4000 going over 40
Stats highlights from Matt Prior's 11-year international career
Bishen Jeswant
11-Jun-2015
Matt Prior is one of three wicketkeepers to have scored 4000-plus Test runs at an average of over 40 • PA Photos
126 Runs scored by Matt Prior on Test debut at Lord's in 2007. He is the only England keeper, and one of three keepers from all teams, to score a century on Test debut.
6 The most catches Prior has taken in a single Test innings, joint second-most by any England keeper. He did this during the Ashes Test against Australia in Melbourne in 2010, thereby equaling the Ashes record for the most keeper-catches in an innings.
3 Wicketkeepers in Test history who have scored 4000-plus runs at a 40-plus average, the others being Adam Gilchrist and Andy Flower. Prior scored 4099 runs at an average of 40.18.
61.6 Prior's strike rate over the course of his Test career, one of only three England batsmen to have scored 4000-plus runs at a 60-plus strike rate. The other two are Ian Botham and Kevin Pietersen.
1.75 Average dismissals per innings effected by Prior as a Test wicketkeeper, the best by any Englishman (min. 50 Tests). Prior effected 256 dismissals as a keeper, the second-most by any England keeper in Tests after Alan Knott (269 dismissals).
6 Number of times Prior has scored 250-plus runs at an average of more than 50 during a Test series. This feat has been accomplished by an England keeper on only 12 occasions, six of those by Prior. Alec Stewart has done it thrice, Les Ames twice and George Brown once.
52 Byes conceded by Prior against West Indies in Port of Spain in 2009, a world record for the most byes conceded in a Test match. However, he had scores of 131 and 61 with the bat, which also won him the Man-of-the-Match award in that Test.
35 Fifty-plus scores by Prior in Tests, the joint-most for any England keeper along with Knott. His seven hundreds is the second-most by any England keeper after Ames (8). In terms of total Test runs, Prior (4099) is third on the list of England keepers with Stewart (4540) and Knott (4389) ahead of him.
23 Catches taken by Prior during the 2010 Ashes in Australia, the joint-most by any England keeper during an Ashes series. Stewart had taken exactly as many catches during the 1997 Ashes in England.
79 Tests played by Prior, the joint second-fewest among keepers from any country who have effected 250-plus dismissals. Brad Haddin (260 dismissals) is the only keeper to have played fewer Tests (64).