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Australian Test cricket captain Steve Smith has a current batting average of 60.63 (the highest ever by anyone after exactly 90 innings). Ricky Ponting holds the record for having a 60 average after the most innings played (178 innings).

Steve's average is the 6th highest all-time for batsmen that have played at least 20 innings. But what I found interesting is how poor the final Test was for those batsmen on the list. Those below all averaged >59 over their entire careers:

1. Don Bradman, 0 and DNB in his last Test
2. Adam Voges, 0 and 2
3. Graeme Pollock, 1 and 4
4. George Headley, 16 and 1
5. Herbert Sutcliffe, 3 and 38
7. Eddie Paynter, 9 and 0
 
Shane Warne scoring a fifty and taking five wickets in an innings in the same match. Using cricket archive website and Ken Piesse's 1994 biography.

figures | match | season | level
\90 & 6-57|Mentone Grammar vs. Yarra Valley Grammar|1985-86|school cricket
\58 & 5-86|Victoria Under 19 Schools XI vs. NSW Under 19 Schools XI|1986-87|school cricket
\53 & 5-35|Glenelg vs. Prospect|1990-91|Adelaide grade cricket
\51 & 5-50|Accrington vs. Haslingden|1991|Lancashire League
\69 & 5-49|Victoria vs. Western Australia|1992-93|Sheffield Shield
\53 & 6-48|Australia vs. England|1997|TEST MATCH
\50 & 5-31|Hampshire vs. Surrey|2000|county cricket
\65 & 5-92|Hampshire vs. Yorkshire|2000|county cricket
\63 & 6-161|Australia vs. South Africa|2001-02|TEST MATCH
\53 & 6-136|Hampshire vs. Sussex|2006|county cricket
 

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The highest losing scores from various leagues around the world:

Australian Football League
Hawthorn 25.15 (171) – GEELONG 25.13 (163) – May 6 1989

National Basketball Association
Detroit Pistons 186 – DENVER NUGGETS 184 – December 13 1989

American Football League
Oakland Raiders 52 – HOUSTON OILERS 49 – December 22 1963

National Football League
Seattle Seahawks 51 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS 48 – November 27 1983
Denver Broncos 51 DALLAS COWBOYS 48 – October 7 2013

National Hockey League
Edmonton Oilers 12 CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS 9 December 11 1985
Toronto Maple Leafs 11 EDMONTON OILERS 9 8 January 1986
Montreal Wanderers 10 TORONTO ARENAS 9 19 December 1917
Boston Bruins 10 NY RANGERS 9 4 March 1944
Boston Bruins 10 DETROIT RED WINGS 9 16 March 1944.
Vancouver Canucks 10 MINNESOTA NORTH STARS 9 October 7 1983

Major League Baseball
Chicago Cubs 26 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 23 – August 25 1922

English Football League
Charlton Athletic 7 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 6 – December 21 1957

Australian Rugby League (including Super League)
Hunter Mariners 48 CANTERBURY-BANKSTOWN BULLDOGS 36 12 May 1997
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 37 WESTS TIGERS 36 27 March 2005
Newcastle Knights 38 GOLD COAST TITANS 36 9 May 2010
 
Cheteshwar Pujara has finished the 2016-17 first class season with more than 2000 runs, only the sixth time somebody has scored over 2000 runs outside an English season. Unlike the previous five batsmen, Pujara scored all his runs in the one country. These are all six players in chronological order:


player | nationality | season | countires played in | innings | not out | highest | Runs | avge | 100s
\John Reid|New Zealander|1961-62|Sth Af/Aust/NZ|40|2|203|2188|57.57|7
\Bob Simpson|Australian|1964-65|Ind/Pak/Aust/WI|34|4|201|2063|68.76|8
\Sunil Gavaskar|Indian|1978-79|Pak/Ind|30|6|205|2121|88.37|10
\Mohinder Amarnath|Indian|1982-83|Pak/Ind/WI|34|6|207|2234|79.78|9
\Mark Richardson|New Zealander|2000-01|Zim/Sth Af/NZ|34|3|306|2030|65.48|4
\Cheteshwar Pujara|Indian|2016-17|Ind|29|4|256*|2064|82.56|7
 
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How the AFL compares in terms of longest running major sporting competitions which did not temporarily cease during World War I or II.
Not necessarily a complete list.

competition | sport | commenced | status
\Epsom Derby|horse racing|1780|238 years in June
\Melbourne Cup|horse racing|1861|155 years this November
\Kentucky Derby|horse racing|1875|143 years achieved this May
\U.S. Open|tennis|1881|137 years in September
\WAFL|Australian football|1885|currently in its 133rd year
\VFL/AFL|Australian football|1897|currently in its 121st year

The US Open began with men's' singles in 1881. Women's singles began in 1887.
 
9+ wins of a specific tennis grand slam tournament (inc. pre-Open era and EOY finals):
13 - Martina Navratilova (WTA D 1977-91), Margaret Osborne duPont (US D 1941-57)
12 - Louise Brough (US D 1942-57), Elizabeth Ryan (UK D 1914-34)
11 - Margaret Court (AU S 1960-73)
10 - Rafael Nadal (FR S 2005-17*), Pam Shriver (WTA D 1981-91), Billie Jean King (UK D 1961-79), Adrian Quist (AU D 1936-50)
9 - Todd Woodbridge (UK D 1993-2004), Martina Navratilova (UK S 1978-90, US D 1977-90), Margaret Osborne duPont (US M 1943-60)

Singles only (Men/Women):
11 - Margaret Court (AU S 1960-73)
10 - Rafael Nadal (FR S 2005-17*)
9 - Martina Navratilova (UK S 1978-90)

Men only (Singles/Doubles/Mixed):
10 - Rafael Nadal (FR S 2005-17*), Adrian Quist (AU D 1936-50)
9 - Todd Woodbridge (UK D 1993-2004)
 
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Some facts and numbers about the 2015 Irish constitutional referendum on marriage equality. Voters were asked whether to add to the Constitution that "marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex". The proposal was supported by the Government as well as all major political parties.

Registered voters | 3,221,681 |
\Voter turnout| 1,949,725| (60.52%)
\Yes| 1,201,607| (62.07%)
\No| 734,300| (37.93%)
43/43 constituencies had a 50-70% turnout
9/43 constituencies voted over 70.00% YES
14/43 voted over 66.67% YES
28/43 voted between 50.00-66.67% YES
42/43 voted over 50.00% YES
1/43 voted under 50.00% YES

Will 60% of Australian voters vote? Will 62% of them vote YES?
 
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Great place here, all the things I love,
just one question about which tools you used to aggregate, store your data and display some beautiful donuts.

long time ago (when I was young) I used to play with postresql, then tried mysql then about 10 years ago I discover elasticsearch and for those who don't know about here what we can do with some stats about Federer (sombody talked about in previous thread).
https://www.elastic.co/blog/buildin...ta-from-the-federer-&-djokovic-tennis-rivalry
 

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Since returning to the tennis circuit as a 34yo, in the last 3 years Martina Hingis has won 10 grand slam titles including the US Women's and Mixed Doubles over the weekend.
 
HIGHEST FIRST CLASS BATTING AVERAGE AT ANY POINT OF A BATSMAN'S CAREER
Qualification: average over 60 with 10,000 runs.


Avge | Player | nationality | career span | season of highest avge | innings | not out | highest | Runs | 100s | final avge
\98.04|Don Bradman|Australian|1927-28 to 1948-49|1939-40|261|34|452*|22256|90|95.14
\74.68|Vijay Merchant|Indian|1929-30 to 1951-52|1946|200|42|359*|11800|40|71.64
\71.06|Bill Woodfull|Australian|1921-22 to 1934-35|1931-32|183|34|284|10589|41|64.99
\70.24|Bill Ponsford|Australian|1920-21 to 1934-35|1930-31|163|16|437|10326|39|65.18
\68.78|Ajay Sharma|Indian|1984-85 to 2000-01|1999-2000|160|14|259*|10042|38|67.46
\66.16|Vijay Hazare|Indian|1934-35 to 1966-67|1951-52|255|32|316*|14754|50|58.04
\65.12|Everton Weekes|West Indian|1944-45 to 1963-64|1957|173|19|304*|10030|33|55.34
\64.24|Graeme Hick|English|1983-84 to 2008|1990|257|33|405*|14391|51|52.23
\62.71|Sachin Tendulkar|Indian|1988-89 to 2013-14|2000-01|255|27|233*|14299|47|57.84
\62.69|Frank Worrell|West Indian|1941-42 to 1964|1953-54|189|28|308*|10094|31|54.24
\61.74|Lindsay Hassett|Australian|1932-33 to 1953-54|1949-50|223|25|220*|12225|43|58.24
\61.19|Denis Compton|English|1936 to 1964|1948-49|380|50|300|20193|72|51.85
\60.87|Alan Kippax|Australian|1918-19 to 1935-36|1931-32|191|25|315*|10106|36|57.22
\60.59|Ricky Ponting|Australian|1992-93 to 2013|2006-07|340|50|257|17572|66|55.90
\60.42|Hanif Mohammad|Pakistani|1951-52 to 1975-76|1961-62|192|24|499|10152|34|52.32
\60.41|W. G. Grace|English|1865 to 1908|1873|211|27|268|11116|39|39.55
\60.40|Bert Sutcliffe|New Zealander|1941-42 to 1965-66|1954-55|176|10|385|10027|30|47.41
\60.31|Bob Simpson|Australian|1952-53 to 1977-78|1963-64|240|41|359|12003|32|56.22
 
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worbod said:
HIGHEST FIRST CLASS BATTING AVERAGE AT ANY POINT OF A BATSMAN'S CAREER
Qualification: average over 60 with 10,000 runs.
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Is it much of a hassle to add career span and the year of highest average to that?

Had never heard of Vijay Merchant before. Good trivia question that!

"Let us paint him white and take him with us to Australia as an opener."

- C.B.Fry
 
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Ron The Bear said:
Is it much of a hassle to add career span and the year of highest average to that?

Had never heard of Vijay Merchant before. Good trivia question that!

"Let us paint him white and take him with us to Australia as an opener."

- C.B.Fry
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Yes, I will work on that and post it later today. How would you like the career spans to read? For example, Bradman's career span could read 1927 to 1949 or 1927-28 to 1948-49.
 
worbod said:
I have now added in each player's career span and the season in which their batting average was at its highest.
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Thanks very much. I was just curious to see at what point these players reached their (statistical) peak. About two-thirds of the way through a career seems to be a rough rule of thumb. Graeme Hick much earlier, but he hadn't yet played a Test by 1990. Grace, Compton & Hanif Mohammad too, with their abnormally long careers.
 
ADELAIDE OVAL ATTENDANCES

62,543 - Port Adelaide v Sturt, SANFL 1965
55,317 - Australia v England, The Ashes, 2017-18
53,817 - Adelaide v Geelong, AFL 2017
52,633 - Strikers v Sixers, BBL 2014-15
 
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Well done to Adelaide, especially for Day 1 and over the 5 days where they surpassed Sydney records. Shame the Test did not start on a Friday.

HIGHEST TEST ATTENDANCES

Melbourne (Day 1) - 91,112 (2013-14)
Adelaide (Day 1) - 55,317 (2017-18)
Sydney (Day 1) - 54,476 (1962-63)

Melbourne (Day 2) - 90,800 (1960-61)
Sydney (Day (2) - 58,446 (1928-29)
Sydney (Day 2) - 58,058 (1932-33)
Adelaide (Day 2) - 52,201 (2017-18)

Sydney (Day 3) - 51.459 (1946-47)
Sydney (Day 3) - 50,416 (1958-59)
Sydney (Day 3) - 49,318 (1950-51)
Adelaide (Day 3) - 43,088 (2017-18)

Sydney (Day 4) - 43,380 (1932-33)
at least 9 other Sydney crowds
Adelaide (Day 4) - 28,443 (2017-18)

Sydney (Day 5) - 25,766 (1994-95)
4 other Sydney crowds
Adelaide (Day 5) - 20,098 (2017-18)

Melbourne (Days 1-6) - 350,534 (1936-37)
Adelaide (Days 1-5) - 199,147 (2017-18)
Sydney (Days 1-5) - 195,253 (1946-47)
 
Number of UFC events with a 20,000+ attendance: 12
Number of UFC events with a 20,000+ attendance in the US: 1
 
Former Pakistani Test wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal is still playing domestic first class cricket in his home country. In a game which finished recently, on December 25, Akmal gave himself a Christmas present of sorts when he overtook Rod Marsh's total of 869 dismissals, now the most ever by a non English wicket-keeper. These players have made more than 700 dismissals.


dismissals | player | country | catches | stumpings | matches | avge per match
\872|Kamran Akmal|Pakistan|808|64|227|3.84
\869|Rod Marsh|Australia|803|66|257|3.38
\848|Deryck Murray|West Indies|740|108|367|2.31
\828|Wasim Bari|Pakistan|684|144|286|2.89
\824|Farokh Engineer|India|704|120|335|2.45
\811|Adam Gilchrist|Australia|756|55|190|4.26
\767|Ian Healy|Australia|698|69|231|3.32
\749|Mark Boucher|South Africa|712|37|212|3.53
 

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