Benedict Bermange has stats on identical bowling figures, triple tons and more...
Sunday 24 December 2017 08:38, UK
While many of you will be concerned with the number of Christmas presents you hope to receive, Benedict Bermange is just concerned with numbers.
As 2017 winds to a close, our stats man has dug into his records to find the best and most interesting numbers of the year - seriously, his one on South Africa's Aiden Markram is a cracker!
So take a sip of mulled wine, tuck into your mince pies and enjoy the stats of the year…
0 - The number of runs conceded by South Africa's Dane van Niekerk as she took four wickets against the Windies in their ICC Women's World Cup match at Leicester - the most wickets in any international cricket match, men's or women's, without conceding a run:
3 - The number of wickets Moeen Ali took with successive deliveries to finish the Oval Test against South Africa. In terms of hat-tricks, it was:
The first in Test cricket with three left-handed batsmen dismissed
The first in Test cricket at The Oval
The first by a spinner in England since 1912
The first by an England spinner since 1938
7 - The number of letters in the surname of South Africa's Aiden Markram - the longest palindromic surname in Test cricket. The previous record was held by Rangy Nanan, who played one Test for the Windies in 1980.
8 - The number of runs England lost their last eight wickets for in the final Twenty20 International against India at Bengaluru in February. Their score of 119-2 became 127 all out in the space of 19 balls.
19 - The number of wickets the Windies lost on the third day of the Edgbaston Test, the most they have ever lost in a single day.
35 - The number of runs conceded in each innings by Steve O'Keeffe in Australia's victory over India at Pune, the spinner taking six wickets both times. These are the best identical bowling figures in Test history:
100 - David Warner became just the fifth player to score a century before lunch on the first day of a Test match when he did so against Pakistan at Sydney in January:
176 - The number of Tests England went between Galle in 2003 and Brisbane in 2017 without fielding a team exclusively born in England.
176 - The score Evin Lewis made in the ODI at The Oval before having to retire hurt - the highest individual score in international cricket history which has ended with the batsman retiring hurt. The previous record was set by Charles Bannerman in the very first Test of all - 165 runs in 1877.
184 - The number of runs Joe Root scored at Lord's on his first day as a Test captain - only surpassed by Clem Hill hitting 191 for Australia against South Africa at Sydney in 1910.
191 - The number of deliveries it took Border's Marco Marais to reach his triple-century, a new world record, beating the previous record for the fastest 300 in first-class cricket, which had stood for nearly a century:
211 - AB de Villiers' first golden duck, against Pakistan at Birmingham in the ICC Champions Trophy, came in his 211th ODI innings, setting a new record - former New Zealand star Stephen Fleming's came in his 209th innings, against South Africa in Auckland in 2004.
320 - India's Deepti Sharma and Poonam Raut put on the biggest partnership in Women's ODI history with a 320-run stand against Ireland in Potchefstroom:
534 - The number of first-class matches at Headingley it took for the first batsman to score two centuries in a match there, that batsmen being Windies' Shai Hope in this year's Test.
