Lyon joins Botham!

Published : Sep 20, 2017 17:02 IST

Australia’s Nathan Lyon had match figures of 13/154 in the Chittagong Test against Bangladesh.
Australia’s Nathan Lyon had match figures of 13/154 in the Chittagong Test against Bangladesh.
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Australia’s Nathan Lyon had match figures of 13/154 in the Chittagong Test against Bangladesh.

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The number of “visiting” bowlers to claim 13 or more wickets in a Test match in Asia. Aussie off-spinner Nathan Lyon became the latest when he claimed 13/154 in the Chittagong Test, thus joining England’s Ian Botham (13/106 vs India at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai in Feb. 1980) as the only two “visiting” bowlers with most wickets in a Test match in Asia. Interestingly, before Lyon, the best bowling in a Test match in Asia by an Aussie bowler was by Steve O’Keefe who took 12/70 in Pune earlier this year in February!

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The tally of wickets claimed by Nathan Lyon in Asia in his 17 Tests, the fourth most by any “visiting” bowler in Asia. Check out the table below for the details:

 

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The number of Test matches won by Australia since October 2008 in Asia. During this period, in 24 Tests, the side has lost 16 and drawn 5. Its success % of 12.50 is the lowest by any visiting Test side, barring Zimbabwe, in Asia in the last nine years! The table below provides the details:

Visiting Test sides to Asia since Oct 2008

Note: Australia three Test victories came at Galle (September 2011), Pune (February 2017) and Chittagong (September 2017)

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The number of bowlers with over 500 wickets in Test cricket history. England’s James Anderson became the latest entrant, at Lord’s, when he claimed the wicket of West Indies’ Kraigg Brathwaite in the second innings. Anderson’s wickets tally has now swelled to 506 at the end of the Test match. Incidentally, he is the third pace bowler to do so after Courtney Walsh and Glenn McGrath.

The members of 500 Test wickets-club:

+ Also one Test for WXI

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The number of Test wickets claimed by James Anderson at Lord’s. This is now the most number of wickets taken by any Test bowler at a single ground outside Sri Lanka. M. Muralitharan has claimed 166 wickets at Colombo SSC, 117 at Kandy and 111 at Galle, while Rangana Herath has 94 at Galle, followed by Anderson’s tally. Anderson now also has the most number of wickets by a pace bowler at a single Test ground. The table below has the details:

 

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The number of 50s by England’s Joe Root, in consecutive Test matches. Since the Mirpur Test in October 2016, Root has managed a score of at least one fifty in each of his last 12 Test matches. This sequence extended till the Leeds Test against the West Indies. However, in the recent Lord’s Test match against the Windies, he could manage just one run in the only innings he got to bat. This means he has now equalled the Test record held by South African AB de Villiers, who, too, had made consecutive fifties in his last 12 Tests from December 2012 to February 2014.

 

 

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