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If a batsman is out without getting any runs he scores 0 (nought) or a duck - so called because 0 is the shape of a duck's egg. |
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1 man is always not out at the end |
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1 finger raised by the umpire gives you out. | |
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The batting side's total increases by 1 every time a run is scored. | |
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There are 2 umpires on the field of play. |
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2 index fingers are used to ask the third umpire for a decision. | |
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There are 3 stumps at each end of the wicket. |
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4 runs are scored for a boundary. |
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5 penalty runs are scored if the ball strikes an item of fielder's discarded equipment. |
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6 runs are scored for a boundary when the ball clears the rope or fence. |
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'6 and out' is a common rule in children's garden cricket. | |
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7 grounds in England have hosted Test matches. (The obscure seventh ground was Bramall Lane, Sheffield, where Sheffield United now play football.) |
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7 runs were scored off one ball - a single and six overthrows - by Alan Knott in 1976. | |
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Originally there were 8 balls in each over; now there are only 6. |
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Michael Slater of Australia was out 9 times in the 'Nervous 90s' (so called because players often get tense when close to scoring 100) - more than any other player in Test history. |
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9 players sit in the pavilion when their team is batting. | |
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10 – A fielding team must take 10 wickets to dismiss a batting team.
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There are 11 players in a team. |
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Jack Hobbs scored 12 Ashes centuries - more than any other English player. |
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The 12th man brings on the drinks and gets called 'sub' if he takes a catch. | |
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| 13 | The number of players on the pitch -11 fielders and 2 batsmen (from both Timothy Wood and Alan Wood) | |
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There will be 14 countries in the 2002 World Cup (T. O’Kane) |
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15 is typical of the number of players in a touring squad. |
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16 is the record for consecutive Test match wins is by Australia, November 1999 to February 2001. |
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17 players have taken more than 300 wickets in Test cricket history. |
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There are 18 first class counties that contest the major competitions in England. |
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Jim Laker of England took a record 19 wickets in one Test match (versus Australia at Old Trafford in 1956). |
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Channel 4 commentator Dermot Reeve took 20 wickets in his 29 One Day International appearances for England. |
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22 wicket-keepers have taken more than 100 catches in Test match history. |
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Stand-in England captain Alec Stewart had made 23 One Day International half-centuries before this summer. |
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It's 24 years since Ian Botham made his Test debut for England. |
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Channel 4 will screen a maximum of 25 days of live cricket in the Ashes series - 5 Test matches, each up to 5 days long. |
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26 is the lowest score ever made by a side in a Test innings (New Zealand versus England in Auckland in 1955). |
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27 Smiths have played Test cricket - 16 of them representing England. |
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Channel 4 commentator Richie Benaud captained Australia 28 times - and never lost a Test series. |
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The West Indies remained unbeaten in 29 Test series between 1980 and 1995. |
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30 batsmen have scored more than 6,000 runs in Tests.
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England and Australia have contested 31 of the 101 Test matches played at Lord's. |
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England all-rounder Dominic Cork had taken 32 Test wickets at Lord's. |
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| 33 | |
Wickets taken by Harold Larwood in the 1932-33 "Bodyline" series |
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Sunil Gavaskar of India scored a record 34 Test centuries. |
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England's historic win at Karachi's National Stadium in December 2000 was Pakistan's first defeat at the ground in 35 Tests. |
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England once bowled out Australia for 36 (back in 1902). |
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This summer's first Ashes Test will be the 36th Test match to be played at Edgbaston. | |
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38 bowlers have taken 200 or more wickets in Test cricket history. |
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Former England captain Graham Gooch had 39 Test innings at Lord's, scoring a record 2,015 runs. |
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| 40 | |
For many years the Sunday League of cricket was 40 overs per side.
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| 41 | |
Australia have beaten England 41 times in Ashes Tests in England. |
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| 42 | |
There are 42 Laws of Cricket. |
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Colin Cowdrey of England played in a record 43 Tests against Australia. |
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| 44 | |
Wickets taken by Australia’s Clarrie Grimmett against South Africa in 1935-36 – still the Australian Test record |
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The first Test match between Australia and England in Melbourne in March 1877 ended in a 45 run win for Australia. |
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By amazing coincidence, this was also the winning margin for Australia in the Centenary match in 1977. | |
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And 45 was also England's lowest ever total against Australia (in 1886). | |
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| 46 | |
Wickets taken by England off-spinner Jim Laker in the 1956 series against Australia – still an Ashes record. |
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| 47 | |
The legendary Jack Hobbs was 47 years old when he made his final Test appearance for England (versus Australia in 1930). |
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Minutes Ian Botham took to reach 50 for England against New Zealand at The Oval in 1986 – the quickest ever half-century for England |
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Wickets taken by England’s Sydney Barnes in four Tests against South Africa in 1913-14 – still the Test record |
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When a batsman has reached 50 it's called a half-century. |
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The standard number of overs per side in international and domestic limited overs matches. | |
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Crowds generally clap when any total (apart from runs conceded by the bowler) reaches a multiple of 50.
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Channel 4 commentator Ian Bishop took 51 of his 161 Test wickets against England. |
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Legendary Australian wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield made 52 stumpings in his career, a record in Tests. |
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Wilfred Rhodes was 52 when he played his last Test in 1930. | |
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The West Indies were dismissed for only 54 in last summer's 2nd Test at Lord's. |
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Balls taken by Viv Richards to reach 100 v England in Antigua, 1986 – the fastest Test century in terms of balls received |
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Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath and former wicket-keeper Ian Healy had 58 joint dismissals in Tests. |
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The West Indies were unbeaten in 59 years in Bridgetown - until England won there on the 1993/94 tour. |
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The early World Cups were 60 overs per side.
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Allan Border of Australia made a record 63 half-centuries in Test matches. |
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Harold 'Dicky' Bird umpired a record 66 Test matches. |
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England and Australia have met 67 times in One Day Internationals. |
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| 68 | |
Number of runs scored by England’s Trevor Bailey in the second innings of the 1958 Brisbane Ashes Test – in seven hours and 38 minutes – during the course of which he made the slowest 50 in Test annals. |
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Percentage of runs off the bat (69.6 to be precise) scored by Australia’s Charles Bannerman in the opening innings of the inaugural Test match – 165 out of 237. Nobody has matched such dominance. |
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Minutes Jack Gregory took to reach his century for Australia against South Africa at Johannesburg in 1921 – still the quickest in Tests in terms of time |
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73 players have captained England in Test matches. |
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Runs conceded by India’s Anil Kumble when he became the second player to take all 10 wickets in a Test innings – India v Pakistan, Delhi, 1999. |
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In 1902 at The Oval, it took Gilbert Jessop only 75 minutes to score 100 runs... |
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...and Jessop's 100 was made off 76 balls. |
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Test matches have been played at 79 venues around the world - Galle in Sri Lanka is the newest ground on the list. |
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Don Bradman played only 80 Test innings, but scored a mammoth 6,996 runs.
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| 81 | |
Total number of runs scored by South Africa (36 & 45) against Australia at Melbourne in 1932 – the lowest aggregate by any side losing all 20 wickets in a Test. |
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| 82 | |
82 England players have scored a century in a Test match against Australia. |
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Channel 4 commentator Richie Benaud took 83 wickets against England in Tests. |
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Test wickets taken by Australia’s Dennis Lillee in 1981 – a record for a calendar year. |
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There have been 86 drawn Tests between England and Australia. |
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The Devil's Number - Austalian batsmen are very superstitious about being on 87, because it's 13 short of 100. |
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| 88 | |
Doug Walters’s highest Test score in England: the great Australian batsman scored 15 centuries for his country and averaged 48. |
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89 is David Gower's highest Test score against Sri Lanka - the only country he didn't make a Test century against. |
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90 overs are bowled in a day's play in a Test match in England. |
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Mike Brearley’s highest Test score – v India in 1976-77. |
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| 92 | |
The top speed reached by Darren Gough during a Test match was 92mph (92.3mph to be precise) - at Trent Bridge in England in 2000. |
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| 93 | |
Allan Border of Australia has captained his country in Tests a record 93 times. |
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Former England wicket-keeper Jack Russell made 94 on his debut against Sri Lanka in 1988. |
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Alan Knott played 95 Tests for England, the most by any wicket-keeper. |
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Tony Greig of England made 96 on his first appearance as captain (versus Australia at Lord's in 1975). |
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Alan Knott was England's most successful wicket-keeper in Ashes games, with 97 catches. |
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| 98 | |
Overs bowled by West Indies’ leg-spinner Sonny Ramadhin in England’s first innings at Edgbaston in 1957 – still the most in a Test innings (he bowled 129 in the match, another record). |
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The game's greatest player, Sir Donald Bradman, retired with a batting average of 100 (99.94 to be precise). |
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Making 100 runs - a century - is every batsman's dream.
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