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Deano · « **Reply #725 on:** 19 February, 2014, 10:53:24 pm »

Matthew Hayden scored one in the nineties.

I'm pretty sure Michael Clarke has too.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #726 on:** 20 February, 2014, 06:58:19 am »

I have a recollection of Brearley scoring a triple century but it may not have been a test match.

I don't remember a specific innings, but Lawrence Rowe springs to mind as someone who had a real purple patch in the 1970s. Zaheer Abbas? Hanif Mohammed scores 499 in 1957 but that wasn't a test. Majid Khan?
Dravid? Gavaskar? Tendulkar?

Edit: I have just checked. Brearley's triple was as captain of the MCC U25 team v Pakistan. Two of the names I mentioned were on the list.

bobb · « **Reply #727 on:** 20 February, 2014, 09:18:12 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 February, 2014, 06:58:19 am

Hanif Mohammed scores 499 in 1957 but that wasn't a test. Majid Khan?
Dravid? Gavaskar? Tendulkar?

Although Hanif Mohammed is well known for scroing 499 in a first class game, I'm pretty sure he also scored a triple in a test match. I'm not too sure about Dravid, Gavaskar or Tendulkar though. I think possibly not.

Some from recent years I can recall (other than the already mentioned Clarke and Hayden) are Chris Gayle, Younis Khan and Verinder Sehwag.

Walter Hammond back in the 30s would also be on the list.

Other than that, I'm pretty much just guessing. I think I may have to look the rest up

Wowbagger · « **Reply #728 on:** 20 February, 2014, 10:16:46 am »

The two I got right were Hanif Mohammad (1958), although I spelt his name wrong, and Lawrence Rowe (1974). The were two others I could have named had I thought about it more, both of whom were English, one of whom was indeed Hammond.

My father, whenever Wally Hammond was mentioned, always referred to a newspaper headline he recalled on the occasion that Hammond was out for a duck. It was "Hammond Egg!".

Deano · « **Reply #729 on:** 20 February, 2014, 10:39:20 am »

I think they're mostly within the last 25 years or so.

Hashim Amla.

I keep thinking Javed Miandad, but I'm not sure he ever scored a triple hundred.

Sod it, I'm off to cricinfo.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #730 on:** 20 February, 2014, 05:29:31 pm »

I keep thinking about Archie McLaren's 424 against Somerset in 1895, which remained the highest score in English cricket for 99 years. I couldn't tell you who broke it though.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #731 on:** 20 February, 2014, 05:38:39 pm »

Another nugget of trivia that lodges somewhere in my brain is the highest individual inning by a batsman on the losing side.

bobb · « **Reply #732 on:** 20 February, 2014, 05:45:04 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 February, 2014, 05:29:31 pm

I keep thinking about Archie McLaren's 424 against Somerset in 1895, which remained the highest score in English cricket for 99 years. I couldn't tell you who broke it though.

Graeme Hick?

Edit: Hang on - Brain Lara's 501 for Warcks more likely!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #733 on:** 20 February, 2014, 05:55:48 pm »

I have just checked: it was Lara's 501 for Warwickshire v Durham in 1994. I should have known that had I thought about it a bit more because I was in a trip to Scotland with work and I recall the conversation with my boss's boss over breakfast the following morning:

Him: (looking up briefly from his Independent)Good grief! Brian Lara scored 501 not out yesterday.

Me: Blimey! That beats Hanif Mohammad's 499 for Railways against Lahore* in 1957.

Him: (staggered) How did you know that?

*actually it was Karachi v Bahawalpur, as everyone knows, but it slipped my mind in the heat of the moment.

Jaded · « **Reply #734 on:** 05 March, 2014, 03:50:56 pm »

And Australia with with a few overs to spare, proving that Test Match cricket can be fun.

Salvatore · « **Reply #735 on:** 24 March, 2014, 11:42:22 am »

A freak dismissal in the world T20 this morning, Hashim Amla the victim.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gt7QnsFGv5I

ferret · « **Reply #736 on:** 24 March, 2014, 11:57:23 am »

^ good job the bowler kept his eye on the ball, very odd

ferret · « **Reply #737 on:** 31 March, 2014, 06:45:02 pm »

so is there any point even mentioning the T20, apparently hardly any ones put their name in teh hat for the position of coach, can't imagine why

looks like Gus is the only one, never rated him much as a player !!

Basil · « **Reply #738 on:** 20 May, 2014, 08:30:54 pm »

Blimey. AndrewC appears to be one of the umpires in tonight's T20.

Jaded · « **Reply #739 on:** 22 May, 2014, 08:53:05 pm »

Not going too badly at the moment.

Basil · « **Reply #740 on:** 25 May, 2014, 04:50:54 pm »

Normal service has been resumed.

Well, at least the idiots having a go at Cookie can't blame him for that one.

interzen · « **Reply #741 on:** 25 May, 2014, 04:53:40 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 25 May, 2014, 04:50:54 pm

Normal service has been resumed.

Well, at least the idiots having a go at Cookie can't blame him for that one.

I saw a link on the front page of the Beeb's website - I stopped reading after 'England collapse' ....

Jaded · « **Reply #742 on:** 28 May, 2014, 04:39:04 pm »

We don't need much runs today.

Fingers crossed.

Si · « **Reply #743 on:** 29 May, 2014, 05:07:45 pm »

I have to say, being the cynic that I am....if this were cycling, such erratic changes of fortune would have everyone up in arms shouting "doping".

Peter · « **Reply #744 on:** 29 May, 2014, 09:43:58 pm »

It's betting, in cricket....

Jaded · « **Reply #745 on:** 31 May, 2014, 07:56:51 pm »

Thrilling finish!

clifftaylor · « **Reply #746 on:** 16 June, 2014, 07:46:31 pm »

Cook needs to grow a pair.

Deano · « **Reply #747 on:** 16 June, 2014, 07:49:52 pm »

Made for a close finish, though!

Tom B · « **Reply #748 on:** 20 June, 2014, 12:42:43 pm »

To revive Bobb's challenge above

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So who are the other 26? Can we get them all without any Googling at all? I'll start with some really obvious ones with scores I can remember off the top of my head:

a quiz aid

Wowbagger · « **Reply #749 on:** 20 June, 2014, 12:56:49 pm »

14/28 for me. I was all but useless on anything since 2000. It should have been more but my brain went blank on the 364 - which is one I know and simply couldn't recall. Likewise the other English one in 1930. I just didn't know the Aus on v England in 1966.

Why is it that more triple centuries are now being scored? Fifteen of those were scored between 1930 and 2000 and the other 13 in the past 13 years. So, one a year this century, one every 7 years in the previous 70 years. Is there five times as much test cricket as there used to be? Or are batsmen better? Or bowlers worse? O rumpires just less inclined to give decisions? Or has the technology had some effect?