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Marnus Labuschagne has gone 47 Test match innings without a ton. This equals the Australian record number of innings of a Top 4 Test match batter failing to get a 100. The person who he now holds the record with? Alick Bannerman who played his last Test in 1893. #cricketcounts

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#onthisday 1996, Faisalabad
Hasan Raza debuted v Zim, aged 14y 233d according to his papers - the youngest Test cricketer if one believes the documentation
Many did not; doubts persist
7 Tests, 235 runs in a stop-start career
#cricketcounts

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Victorian all-rounder: 573 runs & 33 wkts in 17 Tests;
Deaf, he was bowled by a no-ball in the first Test SCG 1897-98, did not hear the call, walked off & was run out by Storer
112 at MCG, his revenge as Aus won by an inn
Charlie McLeod born #onthisday 1869 #cricketcounts

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Blocking & bat-pad stubbornness ironically named Slasher.
1507 runs & 50 wkts in 37 Tests
Adelaide 1961: Aus 9-207, 110 mins left v WI. Mackay 62 off 223 balls saved the Test with Kline
289 @ 41.28 & 6 wkts in that great series
Ken Mackay born #onthisday 1925 #cricketcounts

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Neat, quiet gloveman from Siliguri
104 dismissals in 40 Tests; first Indian keeper with 10 cts in a Test, Cape Town 2018
1353 runs, 3 100s
115* in the 2014 IPL final, the first 100 in one, & still finished on the losing side
Wriddhiman Saha born #onthisday 1984 #cricketcounts

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Trinidadian tearaway; 100 wkts in just 21 Tests
Overall 161 wkts @ 24.27 in 43 Tests; 118 in ODIs
Then the back gave way, again & again
Now that rare commentator who does his homework: “Carlos Brathwaite! Remember the name!”
Ian Bishop born #onthisday 1967 #cricketcounts

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Harry Brook has emulated what was hitherto a unique cross-format feat: he joins Chris Gayle, the only previous player to score 300+ in a Test, 200+ in an ODI and 100+ in a T20I.

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#onthisday 2022 MCG T20 WC
Ind 31/4 chasing Pak's 160
Then 28 reqd off 8: Haris Rauf, back of a length; Kohli, straight back over his head for 6
The next one, straight bat, over fine leg
Virat Kohli 82*(53)
Ind win off last ball
Crowd 90000, few will ever forget
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7/12 as WI fell for 47 at Kingston 2004; briefly the world’s No 1 bowler
The final wkt at Edgbaston 2005, as Eng won by 2 runs
Then, Brisbane 2006: first ball to second slip
226 wkts @ 31.82 in 63 Tests; 76 in ODIs
Steve Harmison born #onthisday 1978 #cricketcounts

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Gilchrist’s successor behind the stumps
3266 runs @ 32.99 in 66 Tests, 4 100s; 270 dismissals
493 runs @ 61.62 in the 2013-14 Ashes, a record for an Aus keeper, alongside 29 dismissals.
World Cup winner 2007 & 2015
Brad Haddin born #onthisday 1977 #cricketcounts

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Burly, buccaneering Northants opener
654 runs @ 46.71 in 9 Tests, 2 100s
139 at Karachi 1969, his last Test innings
Two months later a car crash cost him his left eye, & cost England a rare entertainer
Colin Milburn born #onthisday 1941 #cricketcounts

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Born in Bombay, Harlequin cap & all
Led Eng in 15 Tests, won 9, lost 1
Bodyline, 1932-33: the Ashes regained, a Dominion nearly lost
1296 runs @ 48.00 in 22 Tests
Douglas Jardine born #onthisday 1900 #cricketcounts

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@BruvverEccles Rhodes is top of the equivalent list for Tests, but surprisingly doesn't even crack the top 50 longest FC careers! He was also helped by bowling spin.

Anderson would probably have carried on if Lancs had let him... who knows, maybe another county will value his experience?

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Unless a new county signs him at the age of 44, it looks like James Anderson's professional career is over. It started on 2nd May 2000 with a NatWest Trophy match for Lancs Cricket Board, and (probably) ended on 17th September 2026 against Kent in the County Championship.

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Sri Lanka's 430 is the second highest successful chase in ODIs. We're guessing everyone knows what the first is.

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Only a handful of players have had longer careers ending this century, and of those, Suwanji Madanayake was a spinner and the rest specialist batsman. Curiously, one of them, Derek Randall, played his last match in Anderson's first, having made his List A debut 29 years earlier.

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A duration of 26 years 138 days is nowhere on the overall list (the record is an astonishing 47 years, by CK Nayudu) but it is unusual in the modern era and exceptional for a fast bowler.

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Harry Brook's 202 is the 14th double century in men's ODIs, the first for England, the fastest (both in terms of balls taken to 200 [114] and strike rate in the whole innings [174]) - and the first to end in defeat. The previous highest score in a losing cause is CK Coventry 194*

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Aggers is right that Australia have a low proportion of innings defeats - only 3.5%.

Innings defeats in Tests since 1 January 2000:

49 Bangladesh (162 played)
28 West Indies (242)
27 Zimbabwe (91)
27 England (336)
25 Sri Lanka (235)
19 Pakistan (213)
16 India (271)
12 New Zealand (211)
11 South Africa (243)
10 Australia (284)
4 Afghanistan (14)
3 Ireland (13)
0 ICC World XI (1)

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Australian inns defeats in 21st-century Test cricket

2008/09 v SA, Cape Town
2010/11 v Eng, Adelaide
2010/11 v Eng, Melbourne
2010/11 v Eng, Sydney
2012/13 v Ind, Hyderabad
2015 v Eng, Nottingham
2016/17 v SA, Hobart
2022 v SL, Galle
2022/23 v Ind, Nagpur
2026/27 v SA, Gqeberha

Tell Aggers! @bbctms

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