More numbers, from readers

This is a continuation of the "fun article" theme. A completely irreverent look at cricket numbers. I had earlier come out with my own list of numbers and asked the readers to submit their numbers. They responded magnificently and, barring a few, one being the heart-felt tribute to Phillip Hughes, this is their list.

So now it is time to have a chuckle, laugh, guffaw, and introspect for a moment when you come to 63.

There are well over 100 numbers in this follow-up list. To the extent possible I have done some verification. But there is no guarantee that this article is 100% correct. My apologies for any errors that might have crept in.

0: Number of times that Don Bradman was dismissed in the nineties throughout his Test career.
0: Number of times that Kapil Dev has been run out in his long Test career.
0: Number of runs scored by Garry Sobers in ODIs.
0: Number of times Saeed Ajmal has bowled zero no-balls in an international innings.
0: Number of wickets taken by Pramodya Wickramasinghe in the 1996 World Cup, although he got a winners medal and played as a specialist bowler in the quarter-final, semi-final and the final.
0.5: Number of squash balls Adam Gilchrist placed inside his batting glove in the 2007 World Cup final.
1: Number of bowlers to take three successive five-wicket hauls in ODIs; Waqar Younis is the only one.
1: Number of Test series where Kapil Dev went wicketless.
1: Number of times Nos. 10 and 11 batsmen have hit centuries in the same first-class innings. This happened during a stand of 249 between Chandu Sarwate and Shute Banerjee, for the touring Indians against Surrey in 1946.
1: Number of Test matches Sri Lanka have won against Australia in 30 years.
1: Number of Tests missed by Kapil Dev during his 131-Test career. The one Test he missed was due to a Gavaskar-initiated disciplinary action.
1: Number of match-winning double-centuries scored in the fourth innings of a Test, by Gordon Greenidge against England in 1984.
1: Number of runs scored by Marvan Atapattu in his first six Test innings.
1: Number of occasions where a batsman has made 150-plus scores in both innings of a Test, by Allan Border against Pakistan in 1980.
1.14: Average number of sixes per ODI innings for West Indies' Kieron Pollard. He has hit 97 sixes in 85 innings. Among batsmen who have hit at least 50 ODI sixes, this is the only instance of a batsman scoring more than one six per innings. Shahid Afridi's corresponding ratio is 0.94 (333 in 356).
2: Number of times a debutant scored a century in each innings of a Test: Lawrence Rowe scored a double-hundred followed by a hundred against New Zealand in 1972. Pakistan's Yasir Hameed also scored twin hundreds on debut against Bangladesh in 2003.
2: Number of Robin Singhs to have played for India. Both played one Test each.
2: Number of tied Tests; between India and Australia in 1986 and between West Indies and Australia in 1960.
2: Number of Test matches, though not tied, but where the scores were level at the end of the match (the Test between India and West Indies in Mumbai in 2011 saw scores level with nine last-innings wicket falling. Had it been a tie we would have had three tied Tests, one between West Indies and Australia, one between Australia and India and one between India and West Indies, completing a nice cycle).
2: Number of batsmen who never averaged less than 50 in their Test career: Javed Miandad and Herbert Sutcliffe.
2: Number of times Jim Laker took ten Australian wickets in an innings on the 1956 tour; once for Surrey against the touring Australians and subsequently in the fourth Ashes Test that summer at Old Trafford.
2: The number of run-outs Kapil was "involved" in in his Test career, on both the occasions the dismissed batsman was Syed Kirmani, and just to make up for his "crime" on both occasions Kapil went on to score a century.
2: Number of occasions in an ODI when a batsman scored a hundred and picked up five wickets; Viv Richards versus New Zealand (1987) and Paul Collingwood versus Bangladesh (2005).
3: Number of instances where all four innings of a Test match were played on same day.
- England vs West Indies 2000, Lord's (Win: 267/9 to 267. Eng: 134. Win: 54: Eng: 0/0).
- South Africa vs Australia 2011, Cape Town (Aus: 214/8 to 284. Saf: 96. Aus: 47. Saf: 87/1).
- New Zealand vs India, Hamilton 2002 (Ind: 92/8 to 99. NZ:94. Ind 154 NZ 24/0).
3: Number of times Kevin Pietersen got out on 158 in a Test innings before going past it.
3: Number of times a team has lost after imposing the follow-on.
3: The most batsmen dismissed on 99 in the same Test match: Majid Khan, Mushtaq Mohammad, and Dennis Amiss were all dismissed on 99 during the Test between England and Pakistan in Karachi in 1973.
3: Number of counties (Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire and Somerset) out of 18 that have never won the Championship since 1890.
3.09: Joel Garner's career ODI economy rate, the best for any bowler who has bowled in 20 innings.
4: Number of players who scored centuries in their first and last Test: Bill Ponsford, Reggie Duff, Greg Chappell and Mohammad Azharuddin.
4: Number of match-winning fourth-innings centuries by Graeme Smith.
4: Also, the number of match-winning fourth-innings centuries by all Indian batsmen in 82 years.
4.55: Steve Waugh's win-loss ratio as Test captain.
5: Number of times Michael Atherton appears in the listing of "most times out to a bowle": 19 times to Glenn McGrath, 17 to both Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose, 11 to Allan Donald, and ten times to Shane Warne.
8: Number of batsmen who have more centuries than fifties: Minimum 20 tests - Don Bradman, Mohammad Azharuddin, Matthew Hayden, Clyde Walcott, Bill Ponsford, George Headley, Michael Clarke and Les Ames.
8: Number of minutes taken by Clive Inman to score the fastest fifty across all formats.
9: Number of times MS Dhoni averaged more than 100 (or scored at least 100 runs without getting out) in an ODI series.
10: Number of Indians in the top-ten list of batsmen with best first-class average not playing Tests (50 first-class matches): Shows the state of Indian pitches.
10.75: Bowling average of George Lohmann.
15: Hampshire's all-out score. Asked to follow on, they beat Warwickshire by a huge 155 runs. This was covered in the first part with the ridiculously low number of deliveries (53) required to take all ten Hampshire wickets.
16: The Australian juggernaut was stopped twice on this number of consecutive wins.
16: Highest number of wickets in a match by bowler on Test debut: Bob Massie and Narendra Hirwani.
17: Mohammad Sami once bowled a 17-ball over against Bangladesh.
21: Consecutive maidens (131 deliveries) by Bapu Nadkarni, a record in Test Matches.
26: Lowest team score in a Test innings: New Zealand against England in 1954.
27: Most times a batsman has been dismissed in the nineties in Tests and ODIs: Tendulkar.
28: Number of triple-centuries so far.
34: Balls faced by David Hookes to score the fastest authentic first-class hundred.
34: Number of runs scored off Malcolm Nash in an over a year after he conceded 36 to Garry Sobers.
36.29: Percentage of bowled dismissals by Waqar Younis in ODIs.
38.97: Difference between Bradman and Graeme Pollock's averages.
39: Number of balls it took for Nathan Astle to go from 100 to 200 in his 167-ball 222.
40.28: Percentage of target runs scored in fourth innings after the fall of the eighth wicket in the famous Mohali win by India over Australia.
42.98: Percentage of bowleds by Ray Lindwall in Tests.
45: Margin of victories, by runs, in the first and the second centenary Tests.
46: Number of first-class titles won by New South Wales, the most by a domestic team anywhere.
49: Number of wickets by Sydney Barnes in a Test series.
50: Number of balls by Kevin O'Brien to score the fastest World Cup hundred.
52: Cans of lager reportedly downed by David Boon on the 23-hour flight from Australia to London.
52: Number of stumpings by Bert Oldfield in Test cricket.
53.52: Total percentage of match runs scored by Sanath Jayasuriya in a fully completed (both innings completed) ODI (v India in Sharjah, SL 299 for 5 v India 54).
54.20: Vinod Kambli's Test average: higher than Sachin Tendulkar's and Rahul Dravid's.
56.57: Bradman's lowest average in a Test series (Bodyline).
57: Runs added for 10th wicket by Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mushtaq Ahmed to win the 1994 Karachi Test against Australia.
62: Number of fours by Brian Lara in his 501* and by Archie MacLaren in his 424.

64: Number of fours by Hanif Mohammad in his 499.
86.66: Adam Gilchrist's batting average in three ODI World Cup finals.
92.85: Percentage success ratio of Ponting in World Cup ODIs.
95: Number of "c Marsh b Lillee" dismissals.
96: Most consecutive matches since debut by Gilchrist. He retired without missing a single Test.
99.94: The other one! That is, the speed (mph) of Brett Lee's delivery to Craig Cumming in the first over of ODI 2234. Okay, so the speed gun said 160.8 = 99.92, but who's to say that it wasn't actually 160.83 or 160.84).
105: Highest identical score made in both innings by same player; this was by Duleep Mendis.
112: Career average of Andy Ganteaume, over a single Test.
136: Consecutive number of scoreless deliveries in Tests by Hugh Tayfield; South Africa's Tayfield sent down 16 eight-ball maidens.
139: Highest identical score made by captains in a single ODI.
139: Highest identical score by two batsmen in an ODI (Angelo Mathews and Virat Kohli, Ranchi, 2014).
140.5: Batting average of Lance Klusener in the 1999 World Cup.
147: Record for most Tests played as a wicketkeeper, by Mark Boucher.
153: Margins of defeats during Sachin Tendulkar's 200, Virender Sehwag's 219 and Rohit Sharma's 264: each innings becoming the highest ODI innings as at that time.
153: Number of consecutive Test matches played by Allan Border.
155: Lowest score not yet reached by any batsman in ODIs.
173: The longest duckless streak in international cricket (all formats put together): by Dravid.
183: A number special to India. Their total in the 1983 World Cup final. Also, the highest scores made by people who would go on to captain later (Ganguly, Dhoni and Kohli).
229: The lowest Test score never made by a batsman in any Test innings.
234: Highest identical score by two batsmen in a Test innings: Bradman and Barnes.
235: Number of South African Test players before isolation: No. 235 was Athanasios John Traicos, a spin bowler of Greek descent, born in Egypt, who grew up in Rhodesia, played Tests for South Africa and Zimbabwe and is now settled in Australia.
307: Runs conceded by Anwar Hossain Monir (Bangladesh) without capturing a single wicket. Beats Naeem Islam's record mentioned in the first article.
309: Runs scored by Don Bradman in a day's play of Test cricket (1930, Leeds).
355: Number of "c Marsh or st Marsh" dismissals.
355: Number of "b Lillee" dismissals.
393: Runs scored by Steve Waugh before being dismissed in the 1989 Ashes.
408: Most number of international matches in which any two players played together without batting together even once. Jayasuriya and Muttiah Muralitharan played together in 307 ODIs, 90 Tests, and 11 T20s but did not bat together even once.
454: Highest runs scored by a team and then being asked to follow on. India against West Indies in 1948.
456: Maximum runs scored by a batsman in a Test: Graham Gooch.
470: Record fourth-wicket stand for Warwickshire between Alvin Kallicharran and Geoff Humpage against Lancashire in 1982. Warwickshire managed to lose this match by ten wickets.
541: Highest score chased in the fourth innings to win a first-class match (West v South, 2010 Duleep Trophy final).
563: Wally Hammond's average against New Zealand in 1933.
607: Number of match officials (ground umpires, TV umpires and match refs) in Test history. But this keeps increasing.
628: Number of runs scored by AEJ Collins, for Clarke's House against North Town, in a Junior house match at Clifton College, in June 1899, when only 13 years old.
664: Most matches in international cricket played by a single player: Sachin Tendulkar.
790: Minutes Steve Waugh batted before getting out in the 1989 Ashes.
999: Number of international dismissals as wicketkeeper by Mark Boucher.
1000: Number of international dismissals by Mark Boucher.
1072: Ddifference between Victoria's first-innings totals home and away against New South Wales in the 1926-27 season (1107, which was mentioned in the first analysis, and 35 in the return match).
3718.2: Ratio of balls faced to balls bowled in all international cricket for Herschelle Gibbs: = 22309:6.
8-4-63: Alec Stewart's birth date; incidentally, the number of Test runs scored by him were 8463.
36,049: First-class runs by Alan Jones, the highest by someone who never played a Test.
100,024: Capacity at the MCG, the largest cricket ground.
185,742: the number of balls bowled by Wilfred Rhodes in the course of his first-class career.

My initial idea was to associate each comment with the reader but this involved too much of work. Hence below I have given the names of readers who have contributed. My apologies if I have missed out anyone. This is, anyhow, a collective effort by the readers.

Abid Hussain Shah, Ahmad Uetian, Aliraza Alimohamed, Anshul Gupta, Bharath Seervi, James Lawrence, Nadeem Sharifuddin, Navin Agarwal, Pawan Mathur, Ravi Narla, Santosh Sequeira, Sean Michael Matt, Anand_S, Cool_Jeeves, CricketPissek, Deuce03, Steve, Mahendran15, Milind, Pelham_Barton, Rajdev, Pankaj Joshi, Sancho, A123s1l, Anup, Chemshree, Djaarav, David, Hemant Brar, Rachit, Muzika_tchaikovskogo, Riskrao, Rob Heinen, Swarzi.

My favourites amongst these gems.
- The clever play on the number 99.94 by David.
- Very nice interpretation of the Ind-Win runs-equal-draw and the cyclical tie prospect, by Anand.
- The two occurrences of all four innings played on the same day by Anup.
- The half-squash-ball gem from David.
- The "two Robin Singhs and two Tests" classic by Anup.
- The Atherton revelation by Rob Heinen.
- The John Traicos tour around the world by Steve.
- The dogged effort to get some recognition for that great competitor, Boucher, by "Riskrao".
- The Alec Stewart number play by Anup.
- That "Jayasuriya & Muralitharan did not take a single international run together" by Pawan Mathur.
- And finally my own homage to Phillip Hughes, which was also a request by Murray Archer.

Nothing stops you readers from coming out with further numbers. We may very well have a third article, say in 2015.

Now for the Bradman memorabilia. This time I have scanned the photo of the scorecard at the historic moment when Bradman reached his hundredth century in Sydney. This was against the Indian tourists in 1946-47. To view the scan, please click HERE. This was a truly remarkable achievement since Bradman scored a hundred every three innings.