Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Players who took their maiden first-class five-for in a Test match

7-55 TK Kendall for Australia v England at Melbourne, 1877
5-43 A Rose-Innes for South Africa v England at Port Elizabeth, 1889
7-95 WH Ashley for South Africa v England at Cape Town, 1889
5-64 J Middleton for South Africa v England at Port Elizabeth, 1896
5-115 GA Rowe for South Africa v England at Johannesburg, 1896
5-38 C Heseltine for England v South Africa at Johannesburg, 1896
8-70 SJ Snooke for South Africa v England at Johannesburg, 1906
6-152 GM Parker for South Africa v England at Birmingham, 1924
5-21 MW Sievers for Australia v England at Melbourne, 1937
7-60 KR Miller for Australia v England at Brisbane, 1946
5-113 MG Melle for South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg, 1950
5-49 ESM Kentish for West Indies v England at Kingston, 1954
5-56 DS Atkinson for West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, 1955
5-21 DT Dewdney for West Indies v New Zealand at Auckland, 1956
5-42 ES Atkinson for West Indies v Pakistan at Kingston, 1958
5-80 LR Gibbs for West Indies v Pakistan at Georgetown, 1958
5-109 JO Taylor for West Indies v Pakistan at Port-of-Spain, 1958
5-46 LA King for West Indies v India at Kingston, 1962
6-89 Arif Butt for Pakistan v Australia at Melbourne, 1964
5-85 EJ Barlow for South Africa v Australia at Cape Town, 1966
5-34 BF Butcher for West Indies v England at Port-of-Spain, 1968
6-32 Mudassar Nazar for Pakistan v England at Lord's, 1982
5-68 ALF de Mel for Sri Lanka v India at Madras, 1982
5-60 VB John for Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Wellington, 1983
5-52 FS Ahangama for Sri Lanka v India at Kandy, 1985
5-44 AK Kuruppuarachchi for Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo-CCC, 1986
5-69 SR Waugh for Australia v England at Perth, 1986
7-46 AR Border for Australia v West Indies at Sydney, 1989
5-79 V Razdan for India v Pakistan at Sialkot, 1989
7-52 C Pringle for New Zealand v Pakistan at Faisalabad, 1990
5-75 CL Cairns for New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Auckland, 1991
5-56 HH Streak for Zimbabwe v Pakistan at Rawalpindi, 1993
5-17 JC Adams for West Indies v New Zealand at Bridgetown, 1996
6-82 MG Bevan for Australia v West Indies at Adelaide, 1997
5-111 M Dillon for West Indies v Pakistan at Karachi, 1997
6-132 Naimur Rahman for Bangladesh v India at Dhaka, 2000
5-73 AM Blignaut for Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Bulawayo, 2001
5-31 TJ Friend for Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Dhaka, 2001
5-43 ST Jayasuriya for Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe at Galle, 2002
5-36 FH Edwards for West Indies v Sri Lanka at Kingston, 2003
5-34 CH Gayle for West Indies v England at Birmingham, 2004
6-9 MJ Clarke for Australia v India at Mumbai, 2004
5-54 E Chigumbura for Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Chittagong, 2005
5-104 V Sehwag for India v Australia at Delhi, 2008
8-215 JJ Krejza for Australia v India at Nagpur, 2008
5-51 Mahmudullah for Bangladesh v West Indies at Arnos Vale, 2009
5-101 NM Hauritz for Australia v Pakistan at Melbourne, 2009
5-34 NM Lyon for Australia v Sri Lanka at Galle, 2011
6-79 PJ Cummins for Australia v South Africa at Johannesburg, 2011
5-27 JL Pattinson for Australia v New Zealand at Brisbane, 2011
5-96 Jubair Hossain for Bangladesh v Zimbabwe at Chittagong, 2014
6-29 KC Brathwaite for West Indies v Sri Lanka at Colombo-PSS, 2015

Monday, October 19, 2015

Two players both scoring a century for a team in each innings in a first-class match

Worcestershire v Hampshire at Worcester, 1899
WL Foster (140 & 172*) and RE Foster (134 & 101*)

Gloucestershire v Worcestershire at Worcester, 1933
WR Hammond (122 & 111*) and CCR Dacre (119 & 125*)

South Australia v Victoria at Melbourne, 1940
RA Hamence (130 & 103*) and CL Badcock (120 & 102)

Bombay v Maharashtra at Poona, 1949
DG Phadkar (131 & 160) and UM Merchant (143 & 156)

Australia v New Zealand at Wellington, 1974
IM Chappell (145 & 121) and GS Chappell (247* & 133)

Pakistan v Australia at Abu Dhabi, 2014
Misbah-ul-Haq (101 & 101*) and Azhar Ali (109 & 100*)

Zimbabwe A v Ireland at Harare, 2015
RW Chakabva (104 & 101) and MN Waller (138 & 118)