Tuesday, September 15, 2009

CricTrivia

I've just seen Australia's Tim Paine run out for a duck on his ODI debut. How many people have suffered this fate?

Well, first of all it wasn't Tim Paine's first one-day international, as he also played against Scotland in Edinburgh the previous week, and scored 29 not out. But 20 people have been run out for a duck in their first one-day international, the most recent being Sri Lanka's Thilan Thushara against West Indies in St Lucia in April 2008. Five of the batsmen concerned - Roger Binny of India, Zimbabwe's Eddo Brandes, Ryan Hurley of West Indies, Bangladesh's Enamul Haque junior and England's Alex Loudon - were particularly unlucky, as they were run out without even facing a ball. In Loudon's case it was his one and only international match, against Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street in 2006.


How many people have been out stumped by the same wicketkeeper off the same bowler in both innings of the same Test?


This has happened on 11 occasions now, most recently to Zimbabwe's Christopher Mpofu, who was stumped McCullum bowled Vettori in both innings against New Zealand in Harare in 2005. The previous one was Sri Lanka's Upul Chandana, stumped Gilchrist bowled Warne in both innings against Australia in Cairns in 2004. The first time it happened was in 1894-95, when England's Bobby Peel was stumped by Affie Jarvis off the bowling of Charles "Terror" Turner in both innings against Australia in Sydney, to complete his second successive pair. A further seven batsmen, making a total of 18, have been out stumped in both innings of a Test (but not off the same bowler).

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