And how many times in a debut Test has a bowler gone wicketless in the first innings before capturing five wickets in the second?
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The Nos. 8 and 9 in Ireland’s second inning at Lord’s made 80. How many times has this occurred during a single Test innings? Irishman Michael McKenzie was questioned.
The Irish comeback at Lord’s last week, which at least prevented the innings defeat, owed a lot to No. 8 Andy McBrine’s 86 not out and No. 9 Mark Adair’s 88. Only six times in Test history have Nos. 8 and 9 achieved 80 runs in the same innings.
In contrast to previous instances, where at least one player reached triple digits, Ireland’s batters still needed to stay out of the nineties. Australia’s Clem Hill scored 160 from position 9 in the inaugural Ashes Test in Adelaide in 1907–08, and debutant Roger Hartigan hit 116 from position 8. Hill often entered from a considerably higher position but became unwell during the match.
The only other time both Nos. 8 and 9 hit a century in a Test inning was at Bulawayo in 2017–18 when West Indies played Zimbabwe when Shane Dowrich scored 103, and Jason Holder struck 110.
Josh Tongue made his Test debut against Ireland, going without a wicket in the first innings before grabbing five wickets in the second. What makes this unusual? England’s Kevin Matthews enquired.
Josh Tongue, a fast bowler for Worcestershire, made his Test debut last week against Ireland at Lord’s and scored 0 for 40 and 5 for 66.
Only 10 men have followed a debut wicketless first innings with a five-for or better in the second. The tongue is one of them. Since six of the previous nine occurrences of this featured England bowlers, it appears to be somewhat of an English speciality: Christopher Heseltine (1895–1896), Wally Hammond (1927–28), James Langridge (1933), Jim Smith (1934–35), Ken Shuttleworth (1970–1971), and Adil Rashid (2015–2016).
The three foreigners were Cuan McCarthy (1948–49) and Lance Klusener (1996–97) from South Africa, as well as Albert Trott (1894–1895) of Australia. After failing to bowl in the first innings, Trott and Klusener claimed eight wickets in the second. Additionally deserving of notice is Australia’s Simon Katich, who took 0 for 75 and 6 for 65 in his second Test (against Zimbabwe in 2003-04), having not bowled in his first.
During a T20 international, Chris Gayle once carried his bat. How many people have done this before? Jamaican Mitchell McCarron was questioned.
Chris Gayle is the only opener in a T20I inning to carry his bat, which is to say to open and go undefeated throughout the whole innings rather than merely bat through the allotted 20 overs. Gayle led West Indies to a 101-run win in the 2009 T20 World Cup match against Sri Lanka semifinal at The Oval.
Before these games were automatically accorded formal international status, Arthur Kyobe batted for 51 of Uganda’s 109 runs against Scotland in Nairobi in January 2010. And there have been three additional occasions in other senior T20 matches: by Sanjaya Rodrigo (16 not out in a total of 85) for Ragama against Bloomfield in a Sri Lanka T20 Cup game in Colombo in October 2005, by Ankit Yadav (54 not out/107) for Odisha against Vidarbha in a Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy game in Indore in March 2013, and by Pakistani international Mansoor Amjad (52 not out
I discovered that eight centuries were thrown in during a 2007 Championship game at Taunton. Was this a first-class match record? Inquired about Andy Morrison from England.
You are referring to the Somerset-Middlesex County Championship game in Taunton in April 2007. Owais Shah, Billy Godleman, and David Nash scored hundreds for Middlesex when they declared with 600 for 4. Still, Somerset responded with a county-record 850 for 7, which included 315 from Justin Langer and single centuries from James Hildreth, Cameron White, and Peter Trego. Ed Smith achieved three figures in the time left before the draw was decided, and Middlesex reached 209 for 2.
Eight centuries is a first-class record for an English match; eight hundred have been scored in six other games globally, including two Tests (West Indies vs. South Africa in Antigua in 2005 and Sri Lanka vs. Bangladesh in Galle in 2012–2013).
However, there have been two first-class games that have included nine individual centuries, both of which took place in India: the Duleep Trophy final between West Zone and South Zone in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1986–87 and the Ranji Trophy semifinal between Bombay and Maharashtra in Poona in 1948–49.
The World Test Championship final is taking place this week in England, but England is not participating. How many Tests were held here without England participating? England’s George Campbell was questioned.
It will be the 548th Test match played in England and Wales (three have been held in Cardiff) when Australia and India’s World Test Championship final get off at The Oval on Wednesday. It will be the sole instance not to include England. The other three were Australia’s three victories over South Africa in the 1912 Triangular Tournament, Australia’s two wins over Pakistan in 2010 and New Zealand’s victory over India in the inaugural World Triathlon Championship final in Southampton in 2021.
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