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Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians @acscricket.bsky.social · May 29
Membership at @acscricket.bsky.social has never been such good value. Subscription rates have been held for years making membership very attractive with access to ACS website, ACS publications, ACS journal, ACS online forum, ACS auctions & much more. Https://acscricket.com #cricketcounts
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England’s four innings in the Ashes Test series so far have lasted 219.1 overs or 1,315 balls. Losing 40 wickets in those innings means that they have lost a wicket every 32.875 balls, on average. #ENGvAUS #cricketcounts
December 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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RIP Robin Smith. He played 62 Test matches for England scoring 4,236 runs at 43.67 with 9 tons. He also appeared in 71 ODI’s scoring 2,419 runs at 39.01. In all 1st class games he tallied 26,155 runs at 41.51 & 14,927 runs in List A cricket at 41.12. #cricketcounts
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Joe Root’s 40 Test match centuries have been accumulated all over the world: 24 in England; 4 in West Indies; 3 in each of India, Sri Lanka & New Zealand. 1 in each of South Africa, Pakistan &, now, Australia. #cricketcounts
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Playwright and cricket fan Tom Stoppard, who has died aged 88, wrote a famous speech in praise of the cricket bat in his play The Real Thing (1982), using the skilful creation of a bat as a metaphor for the writing of plays.
#TomStoppard
This thing here, which looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It’s for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you’ve done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly... What we’re trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might... travel... (He picks up the script) Now, what we’ve got here is a lump of wood of roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat, and if you hit a ball with it, the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting “Ouch!” with your hands stuck into your armpits. (Indicating the cricket bat) This isn’t better because someone says it’s better, or because there’s a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lord’s. It’s better because it’s better. You don’t believe me, so I suggest you go out to bat with this (the script) and see how you get on. - Henry’s speech on the cricket bat from Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing)
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Travis Head’s century in Perth in the 1st Ashes Test is the joint-6th fastest in all Tests & the joint-3rd fastest by an Australian.

Adam Gilchrist did it in 57 balls & Jack Gregory in 67 balls; David Warner matched Head's 69.

More at stats.acscricket.com/Records/Test...

#Ashes2025 #cricketcounts
Australian batter Travis Head raising his green helmet in his right hand and his bat in his left to acknowledge the applause for his hundred.
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Zac Crawley is the 4th ever England opening batsman to record a pair in an Ashes Test in Australia. Trevor Bailey in 1959, Dennis Amiss in 1975 & Michael Atherton in 1998 were the others. #Ashes2025 #cricketcounts
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Mitchell Starc had his best analysis in Test cricket today in Perth of 7-58 in 12.5 overs. In his previous Test innings as a bowler he took 6-9 v West Indies. So Starc’s last two analyses in Test cricket have given him combined figures of 13-67. #Ashes2025 #cricketcounts
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Mahmudul, Shadman, Mominul and Shanto are only the 11th case in Tests of the top four all scoring 80+ (including three where they all made centuries), and the first for Bangladesh.

Despite their much longer Test histories, South Africa and West Indies have never done it.
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Bangladesh have put themselves in with a chance of their biggest innings victory in a Test: currently an innings and 184 runs, so they would have to bowl Ireland out for 116 or below to surpass it.

They also once beat Afghanistan by 546 runs.
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Akash Choudhary has scored first-class cricket's fastest fifty off 11 balls (beating 12) hitting a record eight successive sixes (beating six) for Meghalaya v Arunachal Pradesh.

stats.acscricket.com/Records/Firs...
stats.acscricket.com/Records/Firs...

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November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Joe Root has never scored a Test century in Australia. Nor has he won a Test match down under. He has scored 9 fifties & averages 35.68 from 892 runs. Only Ian Bell & Sir Alistair Cook have scored more fifties in Australian Test matches in 21st century down under. #cricketcounts
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Went to check a detail on Shubman Gill's Cricinfo page, and was rather impressed by the "Most Viewed Players" list under his picture today. (Though a little sorry for Kranti Gaud, as the list is restricted to the top ten).
#CWC25
November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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We're proud to publish the late Eric Midwinter's Christianity at the Crease, the tangled story of cricket and the church shop.acscricket.com?product=chri...
and Andrew Hignell's account of cricketing family The Hills of Rookwood shop.acscricket.com?product=the-...
Other titles at shop.acscricket.com
Christianity at the Crease: Cricket and the Church, by Eric Midwinter. Cover photo shows the Reverend David Shepperd in 1957, dressed in a dark suit, demonstrating a batting stroke to some small boys in short trousers. Mirrorpix via Getty Images Lives in Cricket The Hills of Rookwood: An Exceptional Sporting Family, by Andrew Hignell. Cover photo shows four young men standing behind three seated women, all in formal 1890s dress
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Best bowling in a Women's World Cup final:

6/46 A Shrubsole 2017
5/39 DB Sharma 2025
4/34 NJ Shaw 2009
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Highest score in a Women's World Cup final:

170 AJ Healy 2022
148* N Sciver-Brunt 2022
107* KL Rolton 2005
101 L Wolvaardt 2025
November 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Women's World Cup champions:

1973 England
1978 Australia
1982 Australia
1988 Australia
1993 England
1997 Australia
2000 New Zealand
2005 Australia
2009 England
2013 Australia
2017 England
2022 Australia
***2025 India***
November 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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We have uploaded the John Player Special League Record Book 1969 to 1986 to the @ACScricket website. See archive.acscricket.com/books/acs_ot... for link to this and other items.
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Revise list below to add:
2025/26 Australia beat India by three wickets, chasing down a record 331; India beat Australia by five wickets, chasing down a record 339.
stats.acscricket.com/Records/Wome... (to be updated overnight)
#CWC25 #INDvAUS
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Women's WC KO matches which were the reverse of the group stage result:

1993 NZ b Eng 25r/E b NZ 67r
2000 A b NZ 6w/NZ b A 4r
2005 NZ b I 16r/I b NZ 40r
2013 WI b A 8r/A b WI 114r
2017 A b I 8w/I b A 36r
2017 I b E 35r/E b I 9r
2022 SA b E 3w/E b SA 137r
2025 E b SA 10w/SA b E 125r
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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During Ecclestone's two spells, South Africa scored 81/6 in 18 overs. Outside it, 238/1 in 32 overs.
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Best bowling in an innings defeat:

8/107 NA Foster, Eng vs Pak 1987
8/143 MHN Walker, Aus vs Eng 1975
7/65 SJ Pegler, SA vs Eng 1912
7/70 FMM Worrell, WI vs Eng 1957
7/95 WH Ashley, SA vs Eng 1889
7/97 Ziaur Rahman, Afg vs Zim 2025
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Nagaland's sixth wicket pair of Dega Nischal and Imliwati Lemtur have added 205* against Tamil Nadu, after Gurjapneet Singh took a hat trick earlier in the innings. Not sure what the highest partnership to follow a hat trick is, but this might well be up there...
October 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Alana King’s 7-18 for Australia v South Africa earlier today, was the best ever analysis in a women’s ODI World Cup match. #cricketcounts
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Simon Harmer has become the 4th South African to take 1,000 first class wickets. Charlie Llewellyn, Mike Procter & Alan Donald = the others. Harmer is only 1 of 2 cricketers anywhere who debuted in the 21st century to reach the milestone. James Anderson the other #cricketcounts
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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9th and 10th wickets both adding 70+:

115 & 130 RE Foster/AE Relf/W Rhodes, 1903
108 & 73 JM Ryder/WAS Oldfield/AA Mailey, 1925
74 & 151 Azhar Mahmood/Mushtaq Ahmed/Waqar Younis, 1997
88 & 74 SPD Smith/PM Siddle/NM Lyon, 2019
71 & 98 S Muthusamy/KA Maharaj/K Rabada, 2025
October 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM