Andrew

Mark Pettini is a useful county cricketer who now captains Essex but the
truth is the 114* was scored in contrived circumstances against
'declaration' bowling.  He scored his runs off 29 balls as Essex reached
186/0 in 9.4 overs (DDJ Robinson 4.4-0-117-0).  The entire innings occupied
24 minutes.

On Oct 26, 6:38 am, "Andrew Dunford" <adunf... at (no spam) artifax.net> wrote:

Mark Pettini is a useful county cricketer who now captains Essex but the
truth is the 114* was scored in contrived circumstances against
'declaration' bowling.  He scored his runs off 29 balls as Essex reached
186/0 in 9.4 overs (DDJ Robinson 4.4-0-117-0).  The entire innings occupied
24 minutes.

Still bloody impressive. It means he didn't miss hit one. Any idea why
this was "agreed" to?

Still bloody impressive. It means he didn't miss hit one. Any idea why
this was "agreed" to?

On Oct 25, 8:18 am, "Andrew Dunford" <adunf... at (no spam) artifax.net> wrote:

Andrew

Thanks for that list. This Pettini guy must be something. 114 raised
with only hits to the ropes. Never heard of him before this. Was it
one of the freak Cricketing incidents (like RJS hitting 6 sixers in an
over)? If not why are selectors not slavering over him?

Suresh

On Oct 25, 6:16 pm, jzfredricks <jzfredri... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:


Still bloody impressive. It means he didn't miss hit one. Any idea why
this was "agreed" to?

Good grief! Are you saying that it was fixed when you say "agreed to"?
What are the Bombay bookies doing in Essex?

As of 2001, the record was Guy Whittall's 22 (4x4, 1x6) inhttp://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66218.html , but they have
played a thousand ODIs since then.

The HS in Tests is supposedly 32 (8x4) by Alex Tudor in 1999 and
Sanath Jayasuriya in 1997. Tudor scored 99* in the other innings of
that match, Jayasuriya scored 199.

On Oct 27, 1:24 pm, Sreeram <sreeram.b.i... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

As of 2001, the record was Guy Whittall's 22 (4x4, 1x6) inhttp://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66218.html , but they have
played a thousand ODIs since then.

The HS in Tests is supposedly 32 (8x4) by Alex Tudor in 1999 and
Sanath Jayasuriya in 1997. Tudor scored 99* in the other innings of
that match, Jayasuriya scored 199.

Thanks Sreeram. Those numbers are lower than I expected. Especially in
ODIs. I'd have thought a Gilchrist somewhere would have blazed to a 50
or thereabouts in hits to the fence. May be somebody has exceeded that
mark in the last few years.

On Oct 27, 2:41 pm, Suresh K S <sureshkarathin... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:





On Oct 27, 1:24 pm, Sreeram <sreeram.b.i... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

As of 2001, the record was Guy Whittall's 22 (4x4, 1x6) inhttp://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66218.html , but they have
played a thousand ODIs since then.

The HS in Tests is supposedly 32 (8x4) by Alex Tudor in 1999 and
Sanath Jayasuriya in 1997. Tudor scored 99* in the other innings of
that match, Jayasuriya scored 199.

Thanks Sreeram. Those numbers are lower than I expected. Especially in
ODIs. I'd have thought a Gilchrist somewhere would have blazed to a 50
or thereabouts in hits to the fence. May be somebody has exceeded that
mark in the last few years.

I had a vague recollection (before this post) of Roy Fredricks having
hit the highest in 4s and 6s. His innings at Perth many years ago -
when he took on Lillian-Thomson? - was spoken of in hushed tones at
home (IIRC WI won that test easily but were beaten rather badly in the
series by Aussies under Ian Chappell (?)).

Suresh

I believe GR Viswanath had 25 fours in his debut 137 (in the 2nd
innings).

This now leads to the question, what test score has the highest
percentage of boundaries. (Seem to recollect a discussion like this on
rsc a few years ago ... )- Hide quoted text -

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It is, of course, a travesty, but it's meant a lot more results and
many more interesting last days of matches than would otherwise have
been the case.

On Oct 28, 9:44 am, dodo <dodo... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 27, 2:41 pm, Suresh K S <sureshkarathin... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:





On Oct 27, 1:24 pm, Sreeram <sreeram.b.i... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

As of 2001, the record was Guy Whittall's 22 (4x4, 1x6)
inhttp://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66218.html , but they have
played a thousand ODIs since then.

The HS in Tests is supposedly 32 (8x4) by Alex Tudor in 1999 and
Sanath Jayasuriya in 1997. Tudor scored 99* in the other innings of
that match, Jayasuriya scored 199.

Thanks Sreeram. Those numbers are lower than I expected. Especially in
ODIs. I'd have thought a Gilchrist somewhere would have blazed to a 50
or thereabouts in hits to the fence. May be somebody has exceeded that
mark in the last few years.

I had a vague recollection (before this post) of Roy Fredricks having
hit the highest in 4s and 6s. His innings at Perth many years ago -
when he took on Lillian-Thomson? - was spoken of in hushed tones at
home (IIRC WI won that test easily but were beaten rather badly in the
series by Aussies under Ian Chappell (?)).

Suresh

I believe GR Viswanath had 25 fours in his debut 137 (in the 2nd
innings).

This now leads to the question, what test score has the highest
percentage of boundaries. (Seem to recollect a discussion like this on
rsc a few years ago ... )- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

From some of the numbers I played with(scores < 200), a few surprises
besides the usual suspects.

Gilmour 101 20x4 1x6
Gibbs 147 28x4 2x6
Dippenaar 100 21x4
Laxman 124 25x4