A stalemate-jinxed venue for England
A statistical preview to the second Test in Durban, where England have managed to draw each of their last three matches.
Venue | Matches | Won | Lost | Draw |
St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
SuperSport Park, Centurion | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Wanderers, Johannesberg | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Kingsmead, Durban | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Newlands, Cape Town | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Span | Matches | Runs | Wickets | Average | RPO |
1992-1999 | 8 | 6439 | 231 | 27.87 | 2.57 |
2000-2009 | 9 | 9794 | 290 | 33.77 | 3.28 |
Venue | Matches | Won | Lost | Draw | W/L Ratio |
Kingsmead, Durban | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 2.66 |
Newlands, Cape Town | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 4.66 |
St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1.00 |
SuperSport Park, Centurion | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 11.00 |
Wanderers, Johannesburg | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1.14 |
Batsman | Innings | Runs | Average | 100s | 50s |
Jacques Kallis | 20 | 1046 | 58.11 | 4 | 4 |
Mark Boucher | 17 | 421 | 28.06 | 1 | 4 |
AB de Villiers | 9 | 408 | 58.28 | 1 | 3 |
Graeme Smith | 13 | 352 | 32.00 | 1 | 1 |
Ashwell Prince | 7 | 332 | 55.33 | 2 | 0 |
Hashim Amla | 7 | 114 | 16.28 | 0 | 0 |
JP Duminy | 2 | 90 | 90.00 | 0 | 1 |
Bowler | Innings | Wickets | Average | 5WI |
Makhaya Ntini | 18 | 43 | 25.53 | 2 |
Jacques Kallis | 20 | 18 | 35.38 | 0 |
Dale Steyn | 6 | 14 | 28.28 | 1 |
Bowling style | Innings | Runs | Wickets | Average |
Pace | 30 | 7039 | 207 | 34.00 |
Spin | 25 | 1723 | 48 | 35.89 |
Unknown | 4 | 103 | 2 | 51.50 |
Venue | Innings | Runs | Wickets | Average |
Newlands, Cape Town | 38 | 3568 | 86 | 41.48 |
Kingsmead, Durban | 25 | 1723 | 48 | 35.89 |
SuperSport Park, Centurion | 27 | 1844 | 42 | 43.90 |
The Wanderers, Johannesburg | 27 | 1389 | 32 | 43.40 |
St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth | 15 | 868 | 24 | 36.16 |
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at Cricinfo