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Twose at it again and McMillan carries on towards a record

Roger Twose has featured regularly in this column and here is another angle which puts his achievements into perspective

Francis Payne
05-Nov-2000
Roger Twose has featured regularly in this column and here is another angle which puts his achievements into perspective. While he is one of the small number of players from any country to average over 40 in one-dayers (see column of 16 October) relatively few New Zealand batsmen have even been able to scale the giddy heights of an average of 30. Those who have done so are (min 500 runs):
Mat    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50
GM Turner            41   40   6  1598  171*  47.00   3   9
RG Twose             75   70  10  2541  103   42.35   1  20
MD Crowe            143  141  19  4704  107*  38.55   4  34
AH Jones             87   87   9  2784   93   35.69   -  25
NJ Astle            121  118   4  3926  120   34.43   8  24
CZ Harris           165  138  45  2910  130   31.29   1  10
SP Fleming          139  133  13  3708  116*  30.90   3  22
BA Edgar             64   64   5  1814  102*  30.74   1  10
JV Coney             88   80  19  1874   66*  30.72   -   8
(Bevan Congdon scored 338 runs at 56.33 in 11 matches).
Points worth noting are that four of the nine players in the list are members of the current side while Jones and Coney (and previously Twose) achieved an average of 30 or more without scoring a hundred.

When Twose scored 90 in the fourth one-dayer at Kimberley it was his 20th half-century in One-Day Internationals (and third score in the 90s). He joined another New Zealand batsman, Andrew Jones, as the only two players to have scored as many as 20 fifties without making a one-day century. This record was short-lived, however, with Twose finally registering his maiden century at Cape Town just 13 days later. The players with most fifties but no century are now:
Fifties
Andrew Jones        25
Graham Thorpe       18
Kim Hughes          17
Mudassar Nazar      16
Jimmy Adams         14
Tom Moody           10
Guy Whittall        10

This time last year, John Wright (149 games) had played more One-Day Internationals than any other New Zealander. Chris Harris went past Wright's mark in February against Australia while Adam Parore also went ahead of him in the final one-dayer against South Africa at Cape Town.
The players who have played 100 or more games for New Zealand are:
Matches
CZ Harris         165
AC Parore         150
JG Wright         149
MD Crowe          143
SP Fleming        139
CL Cairns         136
KR Rutherford     121
GR Larsen         121
NJ Astle          121
RJ Hadlee         115
EJ Chatfield      114
Of current players, Roger Twose (75) and Craig McMillan (71) are closest to the 100 game mark.

Harris, incidentally, just missed becoming the first New Zealander to play in 100 successive One-Day Internationals. When he missed the second game against Zimbabwe through illness, it brought to an end an unbroken run of 94 games since the World Cup quarter-final at Madras in March 1996 (when he scored his only century).
Adam Parore had a run of 84 successive one-dayers until he was replaced by Chris Nevin for the final two matches against Australia last season.

While Craig McMillan has been out six times for a single run in his One-Day International career, he has never been dismssed for a duck in his 66 innings and is closing in on the all-time record for any player.
The following players have batted at least 30 times in one-dayers without scoring a duck.
Innings
Kepler Wessels       105
Craig McMillan        66
Kumar Dharmasena      59
Peter Kirsten         40
Yashpal Sharma        40
Russel Arnold         32
Jack Russell          31
(Wessels played 54 innings for South Africa and 51 for Australia leaving McMillan with the all-time record for one country)
Amongst other New Zealanders, Jeremy Coney had just one duck in 80 innings and Geoff Howarth one in 65. Wasim Akram has the most ducks in One-Day Internationals (24 in 244 innings) while Adam Parore holds the New Zealand record with 11 in 135 innings).

Following 12 One-Day Internationals in succession and 14 in all since they left home in August, New Zealand now go in to Test match mode for the remainder of the year with three matches against South Africa and the Boxing Day Test at home against Zimbabwe.
New Zealand's one-day averages for the season to date find Roger Twose predictably topping both the batting averages and aggregates while Shayne O'Connor is the leading wicket taker and Glen Sulzberger, during his brief spell with the side, turns out to be the most economical of the bowlers. Interestingly, Scott Styris bowled the most overs (100).
Mat    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct St   SR
RG Twose             14   13   1   730  103   60.83   1   6    6  -   83
CL Cairns            10    9   2   319  102*  45.57   1   1    4  -   90
CM Spearman           6    6   0   183   86   30.50   -   2    4  -   76
CD McMillan          14   13   2   278   78   25.27   -   3    2  -   80
CZ Harris            13   11   2   214   46   23.77   -   -    4  -   70
NJ Astle             14   13   0   283   58   21.76   -   1    4  -   60
SP Fleming           14   12   0   243   85   20.25   -   1    5  -   63
AC Parore            13   11   4   134   30   19.14   -   -    6  2   80
DJ Nash               1    1   0    19   19   19.00   -   -    1  -  105
SB Styris            13    8   2    94   28*  15.66   -   -    4  -   79
CJ Nevin              7    6   0    93   68   15.50   -   1    1  1   79
GP Sulzberger         3    2   1     9    6*   9.00   -   -    -  -   60
DL Vettori            2    2   0     6    6    3.00   -   -    -  -   60
DR Tuffey             3    2   1     2    2    2.00   -   -    1  -   66
GI Allott             9    4   2     3    1*   1.50   -   -    -  -   20
SB O'Connor          11    3   1     2    1*   1.00   -   -    4  -   20
PJ Wiseman            4    2   2    12   12*      -   -   -    1  -   30
BGK Walker            3    2   2     7    5*      -   -   -    1  -   50
O M R W Ave Best Econ PJ Wiseman 23 0 118 5 23.60 4-45 5.13 CD McMillan 17 1 86 3 28.66 2-41 5.05 SB O'Connor 74.4 4 398 13 30.61 5-46 5.33 DL Vettori 11 0 63 2 31.50 2-23 5.72 GP Sulzberger 22 0 102 3 34.00 1-28 4.63 NJ Astle 84 5 409 10 40.90 3-24 4.86 GI Allott 70 2 397 9 44.11 3-33 5.67 CZ Harris 99 3 470 9 52.22 2-39 4.74 CL Cairns 70.5 5 387 7 55.28 2-62 5.46 BGK Walker 24 3 114 2 57.00 2-43 4.75 SB Styris 100 3 487 7 69.57 2-53 4.87 DR Tuffey 17 1 112 1 112.00 1-48 6.58

Finally, despite the result of the final one-dayer, it at least leaves something for future New Zealand teams to aim for:
  1. A One-Day International win in South Africa (by coincidence the results in both 1994/95 and this season were 5-0 with one no result)
  2. An end to South Africa's 12-match unbeaten streak against New Zealand going back to Napier on their 1998/99 tour (3 no results in that sequence)