The Interesting Scorecard Thread

[Partridge]

I love this one. Fairly useful contribution by a certain G.Hirst:

Somerset v Yorkshire at Bath, 27-29 Aug 1906

 

[Partridge]

Have always thought that the Rest of the World 71-2 and Packer games should have received test status.

I can live with them not getting Test status; but they absolutely should have first class status at the very least.

 

[big_e]

I love this one. Fairly useful contribution by a certain G.Hirst:

Somerset v Yorkshire at Bath, 27-29 Aug 1906

HS Poyntz sounds like a loyalty program dreamed up by a boomer marketing dude who thinks he's still cool.

 

[akkaps]

I love this one. Fairly useful contribution by a certain G.Hirst:

Somerset v Yorkshire at Bath, 27-29 Aug 1906

The ACS – The ACS

stats.acscricket.com

There are only 4 times it’s happened in Test matches
Alan Davidson
Ian Botham
Imran Khan
Shakib Al Hasan

 

[sabso]

The ACS – The ACS

stats.acscricket.com

There are only 4 times it’s happened in Test matches
Alan Davidson
Ian Botham
Imran Khan
Shakib Al Hasan

The ACS link is super akkaps, thank you

Unless my eyes deceive me, Hirst’s match above is the only occasion in FC history of a player scoring two centuries and taking two five fors in a match.

 

[Partridge]

The ACS link is super akkaps, thank you

Unless my eyes deceive me, Hirst’s match above is the only occasion in FC history of a player scoring two centuries and taking two five fors in a match.

It is. He's also the only player to score 2000 runs and take 200 wickets in one season.

As he said himself, whoever did it next was going to be very tired.

 

[Partridge]

The ACS – The ACS

stats.acscricket.com

There are only 4 times it’s happened in Test matches
Alan Davidson
Ian Botham
Imran Khan
Shakib Al Hasan

Yep. Davidson was the only one not to score a century, but it was in the tied test which is kind of cool.

A salient reminder that Botham pre-back injury and still in his youth was absolutely devastating. I'd argue there's never been an allrounder like him before or since.

 

[HugeJohnson]

It is. He's also the only player to score 2000 runs and take 200 wickets in one season.

As he said himself, whoever did it next was going to be very tired.

200 wickets in one season???

 

[sabso]

Yep. Davidson was the only one not to score a century, but it was in the tied test which is kind of cool.

A salient reminder that Botham pre-back injury and still in his youth was absolutely devastating. I'd argue there's never been an allrounder like him before or since.

Indeed, check bothams averages after 25 games:



That 25th match was the one in which he got the century and 13 in the match. It was only 1980 as well.

IND vs ENG Cricket Scorecard, Only Test at Mumbai, February 15 - 19, 1980

Get cricket scorecard of Only Test, IND vs ENG, England tour of India 1979/80 at Wankhede Stadium, Bombay dated February 15 - 19, 1980.

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200 wickets in one season???

More fc matches were played back in the day - there’d be 30 odd games in a single county Championship season. I wish I’d lived in the era of A P Freeman and his 300 wicket season

The ACS – The ACS

stats.acscricket.com

 

[akkaps]

The ACS link is super akkaps, thank you

Unless my eyes deceive me, Hirst’s match above is the only occasion in FC history of a player scoring two centuries and taking two five fors in a match.

I completely skipped over Yorkshires second innings. The lack of wickets made it easy to scroll over

 

[Partridge]

200 wickets in one season???

Yup. A lot more matches. Same reason Denis Compton scored something like 3800 runs for Middlesex (and England) in 1947. Mind you he averaged 90 so he was in red hot form (I had older relatives who said he was the best English batsmen they'd ever seen).

Botham has actually mentioned - and it's a fair comment - that most players from his era, in addition to test duties, had the grind of the County season as well. A Test would finish on a Sunday, the next morning you're driving 3 hours to wherever for the next match. Modern players have an international workload, but nowhere near the grind of the domestic workload past players had. With nowhere near the financial rewards either.

 

[Wallaby]

I can live with them not getting Test status; but they absolutely should have first class status at the very least.

How about the Rest of the World games in 1970 - a lot of people don't remember that the Poms played the ROW in 1970 (same reason - South African team was banned).

The poms awarded all their players Test 'caps' (for some it was the only one they got) - and for many years Wisden included them in their Test match records (they never included the Aus-ROW series ifrom 71/72). When WSC came in they dropped the ROW records.

I don't believe the Aus-ICC World XI 'test' should be included either.

 

[PhatBoy]

Yup. A lot more matches. Same reason Denis Compton scored something like 3800 runs for Middlesex (and England) in 1947. Mind you he averaged 90 so he was in red hot form (I had older relatives who said he was the best English batsmen they'd ever seen).

Botham has actually mentioned - and it's a fair comment - that most players from his era, in addition to test duties, had the grind of the County season as well. A Test would finish on a Sunday, the next morning you're driving 3 hours to wherever for the next match. Modern players have an international workload, but nowhere near the grind of the domestic workload past players had. With nowhere near the financial rewards either.

And they had to do it to get paid they couldn’t pick and choose.

 

[sabso]

Ranji delivers once again.

2nd ever innings containing two 300s
2nd ever 600 partnership
7th highest margin of victory by an innings apparently

Result
Arunachal vs Goa, Plate Group
Ranji Trophy Plate League

ARP 84 & 92
GOA 727/2d
Goa won by an innings and 551 runs

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...al-pradesh-plate-group-1445969/full-scorecard

Edit: also Kashyap Bakle became the 2nd player to hit a triple hundred on debut

 

[akkaps]

Ranji delivers once again.

2nd ever innings containing two 300s
2nd ever 600 partnership
7th highest margin of victory by an innings apparently

Result
Arunachal vs Goa, Plate Group
Ranji Trophy Plate League

ARP 84 & 92
GOA 727/2d
Goa won by an innings and 551 runs

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...al-pradesh-plate-group-1445969/full-scorecard

Edit: also Kashyap Bakle became the 2nd player to hit a triple hundred on debut

Tendulkar jr with a 5fa in the first innings

 

[Gough]

NZ vs AUS Cricket Scorecard, 2nd ODI at Christchurch, March 31, 1974

Get cricket scorecard of 2nd ODI, NZ vs AUS, Australia tour of New Zealand 1973/74 at Lancaster Park, Christchurch dated March 31, 1974.

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Thirty five over ODI with both teams scoring at better than six an over,.

 

[akkaps]

NZ vs AUS Cricket Scorecard, 2nd ODI at Christchurch, March 31, 1974

Get cricket scorecard of 2nd ODI, NZ vs AUS, Australia tour of New Zealand 1973/74 at Lancaster Park, Christchurch dated March 31, 1974.

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Thirty five over ODI with both teams scoring at better than six an over,.

Wtf was this ?

 

[kickazz]

NZ vs AUS Cricket Scorecard, 2nd ODI at Christchurch, March 31, 1974

Get cricket scorecard of 2nd ODI, NZ vs AUS, Australia tour of New Zealand 1973/74 at Lancaster Park, Christchurch dated March 31, 1974.

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Thirty five over ODI with both teams scoring at better than six an over,.

It's easy to forget that it wasn't always the case that ODI = 50 overs each.

Early games in Australia were often 40. First couple of world cups 60.

ODIs played on Ashes tours in England were 55 up until as late as the 90s.

 

[Gough]

I thought the run rates were interesting considering the way ODIs were played in the immediate post Packer years.

 

[kickazz]

I thought the run rates were interesting considering the way ODIs were played in the immediate post Packer years.

Yeah for sure - though there were occasional fast scoring games. The first ever World Cup game saw England go at 5.5 per over in 60 overs. (Let's not talk about India's chase lol).



35 overs is interesting and I'd love to see it tried today - it is smack bang in the middle of T20 and ODI length.

 

[MisterMarcus]

The current WA v SA Shield game scorecard is pretty interesting.

SOA vs WA Cricket Scorecard, 13th Match at Adelaide, November 23 - 26, 2024

Live Cricket Scoreboard: Get South Australia vs Western Australia 13th Match, cricket scorecard, Sheffield Shield 2024/25 dated November 23 - 26, 2024.

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South Australia score a total of 253, but featuring 6 ducks including 4 first-ballers....

 

[Wallaby]

Yeah for sure - though there were occasional fast scoring games. The first ever World Cup game saw England go at 5.5 per over in 60 overs. (Let's not talk about India's chase lol).



35 overs is interesting and I'd love to see it tried today - it is smack bang in the middle of T20 and ODI length.

Don't forget up until 1979, all games in Australia were 8-ball overs (6-ball overs were brought in after Packer so Channel 9 could get more ad breaks). That Aus-NZ game was 8-ball overs.

The first (domestic) one-dayers in the UK were 65 overs (390 deliveries). It was immediately popular, but it was a straight Knockout comp, so your team might only play one game for the whole season. It got cut back to 60 overs per side pretty quickly. So in 1969, they introduced a 40-over league competition which was set up brilliantly. Basically, the counties would play a first-class game from Thursday to Saturday (3-day FC games back then), and then play the 40-over game on the Sunday to big crowds AND shown live on TV. It was back in the days when 20 overs per hour was the norm, so the game lasted from 1.30 to 5.30 - perfect for a Sunday afternoon either at the game or on TV (they also had a rule that limited bowlers runups to 15 yeards).

The poms also had a 55-over comp started in the 1970s. The first 3 World Cups (1975, 1979, 1983) were all played in England and were 60-over games.

 

[Gough]

I remember going to Guildford to see Surrey and Warwickshire play a Sunday League game when Lara was on that run of knocks which included his 405, the place was sold out and he got a scratchy four ball duck.

 

[sabso]

Don't forget up until 1979, all games in Australia were 8-ball overs (6-ball overs were brought in after Packer so Channel 9 could get more ad breaks). That Aus-NZ game was 8-ball overs.

The first (domestic) one-dayers in the UK were 65 overs (390 deliveries). It was immediately popular, but it was a straight Knockout comp, so your team might only play one game for the whole season. It got cut back to 60 overs per side pretty quickly. So in 1969, they introduced a 40-over league competition which was set up brilliantly. Basically, the counties would play a first-class game from Thursday to Saturday (3-day FC games back then), and then play the 40-over game on the Sunday to big crowds AND shown live on TV. It was back in the days when 20 overs per hour was the norm, so the game lasted from 1.30 to 5.30 - perfect for a Sunday afternoon either at the game or on TV (they also had a rule that limited bowlers runups to 15 yeards).

The poms also had a 55-over comp started in the 1970s. The first 3 World Cups (1975, 1979, 1983) were all played in England and were 60-over games.

I remember someone gave me a big old poster size newspaper pullout of the county cricket season for that year (would have been mid-90s) and the one-day comp was still called the Sunday League. On it was listed every player for every county, Graham Gooch was still on there.

Think I found it, it was 1996. 21st-century Cricinfo only has one match listed in the 'AXA Equity & Law Sunday League' and it was us getting towelled by a Surrey team featuring Chris Judas Lewis.

SUR vs LEICS Cricket Scorecard at London, June 16, 1996

Live Cricket Scoreboard: Get Surrey vs Leicestershire cricket scorecard, AXA Equity & Law League 1996 dated June 16, 1996.

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