August 21, 2003

Name: Venkatesan Santhanam
Question: Could you please give the statistical comparision of Sadagoppan Ramesh, Sanjay Bangar, Shiv Sundar Das, Deep Dasgupta in Test cricket when they opened the Indian innings? Why was Ramesh is not selected even for the India 'A' tour?

Answer 1:
Their Test record as openers:

Batsman	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0
SS Das	23	40	2	1326	110	34.89	2	9	3
S Ramesh	19	37	1	1367	143	37.97	2	8	3
SB Bangar	8	13	0	327	77	25.15	-	3	1
D Dasgupta	7	11	1	306	100	30.60	1	2	2

Name: Tushar RC
Question: Rahul Dravid has scored 14 Test hundreds as of now and I would like to know how many Tests did India win/lose/draw when he scored a century. Could you also compare this with Gundappa Vishwanath (who, I presume, was never on the losing side when he scored a century)? Thanks

Answer 2:

Rahul Dravid (14 Test 100s) - Won 4, Lost 1, Drawn 9

Gundappa Vishwanath (14 Test 100s) - Won 4, Lost 0, Drawn 10

Name: Subhash K.R
Question: Who is the most successful Indian fielder?

Answer 3:
Sunil Gavaskar, with 108 catches in 125 Test matches, is the most successful Indian fielder in terms of most catches. However, in terms of frequency of catches, Eknath Solkar is the best with 53 catches in 27 Tests, which gives him a frequency percentage of 1.96 per match - the best by any fielder in Test cricket history with over 15 career catches.

Name: Karthik Narayanan
Question: How many batsman have scored a century on debut in a one-day interantionals? As far as I know it's Desmond Haynes and Manzoor Elahi. Is there any body else?

Answer 4:
In all, five batsmen have scored an ODI hundred on debut (see list below), with Shahid Afridi doing so in his second match (he did not get to bat in his debut match). Also note that the first Pakistani to do so is Salim Elahi and not Manzoor Elahi.

Batsman	Runs	For	vs	date	venue
Dennis Amiss	103	Eng	Aus	24/08/1972	Manchester
Desmond Haynes	148	WI	Aus	22/02/1978	St. John's
Andy Flower	115*	Zim	SL	23/02/1992	New Plymouth
Salim Elahi	102*	Pak	SL	29/09/1995	Gujranwala
Shahid Afridi	102	Pak	SL	4/10/1996	Nairobi (Gym)

Name: Ravi
Question: Which team has recorded extreme batting performances (big score in one innings and a batting collapse in the other) in two completed Test innings?

Answer 5:
Pakistan, against West Indies at Bridgetown in January 1958, were dismissed for 106 in the first innings, made 657-8 in the second, after being made to follow-on. It was during this innings that Hanif Mohammad made 337 in 970 minutes! Incidentally the disparity of scores in both innings is 551 runs -- the greatest in Test cricket history.

Name: Praneeth
Question: Who dismissed Steve Waugh the most number of times in first class cricket and international cricket, both in ODIs and Tests?

Answer 6:
Steve Waugh has been dismissed by the following bowlers most times in First-class: Andrew Caddick - 12 times - for England (10 times in Tests) and for Somerset (twice).

Tests: West Indian Curtley Ambrose - 11 times

ODIs: Pakistani Saqlain Mushtaq, South African Allan Donald, West Indians Curtley Ambrose and Phil Simmons - 5 times each

Name: Sudeep
Question: Who has hit maximum number of sixes in ODIs? Please list out the rank of top ten batsmen hitting maximum sixes with their respective figures.

Answer 7:
The following batsmen have hit the maximum sixes during their career

No.	Batsman	Team	6's
1	ST Jayasuriya	SL	179
2	Shahid Afridi	Pak	161
3	SC Ganguly	Ind	149
4	SR Tendulkar	Ind	135
5	IVA Richards	WI	125
6	Wasim Akram	Pak	119
7	CL Cairns	NZ	114
8	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pak	106
9	PA de silva	SL	105
10	Saeed Anwar	Pak	97

Name: Reddy
Question: what is the career record of Ganguly in county and Ranji, Duleep, Irani Trophy matches?

Answer 8:
In domestic first-class cricket

	M	Runs	Avg	100	50	wkts	Avg
Ranji	35	2085	53.46	4	11	61	28.98
Duleep	14	849	38.59	3	4	6	61.50
Irani	5	144	16.00	0	0	6	27.33
English County	13	644	33.89	0	6	4	77.75

In domestic limited-overs cricket

	M	Runs	Avg	100	50	wkts	Avg
Wills	9	380	54.28	1	2	9	20.33
Deodhar	16	711	47.40	3	2	10	40.30
Challenger	14	507	39.00	1	2	13	33.76
Ranji one-dayers	11	190	38.00	0	0	8	21.62

Name: HS Iyer
Question: Can you please give an instance of a cricketer who has come to the crease as a batsman on all the five days of a Test match for varying periods? One name that comes to mind is Jaisimha. If so can upu please furnish the details?

Answwr9:
The following batsmen have the distinction of batting for some time on all five days of a Test match:

Batsman (Score)	Teams	Venue	Season
ML Jaisimha (20* & 74)	Ind vs Aus	Calcutta	1959/1960
G Boycott (107 & 80*)	Eng vs Aus	Nottingham	1977
KJ Hughes (117 & 84)	Aus vs Eng	Lord's	1980
AJ Lamb (23 & 110)	Eng vs WI	Lord's	1984
RJ Shastri (111 & 7*)	Ind vs Eng	Calcutta	1984/1985

Name: David
Question: In matches against India, how many times has Inzamam been run-out? Also, what is his batting average against India when compared to that of Saeed Anwar.

Answer 10:
Inzamam has been run-out on four occasions in 45 ODI matches against India.

Inzamam's ODI record against India:

M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0	SR
45	42	7	1455	121*	41.57	2	8	2	74.62

Saeed Anwar's ODI record against India:

M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0	SR
50	48	2	2002	194	43.52	4	8	2	90.71