Do you know that Steve Smith is the second quickest to 9000 Check runs – a milestone he accomplished within the Lord’s Check? Or that Ben Stokes holds the file of most sixes ever hit in an innings in an Ashes Check?
TimesofIndia.com right here lists a number of the most thoughts boggling Ashes statistics after the Lord’s Check:
# After 75 years, England (325 & 327) have misplaced a house Check (by 43 runs) regardless of scoring 300-plus in every innings of a Check match – the final occasion being the 1948 Leeds Check in opposition to Australia (458 & 404 for 3) which they misplaced by seven wickets. England had managed 496 and 368 for eight declared in that match.
# Having hit three sixes off successive balls off Keshav Maharaj (S.Africa) at The Oval in 2017, Ben Stokes has now turn into the primary batter within the historical past of Check Cricket to perform the feat of a hat-trick of sixes twice. Throughout his 155, he was on 82 when he hit three sixes off Cameron Inexperienced to succeed in his hundred within the simply concluded Lord’s Check.
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# Ben Stokes’ second hundred as captain is his 13th in Exams. His tally contains 4 in opposition to Australia. His solely different Check century as captain stays 103 vs South Africa at Manchester in 2022. He has recorded his highest rating vs Australia (155), obliterating the 135 not out at Leeds in 2019.
# Stokes’ excellent innings is the very best by a quantity six batter or decrease whereas chasing within the fourth innings in Exams, bettering Adam Gilchrist’s 149 not out vs Pakistan at Hobart in November 1999.
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# Stokes has recorded 118 sixes in 94 Exams, extending his Check file. The following highest is New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum – 107 in 101 Exams.
# Throughout his implausible knock of 155, Stokes hit 9 sixes – a file by an England captain in Exams. His tally is the very best by any captain within the fourth innings of a Check match.
# Stokes has set a brand new file for many sixes in an innings in Ashes Exams. He bettered his file of hitting eight sixes throughout his match-winning unbeaten knock of 135 at Leeds in 2019.
# Steven Smith took 99 Exams to turn into the primary batter to finish 9,000 runs throughout the first 100 Exams of profession. He has turn into the fourth Australian batter after Ricky Ponting (13378), Allan Border (11174) and Steve Waugh (10927) to finish 9000 runs or extra in Exams.
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# 174 innings taken by Smith are the second quickest by any participant for this milestone after solely the 172 innings taken by Kumar Sangakkara.
# Steven Smith has registered 32 a whole bunch in Exams – the joint-second highest for Australia. Solely Ricky Ponting has registered extra a whole bunch (41 in 168 Exams). Steve Waugh posted 32 a whole bunch in 168 Exams.
# Steven Smith has obtained his 13th Man of the Match award in Exams – his eighth vs England. He holds the file for getting most MOM awards in The Ashes. The second place is shared by three gamers with 5 awards every – Ian Botham, Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne.
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# After eight years, Smith has been adjudged the MOM in a Lord’s Check – his first being for posting 215 & 58 in 2015.
# Mitchell Starc has bagged 316 wickets at 27.64 runs apiece in 79 Exams, establishing a file for many wickets by a left-arm bowler for Australia in Exams, eclipsing Mitchell Johnson’s tally of 313 at 28.40 in 73 Exams. Starc’s tally contains 13 situations of five-wicket hauls and two situations of ten wickets or extra in a match.
# Ben Duckett (98 & 83) turned the eighth England opener after Herbert Sutcliffe twice), Geoff Boycott (twice), Arthur Shrewsbury, Albert Ward, Len Hutton, Graham Gooch & Mike Atherton to publish 75-plus in every innings of a Check match vs Australia.
# Nathan Lyon has performed 100 successive Exams between August 2013 and June 2023 to turn into the primary specialist bowler and the sixth participant to perform the feat for a group in Check annals. He has joined Alastair Prepare dinner (159), Allan Border (153), Mark Waugh (107), Sunil Gavaskar (106) and Brendon McCullum (101).
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# Usman Khawaja has turn into the primary batter to finish 300 runs (ave 75.00), together with 100 and two fifties, in 4 innings, at a strike price of 8.70 within the first two Exams of the Ashes collection.
# Khawaja, with 841 runs at a median of 64.69, together with three a whole bunch and 4 fifties, in eight matches, is the highest run-scorer in Exams this yr – 205 runs greater than the subsequent highest – 636 (ave 53.00) in seven Exams by Travis Head.
# Stuart Broad has carried out exceptionally effectively this yr, capturing 27 Wickets at a median of 24.81 in 5 Exams to turn into the primary speedster to take 25 wickets or extra in Exams. The highest 4 wicket-takers in Exams in 2023 are Nathan Lyon(38 in eight Exams), Broad (27 in 5), Ravindra Jadeja (26 in 5) and Ravichandran Ashwin (25 in 4).
(Stats Courtesy: Rajesh Kumar)
