Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Five wickets in a Test innings against country of birth

7-55 TK Kendall for Australia v England at Melbourne, 1877
5-78 WE Midwinter for Australia v England at Melbourne, 1877
6-120 WH Cooper for Australia v England at Melbourne, 1881
5-64 J Middleton for South Africa v England at Port Elizabeth, 1896
5-51 J Middleton for South Africa v England at Johannesburg, 1899
7-63 AE Hall for South Africa v England at Cape Town, 1923
6-82 AE Hall for South Africa v England at Johannesburg, 1923
6-100 AE Hall for South Africa v England at Johannesburg, 1928
5-36 GOB Allen for England v Australia at Brisbane, 1936
6-49 GS Ramchand for India v Pakistan at Karachi, 1955
6-77 DE Malcolm for England v West Indies at Port-of-Spain, 1990
6-111 CC Lewis for England v West Indies at Birmingham, 1991
5-32 AR Caddick for England v New Zealand at Birmingham, 1999
6-122 AR Caddick for England v New Zealand at Christchurch, 2002
6-63 AR Caddick for England v New Zealand at Wellington, 2002
5-32 Imran Tahir for South Africa v Pakistan at Dubai, 2013
Players born before partition in what is now Pakistan are regarded as being born in Pakistan

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Test debut on birthday

BB Cooper (33) for Australia v England at Melbourne, 1877
FGJ Ford (28) for England v Australia at Sydney, 1894
FW Tate (35) for England v Australia at Manchester, 1902
AER Gilligan (28) for England v South Africa at Johannesburg, 1922
BJ Sealey (34) for West Indies v England at The Oval, 1933
J Iddon (33) for England v West Indies at Bridgetown, 1935
DG Phadkar (22) for India v Australia at Sydney, 1947
SB Joshi (27) for India v England at Birmingham, 1996
RD Jacobs (31) for West Indies v South Africa at Johannesburg, 1998
RL Powell (21) for West Indies v New Zealand at Hamilton, 1999
S Chattergoon (27) for West Indies v Sri Lanka at Port-of-Spain, 2008
Shan Masood (24) for Pakistan v South Africa at Abu Dhabi, 2013
Cooper's birthday was on Test cricket's birthday

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Century and hat-trick in same first-class match

G Giffen 13 & 113, 6-55: Australians v Lancashire at Manchester, 1884
WE Roller 204, 4-28 & 2-16: Surrey v Sussex at The Oval, 1885
WB Burns 102*, 3-56 & 2-21: Worcestershire v Gloucestershire at Worcester, 1913
VWC Jupp 102 & 33*, 6-61 & 6-78: Sussex v Essex at Colchester, 1921
RES Wyatt 124, dnb & 5-39: Marylebone Cricket Club v Ceylonese at Colombo, 1927
LN Constantine 107, 7-45 & 6-67: West Indians v Northamptonshire at Northampton, 1928
DE Davies 139, 4-27 & 3-31: Glamorgan v Leicestershire at Leicester, 1937
VM Merchant 1 & 142, 3-31 & 0-17: Dr CR Pereira's XI v Sir Homi Mehta's XI at Bombay, 1946
MJ Procter 51 & 102, 3-43 & 5-30: Gloucestershire v Essex at Westcliff-on-Sea, 1972
MJ Procter 122, 0-32 & 7-26: Gloucestershire v Leicestershire at Bristol, 1979
KD James 103, 5-74: Hampshire v Indians at Southampton, 1996
JEC Franklin 14 & 109, 3-59 & 1-28: Gloucestershire v Derbyshire at Cheltenham, 2009
Sohag Gazi 119 & 21, 2-126 & 7-79: Barisal Division v Khulna Division at Khulna, 2012
Sohag Gazi 101*, 2-79 & 6-77: Bangladesh v New Zealand at Chittagong, 2013

Roller is only one with 200
James is the only one with 4 wickets in 4 balls
Gazi joins Procter as the only ones to have done it twice