match by 82 runs

Answer to WCQOD #21 of April 2nd , 2007

The first occasion stumping occurred in the second match of WC1975 between New Zealand and East Africa. Frasat Ali was stumped by KJ Wadsworth off the bowling of HJ Howarth for 45.
Mark Waugh of Australia holds the WC record for getting dismissed most number of times (3) by way of stumping against West Indies in WC1992 & in WC1996 and against Bangladesh in WC1999.

Bowlers with most number of stumping victims in World Cup are Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka and Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan with five times each.

Answer to WCQOD #22 of April 3rd, 2007

The player shown in the picture is Anderson Cummins. He played for the West Indies in WC1992. His last game before he went into oblivion was against Australia at Melbourne, 18 March 1992. Cummins then reappeared in WC2007 representing Canada in their first game of the tournament against Kenya at Gros Islet, 14 March 2007. His four days short of 15 years gap represents the most between two appearances in World Cup history.

Answer to WCQOD #23 of April 4th, 2007

The two cricketers who finished their World Cup career in excess of 100 runs average are L. Klusener of South Africa with 372 runs from 14 matches @124.00 and Andy Bichel of Australia with 117 runs from 8 matches @117.00. By the end of WC2007 Australia's Andrew Symonds and Shane Watson too have taken their averages to 100+. Symonds now has 515 runs from 18 games @103.00 whereas Watson was dismissed just once having scored 145 runs in 8 matches to keep his average @145.00

Answer to WCQOD #24 of April 5th, 2007

Thomas Masson Moody (Tom Moody) of Australia is the cricketer in question. He made his WC as well as ODI debut in a Group A match against India in WC1987 which Australia won by 1 run. This match became famous for Kapil Dev agreeing to revise the Australian score by 2 runs after Dean Jones insisted that one of the strokes he hit during his 35 balls innings was a six and not a four. In the end those two runs proved out to be deciding factor of the match. Tom Moody was again the part of the Australian team when they beat the same team in WC1992 by same margin in a rain interrupted match. India's target was revised to 236 off 47 overs after Australia batted first and made 237 for 9 of 50 overs.In WC2007 Tom Moody is the coach of Sri Lanka when they won their match against England by 2 runs.

Answer to WCQOD #25 of April 6th, 2007

The holder of this unusual distinction is the Scotland born Warwickshire all rounder Douglas Robert 'Dougie' Brown. He played for Scotland in just concluded WC2007. In WC2003 he was the coach of Namibia when they took part in the World Cup for the only time to date. Interestingly Dougie Brown, who’s now 37 had also played nine one-day internationals for England in 1997-98 thus making his unique distinction even more elusive for others to emulate.

Answer to WCQOD #26 of April 7th, 2007

Six of my Fifteen Super Eight games predictions went wrong. Bangladesh defeated South Africa by 67 runs in the biggest upset of WC2007 , South Africa then came back in a big way and crushed West Indies by the same margin of 67 runs, New Zealand then again exposed South Africa's inconsistency by easily defeating them by 5 wickets, South Africa then again bounced back and eliminated England from the tournament by a thumping 9 wicket victory. England then in the most thrilling encounter and the last game of the Super Eights defeated the hosts by 1 wicket.

All the participants of the 'Quiztion of the Day' contest are awarded with 12 points for this question alone in addition to two points each for each of their correct predictions.

Answer to WCQOD #27 of April 8th, 2007

Though none of the Bangladeshi cricketers were in the playing eleven of all of their victories in World Cup history, their ace left arm spinner Mohammad Rafique was part of the World Cup squad in WC1999 when they won against Scotland and played a key part in their win over Pakistan. Bangladesh went winless during WC2003. Rafique again played an important role in all of their three victories in WC2007 against India, Bermuda and South Africa.

Answer to WCQOD #28 of April 9th, 2007

The first instance where the catch was taken was in the WC1983 finals. Viv Richards was brilliantly caught by Kapil Dev off the bowling of Madan Lal’s gentle medium pacers. Of course the rest is history. India went on to beat the Windies and win the trophy. The second instance took place in WC1999, when Herschelle Gibbs, one of the best fielders in World Cricket, second probably only to Jonty Rhodes caught Steve Waugh. The ball slipped out of his hand when he was about to throw it up in the air to celebrate. The ‘celebrations’ turned out to be premature and Steve Waugh supposed have those famous words "You have just dropped the World Cup, son" as he went to score a century and took Aussies to a five wicket win, which would take the Aussies through the tied semi-final on the basis of this victory. Eventually they beat Pakistan in a very one-sided final.

Answer to WCQOD #29 of April 10th, 2007

The Waugh twins. Steve Waugh played as guest player for Ireland in 1998 and played a first class match and five List A games against Australia A. Two seasons later in 2000 his twin brother Mark Waugh took the guest player role and played a couple of List A games for Ireland.

Answer to WCQOD #30 of April 11th, 2007

Sri Lanka suffered an embarrassing 53 runs defeat in the hands of Kenya at Nairobi in WC2003 before taking the better of their closely fought encounter against West Indies in pool B and emerging victors by 6 runs to advance to the Super Sixes stage.

Answer to WCQOD #31 of April 12th, 2007

The ground shown in the picture is Lavington Sports Oval, Albury where England suffered a spectacular collapse after being placed comfortably at 95 for 4 while chasing a meager 135 runs for a win against Zimbabwe in a first round match of WC1992 on March 18th, 1992. England may have resorted to a little bit of complacency in that match knowing very well that they had already advanced to the semi-final stage as Zimbabwe went on to win that match by 9 runs.

Answer to WCQOD #32 of April 13th, 2007

This happened in WC1996. After having lost to West Indies by 4 wickets in the Groups stages, Australia went on to beat them in the Semis by 5 runs.

Answer to WCQOD #33 of April 14th, 2007

The cricketer shown in the picture is none other than the flamboyant Aussie middle order batsman David Hookes, who died in a tragical circumstance. Just before the WC2007 kicked off, Hookes became a topic of a major controversy that was triggered with the exchange of words between one the World's greatest opening batsmen Sunil Gavaskar and the Australian skipper Ricky Ponting. The match in question was played between India and Australia at Chelmsford in group stages. Australia lost the match by a huge margin of 118 runs while chasing 248 runs for a victory. This match provided the only occasion for David Hookes to lead Australia in an International match. Australia's total of 129 still remains their lowest completed innings total ever in World Cup history.

Answer to WCQOD #34 of April 15th, 2007

The other three players to have registered three ducks in a single tournament are Arjuna Ranatunga of Sri Lanka in WC1983, Nicholas De Groot of Canada and Gary Snyman of Namibia in WC2003. Incidentally Ireland's WK McCallan joined AB de Villiers of South Africa to become the second player to have registered four ducks in a single WC tournament when he was dismissed by Muralitharan for a duck in their last match of WC2007.

Answer to WCQOD #35 of April 16th, 2007

The record for most number of run-outs in a World Cup innings belongs to Australia. Their batsmen ran themselves out five times in an innings on two separate occasions. In WC1975 final five of their batsmen namely Alan Turner, Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, Max Walker and Jeff Thomson were run out with come incredible fielding and throwing by an young bloke called Viv Richards whereas in WC1996 Indian fielders ran out Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh, Michael Bevan, Shane Lee and Damien Fleming. They lost the match by 17 runs in WC1975 and won by 16 runs in WC1996. The remarkable coincidence was that on both occasions, brothers playing for Australia, Chappell brothers in WC1975 and Waugh brothers in WC1996 were victims of run-out.

Answer to WCQOD #36 of April 17th, 2007

Greg Chappell supposed to have ordered Jeff Thomson not to bowl at what Thommo was capable of in a tour game against visiting English team during the Ashes campaign of 1974-75, just before the first test match played at Brisbane. England were surprised when Thomson was included in the Australian side for the opening Test at Brisbane, they in fact were thinking it was a different Thomson … Froggy, who played for Victoria. However Greg Chappell's ploy worked as Thomson terrorized the English camp returning with figures of 3 for 59 and 6 for 46 in the first test at Brisbane to beat England by 166 runs. Australia went on to win the series by 4-1 margin with Thomson taking 33 wickets at an astonishing average of 17.93 in the five tests he played in that series. Several of the English cricketers were injured during the series and some of them even feared to take guard against him. The only defeat Australia suffered in the series came in the sixth and final test when Thomson had to miss the game because of an injury.

Answer to WCQOD #37 of April 18th, 2007

Sultan Mohammed Zarawani of United Arab Emirates was the only native-born player of their squad in WC1996 and perhaps the richest ever to play in a World Cup game. He captained his team and is best remembered for his audacity and arrogance to face Alan Donald without wearing a helmet and receiving a direct hit on his head in UAE's first match of the tournament against South Africa.

Answer to WCQOD #38 of April 19th, 2007

There are only four occasions in World cup history when a test playing nation was dismissed for a total fewer than hundred runs. In WC1975 England were all out for 93 against Australia. In WC1992 Pakistan registered their lowest World Cup total of 74 against England before beating the same team in the finals to emerge as the World cup champions. In WC1996 West provided the only instance of a test playing nation getting bundled out for less than 100 runs against a non-test playing nation Kenya. In WC2007 Zimbabwe though currently stripped off their test status fell one run short of 100 run mark against Pakistan.

Answer to WCQOD #39 of April 20th, 2007

At the time when this question was asked Ramnaresh Sarwan of West Indies was the only cricketer among those who have batted at least 10 or more innings in World cup history to have reached double figures in every WC innings that he came into bat . However by losing his wicket for just 3 runs in their last match of the tournament against England Sarwan now lost the possession of this unique batting record.

Answer to WCQOD #40 of April 21st, 2007

The highest margin of victory was achieved by India in their Group B match against Bermuda in the WC2007 tournament with India beating Bermuda by 257 runs and thus eclipsing the previous record of 256 runs margin held by Australia against Namibia in WC2003 by just one run

The two major World Cup records witnessed during this match are 1) India’s 413 for 5 broke the record for the highest total in a World Cup match. The previous highest was Sri Lanka’s 398 for 5 against Kenya at Kandy in 1996 In the same match Malachi Olin Jones of Bermuda became the first bowler to take a wicket with his first delivery in a World Cup when he had Robin Uthappa caught by Dwayne Leverock at slip.

Couple of other records that were equaled during the course of this match were the most number of sixes in an innings in a WC game, 18 by South Africa against Netherlands WC2007 and the five ducks in the Bermudan innings is the fourth such instance in WC history. The previous three instances were England against West Indies at Lord’s in WC1979 final, Canada against Sri Lanka at Paarl and Sri Lanka against India at Johannesburg in WC2003.

Incidentally the match with previous highest margin of victory in number of runs too created two World Cup records which are yet to be surpassed. Glen McGrath's figures of 7-4-15-7 and Adam Gilchrist's six wicket keeping dismissals are still record in those categories.

Answer to WCQOD #41 of April 22nd, 2007

Donald James Pringle of East Africa who died in a car crash on 04 October 1975 within four months of representing his country at WC1975 is the first cricketer to have died after playing in a World Cup match.

Answer to WCQOD #42 of April 23rd, 2007

PG Nana of East Africa who played in the inaugural World Cup in 1975 is the answer I was looking for. Though there is no record of his exact date of birth, Cricinfo and several other cricket databases list his year of birth as 1933. This makes him at least 9 months older, even after considering Dec 31st as his date of birth, than the next oldest living WC cricketer, Lancelot Richard Gibbs of West Indies who was born on 29 September 1934 and played in just three ODIs which included one World Cup match in WC1975 in his entire career

Answer to WCQOD #43 of April 24th, 2007

The three batsmen prior to Mahela Jayawardene to have hit a century in a World Cup semi finals are Graham Gooch of England(115) against India in WC1987, Saeed Anwar of Pakistan (113*) against New Zealand in WC1999 and Sourav C Ganguly of India (111*) against Kenya in WC2003. The common factor of all these three innings that Jayawardene wanted to avoid and could not do so in WC2007 when his team played in the Final on the 28th April was DEFEAT by Australia

Answer to WCQOD #44 of April 25th, 2007

A superb 138 run partnership between an unlikely Australian pair of Stuart Law and Michael Bevan in WC1996 second Semi final match at Mohali on March 14th, 1996 rescued Australia from a precarious position of 15 for 4 to a reasonable total of 207 for 8 from 50 overs. Australia lost Mark Waugh, Mark Taylor, Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh with just four runs between them. Australia then restricted West Indies to 202 to win the match by five runs and advance to the finals. West Indies' last 8 wickets could add just 37 runs and gave them their first ever defeat in a WC semi-final match.

Answer to WCQOD #45 of April 26th, 2007

All the four players mentioned in the question were selected for Man of the match awards in the matches played between Australia and Sri Lanka in World Cup. Tom Moody won it in WC1992 group game, Ricky Ponting in Super Sixes match & Andrew Symonds in the semi final in WC2003 and Nathan Bracken in Super Eights game in WC2007. Two players who were missing in the list are Alan Turner in a first round match of WC1975 and Aravinda De Silva in the final of WC1996. One group game in WC1996 was forfeited by Australia on the grounds of safety issues. Later Adam Gilchrist with his destructive innings of 149 in the WC2007 final joined this exclusive list.

Answer to WCQOD #46 of April 27th, 2007

The cricketers shown in the pictures are

1. CG Greenidge of West Indies (WC1975,WC1979,WC1983)
2. GA Gooch of England (WC1979,WC1987,WC1992)
3. IVA Richards of West Indies (WC1975, WC1979, WC1983)
4. RT Ponting of Australia (WC1996, WC1999, WC2003)
5. GD McGrath of Australia (WC1996, WC1999, WC2003)
6. SR Waugh of Australia (WC1987, WC1999, WC2003)
7. M Bevan of Australia (WC1996, WC1999, WC2003)
8. CH Llyod of West Indies (WC1975, WC1979, WC1983)

The common distinction they hold is that they have all appeared in three World Cup finals, the most by any cricketer in WC history. GA Gooch is the odd one out as his appearances are not consecutive. Ponting and McGrath now took the record to an unreachable territory of four with their 2007 appearance. Ponting has a chance to make the record his won and permanent in the annals of cricketing history if the awesome Aussies continue their dominance for next four years.

Answer to WCQOD #47 of April 28th, 2007

Australia's lowest margin of victory in their unbeaten campaigns of WC2003 and WC2007 in terms of number of runs is against Sri Lanka by 48 runs in a rain interrupted semi-final match of WC2003 played at Port Elizabeth. Sri Lanka's target was revised by D/L Method to 172 runs from 38.1 overs after Australia batted first and made 212/7 from 50 overs. Sri Lanka could make just 123 for the loss of 7 wickets in their allotted quota of overs and lost the match by 48 runs.

Australia's lowest margin of victories in terms of wickets during their last two successful WC tournaments too occurred during the WC2003 . They beat England by 2 wickets at the same venue with Andy Bichel destroying their traditional rivals with figures of 7 for 20.

I thank one and all who have chosen to participate in this contest. Though some of you given up or did not hang till the end because of various reasons like the team you are following not putting up a good show are getting eliminated from the tournament etc., some of you hung on till the end with all the enthusiasm and may have spent lot of time on Cricinfo and Google web sites to answer my questions. I really appreciate each one of your efforts to make this contest a successful one and at the same time very exciting and challenging for me to devise the QUIZTIONS OF THE DAY.

In the end Supratim Sengupta who sent his answers to every one of the 47 questions and most of the times correctly walks away with the first prize as easily as the WC2007 winners Australia. ULMM Haniffa of Sri Lanka grabbed the second prize just like the team he supported in WC2007. Congratulations to both of you.

Dreamcricket.com will be contacting you shortly to disburse the prizes announced.

I will be taking a break from cricket writing and will resume my regular CRICKET RECORDS postings when TEST CRICKET resumes again at Cricket Headquarters on May 17th with England taking on West Indies for John Wisden Trophy.

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April 28th, 2007: Quiztion of the Day - 47

Ricky Ponting led his mighty invincibles to the second World Cup victory in a row as a captain. Like in 2003 his team did not lose a single match and have defeated every opponent quiet convincingly. Adam Gilchrist could not have chosen a better time and place to strike his form and what an amazing innings he has played. In a rain shortened match, he completely demoralized the Lankan attack and shut the doors on them. As the Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene said in his acceptance speech Sri Lanka was left to do only catching all through their innings with the target after Australia made total of 281/4 from 38 overs. Though Jayasuriya and Sangakkara raised a glimmer of hope for the Lankans, in the end the kangaroos proved out to be too good for the lions to chase.

Today's ‘Quiztion of the Day’ concludes this series .It relates to the unbeaten run of victories the Aussies have registered during the two World Cup campaigns of 2003 and 2007. Here it is:

What are the lowest margins of victories that Australia registered in these two unbeaten world cup tournaments by runs and by wickets?

Remember to email your answers for each of the quizzes individually to vijay@dreamcricket.com with the subject line as ‘Quiztion of the Day - X’ (X being the question number) by April 31st. Results will be first posted on http://www.dreamcricket.com/ website on May 7th, 2007.

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April 27th, 2007: Quiztion of the Day - 46

Today’s ‘Quiztion of the Day’ relates to the history of World Cup finals. Here it is:

What is common to the cricketers shown in the pictures below in regards to World Cup Finals and Who is the odd man out? In other words, all the players share a common distinction, but one of them holds it in a different way from the others. Provide the details.

Remember to email your answers for each quiz individually to vijay@dreamcricket.com with the subject line as ‘Quiztion of the Day - X’ (X being the question number) through out the tournament duration. Results will be first posted on http://www.dreamcricket.com/ website within a week of the World cup Final.

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April 26th,2007: Quiztion of the Day:

Today’s ‘Quiztion of the Day’ relates to the Australia and Sri Lanka encounters in the World Cup history. Here it is:

Tom Moody, Ricky Ponting, Andrew Symonds and Nathan Bracken of Australia are four members of an exclusive club to have achieved a specific distinction in Australia vs. Sri Lanka World Cup games. Name the other members and the distinction they have achieved.

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