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Marnus Labuschagne has gone 47 Test match innings without a ton. This equals the Australian record number of innings of a Top 4 Test match batter failing to get a 100. The person who he now holds the record with? Alick Bannerman who played his last Test in 1893. #cricketcounts

Today @acscricket.bsky.social launches First-Class to Harrogate, a celebration of first-class cricket in Harrogate. Yorkshire played there most years 1882 to 1996. Stephen Blades superbly details many of the matches across a 114-year span of social and economic change. On sale at shop.acscricket.com

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Harry Brook has emulated what was hitherto a unique cross-format feat: he joins Chris Gayle, the only previous player to score 300+ in a Test, 200+ in an ODI and 100+ in a T20I.

Sri Lanka's 430 is the second highest successful chase in ODIs. We're guessing everyone knows what the first is.

Harry Brook's 202 is the 14th double century in men's ODIs, the first for England, the fastest (both in terms of balls taken to 200 [114] and strike rate in the whole innings [174]) - and the first to end in defeat. The previous highest score in a losing cause is CK Coventry 194*.

Many congratulations to Richard Kettleborough for standing in his 100th Test match as an on field umpire. He is the first Englishman to do so and only the 5th umpire to achieve the 100 Test level. Well done. (Photo ICC). #cricketcounts

Marco Jansen, aged 26 yrs, 170 days is the youngest player in the current Test at Gqeberha He is the oldest youngest player in a Test beating 26 yrs, 152 days AMB Rowan (SA) Eng v SA Manchester 1947

HS for anyone not born in the country they played for: 337 Hanif Mohammad (Pak, b In) 270* GA Headley (WI, b Panama) 258 BA Stokes (En, b NZ) 232* A Flower (Zim, b SA) 232 UT Khawaja (Aus, b Pak) 227 KP Pietersen (En, b SA) 227 DP Conway (NZ, b SA) 226 Pietersen 226 IJL Trott (En, b SA) 223 Headley

Since people have been asking - highest scores for England by players not born there: 258 BA Stokes (b NZ) 227 KP Pietersen (b SA) 226 Pietersen 226 IJL Trott (b SA) 207 N Hussain (b India) 205 ER Dexter (b Italy) 203 Trott 202* Pietersen 188 MH Denness (b Scotland) 186 Pietersen

The Call for Papers for our 2027 conference is LIVE! We'll be heading to Old Trafford on 18 February 2027, so save the date. And if you've got research into cricket that you'd like to share, get cracking - you have until 20 November. All the details are here:

Vicar's son, fast bowler, poet & rebel 202 wkts @ 26.66 in 49 Tests 31 wkts @ 22.83 as Eng regained the Ashes in 1970-71 Sent Gavaskar sprawling at Lord's 1971; joined Packer; won in court Published two books of 'verse' John Snow born #onthisday 1941 #cricketcounts

232* v Ireland aged 17, still the highest score in women's ODIs; 5/17 in the same match Player of the Final & Tournament as NZ won the 2024 T20 WC ODIs: 2715 runs, 129 wkts T20Is: 2049 runs, 111 wkts Now NZ captain Amelia Kerr born #onthisday 2000 #cricketcounts

Most Test wickets without taking more than 6 in an innings: 326 PJ Cummins 317 TA Boult 311 JR Hazlewood 310 B Lee* 309 M Morkel 304 KAJ Roach *Lee never took more than 5, and is the record holder in that respect.

Groundsman inspects a crater in the middle of the pitch at Old Trafford cricket ground after a German bombing raid on December 22nd 1940.

Multiple 180-199 scores in Tests without ever making it to 200: 3 - M Azharuddin, RB Richardson, MP Vaughan 2 - C Hill, CP Mead, IM Chappell, MH Denness, MEK Hussey, S Dhawan, D Elgar, MT Renshaw

The 134 with Matt Renshaw is the first time in Nathan Lyon's 144-Test career that he has been involved in a century partnership - his previous best was 87 with Mitchell Starc, also against SA, at the WACA in 2012.

Sri Lanka's 45 is the joint lowest total by a Full Member team in a T20I; West Indies were bowled out for the same total vs England in 2019.

West Indies are only the sixth team to register three individual century-makers in an ODI innings - and the first of them to lose the match.

India's 406/2 is the second highest successful run chase in an ODI, behind South Africa's 438/9 vs Australia in 2006. Shubman Gill's 223* is the highest score batting second in an ODI and only the second double century, after Glenn Maxwell's 201 vs Afghanistan in the 2023 World Cup.

@ACScricket is delighted to launch the book ‘Lives in Cricket 67 - Greville Stevens: The Prodigy’ by Max Bonnell, a fascinating story of a man who played for England when they regained The Ashes in 1926. Yet he faded from the game barely 30 years old. shop.acscricket.com #cricketcounts

34 wkts at just 22.82. 9 of 15 Tests were overseas, got 31 @ 15.35 in them, a hat-trick at Cape Town. Often forgotten by writers when left-arm wrist spinners are listed, but remembered for facing the final ball of the Brisbane Tie Lindsay Kline born #onthisday 1934 #cricketcounts

Born #onthisday 1981 Brendon McCullum hit 6453 runs @ 38.64 incl NZ's 1st 300 & fastest Test 100. 52 of 101 Tests were as wk. 6083 ODI runs,158* off 73 in the 1st ever IPL game Bazball started with a big bang, but then lost its way, ending with heavy Ashes defeat #CricketCounts

40 Tests, avg 30. But 22 of those Tests were vs WI. Whenever openers were to face fast men, Anshuman Gaekwad was sent for. Nothing stands out like 81 vs Holding-Daniel barrage at Jamaica in 1976. Later scored what was then slowest 200 in f-c. Born #onthisday 1952 #cricketcounts

Colourful patka, beautiful action, ball on a string, immediately recognisable & immensely popular Born #onthisday 1946 Bishan Bedi took 266 wickets with his left-arm spin Led Ind in the mid-70s & managed Ind team of early 90s, courting controversies in both roles #cricketcounts

A fallen hero who died tragically early Born #onthisday 1969 Hansie Cronje was the very face of a relentless South African side as he led them in 53 Tests with 27-11 w-l. Then came disgrace & ban. Tests 3714 runs, 43 wkts ODIs 5565, 114 Died in a plane crash at 32 #cricketcounts

5345 Test runs at 42.42 with 14 hundreds. Won 15 of 30 Tests as captain, losing 5. A driving force behind World Series Cricket, which transformed players' pay and conditions. Later a sharp, fearless voice in the commentary box. Ian Chappell, born #OnThisDay 1943 #CricketCounts

OG Robinson and KL Aldridge set a FC partnership record for Durham v Lancashire by adding 87 for the 6th wicket, beating the 81* set by DM Benkenstein and ID Blackwell at Liverpool in 2011. @acscricket.bsky.social

We'd need to check, but with Kadowaki-Fleming, Yamamoto-Lake, Ito-Davis, Shirai-Patmore, Sakurano-Thomas, Hara-Hinze and Sugaya-Slater, Japan may have international cricket's most hyphen-laden line-up. They put the Dutch trio of Dulfer-Keijzer, Batenberg-Venturini and Koppe-V-Dishoek in the shade.

England's 3-0 series victory takes their sequence of consecutive wins over Sri Lanka to 15 - equal second on the list, with the record in sight.

The pace-heavy nature of SA's attack in their first few years after readmission gave Richardson a curious record: he is the only wicketkeeper in Test history whose first 100 dismissals were all catches. Jos Buttler came close to equalling him - he took 91 keeper catches before his only stumping.

RS Vasconcelos equalled the highest FC individual innings of 187 for Northamptonshire v Durham, previously set by MEK Hussey at Northampton in 2003. @acscricket.bsky.social

WMH Rhodes and BA Stokes set a FC partnership record for Durham v Northamptonshire by adding 153 for the 4th wicket, beating the 107 set by MA Roseberry and PD Collingwood at Chester-le-Street in 1996. @acscricket.bsky.social

DG Bedingham and CN Ackermann set a FC partnership record for Durham v Northamptonshire by adding 189* for the 5th wicket, beating the 187 set by SG Borthwick and PD Collingwood at Chester-le-Street in 2014. @ACScricket

JA Haynes and LA Patterson-White set a FC partnership record for Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire by adding 257 for the 6th wicket, beating the 201 set by AW Carr and W Walker at Leicester in 1925. @acscricket.bsky.social

The lowest all-out FC team score by Northamptonshire v Durham is now 50, beating the 83 set at Chester-le-Street in 2014. @acscricket.bsky.social

TAR Scriven and JH Davey set a FC partnership record for Leicestershire v Nottinghamshire by adding 106 for the 10th wicket, beating the 89 set by BWM Mike and WS Davis at Leicester in 2022. @acscricket.bsky.social