Groundsman inspects a crater in the middle of the pitch at Old Trafford cricket ground after a German bombing raid on December 22nd 1940.

Multiple 180-199 scores in Tests without ever making it to 200: 3 - M Azharuddin, RB Richardson, MP Vaughan 2 - C Hill, CP Mead, IM Chappell, MH Denness, MEK Hussey, S Dhawan, D Elgar, MT Renshaw

Lyon did have the most Tests played without ever being part of a century partnership. Now he has removed himself from the list, the record reverts to Muthiah Muralidaran - who played 133 Tests in which his best partnership was 83 with Hashan Tillakaratne vs England in 1993.

Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians@acscricket.bsky.social · 2d ago

The 134 with Matt Renshaw is the first time in Nathan Lyon's 144-Test career that he has been involved in a century partnership - his previous best was 87 with Mitchell Starc, also against SA, at the WACA in 2012.

The 134 with Matt Renshaw is the first time in Nathan Lyon's 144-Test career that he has been involved in a century partnership - his previous best was 87 with Mitchell Starc, also against SA, at the WACA in 2012.

Ali Brown, remarking on his feat of scoring double centuries in all three English domestic competitions then extant, commented "It would take something pretty special in the 20 over competition" (which was then a hypothetical future concept). Lhuan-dre Pretorius has just come pretty close to that.

Two (or more) wickets in a T20I innings without bowling a full over (matches between Full Members only): MD Gunathilaka 0.4-0-3-2, SL v B 2019 Mohammad Hafeez 0.5-0-3-2, P v Z 2018 MG Bracewell 0.5-0-5-3, NZ v Ir 2022 CA Young 0.5-0-2-2, Ir v In 2023 Abhishek Sharma 0.5-0-2-2, In v SL 2026

Sri Lanka's 45 is the joint lowest total by a Full Member team in a T20I; West Indies were bowled out for the same total vs England in 2019.

West Indies are only the sixth team to register three individual century-makers in an ODI innings - and the first of them to lose the match.

India's 406/2 is the second highest successful run chase in an ODI, behind South Africa's 438/9 vs Australia in 2006. Shubman Gill's 223* is the highest score batting second in an ODI and only the second double century, after Glenn Maxwell's 201 vs Afghanistan in the 2023 World Cup.

@ACScricket is delighted to launch the book ‘Lives in Cricket 67 - Greville Stevens: The Prodigy’ by Max Bonnell, a fascinating story of a man who played for England when they regained The Ashes in 1926. Yet he faded from the game barely 30 years old. shop.acscricket.com #cricketcounts

34 wkts at just 22.82. 9 of 15 Tests were overseas, got 31 @ 15.35 in them, a hat-trick at Cape Town. Often forgotten by writers when left-arm wrist spinners are listed, but remembered for facing the final ball of the Brisbane Tie Lindsay Kline born #onthisday 1934 #cricketcounts

Born #onthisday 1981 Brendon McCullum hit 6453 runs @ 38.64 incl NZ's 1st 300 & fastest Test 100. 52 of 101 Tests were as wk. 6083 ODI runs,158* off 73 in the 1st ever IPL game Bazball started with a big bang, but then lost its way, ending with heavy Ashes defeat #CricketCounts

40 Tests, avg 30. But 22 of those Tests were vs WI. Whenever openers were to face fast men, Anshuman Gaekwad was sent for. Nothing stands out like 81 vs Holding-Daniel barrage at Jamaica in 1976. Later scored what was then slowest 200 in f-c. Born #onthisday 1952 #cricketcounts

Colourful patka, beautiful action, ball on a string, immediately recognisable & immensely popular Born #onthisday 1946 Bishan Bedi took 266 wickets with his left-arm spin Led Ind in the mid-70s & managed Ind team of early 90s, courting controversies in both roles #cricketcounts

A fallen hero who died tragically early Born #onthisday 1969 Hansie Cronje was the very face of a relentless South African side as he led them in 53 Tests with 27-11 w-l. Then came disgrace & ban. Tests 3714 runs, 43 wkts ODIs 5565, 114 Died in a plane crash at 32 #cricketcounts

5345 Test runs at 42.42 with 14 hundreds. Won 15 of 30 Tests as captain, losing 5. A driving force behind World Series Cricket, which transformed players' pay and conditions. Later a sharp, fearless voice in the commentary box. Ian Chappell, born #OnThisDay 1943 #CricketCounts

OG Robinson and KL Aldridge set a FC partnership record for Durham v Lancashire by adding 87 for the 6th wicket, beating the 81* set by DM Benkenstein and ID Blackwell at Liverpool in 2011. @acscricket.bsky.social

We'd need to check, but with Kadowaki-Fleming, Yamamoto-Lake, Ito-Davis, Shirai-Patmore, Sakurano-Thomas, Hara-Hinze and Sugaya-Slater, Japan may have international cricket's most hyphen-laden line-up. They put the Dutch trio of Dulfer-Keijzer, Batenberg-Venturini and Koppe-V-Dishoek in the shade.

England's 3-0 series victory takes their sequence of consecutive wins over Sri Lanka to 15 - equal second on the list, with the record in sight.

Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians@acscricket.bsky.social · 4w ago

England have won their last 13 men's T20Is against Sri Lanka. This is the third longest sequence of consecutive wins in a bilateral fixture: Pakistan won their first 15 T20Is against Zimbabwe, while Uganda won their first 17 against Rwanda (who eventually broke the sequence with a win by 2 runs).

The pace-heavy nature of SA's attack in their first few years after readmission gave Richardson a curious record: he is the only wicketkeeper in Test history whose first 100 dismissals were all catches. Jos Buttler came close to equalling him - he took 91 keeper catches before his only stumping.

Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians@acscricket.bsky.social · 4w ago

A permanent fixture behind the stumps for SA on their re-entry into int'l fold Dave Richardson (born #onthisday 1959) was already 32 by then. But he did go on to play 42 Tests & 122 ODIs with distinction A qualified lawyer, became general manager & later CEO of ICC #cricketcounts

RS Vasconcelos equalled the highest FC individual innings of 187 for Northamptonshire v Durham, previously set by MEK Hussey at Northampton in 2003. @acscricket.bsky.social

WMH Rhodes and BA Stokes set a FC partnership record for Durham v Northamptonshire by adding 153 for the 4th wicket, beating the 107 set by MA Roseberry and PD Collingwood at Chester-le-Street in 1996. @acscricket.bsky.social

DG Bedingham and CN Ackermann set a FC partnership record for Durham v Northamptonshire by adding 189* for the 5th wicket, beating the 187 set by SG Borthwick and PD Collingwood at Chester-le-Street in 2014. @ACScricket

JA Haynes and LA Patterson-White set a FC partnership record for Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire by adding 257 for the 6th wicket, beating the 201 set by AW Carr and W Walker at Leicester in 1925. @acscricket.bsky.social

The lowest all-out FC team score by Northamptonshire v Durham is now 50, beating the 83 set at Chester-le-Street in 2014. @acscricket.bsky.social

TAR Scriven and JH Davey set a FC partnership record for Leicestershire v Nottinghamshire by adding 106 for the 10th wicket, beating the 89 set by BWM Mike and WS Davis at Leicester in 2022. @acscricket.bsky.social

BA Raine and CF Parkinson set a FC partnership record for Durham v Middlesex by adding 90 for the 10th wicket, beating the 44 set by SG Borthwick and G Onions at Lord's in 2012. @acscricket.bsky.social

C Overton and M Pretorius set a FC partnership record for Somerset v Yorkshire by adding 90 for the 9th wicket, beating the 86 set by GR Langdale and WHR Andrews at Taunton in 1946. @acscricket.bsky.social

AJ Hose and Brett L d'Oliveira set a FC partnership record for Worcestershire v Durham by adding 179 for the 4th wicket, beating the 134 set by TM Moody and GR Haynes at Worcester in 1994. @acscricket.bsky.social

MS Crane and T van der Gugten set a FC partnership record for Glamorgan v Surrey by adding 129 for the 8th wicket, beating the 121 set by HAG Anthony and NM Kendrick at The Oval in 1995. @acscricket.bsky.social