Facts you did not know about the Ashes
At Gabba, England managed to break the world record for the highest second innings score for the loss of 1 wicket. The previous record holder was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 when they scored 366 for 1 in 1979 three decades ago.
In cricketing history, only 12 times have teams reached a score of 450 for 1, of which seven have been in this millennium.
Interestingly enough, in the eight Test matches played in the month of November this year, the batsmen have managed to score 9000 runs at an average of approximately 44 runs per wicket which includes 22 hundreds, one triple century, three double centuries
along with a couple of more innings in the 190’s. The teams have also managed to equal the world record for the most 200 plus scores in one calendar month.
In the Eight Tests played in the month of November, seven have been drawn.
Alastair Cook became the first left handed batsman and the seventh man in history to score more than 300 runs against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in one match. The only other Englishmen who managed to achieve this feat were from a long time ago which include the English cricket
legends, Len Hutton, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-c83321 Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar.
Jonathan Trott following the first Test match at Brisbane managed to achieve the highest Ashes Test average of 108 in the two matches he has played, with Don Bradman pushed to the third position in this category. In second place is a certain Australian batsman
from the 19th century, Albert Trott who had an Ashes batting average of 102 in 3 Tests played. Trott also averages 100 against Australia in the 3 tests played against them, scoring two centuries and one half century in the 5 innings played against
the Punters.
Australia and England have managed to win twice as many Test matches as any other team in the world, with Australia managing 340 Test wins with England on second place at 312.
Simon Katich the Australian left Hander has a batting average of 33 in eleven Ashes tests. He has also scored fewer runs at home than the English spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Monty-Panesar-c2024.
Mitchell Johnson has managed to break the record for the highest ratio of tattoo’s to bare skin. No other Australian left arm fast bowler in history had achieved such a feat.
Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326’s batting average has fallen from 65 in the year of 2009 to a less than impressive 38 in 2010. His average falls to 30 if Australia goes on to lose the toss, and improves significantly when Australia win the toss, to 47. He also boasts the third
worst half century conversation rate amongst any Australian batsman who has scored more than 10 fifties. He has managed to turn only two above 50 scores out of 14 into centuries. BM Laird tops this chart and achieved this feat almost 3 decades ago, while MA
Noble played one hundred years ago from 1898 to 1909 during which period he managed to convert only one 50 plus score out of 17 into a hundred.
Shane Watson has taken only one Ashes wicket in his career, that too in the last test match at Brisbane. He has a poor track record in Australia, where he has never managed to take more than two wickets in an innings.
Stats can however be misleading as was the case with Glenn Mcgrath who went wicketless in his Ashes debut back in 1994-95.
Ricky Ponting who is considered as the modern day successor of Sir Donald Bradman, has been Australia’s 27th best during the last four years, scoring six centuries with a batting average of 43 in 41 test matches. He has averaged more than 50 in
only three of the last series he has played. In the last 16 matches played since 2009, he has managed to score only one century.
Michael http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 has also been desperately out of form since last year, as his batting average has been 42 compared to 62 in the three year period from 2006/7 to 2009. In the last four Tests played, he has averaged an unimpressive 21, with only one score of
more than 15 in the last 7 Test innings played.
While we are at it, Alastair Cook now has a batting average in the 2010/11 Ashes series of 431 in only three innings.
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