Friday, September 27, 2013

200 in match-winning 4th innings in the County Championship

243* AI Kallicharran for Warwickshire v Glamorgan at Birmingham, 1983
232 G Cox for Sussex v Northamptonshire at Kettering, 1939
206* EH Hendren for Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Nottingham, 1925
205* G Cox for Sussex v Glamorgan at Hove, 1947
205* DI Stevens for Kent v Lancashire at Canterbury, 2013
205 GA Gooch for Essex v Worcestershire at Worcester, 1994

Highest first-class scores by a player aged under 19

314* W Jaffer (18 yrs, 265 days) Mumbai v Saurashtra at Rajkot, 1996
311 Javed Miandad (17 yrs, 312 days) Karachi Whites v Nat Bank of Pakistan at Karachi, 1975
300* A Mukund (18 yrs, 303 days) Tamil Nadu v Maharashtra at Nasik, 2008
254 Ahmed Shehzad (18 yrs, 336 days) Habib Bank Limited v Faisalabad at Faisalabad, 2010
248 Umar Akmal (17 yrs, 195 days) Sui Nth Gas Pipelines Limited v Karachi Blues at K'chi, 2007
242 DP Sibley (18 yrs, 22 days) Surrey v Yorkshire at The Oval, 2013

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Youngest to score first-class 200

15 yrs, 215 days: Hasan Raza (204*) Karachi Whites v Bahawalpur at Karachi, 1997
16 yrs, 96 days: Ijaz Ahmed (201*) Pakistan Automobiles Corporation v Karachi at Karachi, 1984
17 yrs, 17 days: RS Sodhi (200*) Punjab v Delhi at Patiala, 1997
17 yrs, 55 days: AT Rayudu (210) Hyderabad v Andhra at Secunderabad, 2002
17 yrs, 122 days: JG Myburgh (203) Northerns B v Easterns at Pretoria, 1998
17 yrs, 195 days: Umar Akmal (248) Sui Nrth Gas Pipelines Ltd v Karachi Blues at Karachi, 2007
17 yrs, 205 days: ID Craig (213*) New South Wales v South Africans at Sydney, 1953
17 yrs, 312 days: Javed Miandad (311) Karachi Whites v Nat Bank of Pakistan at Karachi, 1975
17 yrs, 317 days: Taslim Arif (205) Karachi Blues v Hyderabad (P) at Karachi, 1972
17 yrs, 324 days: Hanif Mohammad (203*) Pakistanis v Bombay at Bombay, 1952
18 yrs, 2 days: Mushtaq Mohammad (229*) Karachi Whites v East Pakistan at Karachi, 1961
18 yrs, 12 days: WG Grace (224*) England v Surrey at The Oval, 1866
18 yrs, 21 days: DP Sibley (220*) Surrey v Yorkshire at The Oval, 2013
18 yrs, 47 days: Usman Tariq (210) Bahawalpur v Sargodha at Sargodha, 2002
18 yrs, 62 days: PR Shah (217*) Baroda v Services at Delhi, 2006
18 yrs, 187 days: Imran Farhat (216) Biman Bangladesh Airlines v Chittagong Div at Savar, 2000
18 yrs, 237 days: DJG Sales (210*) Northamptonshire v Worcestershire at Kidderminster, 1996
18 yrs, 265 days: W Jaffer (314*) Mumbai v Saurashtra at Rajkot, 1996
18 yrs, 266 days: GA Headley (211) Jamaica v LH Tennyson's XI at Kingston, 1928
18 yrs, 273 days: GR Viswanath (230) Mysore v Andhra at Vijayawada, 1967

Sibley is the 2nd youngest Englishman after WG Grace and the youngest in the Championship, passing Sales

Thursday, September 5, 2013

15 wickets in a Championship match since 1961

15-108 JB Statham for Lancashire v Leicestershire at Leicester, 1964
15-75 NI Thomson for Sussex v Warwickshire at Worthing, 1964
15-89 TW Cartwright for Warwickshire v Glamorgan at Swansea, 1967
15-115 RE East for Essex v Warwickshire at Leyton, 1968
15-147 JN Shepherd for Kent v Sussex at Maidstone, 1975
15-106 FD Stephenson for Nottinghamshire v Essex at Nottingham, 1989
15-147 MJ McCague for Kent v Derbyshire at Derby, 1994
15-83 CL Cairns for Nottinghamshire v Sussex at Arundel, 1995
16-119 MP Bicknell for Surrey v Leicestershire at Guildford, 2000
15-114 Mohammad Sami for Kent v Nottinghamshire at Maidstone, 2003
15-118 OP Rayner for Middlesex v Surrey at The Oval, 2013

The best Championship match figures are:
17-48 C Blythe for Kent v Northamptonshire at Northampton, 1907

The best Championship match figures for Middlesex are:
16-114 JT Hearne v Lancashire at Manchester, 1898
16-176 FA Tarrant v Lancashire at Manchester, 1914
15-47 FA Tarrant v Hampshire at Lord's, 1913
15-93 JT Hearne v Somerset at Lord's, 1904
15-95 FJ Titmus v Somerset at Bath, 1955
15-118 OP Rayner v Surrey at The Oval, 2013
15-154 JT Hearne v Nottinghamshire at Nottingham, 1893

Monday, September 2, 2013

Three bowlers reaching 50 wickets for a team in a season in the same match in the County Championship

1937 Nottinghamshire (HJ Butler, H Larwood and W Voce)
v Worcestershire at Dudley, 10/7/1937
1946 Middlesex (LH Gray, JM Sims and JA Young)
v Warwickshire at Lord's, 26/6/1946
1948 Surrey (AV Bedser, JC Laker and JWJ McMahon)
v Middlesex at The Oval, 7/8/1948
1959 Gloucestershire (AS Brown, C Cook and DR Smith)
v Lancashire at Gloucester, 4/7/1959
1969 Glamorgan (MA Nash, DJ Shepherd and DL Williams)
v Gloucestershire at Cheltenham, 13/8/1969
2013 Lancashire (G Chapple, KW Hogg and SC Kerrigan)
v Hampshire at Southport, 28/8/2013