Big hitters
Ranbhise, Dinesh R.
>I thought it may be interesting to look at some centuries which contained more
>sixes than fours. I don't claim this to be a complete list:
>
>109* (9-6, 7-4) P.J.Heather, Traansvaal v Border Durban 1910-11
>113 (10-6, ?-4) H.Sutcliffe, Yorkshire v Northants Kettering 1933
>135 (11-6, 9-4) R.Benaud, Australia v T.N.Pearce's XI Scarborough 1953
>102 (8-6, 5-4) L.Bula, Fiji v Canterbury Christchurch 1963-64
>101 (8-6, 5-4) F.M.M.Worrell, A.E.R. Gilligan's XI v NZ Hastings 1958
>104 (8-6, 7-4) W.J.Stewart, Warwickshire v Somerset Street 1961
>??? (10-6, 7-4) H.R.Lance, Transvaal v E.Province Johannesberg 1966-67
>147* (13-6, 10-4) Majid Khan, Pakistan v Glamorgan Swansea 1967
>113 (8-6, 7-4) K.D.Boyce, Essex v Leicestershire Chelmsford 1975
>112 (8-6, 7-4) I.T.Botham, Somerset v Glamorgan Taunton 1985
>
>Note: The exact number of fours in Sutcliffe's innings is not known, but it
>was certainly less than 10. I accidently clipped Lance's off when filing these
>data. Sorry about that.
>
>aslam
And ofcourse J.H.Sinclair the great SouthAfrican hitter.
104 60 mins (10X6,8X4) SouthAfrica v Australia (CapeTown) 1902
dinesh
Aslam Siddiqui
Aslam Siddiqui
>Subject: Re:Big hitters
>From: asid...@xray.indyrad.iupui.edu (Aslam Siddiqui)
>Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 10:43:07
>was certainly less than 10. I accidently clipped Lance's score off when
filing these data. Sorry about that.
There was another note I wanted to add to this list when I first posted it but
forgot. I.L.Bula who is mentioned above has the distinction of having the
longest name ever to appear in the first-class cricket-- Ilekena Lasarua
Talembulamainavaleniveivakambulalmainakulalakembalau. Disappointingly, he
prefers to use the shorter version of his name.
>aslam
christopher egerton
you?
One Talembulamainavaleniveivakamulalmainakulalakembalau, there's only
one Talembulam........:)
Chris
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A long,long time ago, when I can still remember how that music used to
make me smile....
Aslam Siddiqui
>Subject: Re:Big hitters
>Date: 11 Jul 1994 11:49 CDT
>In article <asiddiqui.1...@xray.indyrad.iupui.edu>, asid...@xray.indyrad.iupui.edu (Aslam Siddiqui) writes...
>>I thought it may be interesting to look at some centuries which contained more
>>sixes than fours. I don't claim this to be a complete list:
>>
>>109* (9-6, 7-4) P.J.Heather, Traansvaal v Border Durban 1910-11
>>113 (10-6, ?-4) H.Sutcliffe, Yorkshire v Northants Kettering 1933
>>135 (11-6, 9-4) R.Benaud, Australia v T.N.Pearce's XI Scarborough 1953
>>102 (8-6, 5-4) L.Bula, Fiji v Canterbury Christchurch 1963-64
>>101 (8-6, 5-4) F.M.M.Worrell, A.E.R. Gilligan's XI v NZ Hastings 1958
>>104 (8-6, 7-4) W.J.Stewart, Warwickshire v Somerset Street 1961
>>??? (10-6, 7-4) H.R.Lance, Transvaal v E.Province Johannesberg 1966-67
>>147* (13-6, 10-4) Majid Khan, Pakistan v Glamorgan Swansea 1967
>>113 (8-6, 7-4) K.D.Boyce, Essex v Leicestershire Chelmsford 1975
>>112 (8-6, 7-4) I.T.Botham, Somerset v Glamorgan Taunton 1985
>>
>>Note: The exact number of fours in Sutcliffe's innings is not known, but it
>>was certainly less than 10. I accidently clipped Lance's score off when
filing these data. Sorry about that.
>>
>>aslam
>And ofcourse J.H.Sinclair the great SouthAfrican hitter.
>104 60 mins (10X6,8X4) SouthAfrica v Australia (CapeTown) 1902
I was hoping that someone else beside me will be able to correct the above
scoreline, but alas it was not to be. The only batsman ever to hit 10 sixes in
a Test innings is W.R.Hammond; the next best being 7 sixes achieved by
B.Sutcliffe(NZ) and the West Indians Richards and Greenidge. Sinclair in his
great innings against the Australians in Cape Town hit 6 sixes and his century
took 80 mins- still the fastest for SA and the fourth-fastest in all Tests.
The top three are J.M.Gregory (70 mins), G.L.Jessop (75 mins) and R.Benaud (78
mins). I don't have information about the number of fours in Sinclair's
innings.
aslam
>dinesh
Amitabha Lahiri
> longest name ever to appear in the first-class cricket-- Ilekena Lasarua
> Talembulamainavaleniveivakambulalmainakulalakembalau. Disappointingly, he
Apparently this name means (roughly) `returned alive from the Nakula
Hospital in the Lakemba island of the Lau group'. Do _not_ ask me about
grammatical constructs in Fijian languages. :-)
Amitabha
ObCric: The Doctor had pretty simple advice for captains, ``if you win the
toss, bat.'' If the pitch and the weather conditions favour bowling,
``discuss with your teammates, then bat.'' It is also said that at the
toss, the Doctor would call ``the lady,'' and go off to pad up, without
checking if it was the queen or Britannia that showed on the coin.
--
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No one else is responsible for what I say and vice versa.
Aslam Siddiqui
>Subject: Re:Big hitters
>Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 08:45:55
Amithaba Lahiri informs me that N.S.Sidhu (I) hit 8 sixes in his innings of
124 against SL (Lucknow, Jan 18-22,1994). He now takes over the sole
possession of the second place behind Hammond.
aslam
>>dinesh
Ranbhise, Dinesh R.
wrote in a book called Playfair Book of Records that Sinclair hit 10X6 and 8X4
in his inning of 104 at Cape Town.I am sure it was not a printing mistake
because he reffered to that inning as the fastest century(in 60 minutes)in test
cricket and that he hit 10X6 and 8X4 on many occassions in that book.
I am sure that this inning was ranked as the fastest test hundred(in minutes)
by many statisticians untill 1982 or 1983.(I am not sure)
P.F.Warner mentioned in 1919 in an article that this inning took 60 minutes
and contained 10 sixes.
Have they discovered perhaps that the scorers did not keep accurate time in
those days ?
Or perhaps they found that the newsreports reaching England from South Africa
reported wrongly that he hit 10X6? Perhaps the wireless station in England
operators made mistake in converting Morse to plain English!
Comments are welcome!
dinesh
John Hall
din...@rosie.uh.edu "Ranbhise, Dinesh R." writes:
> <snip>
> Interestingly Roy Webber,the predecessor of Bill Frindall as BBC statistician,
> wrote in a book called Playfair Book of Records that Sinclair hit 10X6 and 8X4
> in his inning of 104 at Cape Town.I am sure it was not a printing mistake
> because he reffered to that inning as the fastest century(in 60 minutes)in test
> cricket and that he hit 10X6 and 8X4 on many occassions in that book.
>
> I am sure that this inning was ranked as the fastest test hundred(in minutes)
> by many statisticians untill 1982 or 1983.(I am not sure)
>
>
> P.F.Warner mentioned in 1919 in an article that this inning took 60 minutes
> and contained 10 sixes.
>
> Have they discovered perhaps that the scorers did not keep accurate time in
> those days ?
Dunno, but according to Wisden his hundred took 80 minutes. Fastest
Test hundreds in terms of minutes are:
J.M.Gregory A v SA at Johannesburg 1921-2 70 minutes
G.L.Jessop E v A at The Oval 1902 75 minutes
R.Benaud A v WI at Kingston 1954-5 78 minutes
J.H.Sinclair SA v A at Cape Town 1902-3 80 minutes
I.V.A.Richards WI v Eng at St John's 1985-6 81 minutes
B.R.Taylor NZ v WI at Auckland 1968-9 86 minutes
Richards' innings was fastest in terms of balls bowled: 56. Gregory is
second, taking 67 balls.
> Or perhaps they found that the
newsreports reaching England from South Africa > reported wrongly that
he hit 10X6? Perhaps the wireless station in England > operators made
mistake in converting Morse to plain English! >
Wisden doesn't have any data on most sixes in a Test innings. At that
date, did you still have to hit the ball out of the ground for a six?
If so, then 10 sixes is very unlikely.
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Fastest Test hundreds in terms of minutes are:
>
> J.M.Gregory A v SA at Johannesburg 1921-2 70 minutes
> G.L.Jessop E v A at The Oval 1902 75 minutes
> R.Benaud A v WI at Kingston 1954-5 78 minutes
Benaud took 15 minutes to get off the mark, so theoretically scored his 100
in 63 minutes.
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Ranbhise, Dinesh R.
I think you had to hit out of the ground to make a six until 1910!
Pratik
>>J.M.Gregory A v SA at Johannesburg 1921-2 70 minutes
>>G.L.Jessop E v A at The Oval 1902 75 minutes
>>R.Benaud A v WI at Kingston 1954-5 78 minutes
>>J.H.Sinclair SA v A at Cape Town 1902-3 80 minutes
>>I.V.A.Richards WI v Eng at St John's 1985-6 81 minutes
>>B.R.Taylor NZ v WI at Auckland 1968-9 86 minutes
>>
>>Richards' innings was fastest in terms of balls bowled: 56. Gregory is
>>second, taking 67 balls.
I also think that Richard's innings was the fastest..I am not sure but it was
54 balls and in county match 44 or 48 balls...Please correct me if i am wrong.
It was when last time they defeated ENGLAND in One-days and Test Cricket around
1989-90.
Thanks,
Pratik
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Michael-John Turner
>>>
>>>Richards' innings was fastest in terms of balls bowled: 56. Gregory is
>>>second, taking 67 balls.
>
> I also think that Richard's innings was the fastest..I am not sure but it was
> 54 balls and in county match 44 or 48 balls...Please correct me if i am wrong.
> It was when last time they defeated ENGLAND in One-days and Test Cricket around
> 1989-90.
>
(his home ground) against England in the fifth and final Test in 1986. I
believe he took Ian Botham apart along the way!!!
The other innings you refer to was for Somerset against Glamorgan in 1986, I
think. He needed either 48 or 49 balls - perhaps someone can confirm?
Justin
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Aslam Siddiqui
>Subject: Re: Re:Big hitters
>From: trnm...@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Michael-John Turner)
>Date: 21 Jul 94 12:54:26 +0200
>In article <30k6pf$f...@menudo.uh.edu>, ele...@menudo.uh.edu (Pratik) writes:
>>>>
>>>>Richards' innings was fastest in terms of balls bowled: 56. Gregory is
>>>>second, taking 67 balls.
>>
>> I also think that Richard's innings was the fastest..I am not sure but it was
>> 54 balls and in county match 44 or 48 balls...Please correct me if i am wrong.
>> It was when last time they defeated ENGLAND in One-days and Test Cricket around
>> 1989-90.
>>
>Richards scored the fastest Test century (off 56 balls) at St Johns, Antigua
>(his home ground) against England in the fifth and final Test in 1986. I
>believe he took Ian Botham apart along the way!!!
>The other innings you refer to was for Somerset against Glamorgan in 1986, I
>think. He needed either 48 or 49 balls - perhaps someone can confirm?
I don't have any information about the instance mentioned above, however, to
put Richards' fast scoring in perspective, the fastest 1st class century was
scored off 27 balls, albeit in contrived circumstances. On Monday, July 19,
1993 at Old Trafford, the name of Lancashire all-rounder Glen Chapple
was enshrined in the record books. Rain had already wiped out play on Thursday
and there was delayed start on Friday. Saturday had seen a full day's play,
however, after the Sunday League game, it started to rain again preventing the
start on Monday till 1:40pm, with the time for only about 72 overs. The score
so far was Lancashire 310 all-out and Glamorgan 303-5. The two captains agreed
on a target of 240 in around 60 overs, giving both sides a shot at the
victory. Obviously Glamorgan would have to provide the joke bowling. The
regular Lancashire batsmen, with their consciences pricking them, declined the
chance to pick up some easy runs so numbers 10 and11, Glenn Chapple and Alex
Barrett, came out to face the demonic Matthew Maynard and Tony Cottey. With
his fourth delivery, Maynard bowled Barrett, who was replaced by number 9 Gary
Yates, and in the next 28 minutes the pair added 226 runs with help of the
fielders. Here is Chapple's record (*=no-ball)--
.3.*.4.44*4416646666646464411--- 27 balls (including 2 no-balls). The computer
used for the scoring could not cope and broke down. Byron Denning, the
Glamorgan official scorer, confirmed the number of ball, but he "had no time
to time the innings." A freelance TV cameraman on the top of the Press Box had
filmed the event. A review of the tape was required to get the actual time
that it took for Chapple to get his century--20min 50 secs. It could have
shorter had 2 mins not wasted by the Barrett dismissal. For Glamorgan, the
means justified the end, as they reached their target of 243 runs with 5.5
overs to spare.
aslam
John Hall
trnm...@uctvax.uct.ac.za "Michael-John Turner" writes:
> In article <30k6pf$f...@menudo.uh.edu>, ele...@menudo.uh.edu (Pratik) writes:
> >>>
> >>>Richards' innings was fastest in terms of balls bowled: 56. Gregory is
> >>>second, taking 67 balls.
> >
> > I also think that Richard's innings was the fastest..I am not sure but it was
> > 54 balls and in county match 44 or 48 balls...Please correct me if i am wrong.> > It was when last time they defeated ENGLAND in One-days and Test Cricket
> around
> > 1989-90.
> >
> Richards scored the fastest Test century (off 56 balls) at St Johns, Antigua
> (his home ground) against England in the fifth and final Test in 1986. I
> believe he took Ian Botham apart along the way!!!
>
> The other innings you refer to was for Somerset against Glamorgan in 1986, I
> think. He needed either 48 or 49 balls - perhaps someone can confirm?
Yep, 48 balls according to Wisden, with six 6s and twelve 4s. It was
indeed against Glamorgan in 1986.