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RIP Robin Smith. He played 62 Test matches for England scoring 4,236 runs at 43.67 with 9 tons. He also appeared in 71 ODI’s scoring 2,419 runs at 39.01. In all 1st class games he tallied 26,155 runs at 41.51 & 14,927 runs in List A cricket at 41.12. #cricketcounts

Joe Root’s 40 Test match centuries have been accumulated all over the world: 24 in England; 4 in West Indies; 3 in each of India, Sri Lanka & New Zealand. 1 in each of South Africa, Pakistan &, now, Australia. #cricketcounts

This thing here, which looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It’s for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you’ve done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly... What we’re trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might... travel... (He picks up the script) Now, what we’ve got here is a lump of wood of roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat, and if you hit a ball with it, the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting “Ouch!” with your hands stuck into your armpits. (Indicating the cricket bat) This isn’t better because someone says it’s better, or because there’s a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lord’s. It’s better because it’s better. You don’t believe me, so I suggest you go out to bat with this (the script) and see how you get on. - Henry’s speech on the cricket bat from Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing)

Playwright and cricket fan Tom Stoppard, who has died aged 88, wrote a famous speech in praise of the cricket bat in his play The Real Thing (1982), using the skilful creation of a bat as a metaphor for the writing of plays.
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Australian batter Travis Head raising his green helmet in his right hand and his bat in his left to acknowledge the applause for his hundred.

Travis Head’s century in Perth in the 1st Ashes Test is the joint-6th fastest in all Tests & the joint-3rd fastest by an Australian.

Adam Gilchrist did it in 57 balls & Jack Gregory in 67 balls; David Warner matched Head's 69.

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#Ashes2025 #cricketcounts

Zac Crawley is the 4th ever England opening batsman to record a pair in an Ashes Test in Australia. Trevor Bailey in 1959, Dennis Amiss in 1975 & Michael Atherton in 1998 were the others. #Ashes2025 #cricketcounts

Mitchell Starc had his best analysis in Test cricket today in Perth of 7-58 in 12.5 overs. In his previous Test innings as a bowler he took 6-9 v West Indies. So Starc’s last two analyses in Test cricket have given him combined figures of 13-67. #Ashes2025 #cricketcounts

Also the second-highest for any wicket.

Mahmudul, Shadman, Mominul and Shanto are only the 11th case in Tests of the top four all scoring 80+ (including three where they all made centuries), and the first for Bangladesh.

Despite their much longer Test histories, South Africa and West Indies have never done it.

Bangladesh have put themselves in with a chance of their biggest innings victory in a Test: currently an innings and 184 runs, so they would have to bowl Ireland out for 116 or below to surpass it.

They also once beat Afghanistan by 546 runs.

And in 2024/25 Arunachal Pradesh were on the wrong end of the second-highest third-wicket partnership, 606* by Goa's Kashyap Bakhle and Snehal Kauthankar. Goa declared, unaware they were 19 short of a world record.

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#FirstClassCricket #IndianCricket #RanjiTrophy

Arunachal Pradesh are the whipping boys of the Ranji Plate (bottom division).

In 2023/24, they conceded the fastest 300 and most sixes in an inns to Hyderabad's Tanmay Agarwal.

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#FirstClassCricket #IndianCricket #RanjiTrophy

Akash Choudhary has scored first-class cricket's fastest fifty off 11 balls (beating 12) hitting a record eight successive sixes (beating six) for Meghalaya v Arunachal Pradesh.

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Joe Root has never scored a Test century in Australia. Nor has he won a Test match down under. He has scored 9 fifties & averages 35.68 from 892 runs. Only Ian Bell & Sir Alistair Cook have scored more fifties in Australian Test matches in 21st century down under. #cricketcounts

Went to check a detail on Shubman Gill's Cricinfo page, and was rather impressed by the "Most Viewed Players" list under his picture today. (Though a little sorry for Kranti Gaud, as the list is restricted to the top ten).
#CWC25

The Cricket Statistician Issue No. 212 November 2025 £7.00 Photo shows the smiling face of Robert Brooke, sitting in a stand of upturned white seats at Derby in 2012

The November issue of The Cricket Statistician is a tribute to @acscricket.bsky.social founder Robert Brooke, who died in May.
It also features Simon Wilde on Gilbert Jessop’s famously fast Test hundred, and David Frith on his career as a cricket magazine editor.
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Christianity at the Crease: Cricket and the Church, by Eric Midwinter. Cover photo shows the Reverend David Shepperd in 1957, dressed in a dark suit, demonstrating a batting stroke to some small boys in short trousers. Mirrorpix via Getty Images

Lives in Cricket The Hills of Rookwood: An Exceptional Sporting Family, by Andrew Hignell. Cover photo shows four young men standing behind three seated women, all in formal 1890s dress

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India's World Cup win over South Africa last night meant all three knockout games reversed the results of the equivalent group games:

Eng beat SA by ten wkts/SA beat Eng by 125 runs
Aus beat Ind by three wkts/Ind beat Aus by five wkts
SA beat Ind by three wkts/Ind beat SA by 52 runs

#CWC25 #INDvSA

Best bowling in a Women's World Cup final:

6/46 A Shrubsole 2017
5/39 DB Sharma 2025
4/34 NJ Shaw 2009

Highest score in a Women's World Cup final:

170 AJ Healy 2022
148* N Sciver-Brunt 2022
107* KL Rolton 2005
101 L Wolvaardt 2025

Women's World Cup champions:

1973 England
1978 Australia
1982 Australia
1988 Australia
1993 England
1997 Australia
2000 New Zealand
2005 Australia
2009 England
2013 Australia
2017 England
2022 Australia
***2025 India***

We have uploaded the John Player Special League Record Book 1969 to 1986 to the @ACScricket website. See archive.acscricket.com/books/acs_ot... for link to this and other items.

The three highest 2nd-inns totals in women's ODIs have all come from India v Australia in the last six weeks:

369-10 India lost to Australia, Delhi 20/9/2025 (bilateral)
341-5 India beat Australia, Navi Mumbai 30/10/2025
331-7 Australia beat India, Visakhapatnam 12/10/2025

#CWC2025 #INDvAUS

Revise list below to add:
2025/26 Australia beat India by three wickets, chasing down a record 331; India beat Australia by five wickets, chasing down a record 339.
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#CWC25 #INDvAUS

NB - only counts tournaments in which the two sides played each other exactly once in the group (or Super Six) stage; there are other cases where they played each other twice or more with at least one win each. Also, the early WWCs consisted of a group only, with no KO matches.

Women's WC KO matches which were the reverse of the group stage result:

1993 NZ b Eng 25r/E b NZ 67r
2000 A b NZ 6w/NZ b A 4r
2005 NZ b I 16r/I b NZ 40r
2013 WI b A 8r/A b WI 114r
2017 A b I 8w/I b A 36r
2017 I b E 35r/E b I 9r
2022 SA b E 3w/E b SA 137r
2025 E b SA 10w/SA b E 125r

During Ecclestone's two spells, South Africa scored 81/6 in 18 overs. Outside it, 238/1 in 32 overs.

No Zimbabwe bowler took more than six wickets, giving Ziaur the extremely rare feat of returning the best figures in a match on either side despite his team losing by an innings.

Best bowling in an innings defeat:

8/107 NA Foster, Eng vs Pak 1987
8/143 MHN Walker, Aus vs Eng 1975
7/65 SJ Pegler, SA vs Eng 1912
7/70 FMM Worrell, WI vs Eng 1957
7/95 WH Ashley, SA vs Eng 1889
7/97 Ziaur Rahman, Afg vs Zim 2025

Nagaland's sixth wicket pair of Dega Nischal and Imliwati Lemtur have added 205* against Tamil Nadu, after Gurjapneet Singh took a hat trick earlier in the innings. Not sure what the highest partnership to follow a hat trick is, but this might well be up there...

King’s 7-18 is also the fourth-best in any women's ODI (the all-time record is Sajjida Shah's 7-4 for Pakistan v Japan at Amsterdam, 2003)
and the second-best between Full Member teams (after Anisa Mohammed's 7-14 for West Indies v Pakistan at Mirpur, 2011/12).

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