I think Atapattu did tooThe pair in his first test was also a give away, I can't think of any other test batsman who got a pair on debut, certainly no one with that sort of record.
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I think Atapattu did tooThe pair in his first test was also a give away, I can't think of any other test batsman who got a pair on debut, certainly no one with that sort of record.
Graham Gooch
Saeed Anwar
Marvin Atapattu
Ken Rutherford
Dean Elgar
Chamara Silva
Tommy Ward (w)
Chris Tremlett
Lasith Malinga
Alf Valentine
Allan Donald
Pair on test debut XI.
Some quality players here, plus Ken Rutherford.
He scored 66 in a full day at the WACA in 1982/83. England finished the day at 242/4, which isn't too bad. He opened the innings and scored 89 of 337 balls.
This was his lowest all day score.
Other notable slow innings:
82 off 277 vs Pak., Lord's 1982
78 off 289 vs Aus., Old Trafford 1981
42 off 202 vs WI, Lord's 1980
22 off 143 vs Ind., Bangalore 1981/82
35 off 240 vs Ind., Chennai 1981/82
That last one is the innings you referred to, which because of hideously slow overrates lasted 332 minutes. In fact that test lasted the full five days and saw only 358 overs bowled.
At stumps on Day 3, England were 0/144 with Gooch on 117* and your man Tavare on 26*.
Tavare's cousin is comedian Jim Tavare. Continuing with trivia theme
I think about 40 players have made a pair on Test Debut (mostly bowlers), the most famous being WG Grace's brother George. Other Batsmen include Marvin Attaputtu, Saeed Anwar and Dean Elgar. Think the first aussie to do it was Mike Whitney. Not sure of anyone else.
Sangakarra also got a triple and a century in one game.
Who are the 8 players who have played 20 Tests or more who have scored more centuries than half centuries.
[Bradman 29/13, Headley 10/5, Voges 5/4, Ponsford 7/6, Walcott 15/14, Clarke 28/27, Hayden 30/29, Younis Khan 34/33]
Off the top of my head:
Bradman
Voges
Headley
Edit: in the quote it removes the spoiler.
Ponsford is the only other one I would have known for sure anyway I think
Yasir?!
I was actually gonna speculate on some of the rubbish batsmen I’ve seen get centuries like Yasir and Jerome Taylor but they didn’t appear among the answers in the original post
Who are the three players who played a Test with both Rod Marsh and Shane Warne?
Couldn't be more different.
Half-assisted answer. I had to look it up to confirm it as I thought he debuted in 84.
‘Why would there be lots of cats wearing them?’
Same Test Yallop get a big score.Greg Matthews debuted during the 1983/84 test series against Pakistan which was Rod Marsh's last test series and he was a mentor to Warne early on in his test career, they were the two spinners on the tour to Sri Lanka in 1992.
Greg Matthews debuted during the 1983/84 test series against Pakistan which was Rod Marsh's last test series and he was a mentor to Warne early on in his test career, they were the two spinners on the tour to Sri Lanka in 1992.
He didn't play Warne's first Test although he would been useful when the the bit of spaghetti that passed for Bruce Reid's spine gave out again after about half a dozen overs.Yeah I knew he played alongside Warney early I have a feeling he even hit a century in warne’s debut test or certainly in that series at least. His problem was his batting was better than his bowling
He didn't play Warne's first Test although he would been useful when the the bit of spaghetti that passed for Bruce Reid's spine gave out again after about half a dozen overs.
Just an interesting stat between Bradman and Tendulkar (in a 'what if' scenario).Off the top of my head:
Bradman
Voges
Headley
Edit: in the quote it removes the spoiler.
Ponsford is the only other one I would have known for sure anyway I think