New Zealand's record breaking women and something on centuries
New Zealand's success in the CricInfo Women's World Cup probably saw the end of the road for two of its greatest players
Francis Payne
24-Dec-2000
New Zealand's success in the CricInfo Women's World Cup probably saw the end of the road for two of its greatest players. Record-breaking batsman Debbie Hockley and off-spinner Catherine Campbell have almost certainly played their last games for New Zealand and leave behind some figures well
worth recording.
Hockley was playing a staggering 23rd season for New Zealand, having made her debut in January 1979 at the age of 16. During her final innings she shared a partnership with Haidee Tiffen who had not even been born when Hockley first represented New Zealand!
Hockley is by far the greatest run-getter in women's One-Day Internationals as the following table reveals:
Runs Matches Ave Debbie Hockley (NZ) 4064 118 41.89 Belinda Clark (A) 3300 71 57.89 Jan Brittin (E) 2121 63 42.42 Emily Drumm (NZ) 1794 66 33.84 Lisa Keightley (A) 1502 44 46.93 Karen Rolton (A) 1421 49 47.36 Barbara Daniels (E) 1309 55 27.27 Charlotte Edwards (E) 1241 38 37.60 Denise Annetts (A) 1126 43 41.70 Zoe Goss (A) 1099 65 29.70
Hockley has also played the most One-Day Internationals:
Matches Debbie Hockley (NZ) 118 Catherine Campbell (NZ) 85 Clare Taylor (E) 72 Belinda Clark (A) 71 Karen Smithies (E) 69 Emily Drumm (NZ) 66 Zoe Goss (A) 65 Jan Brittin (E) 63 Jane Cassar (E) 62 Joanne Broadbent (A) 60
Campbell, who was playing a world-record 72nd successive One-Day International in the final, finished her career as joint holder of the record for most one-day wickets. This particular record changed hands frequently during the tournament. In the final, Australia's Charmaine Mason equalled then overtook Campbell, who later drew level again when Australia batted.
Wkts Matches Ave Catherine Campbell (NZ) 78 85 25.87 Charmaine Mason (A) 78 41 13.51 Lynette Fullston (A) 73 41 13.26 Clare Taylor (E) 73 72 22.06 Cathryn Fitzpatrick (A) 72 51 18.72 Katrina Keenan (NZ) 70 55 17.88 Zoe Goss (A) 64 65 19.15 Karen Smithies (E) 64 69 18.65 Julie Harris (NZ) 61 45 18.42
In an earlier edition of The Numbers Game we listed the batsmen with two Test centuries who had the lowest conversion rates of fities to hundreds in Test cricket. Stephen Fleming headed the table for low conversion but if we take six Test hundreds as the benchmark, we find that a New Zealand batsman also tops the table of best conversion rate of fifties to hundreds. The list reads:
100s 50+ % John F Reid (NZ) 6 8 75 Don Bradman (A) 29 42 69 George Headley (WI) 10 15 67 Peter Parfitt (E) 7 13 54 Bill Ponsford (A) 7 13 54 Les Ames (E) 8 15 53 Clyde Walcott (WI) 15 29 52 Mohammad Azharuddin (I) 22 43 51 Sachin Tendulkar (I) 24 48 50 Ijaz Ahmed (P) 12 24 50 Arthur Morris (A) 12 24 50 Dennis Amiss (E) 11 22 50 Lawrence Rowe (WI) 7 14 50 Chris Broad (E) 6 12 50 Martin Crowe (NZ) 17 35 49 Walter Hammond (E) 22 46 48 Asif Iqbal (P) 11 23 48 Ravi Shastri (I) 11 23 48 Lindsay Hassett (A) 10 21 48
Mathew Sinclair on the other hand has two centuries (and big ones - 214 and 150) but no fifties at all. He is one of just six players with this record. The others are Harry Graham (Australia), Allan Steel (England), Amal Silva (Sri Lanka), Barry Knight (England) and Wajahatullah Wasti (Pakistan).
While Sinclair is the only New Zealander on the list, Graham emigrated to New Zealand after representing Australia and played for New Zealand in pre-Test days in the early part of the twentieth century.
No player has more than two centuries and no fifties although Pakistan's Azhar Mahmood has three hundreds and just one fifty.
And speaking of Test hundreds, with New Zealand due to meet Zimbabwe on Boxing Day and Australia playing West Indies at the same time, an update of the list of hundreds per Test by country makes interesting reading.
100s Tests % Bangladesh 1 1 100 West Indies 340 367 92 Australia 558 609 91 Pakistan 228 273 83 India 275 336 81 England 622 776 80 Sri Lanka 76 105 72 South Africa 164 248 66 Zimbabwe 29 47 61 New Zealand 158 284 55
In an earlier edition we noted Simon Doull's fast Shell Cup fifty for Northern Districts as an opening batsman. In the next round of the competition, team mate James Marshall reached his century off just 87 deliveries against Canterbury. The fastest hundreds for Northern in the Shell Cup have been:
balls 79 Graeme Hick v Canterbury Rangiora 1987/88 87 James Marshall v Canterbury Christchurch 2000/01 100 Barry Cooper v Otago Alexandra 1994/95 100 Matthew Hart v Central Districts Napier 1996/97
The all-time fastest is 65 balls by Aravinda de Silva for Auckland against Canterbury at Auckland, 1996/97.
And just in case anyone missed it ...
The top two one-day titles in world cricket in 2000 were both won by New Zealand who previously had never won any one-day tournament of any description.
Men - ICC KnockOut in Kenya
Women - World Cup in New Zealand