Where does the Trent Bridge Test lie in low-score records?
The loss to England in the first Test match at Trent Bridge at Nottingham was not totally unexpected given the lack of experience in the batting line-up for Pakistan. But the margin of the loss and the inept nature of the batting means that the current Pakistani team has entered the record-books for all the wrong reasons.
Pakistan was bowled out for a score of 80 in the second innings of the game, wrecked totally by James Anderson, who scalped six wickets for his side. This is http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s sixth-lowest score ever in Test match cricket. Earlier, their lowest score in a completed innings of a Test match was 53 that they had scored against Australia in a Test match at a neutral venue in Sharjah. This came in the second innings of the game, when they needed 251 runs to make Australia bat again.
Ironically, by being bowled out for 53, they had broken the record for their earlier lowest total of 59, which had been scored in the first innings of the same Test match. This is probably a record in itself: the shortest amount of time a team-record has remained.
Eighty is also their lowest ever score against England in this format of the game in a completed innings. Their previous lowest score against England was 87, that had been scored in 1954 at the Lord’s and the one before that was 90. What is surprising to note is that on both the previous occasions – when Pakistan had scored 87 and 90 – the game had ended in draws.
This is also the lowest ever total scored on this ground, a record which was earlier held by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 when they had been bowled out for 88 in a 1960 Test match.
This was an away game for Pakistan. Their lowest score at home is 77 that was scored in 1986 against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 at Lahore. They had gone on to lose the game, as they had each time they scored 100 or less in an innings of a Test match. However, in 1990 against New Zealand, they had gone to beat New Zealand in a Test match after being bowled out for a total of 102.
The lowest score ever to win a Test match is the 45 that England scored in a game against Australia in 1887. Australia had replied back to the 45 by scoring 119, thus gaining a lead of 74 runs. England fared slightly better in the second innings and scored 184, which gave the Aussies a target of 111 for a win. Australia was bowled out for 97 in the second innings.
Pakistan also went on to lose the game at Trent Bridge by a whopping margin of 354 runs. This is the 17th highest margin of victory – by runs – in the history of Test match cricket. The highest ever victory margin is a record held by England, when they had beaten http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 by 675 runs in 1928. However, not all had gone for wrong for Australia in the game, as it was also the debut Test of Sir Donald Bradman, who would go onto become the best ever player in the history of the game.
Pakistan have only had one other game in which they were beaten more heavily and that was against Australia. Chasing 564 for a win at Perth in 2004, the Pakistanis were bowled out for 72 to give their opposition a 491-run win. That was the fourth-heaviest loss in terms of by runs.
In terms of losing by an innings, Pakistan has never lost a Test match by more than an innings and 200 runs. However, they hold the record for winning a Test match by an innings and 324 runs against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 in 2002, which is the fifth best victory margin ever.
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