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We enjoy, interpret & publish research into cricket statistics & history. Join the ACS https://t.co/ZDPYpra7Be for as little as £23 #cricketcounts
Joined March 2018
Also published today, the latest issue of The Cricket Statistician - sent free to @ACScricket members - features over-rates, initials, cricket societies, 19th-century public schools, post-war amateurs and the lives of three extraordinary cricketers.
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Congratulations to South Africa’s Matthew Breetzke on becoming the first player to make 150 on their ODI debut. Breetzke is not part of South Africa’s squad for the imminent Champions Trophy but he is playing in a weakened squad whilst others ‘manage their workloads’. He made 150 off 148 balls. #cricketcounts
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Marnus Labuschagne of Australia has scored only 496 runs in his last 21 Test match innings. This includes 6 half centuries but no centuries. His average in those 21 innings is 26.10. Will those figures be enough to keep him the Australian Test team when they come to England to play in the World Test Championship?
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RT @oldmanradd: Three years ago this month, my book about @NorthantsCCC great George Thompson - 'A Very Useful Man' - was published by @ACS…
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RT @CricketDerbys: Introduction to Scoring Courses This is an ideal course for complete beginners or as a refresher for anyone returning t…
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RT @BattersbyDave: Andy kindly looks back at some of my publications in his latest podcast on You Tube @fredfertang @CricketSociety @CMScri…
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Raises an interesting question: what was the most one-sided series in terms of one team dominating the averages? England vs Bangladesh 2005 is a good start: only five England players batted in the series, since they declared three wickets down in both matches. Two of them were never out, but if they're assigned nominal averages equal to runs scored, then England had the top four places in the batting averages. Only five England players bowled, and they took the top five places in the averages. The only cases of a Bangladesh player having a better average than an England player were Aftab Ahmed (46.66) and Javed Omar (38.75) better than Andrew Strauss (38.50); the best Bangladeshi bowler (Mashrafe Mortaza, 49.50) was still worse than the worst English bowler (Gareth Batty, 44.00). Mashrafe took four of the six wickets his team managed in the series.
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RT @GoddyCricket: Read @KPAC55’s entertaining article on our 1851 professional Henry Grist, a soldier, rogue and serial bigamist
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RT @CricketSociety: The next @CricketSociety event organised by SWest Branch begins at 2.00pm on Tuesday 11th February at @WidcombeSocialC…
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RT @CricketSociety: @CricketSociety Vice-Chair, @RafNicholson is hosting the 2025 Cricket Network Research Annual Conference which is being…
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Congratulations to Nathan Lyon for taking his 550th Test match wicket when he dismissed Dinesh Chandimal for 12 earlier today in the Australia v Sri Lanka Test in Galle. He became the 3rd Australian to reach that milestone after Glenn McGrath & Shane Warne. #cricketcounts
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Well done to Steve Smith for his 36th Test century in the current match v Sri Lanka. He joins Rahul Dravid & Joe Root on that number of centuries, the 5th highest in Test match history. Only Ricky Ponting has got to that number of Tons faster (200 innings v Smith’s 206 digs).
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A reminder that the @ACScricket auction of Brian Croudy’s collection begins at 8.00am GMT on Saturday 8th February & closes at 10.00pm on Monday 17th February. A wide range of ‘Wisden Cricketers’ Almanac Australia’, editions of ‘Scores & Biographies’ & much more. To register go to #cricketcounts
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RT @_hypocaust: @AndoDanny @Final_Word_Pod Glenn Turner's 83.43% (141 of 169) for Worcs v Glamorgan in 1977 is the record for a men's First…
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@johnlbirch @PictureSporting 5,000 turned up to see the Indians in the nets at Adelaide, and the players found it so distracting that they asked for it to be stopped for the rest of the tour.
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@johnlbirch @PictureSporting They've allowed crowds in to watch some Indian net sessions recently.
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The next @ACScricket auction of Brian Croudy’s collection begins at 8.00am GMT on Saturday 8th February & closes at 10.00pm on Monday 17th February. A wide range of ‘Wisden Cricketers’ Almanac Australia’, editions of ‘Scores & Biographies’ & much more. To register go to #cricketcounts
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Biggest victories in men's T20Is between Full Member countries: 168 India vs New Zealand, Ahmedabad 2022-23 150 India vs England, Mumbai 2024-25 143 Pakistan vs West Indies, Karachi 2018 143 India vs Ireland, Dublin 2018
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(Different poster) The more honest answer is "never"... unless due to an unforeseen decline in popularity, List A and T20 cricket are abolished and FC once more dominates the calendar the way it did 25+ years ago (no-one who made their debut in the 21st century has 100 100s - Alastair Cook with 74 is the most). A (slightly) more feasible achievement is 100 100s across all formats, which Tendulkar famously did in internationals. Throw in List A and T20, and Pujara has 83 hundreds, Smith 70, Root 67 and Elgar 62 - so still unlikely for any of them. Someone would need to have a career of a similar length to Tendulkar's - debut as a teenager and play on into their 40s - to have a chance of doing it.
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@kaustats Here's one for you! England arrived in India in January 2024 for a five-Test series, which they lost 4-1; their only win came on 28 January. England arrived in India in January 2025 for a five-match T20 series, which they lost 4-1; their only win came on 28 January.
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