The Interesting Scorecard Thread

[sherb]

I won't post the scorecard but I signed up for Cricket Archive recently and, as you do, started searching for people I knew.

Which is how, after almost 20 years of knowing him, I came to ask my brother-in-law: "Can you tell me about the time you dismissed Wasim Akram?"

Cricket Archive is great, well worth the money

 

[Rabish Binney]

I've always liked this one.

Get 'em two for almost nothing in the first couple of overs, and then.....

SL vs SA Cricket Scorecard, 1st Test at Colombo, July 27 - 31, 2006

Get cricket scorecard of 1st Test, SL vs SA, South Africa tour of Sri Lanka 2006 at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo dated July 27 - 31, 2006.

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Jesus; 157 overs to break the Sangakkara & Jayawardene partnership.

That's a long stretch between wickets....

 

[Rabish Binney]

I still cant believe India lost 6-0....

Almost goes in the 'that doesn't happen in test cricket' category.

SA vs IND Cricket Scorecard, 2nd Test at Cape Town, January 03 - 04, 2024

Get cricket scorecard of 2nd Test, SA vs IND, India in South Africa 2023/24 at Newlands, Cape Town dated January 03 - 04, 2024.

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[Rabish Binney]

AUS vs ENG Cricket Scorecard, 3rd Test at Melbourne, January 01 - 07, 1937

Get cricket scorecard of 3rd Test, AUS vs ENG, England tour of Australia 1936/37 at Melbourne Cricket Ground dated January 01 - 07, 1937.

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3rd test, 1936-37 Ashes series.

Australia reversed its batting order in the 2nd innings to protect the 'known' batsman from the wet wicket. Subsequently, Bradman and Jack Fingleton put on a 346 stand.

Two interesting things from this innings:

1. The 270 that Bradman made was ranked by Wisden at no. #1 as the best batting innings in test history
2. Jack Fingleton absolutely hated Bradman (for various reasons). They did not speak to each other from the time Fingleton retired from cricket right up until his death in 1981.

Mind you, Fingleton wasn't alone in his thoughts about 'our Don'....

 

[Moonwatcher]

At risk of looking like a goose because this is your subtle joke, but NZ went close bowling another 32 overs before dismissing Hazlewood in the last test.

I wasn't thinking about NZ but yeah you're right.

 

[PhatBoy]

kiwis know all about that..

So do the Aussies. So do a lot of teams lately it seems

 

[PhatBoy]

I still cant believe India lost 6-0....

Almost goes in the 'that doesn't happen in test cricket' category.

SA vs IND Cricket Scorecard, 2nd Test at Cape Town, January 03 - 04, 2024

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Of course the Shastri commentary will always be somewhat more immortal than the scorecard

 

[worbod]

An instance of a player scoring a double century in each innings of a minor match in Western Australia. Interestingly, the name of the ground is also the player's surname.

 

[PhatBoy]

An instance of a player scoring a double century in each innings of a minor match in Western Australia. Interestingly, the name of the ground is also the player's surname.

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I can’t find the scorecards but when I was working at the local paper we went maybe 5-6 years without a local cricket double tonne in any grade, senior or junior.

A kid came out when he was about 17 and smacked a double in the father-son grade, a semi-serious grade where in that scenario by the time it became obvious he was a class above, the senior players in the other team would have started bowling ‘properly’ to him rather than taking it a bit easy on him.

I did a big write up about it, put him on the back page etc.

A week later he came out and did it again.

 

[PhatBoy]

Actually worthy of this thread I would post it except I can’t stand the guy who did it, a few weeks ago a guy smacked 250* in first grade, it’s an intercity comp between us and the neighbouring city (both towns of 40,000 people) and in the same game took 6-fer. Not sure if his final figures stayed this way but at one point I think he had 6-2 off 8 or something ridiculous.

 

[Rabish Binney]

An instance of a player scoring a double century in each innings of a minor match in Western Australia. Interestingly, the name of the ground is also the player's surname.

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Love the description of the fall of wickets..

 

[akkaps]

SOA vs TAS, The Marsh Cup 2023/24, 7th Match at Adelaide, October 08, 2023 - Full Scorecard

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JFMc 's 125 off 38; and scores of 435/9 and and 398 in the Marsh Cup this summer

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MNG vs NEP Cricket Scorecard, 1st Match, Group A at Hangzhou, September 27, 2023

Live Cricket Scoreboard: Get Mongolia vs Nepal 1st Match, Group A, cricket scorecard, Asian Games Men's Cricket Competition 2023 dated September 27, 2023.

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Nepal score 314 off 20, and bowl Mongolia out for 41 in the Asian Games last year

 

[worbod]

The scorecard for the highest individual innings in Australian cricket. The Tasmanian all-rounder Charles Eady, who played 2 Tests, scored 566 in 1901-02 in Hobart club cricket and also took 7-87 for good measure.

Break-o-day v Wellington (Tasmania), 8 Mar - 5 Apr 1902

 

[010203]

I still cant believe India lost 6-0....

Almost goes in the 'that doesn't happen in test cricket' category.

SA vs IND Cricket Scorecard, 2nd Test at Cape Town, January 03 - 04, 2024

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To paraphrase Ravi Shastri, those who took a dump missed one heck of a batting collapse.

 

[010203]

Australia vs South Africa at the SCG 1994. Australia was set 117 for victory, Mark Taylor, David Boon and Craig McDermott get 80 between them (68% of the victory target) and Australia fall 5 runs short of victory with McDermott getting the top score while batting at 10

AUS vs SA Cricket Scorecard, 2nd Test at Sydney, January 02 - 06, 1994

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[yabsy]

That's why I've never been a fan of the follow-on when there's plenty of time left.

Something like this is definitely an exception...Who's not going to enforce the follow-on when bowling out their opponents for 15 in 53 balls [emoji28]

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[PhatBoy]

NZ vs WI Cricket Scorecard, 1st Test at Hamilton, December 16 - 20, 1999

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Vividly remember when this happened. Came at a time when Windies fortunes were starting to fade but the opening stand and its sheer magnitude gave me hope that this series would be one where we came out and smashed the kiwis from pillar to post. Staged a massive opening partnership that I thought would get to 300 - it didn’t but I thought ‘well at least it guarantees us 450+.’ We lost some quick wickets.

‘Well at least it guarantees us 400.’

We lost some more wickets.

Ok at least we will easily get 350.

We scrape past that total.

In all we lose 20 wickets for 186 runs after making 0-276 and get blown off the park by 9 wickets and lose the series 2-0.

 

[The Passenger]

This one is always hard to top for me. Perth Grade Cricket (now Premier Cricket) First Grade Grand Final.

Final: Bayswater-Morley v Midland-Guildford at Perth, 2-5 Apr 1999

Matthew Garnaut and Brett Mulder, who both played about 20 games for Western Australia, put on 177 for the tenth wicket to win the grand final and the competition.

The match also featured Simon Katich, Jo Angel, Ryan Campbell and Mark Lavender.

 

[The Passenger]

NZ vs WI Cricket Scorecard, 1st Test at Hamilton, December 16 - 20, 1999

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Vividly remember when this happened. Came at a time when Windies fortunes were starting to fade but the opening stand and its sheer magnitude gave me hope that this series would be one where we came out and smashed the kiwis from pillar to post. Staged a massive opening partnership that I thought would get to 300 - it didn’t but I thought ‘well at least it guarantees us 450+.’ We lost some quick wickets.

‘Well at least it guarantees us 400.’

We lost some more wickets.

Ok at least we will easily get 350.

We scrape past that total.

In all we lose 20 wickets for 186 runs after making 0-276 and get blown off the park by 9 wickets and lose the series 2-0.

31% of a teams runs for a series coming from a single partnership would have to be the all-time record... probably by some distance as well.

 

[PhatBoy]

31% of a teams runs for a series coming from a single partnership would have to be the all-time record... probably by some distance as well.

Useless trivia:

Dion Nash’s first class record does not encompass a ‘best match’ figure.

 

[Rabish Binney]

NZ vs WI Cricket Scorecard, 1st Test at Hamilton, December 16 - 20, 1999

Get cricket scorecard of 1st Test, NZ vs WI, West Indies tour of New Zealand 1999/00 at WestpacTrust Park, Hamilton dated December 16 - 20, 1999.

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Vividly remember when this happened. Came at a time when Windies fortunes were starting to fade but the opening stand and its sheer magnitude gave me hope that this series would be one where we came out and smashed the kiwis from pillar to post. Staged a massive opening partnership that I thought would get to 300 - it didn’t but I thought ‘well at least it guarantees us 450+.’ We lost some quick wickets.

‘Well at least it guarantees us 400.’

We lost some more wickets.

Ok at least we will easily get 350.

We scrape past that total.

In all we lose 20 wickets for 186 runs after making 0-276 and get blown off the park by 9 wickets and lose the series 2-0.

Imagine being 0-276 in your first innings and losing the test!

Goes to show just how unpredictable cricket can be.....and why most of us love it!

 

[worbod]

Useless trivia:

Dion Nash’s first class record does not encompass a ‘best match’ figure.

What do you mean exactly? Are you referring to his bowling or batting?

 

[sherb]

Love the description of the fall of wickets..

It's impressive that they worked out when the 10th wicket fell.

 

[PhatBoy]

What do you mean exactly? Are you referring to his bowling or batting?

If you check out his career figures, there is no ‘best match figures’ recorded for his first class career. As in ‘we have not been able to find what his best figures in a first class match across two innings are’

 

[akkaps]

Posting this more of the innings from Tanmay Agarwal, 366 off 181

HYD vs ARP Cricket Scorecard, Plate Group at Hyderabad, January 26 - 27, 2024

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Stats: Tanmay Agarwal smashes fastest triple-century in first-class cricket

The 701 runs scored by Hyderabad and Arunachal Pradesh are the second-most in a single day in first-class cricket

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