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Back in 2013 Warnie invited us to dinner at his apartment in Perth. The fact that we had our then-6-month-old son with us didn't matter to him. "He can sleep in his carrycot in the bedroom and I'll check on him for you" was his suggestion. Which he did. That summed him up.
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At number 7 in my alternative Top 10 Sky Sports Cricket moments,
@beefybotham
just doesn't understand what's going on out there!
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Bob Willis was a pleasure to be around, a terrific pundit, charming man, and superb company, not to mention a fantastic bowler Bob Dylan and Wagner have one fewer afficionado today, and here he is in full flow as we should remember him. RIP Bob
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At number 8 in my alternative top 10 Sky Sports Cricket moments,
@Athersmike
attempts to commentate with a cup of coffee - to the amusement of
@wardyshorts
and
@harbhajan_singh
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R Ashwin bowled his first no-ball in his Test career after more than 20 thousand deliveries. The record for the most deliveries without a no-ball in Test cricket now reverts to Graeme Swann, with 15,349
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At number 3 (where else?!!!) in my alternative Sky Sports Cricket top ten moments,
@nassercricket
shows that the best way to play the short delivery is to watch the ball - literally!
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If every man and woman who has ever played Test cricket crammed into the "Permanent Temporary" stand at Old Trafford, it would still be less than half full.
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At number 9, as Hashim Amla moved towards South Africa's first ever Test triple-century at The Oval in 2012, Andrew Strauss managed to smash his own sunglasses while fielding.
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Great working with
@DineshKarthik
who has been a great addition to the coverage. Plus, you can't beat a man who has his own logo!
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Anderson has 13.1 overs to break Murali's record of 33,711 deliveries to reach 600 Test wickets.
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Coming out on 6 August. All profits to Prostate Cancer UK. Much missed by all
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Number 4 in my alternative top 10 Sky Sports Cricket moments is when
@flintoff11
livened up Finals Day with an Elvis impression (albeit singing
@neildiamond
) and took a bit of a tumble along the way.
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When rain stops play at Derby, what better to do than to put on some Dylan and 'Rock on'
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In the absence of any 'real' cricket, we are going to simulate the first Test at Galle in real time session by session. Both teams announced their playing XIs a day early. Kusal Janith Perera hadn't recovered from his finger injury and Sam Curran was preferred to Chris Woakes.
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Ben Stokes is currently both the leading run-scorer and wicket-taker in Test cricket in 2020. The only man to achieve that feat in a complete calendar year is George Giffen, back in 1894.
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England's 186th run at Johannesburg will make them the first team to score half a million runs in Test cricket.
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Moeen Ali conceded 1 four in his 10 overs. Kuldeep Yadav also conceded 1 four in his 10 overs (and 8 sixes!) as did Krunal Pandya in his 6 overs (and 6 sixes!)
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Happy birthday to
@nassercricket
who is currently on comms with his old buddy
@Athersmike
- they go back to when Nasser actually had hair!
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Root and Stokes batted out the day and England will feel happy as they go into day three of the Virtual Test just sixty runs behind, with seven wickets in hand.
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One of today's umpires in the Second T20I was part of the longest dismissal in first-class history history:
Chamundeswaranath c Balasubramaniam b Ananthapadmanabhan for Andhra v Kerala at Visakhapatnam in 1990
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OK - so far
@OfficialCSA
beat
@OfficialSLC
who beat
@ECB_cricket
who beat
@BCCI
who beat
@CricketAus
who beat
@BCBtigers
who beat
@windiescricket
who beat
@TheRealPCB
who beat
@BLACKCAPS
who beat
@OfficialCSA
. Pretty level really!
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As it currently stands, no-one has scored more Test runs at a better average AND taken more Test wickets at a better average than Ben Stokes
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Don't feel too sorry for
@StuartBroad8
. In the second ODI at Nairobi in August 2006, Kenya's Hitesh Modi was given out lbw by his father Subhash, who was one of the umpires.
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Chris Gayle in this ODI series: 39 sixes.
@nassercricket
in his entire international career (184 matches): 39 sixes.
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Such is Bob Willis's legacy that whenever England have a 'difficult' day in a Test, we yearn to hear what he would have made of it. Happy birthday Bob. Let's all have a 'spot of lunch' in his honour.
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Our commentary team for today's double-header at Nottingham. Who is the only player to have been dismissed by all five of them in first-class cricket?
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54 minutes after lunch, Ben Stokes struck the winning boundary as England won the first Virtual Test in Galle by seven wickets. Dom Bess was named Player of the Match for his nine wickets.
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Happy birthday
@robkey612
- here celebrating his match-winning double-century against the West Indies back in 2004.
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As pointed out by
@Athersmike
Andrew Strauss played 100 Tests and retired 10 years ago.
@jimmy9
made his Test debut before Strauss and is still playing.
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If anyone is interested, here's how I saw the afternoon session from the commentary box:
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Azhar Ali has just scored Pakistan's 400th Test century. Now the other race is on - their next duck will be Pakistan's 800th Test duck.
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We've reached number 6 in my alternative Top 10 Sky Sports Cricket moments. It's late 2013 and the British Press / Sky XI against Perth Glory Old Boys / Aussie Media. Having missed two earlier sitters,
@MichaelVaughan
then scored an absolute blinder, and celebrated accordingly.
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Stephen Fleming is the only man to have been dismissed by our "Famous Five" in first-class cricket
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The over-rate in ICC T20 WC 2009 was 14.79 overs per hour. In ICC T20 WC 2021 it was 11.55 overs per hour. In practical terms, a full 2x20 over match (plus a 10 minute interval) which would have taken 2 hours 52 minutes in 2009 would now take 3 hours 38 minutes, so 26% longer.
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Play starts at 11am today in the Virtual Test between Nasser Hussain's XI and Rob Key's XI. Updates will be sent at the end of each session - play starts at 11:00 BST
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England successfully batted out the final day to draw the Second Virtual Test at Colombo ending on 275-7 to seal a 1-0 series win.
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Jason Holder is the first West Indian to top the
@ICC
Test All-rounders table since Garry Sobers in March 1974
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If
@root66
gets to 63 in this innings, he will go past Geoff Boycott and become Yorkshire's leading run-scorer for England
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Joe Root fell just short of a century but England edged ahead after an attritional morning in the Virtual Test at Galle, reaching the interval on 296-6, a lead of 19.
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So Kohli has lost five tosses in a row.
@nassercricket
lost 14 successive tosses in international cricket from 29 Nov 2000 to 3 Dec 2001
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If Bangladesh win the toss against Pakistan and bat, then Pakistan are instantly out.
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Another five overs short today at Newlands, even with the extra half an hour. That's 28 overs short in the series so far - pretty much an entire session already.
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In two deliveries Joe Root moved from ninth place to seventh in England's all-time Test run-scorers.
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Here are the teams for the Second Virtual Test which starts tomorrow at Colombo. Kusal Perera and Wanindu Hasaranga (on debut) replace Dhananjaya de Silva and Suranga Lakmal for the hosts, while England are unchanged from their Galle victory.
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The Duke of Edinburgh captained his side to a one-wicket victory over Hampshire in 1949 in front of more than ten thousand spectators:
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Highest Test batting average on any ground (minimum 6 Tests)
136.00 Steve Smith at the MCG
131.00 Steve Harmison at The Oval
128.53 Don Bradman at the MCG
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@StuartBroad8
is just the second player to hit his final delivery in Test cricket for six, after Wayne Daniel of the West Indies off Australia's Tom Hogan at Port-of-Spain in 1984
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In advance of
@nassercricket
@robkey612
@Athersmike
and
@BumbleCricket
coming up with their top 10 SKY cricket moments, here is my alternative countdown - one a day. At number 10, Nick Knight shows us some moves:
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At the end of every single game Bob Willis worked on, he would make a point of thanking everyone in person for their contribution and help. Thinking of him a year on.
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Jos Buttler's unbeaten 86 helped England to a formidable first innings total of 437 in the Virtual Test in Galle. Oshada Fernando and Dimuth Karunaratne navigated a tricky session of play before the close and Sri Lanka will start the fourth day trailing by 121
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2: When Michael Clarke scored his second run in his second innings of the 2013 Perth Ashes Test, if you added his and Alastair Cook's Test careers at the time, they summed to exactly the same as Sachin Tendulkar's final Test career (as we showed).
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Akila Dananjaya has just become the first bowler to take a hat-trick and be hit for six sixes in an over in successive overs in the same international match! Possibly anywhere, ever?
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@MazherArshad
A six hit just over a 240-foot boundary in the thinner air of the Highveld at Johannesburg will travel approximately 15 feet further than the same shot hit at a ground located on the coast, such as Port Elizabeth.
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Shan Masood is just the second player to score three successive Test centuries against three different teams, after Vinod Kambli
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Not surprising that yet more overs were lost today at Southampton. Ishant Sharma takes at least 29 seconds longer on average to complete an over than every other current Test bowler.
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Fastest average speeds bowled in a Test innings for England in the past 15 years
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Ever wondered which county has produced the most England players? Here are all 695 of them with the county they first represented. Basil Grieve and Joseph McMaster never played county cricket and Leland Hone played for Ireland beforehand.
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After starting the series with figures of 19-5-64-0, Stuart Broad has had figures of 36-12-83-14
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Five wickets for Dom Bess and England will go into the final day of the Galle Virtual Test needing a further 132 runs to win.
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If you think light at
@TheAgeasBowl
has been bad this week, just wait until Saturday 23 September 2090 when a total solar eclipse will darken the skies there, including 44 seconds of totality
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England are the first team to score as many as 400 in a Test innings without anyone scoring more than 66. Special mention for Australia who made 471 against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1992 with a highest individual score of 68.
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A total of 993 bowlers have taken at least 10 Test wickets. The one with the worst average (88.60) of the lot once dismissed
@nassercricket
@Athersmike
and
@MichaelVaughan
in the same first-class innings. That man was Kevin Pietersen.
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Moeen Ali is the first bowler to complete his ten overs without conceding a boundary in a World Cup match since Ajantha Mendis on 26 March 2011
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Only nine men have taken more Test wickets for the West Indies than Kemar Roach, and all nine are in the
@ICC
Cricket Hall of Fame
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The perfect Test series - a 2-dayer, 3-dayer, 4-dayer and 5-dayer.
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Of the last five 300+ ball centuries for England, four were by
@Athersmike
and the other by
@nassercricket
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England's openers in the series so far against Embuldeniya: 8 runs off 55 balls with 6 dismissals
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South Africa took 13.3 overs to chase 85 to beat Bangladesh when they met. Had they taken 7.5 overs to get there, they would have qualified ahead of Australia (who took 6.2 overs to overtake Bangladesh's total of 73 in their match)
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Archer will be on a hat-trick in Australia's second innings - could achieve it in three different overs
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There it is! Two wickets in two balls for Pat Cummins sealed a five-wicket haul for him and a 76-run victory for Rob Key's XI in the Second Virtual Test
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We've reached tea on Day 3 in the Virtual Test at Galle and Jos Buttler has been well-supported by Sam Curran and Stuart Broad as england have built a 130-run lead.
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Here are the others I can find in six-ball Test overs:
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Just 'cos - here is a countdown of my current top 15 cricket statistics. Any additions welcome, but let's start with number 15:
@StewieCricket
scored 8463 Test runs and was born on 8/4/63
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Seamers after turning 35 in Test cricket:
Courtney Walsh 180 wickets in 39 Tests at 21.61
Sydney Barnes 139 wickets in 18 Tests at 14.80
Richard Hadlee 116 wickets in 23 Tests at 21.39
James Anderson 102 wickets in 26 Tests at 20.67
McGrath 82 wickets in 18 Tests at 22.89
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11: In 2016 Pi (π) Day (22/7 = 3.14) coincided with the first day of the Old Trafford Test when England ended with their score on 314. An added bonus was that Joe Root ended on 141, which is approximately the square Root of 2 (1.41).
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In response to popular demand, here is
@nassercricket
showing how you should play the left-handed bowler's grubber
#masterclass
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It was exactly 10 years ago today when 90s England, represented by
@nassercricket
faced 70s England, represented by
@BumbleCricket
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Runs per wicket in the County Championship this year are the lowest since 1974
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A whole team of international cricketers who have injured themselves playing football:
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14: New Zealand's Mark Craig is the only player to hit his first ball in Test cricket for six. Wayne Daniel - on the other hand - is the only player to hit his LAST ball in Test cricket for six.
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This is the first time in the 141 years England have been playing Australia that both teams have been captained by their wicket-keepers
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On 3 Oct 2015 Pakistan lost to Zimbabwe at Harare to fall to 9th in the ICC ODI Rankings. Cut-off for ICC CT 2017 qualification was 30 Sep!
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Stuart Broad's tea-time team talk clearly worked its magic as Dom Bess inspired England to take five wickets in the evening session. Sri Lanka ended the first day in Galle on 255-7 with Oshada Fernando still there, unbeaten on 141.
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If Wood replaces Anderson, England's surnames would total just 53 letters – breaking Australia’s record of 55 letters at Faisalabad in 1988
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It was never really that close! As befitting arguably our most accomplished player ever, he justifiably takes top spot.
🎺 Beefy takes top spot! 🎺
Occupying the No 1️⃣ position in
@benedict_B
's top 10 alternative Sky Sports Cricket moments is
@beefybotham
, whose end-of-play blog didn’t quite go according to plan... 🤬🤣
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4: On 16 July 1932 Walt Disney was in the crowd at Innisfail Park to see Don Bradman dismissed without scoring for the touring Australians against New York West Indians. He subsequently decided to name his new animated duck "Donald"
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Back by popular demand. To celebrate 30 years of cricket on SKY
@nassercricket
takes on
@robkey612
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6: England’s teams at Nottingham and The Oval in 2015 had just 53 letters in their combined surnames, breaking Australia’s 55-letter record set at Faisalabad in 1988: Lyth, Cook, Bell, Root, Bairstow, Stokes, Buttler, Ali, Broad, Wood, Finn.
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To put this SA pace quartet into perspective - the only other four-pronged pace battery with 100+ Test wickets each in the same side appears to have been Garner / Roberts / Holding / Croft in four Tests in 1981 and 1982
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Before this week, the last time that two SPECIALIST leg-spinners bowled in the same match for England was when Eric Hollies and Roly Jenkins played against the West Indies at Nottingham in July 1950
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