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A Venkat, India
Graeme Hick has now scored 99 centuries for Worcestershire. Which other batsmen have scored 100 centuries for their counties?
Your question was most timely because Hick has today (22 June 2006) become only the eighth batsman to join a most illustrious list. The record is 144 by Jack Hobbs for Surrey. The other seven to reach the hundred mark are: Phil Mead - 138 for Hampshire, Frank Woolley - 122 for Kent, 'Patsy' Hendren - 119 for Middlesex, Walter Hammond - 113 for Gloucestershire, Herbert Sutcliffe - 112 - and Geoffrey Boycott - 103 both for Yorkshire. Before Hick, the closest to reach the target since Boycott was Graham Gooch with 94 for Essex.
Niall, France
How many bowlers have dismissed every member of the opposition in a Test match? Clearly, it can be done by someone taking any amount of wickets between 11 and 20, but even taking 20 wouldn't ensure that you had dismissed each member of the opposition at least once.
Only six bowlers have dismissed all 11 batsmen in a Test. The first instance was not achieved until 1956, in the 428th Test played and 79 years after the inaugural one. No prizes for guessing that it was Jim Laker, with 19 for 90 in the Old Trafford Ashes Test of that summer, who became the first member of this elite club. It remains the only instance either by an England bowler or in England.
The other five, all achieved in Asia, involve: Srinivas Venkataraghavan (12-152) for India v New Zealand at Delhi in 1964-65; Geoff Dymock (12-166) for Australia v India at Kanpur in 1979-80; Abdul Qadir (13-101) for Pakistan v England at Lahore in 1987-88; Waqar Younis (12-130) for Pakistan v New Zealand at Faisalabad in 1990-91; and Muthiah Muralitharan (13-171) for Sri Lanka v South Africa at Galle in 2000-01.
Paul Hawkins, Dubai
An interesting one for you, Bill. Which batsman playing in his first and only Test match for England, scored ducks in both innings and never played for England again due to unfortunate circumstances?
Good to hear from you, Hawkeye! You are referring to George Frederick Grace, the youngest of the three Grace brethren who made their England debuts at The Oval in 1880. He died from congestion of the lungs following a severe cold, aged 29, just 14 days after that match ended. Although he bagged a pair and did not bowl, he did hold a magnificent running catch off such a towering hit by George Bonnor that the batsmen almost completed their third run. He remains the second-youngest English first-class cricketer, having made his debut for Gentlemen of England v Oxford University in 1866 when 15 years 159 days old.
Gavin Hamilton was also dismissed for a pair in his only Test for England, against South Africa at Johannesburg in 1999-2000.
Caroline Munslow, England
Can you tell me who was Man of the Match for the Twenty20 game between England and Sri Lanka on Thursday 15 June at The Rose Bowl? I was there, but I don't think it was announced.
Sanath Jayasuriya gained the award. He was Sri Lanka's top scorer with 41 off 30 balls and also their leading wicket-taker with 2 for 32 off his permitted four overs.
Bruce Robson, UK
What is the record number of runs scored by a single batsman in a Test? Is it Graham Gooch with 333 and 123 against India in the early '90s?
Yes, Gooch's 456 at Lord's in 1990 is the individual match aggregate record. Only two others have scored 400 runs in a Test. Mark Taylor made 426 (334 not out and 92) for Australia v Pakistan at Peshawar in 1998-99 and Brian Lara scored 400 not out for West Indies v England at St John's, Antigua, in 2003-04. All three were captaining their sides at the time.
Peter Mather, England
My son, D.P.Mather, got 10 wickets in the Varsity Match at Lords in 1998. When was this achieved, how many times and by whom? It has become more significant since the three-day Varsity match is no longer played at Lord's.
The University Match between Cambridge and Oxford dates from 1827 and is cricket's oldest surviving first-class fixture. Apart from wartime interruptions, it has been played annually since 1838. Lord's hosted all the fixtures until 2001, with the exception of five matches staged on grounds in the Oxford area between 1929 and 1850.
Since the ECB's reorganization of university cricket, it has become a four-day fixture played alternatively at Fenner's and in The Parks. The scores of all the matches before 1989 were published in 'Oxford and Cambridge Cricket' by two former blues, George Chesterton and Hubert Doggart.
If you have a few hours to spare you can tally the instances of bowlers taking ten or more wickets in a match. There have been plenty, the most notable being 15 for 95 (10-38 and 5-57) for Oxford by Samuel Butler in 1871. An Old Etonian, he was a fast right-handed round-arm bowler, who subsequently played for Somerset before they achieved first-class status.
Your son David, a left-arm medium-paced bowler, took 4-65 and 6-74 for Oxford in 1998. Although he finished on the losing side, he has the distinction of being the last to take ten Varsity wickets at Lord's. In fact no one has achieved it since the move to the shires.
Nick Dymoke-Marr, UK
What's the most number of first-class runs scored in a season, and by whom?
Denis Compton holds that record with 3816 runs, average 90.85, including a record 18 hundreds, in 1947. No one is likely to approach this aggregate because the intrusion of limited-overs cricket has greatly decreased the number of first-class innings a batsman can play. Last season the highest number was 33 innings, 17 fewer than Compton enjoyed. No one has scored 3000 runs in a season since 1961 when Bill Alley (Somerset) made 3019 from 64 innings.
Raymond Diamond, England
How many runs in Test matches at Headingley did Sir Don Bradman score, at what average, and what was his highest score there?
In four Tests at Leeds, 'The Don' scored 963 runs, average 192.60 with four hundreds in six innings: 334 (1930); 304 (1934); 103, 16 (1938); 33, 173 not out (1948).
Sue Jenkins, Bristol
Would you like to celebrate your 40th anniversary by getting round to answering the question I asked you in 1977? I'd like to know which cricketer had the dubious honour of being Alan Knott's one and only first-class victim as a bowler?
Apologies for the slight delay, Sue! Three years after you had set that question, Alan Knott doubled his tally of first-class victims as a bowler. His first was Majid Jahangir (aka M.J.Khan), caught by Pat Pocock for 57, for MCC U-25 v Pakistan at Lahore in 1966-67. He doubled his bag by having Alan Butcher stumped by Bob Woolmer for 53, for Kent v Surrey at The Oval in 1980. The best wicket-keeper I have seen, Knotty was originally contracted by Kent as an outstanding schoolboy batsman who was keen to bowl off-breaks.
Sophie Ferguson, England
Can you tell me where the origin of 'Test' comes from when talking about Test matches?
The phrase was coined during the very first cricket tour to Australia in 1861-62, when games between H.H.Stephenson's English team of professionals and the Australian colonies were described as 'test matches'.
Ian Duffell
Has any wicket-keeper ever stumped four batsmen off four consecutive balls as I did during a Sunday league game for Whittington CC (Staffordshire)?
My records of minor cricket do not extend as far as most stumpings off consecutive balls. Such is the long history and vast volume of cricket at that level worldwide that I expect it has happened before and, hopefully, someone will email me with the details!
The closest instance in first-class cricket was achieved by William Henry Brain when he performed a hat-trick of stumpings off C.L. (Charlie) Townsend, a 16-year-old Clifton schoolboy playing for Gloucestershire v Somerset at Cheltenham while on holiday in 1893.
Alan Nicholson, England
In their recent Championship match against Warwickshire, D.M.Benkenstein scored 167 not out for Durham but ended up on the losing side. There are probably many tail-enders who have managed a similar 'not out' feat, but who claims the distinction of the highest total not out figure for a losing side in a first-class game?
Percy Perrin scored a career-best 343 not out for Essex (597 and 97) against Derbyshire (548 and 149-1) at Chesterfield in 1904, the hosts winning an extraordinary match by nine wickets. In a lengthy first-class career (1896 to 1928 inclusive), he amassed 29,709 runs, average 35.92, with 66 hundreds, but was never picked for England. However, Perrin did become a Test Selector (1926 and 1931-39), and was Chairman in the final pre-war season.
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