100 & 90 in the same test

Australia's Shane Watson scored hundred against Pakistan on Tuesday at Melbourne in the ongoing first test. He scored 93 in the first innings of a test thus he became 8th Australian batsmen to score hundred and nervous ninety in the same match. This was the 42nd instance when a batsman scored hundred and 90 in the same test. West Indies batsman S Chanderpaul did it twice.
Here is the list of Australian batsmen.

Player, score1, score2, Vs, At, Season
RM Cowper, 92, 108, India, Adelaide, 1967-68
PM Toohey, 122, 97, West Indies, Kingston, 1977-78
AR Border, 98*, 100*, West Indies, Port of Spain, 1983-84
MA Taylor, 334*, 92, Pakistan, Peshwar, 1997-98
JA Langer, 191, 97,Pakistan, Perth, 2004-05
DR Martyn, 114, 97, India, Nagpur, 2004-05
RT Ponting, 101, 99, S Africa, Melbourne, 2008-09
SR Watson, 93, 120*, Pakistan, Melbourne, 2009-10

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Both Openers Out in Nervous Nineties

Australian opener Shane Watson and Simon Katich lost there wickets in the nervous nineties on Saturday against Pakistan on the first day of the Boxing Day test at Melbourne.
This provides the only 4th instance in the test history that both openers out in nervous nineties of a test innings. First time it has happened at Lahore in 1978-79 when India’s Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan out on 97 and 93 respectively against Pakistan.
Out of four such occasions twice has been done by the Indian opener.
Here is the list.
SM Gavaskar (97) & CPS Chauhan (93) India vs Pakistam, Lahore, 1978-79
VVS Laxman (95) & NS Sidhu (97) India vs Australia, Kolkata, 1997-98
Mohd Hafeez (95) & Imran Farhat (91) Pakistan vs England, The Oval, 2006
SR Watson (93) & SM Katich (98) Australia vs Pakistan, MCG, 2009-10

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Sachin : First time unbeaten in 90s

Sachin Tendulkar remained not out on 96 against Sri Lanka at Cuttack on Monday. This was the first instance when master blaster stranded into the nervous nineties in his 439-match ODI career.
Sachin Tendulkar has scored 18 such score in his career but every previous time he lost his wicket. However 11 out of his 18 nervous nineties India have won the match while lost in other 7 ODIs.
Here is the list of Sachin Tendulkar’s nervous nineties in One Day Internationals.
Runs, Vs, at, on, Result
90, Australia, Mumbai (Wankhede), 27-2-1996
91, England, Sharjah, 11-12-1997
95, Pakistan, Dhaka, 14-1-1998
93, Pakistan, Hobart, 21-1-2000
93, South Africa, Nagpur, 19-3-2000
93, Sri Lanka, Dhaka, 1-6-2000
98, Pakistan, Centurion, 1-3-2003
97, Sri Lanka, Wanderers, 10-3-2003
93, Sri Lanka, Nagpur, 25-10-2005
95, Pakistan, Lahore, 13-2-2006
99, South Africa, Belfast, 26-6-2007
93, South Africa, Belfast, 29-6-2007
99, England, Bristol, 24-8-2007
94, England, The Oval, 5-9-2007
99, Pakistan, Mohali, 8-11-2007
97, Pakistan, Gwalior, 15-11-2007
91, Australia, Brisbane, 4-3-2008
96*, Sri Lanka, Cuttack, 21-12-2009

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Rajkot ODI and Tuesday

India and Sri Lanka will play the first ODI of the series at Rajkot on Tuesday 15 December. So its again Tuesday at Rajkot. There are 11 ODI matches has been played at Rajkot and 5 of them hosted on Tuesday. Rajkot's Madhavrao Scindhia stadium will hit a sixer of Tuesday on 15 December.
However Tuesday is not that much lucky for India at Rajkot. India has played 10 matches with 50% success but they lost 3 of the five ODI here on Tuesday.
India lost to Australia when the first ever One Day International played here on 7 October 1986 and that was on Tuesday. India again lost here when Sir Vivian Richards hit a masterful 100 on 5 January 1988 against West Indies on Tuesday.
The home team also lost to South Africa in 1996 by 5 wickets on the last Tuesday of October (29th)
However India won against Sri Lanka in 1994 with the help of a hundred by NS Sidhu and then against West Indies when Virender Sehwag scored unbeaten 114 off just 85 balls in 2002. No need to say both time it was Tuesday.

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Chris Gayle joins Desmond Haynes

West Indies captain Chris Gayle played a magnificent innings of 165 not out against Australia on Tuesday and now join the like of Desmond and Frank Worrell by carrying the bat through an innings. This was the only 6th instance when a West Indian opener remained not at the end of the test innings. Desmond Haynes has done it three times while Conrad Hunte and the great Worrell have done it once in their respective career.
To fight till the end is very rare achievement for any opener and in this era of T20 and One Day Internationals carrying the bat throughout the innings is something like scoring triple hundred in an innings.
Interestingly Frank Worrell stranded on 191 when all his partner were out against England at Trent Bridge in 1957 and missed out the Double hundred.
Here is the list of the West Indies batsman carrying bat through a completed innings in test matches.
197* Frank Worrell Vs England, Trent Bridge, 1957
60* Conrad Hunte Vs Australia, Port of Spain, 1964-65
88* Desmond Haynes Vs Pakistan, Karachi, 1986-87
75* Desmond Haynes Vs England, The Oval, 1991
143* Desmond Haynes Vs Pakistan, Port of Spain, 1992-93
165* Chris Gayle Vs Australia, Adelaide, 2009-10

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TWO Double century partnership

Virender Sehwag has now one unique record in his kitty. Though he missed his third triple hundred by only 7 runs on Friday against Sri Lanka at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai and also a world record but created another record and that is unique.
Sehwag, on the way of scoring 293 runs, have registered two double century partnership in the same innings. Test cricket have witnessed 200 runs (or more) partnership by the same pair in the same test, more then TWO double hundred partnerships in the same innings by various pair but one batsman added 200 or more twice in the same innings with different partners is really rare. This has happened only 8 times in the history and unique thing is Sehwag has done it twice.
Sehwag added 221 runs with Murali Vijay for the first wicket and then went onto add 237 runs with Rahul Dravid for the second wicket against Sri Lanka in India’s first innings. Two seasons back in 2007-08 Sehwag put on 213 with Wasim Jaffer for the first wicket and 268 again with Dravid for the second wicket at Chepauk against South Africa. That time he scored 319.
Here is the list of the players who have posted TWO double century stand in the same innings of a test.
*** Len Hutton (382 with M Leyland, 2nd wkt) and (215 with J Hardstaff Jr)
England Vs Australia at The Oval, 1938.
*** Bob Simpson (201 with Bill Lawry, 1st wkt) and (219 with BC Booth, 5th wkt)
Australia Vs England at Old Trafford, 1964
*** Grant Flower (269 wit Andy Flower, 4th wkt) and (233* with Guy Whittall, 5th wkt)
Zimbabwe Vs Pakistan, at Harare, 1994-95
*** ML Hayden (207 with SR Waugh, 4th wkt) and (233 with AC Gilchrist, 6th wkt)
Australia Vs Zimbabwe at Perth, 2003-04
*** BC Lara (232 with R Sarwan, 3rd wkt) and (282* with R Jacobs, 6th wkt)
West Indies Vs England at St John’s, 2003-04
*** V Sehwag (213 with Wasim Jaffer, 1st wkt) and (268 with RS Dravid, 2nd wkt)
India Vs South Africa at Chepauk, Chennai, 2007-08
*** T Samaraweera (204 with Sangakkara, 4th wkt) and (207 with TM Dilshan, 5th wkt)
Sri Lanka Vs Pakistan at Lahore, 2008-09
*** V Sehwag (221 with M Vijay, 1st wkt) and (237 with RS Dravid, 2nd wkt)
India Vs Sri Lanka at Brabourne stadium, Mumbai, 2009-10

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Most runs in a day by batsman

Virender Sehwag batted magnificently against Sri Lanka on Thursday at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai during the 3rd test and scored 284 runs. This is the highest runs by any Indian batsmen in a single day of the test match. However first three position and 4 of the top-five position occupied by Sehwag himself.
This is the 3rd highest score by a batsman in the test history with Sir Don Bradman is on top with 309 runs on the first day of the Leeds test between Australia and England in 1930.

Most Runs in a day in history

309, Don Bradman, Australia Vs England, Leeds, 1930 (1st day)
295, WR Hammond, England Vs New Zealand, Auckland, 1932-33 (2nd day)
284, Virender Sehwag, India Vs Sri Lanka, Brabourne, 2009-10 (2nd day)
273, DS Compton, England Vs Pakistan, Trent Bridge, 1954 (2nd day)
271, Don Bradman, Australia Vs England, Leeds, 1934 (2nd day)
257, Virender Sehwag, India Vs South Africa, Chepauk, 2007-08 (3rd day)

Virender Sehwag also scored 133 runs during the last session (Tea to Close of play) this is a new Indian record. Here is the list.


Most runs in a session for India

133, Tea to Close, V Sehwag, Vs Sri Lanka, Brabourne, 2009-10
121, Tea to Close, VVS Laxman, VS Australia, Sydney, 1999-00
109, Lunch to Tea, V Sehwag, Vs Pakistan, Lahore, 2005-06
108, Lunch to Tea, V Sehwag, Vs South Africa, Chepauk, 2007-08
103, Lunch to Tea, M Azharuddin, Vs Eng;and, Manchester, 1990
102, Tea to Close, Yuvraj Singh, Vs Pakistan, Bangalore, 2007-08

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Angelo Mathews: RUN OUT on 99

Sri Lanka batsman Angelo Mathews will consider him as an unlucky man in the world as he missed his maiden hundred by some inches or centimeter against India at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on Thursday during the 3rd test of the series.
However he is not the first one to do so there are 13 other batsmen who were run out at the score of 99. Australia’s Bill Brown was the first to be out on 99 in this fashion when he ran out against India at Melbourne in 1947-48.
Mathews became the second Sri Lankan to run out on 99. His former captain Mahela Jayawardene was out on 99 against West Indies at Galle in 2001-02 when Marlon Samuels’s direct throw prevent him to complete his century.
Pakistan’s former captain Younis Khan is the only batsman to be run out on 199 and missed the double century but The great Don Bradman may be the unluckiest among all of them as he missed a triple hundred only because his partner run out. During the 4th test of the 1931-32 series against South Africa at Adelaide Don Bradman was on 299 and his partner Pud Thurlow ran out. Interestingly that was Thurlow’s only innings in test cricket.

Here is the list of the batsmen run out on 99 in test cricket.

Bill Brown Australia Vs India, Melbourne, 1947-48
AR Morris, Australia Vs South Africa, Melbourne, 1952-53
JEF Beck New Zealand Vs South Africa, Cape Town, 1953-54
RB Kanhai West Indies Vs India, Chennai (Corporation), 1958-59
ML Jaisimha India Vs Pakistan, Kanpur, 1960-61
MJK Smith England Vs Pakistan, Lahore, 1961-62
Mushtaq Mohammad Pakistan Vs England, Karachi, 1972-73
Graham Gooch England Vs Australia, Melbourne, 1979-80
Deepak Patel New Zealand Vs England, Christchurch, 1991-92
MA Atherton England Vs Australia, Lord’s, 1993
Mahela Jayawardene Sri Lanka Vs West Indies, Galle, 2001-02
JH Kallis South Africa Vs Australia, Melbourne, 2001-02
ND McKenzie South Africa Vs Australia, Cape Town, 2001-02

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