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Current and Recent Matches (Now Including Twenty20 Matches) [Updated: 09:45 Jul 04, 2009 (UTC+0930)]
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West Indies v. India - 3rd ODI - India win by 6 wickets after rain caused Duckworth-Lewis method to be invoked, and lead series 2-1.
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West Indies v. India - 2nd ODI - West Indies level series 1-1 with 8 wicket victory.
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West Indies v. India - 1st ODI - Victory to India after West Indies fall 20 runs short of target of 340.
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ICC World Twenty20 - Final - Pakistan claim trophy with convincing 8 wicket victory.
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ICC World Twenty20 - Semi Final - Sri Lanka to meet Pakistan in final after easy 57 run win over West Indies.
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ICC World Twenty20 - Semi Final - Pakistan through to final as South African fail in chasing 150.
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Which Was the Best Ever Test Cricket Team?
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A regular visitor, Dave Wilson, has written a very interesting article where he has taken
the current ICC criteria for ranking Test sides, and applied it retrospectively going
back to the very first test match.
NOTE that the article is in Adobe Acrobat format (.PDF) and requires
that Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher is installed on your computer.
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Milestones & Recent Records
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Observations from the Statistician
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Muttiah Muralitharan recently became the leading ODI wicket taker. I have compiled some of his statistical higlights in this review. (12/02/2009)
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Approaching Milestones [Updated: 20:45 May 07, 2009 (UTC+0930)]
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Tests: Ricky Ponting nears 11,000 runs while Wasim Jaffer, and Mahendra Dhoni near 2,000 runs. Daniel Vettori nears 300 wickets, while Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson, and Lasith Malinga near 100 wickets. Makahaya Ntini nears 100 Tests. Herschelle Gibbs nears 100 catches.
ODI's: Yuvraj Singh nears 7,000 runs, while Shoaib Malik nears 5,000 runs. Kamran Akmal, Brendan Taylor, Shahriar Nafees, Kennedy Otieno, and Aftab Ahmed near 2,000 runs. Mahela Jayawardene nears 300 matches, while Christopher Gayle and Andrew Symonds near 200 matches. Shahid Afridi, Younis Khan, and Paul Collingwood near 100 catches.
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Recent Records and Achievements [Updated: 19:00 May 18, 2009 (UTC+0930)]
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Tests: Ramnaresh Sarwan scores his fifteenth century and is the leading run scorer in 2009. Denesh Ramdin and Sulieman Benn set a new eighth wicket partnership record at the Riverside Ground. Alistair Cook scores his ninth century and averages 50.0 playing at home. Ravinda Bopara scores his third consecutive century, and is averaging 118.3 against the West Indies. Graham Onions becomes the forty seventh England player to take five wickets or more in an innings on debut. Fidel Edwards takes six wickets in an innings and is averaging 44.4 away from home. Alistair Cook and Ravinda Bopara set a new second wicket partnership record at the Riverside Ground. Ravinda Bopara scores his second century and is averaging 123.5 against the West Indies. Ross Taylor scores his fourth century and averages 49.7 at home and 30.4 away.
ODI's: Kamran Akmal scores his fifth century. Shane Watson scores his second century and averages 54.0 opening the innings. Michael Clarke scores his fourth century and averages 73.6 against Pakistan. Douglas Bollinger records his best performance taking five wickets in the match. Shahid Afridi records his best performance taking six wickets in a match. David Hemp scores his first century and the first for Bermuda. Dale Steyn takes four wickets in a match for the second time, and is averaging 18.1 when South Africa bowl second. Wayne Parnell takes four wickets in a match for the first time. Andrew Flintoff records his best performance, and becomes the third England player to take a Hat Trick. Nathan Hauritz records his best performance, taking four wickets in a match for the second time.
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