When was a Test series last drawn 0-0 before West Indies vs Sri Lanka?
Also: what is the lowest run-aggregate for a completed first-class match?
West Indies and Sri Lanka drew their two-match Test series last week, the first 0-0 draw since 2015 • Getty Images
The highest score in that exciting one-day international in Pune last week was Sam Curran's unbeaten 95. There has been only one ODI that produced more runs but no individual centuries: in Port Elizabeth in 2001-02, Australia (330 for 7) beat South Africa (326 for 3) in a match that produced 656 runs but a highest individual score of 92, by Ricky Ponting. There have been 23 other ODIs with a total of 600 or more runs, but no centuries.
It has been nearly six years since all the Tests in a series have been drawn - in the rather soggy two-match encounter between Bangladesh and South Africa in Bangladesh in 2015. The last three-Test series to comprise three draws involved New Zealand and England, in 2012-13.
You're right that seven England bowlers claimed wickets in the third ODI in Pune last week: Mark Wood took three and Adil Rashid two, while Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Ben Stokes and Reece Topley had one each.
The fewest runs in a first-class game is 85, in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match between Quetta (41 all out) and Rawalpindi (44 for 1) in Islamabad in 2008-09: it was all over in 20.1 overs. There were unusual circumstances: bad weather had prevented any play on the first two days, and both sides forfeited their first innings.
The instance you're talking about was achieved by Otago's Dale Phillips, off the bowling of seamer Michael Rae, in the Plunket Shield match against Central Districts at Dunedin's University Oval last week. Phillips, the brother of the New Zealand Test player Glenn, was fielding at short leg.
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