Inside Edge

Marc Dawson

Description

Who scored the 5000th international century? Which New Zealand Test captain married a Miss Universe? And which Test cricketer's son was placed on Interpol's most-wanted list? From the beginnings of the game to the present day, Inside Edge delivers a treasure trove of global cricketing curiosities. Immerse yourself in the magic that is cricket with a panoply of wildly unusual feats on the field, and just as many eyebrow-raising incidents after the close of play. From the brother-and-sister twins who played for Australia to the 14-year-old schoolboy who scored 500 in a match in India, Marc Dawson serves up facts, feats and figures destined to delight all followers of this amazing game. With 20 subject areas including Twenty20 cricket, cricket and politics, music and cinema and cricket in wartime, Inside Edge features an array of esoteric, previously unpublished photographs, famous scorecards, quirky quotations and statistical tables.

Sujets

• Críquet
• Cricket

Informations

• Publié par: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781785310867
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

What the experts say about some of Marc Dawson s previous books
ABC Cricket Quiz (1986) - This book is probably one of the best of its kind, and unless history repeats itself in my lifetime I may never get another opportunity to witness such an all-round masterpiece on sporting questions. - former West Indies opening batsman Gordon Greenidge
Cricket in Question (1989) - An intriguing book full of facts, figures and events about the history of world cricket. It allows you to relive some of the magical moments of the game. - former New Zealand all-rounder Richard Hadlee
Cricket Extras 2 (1994) - Marc Dawson once again exposes cricket s universal appeal. - former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy
Through the Covers (2005) - Marc Dawson s fine book gives a lot of food for thought. I heartily recommend this book to all number crunchers. - former Zimbabwe fast bowler Henry Olonga
The Cricket Tragic s Book of Cricket Extras Volume 2 (2010) - Another in the long line of remarkably researched products from Marc Dawson. The high quality of the work is deserving of success. - Indian cricket statistician Rajesh Kumar
Outside Edge (2013) - A wonderfully entertaining book that will amuse and entertain in equal measure. - Steve Dolman, Derbyshire County Cricket Club

First published by Pitch Publishing, 2015
Pitch Publishing
A2 Yeoman Gate
Yeoman Way
Durrington
BN13 3QZ
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk
Marc Dawson, 2015
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Contents
Foreword by Tom Moody
1 Hit and Run
Triple-century with a broken bat
2 Lights, Camera, Action
Don Bradman, the actor
3 A Family Affair
Brother and sister open the bowling for same state in same year
4 Twenty20 Teasers
99 not out on Twenty20 debut
5 Political Intrigue
Prime Minister bats and bowls for both sides in same match
6 Cricket and Crime
Police officer interrupts his own innings to make an arrest
7 Speed and Spin
Identical career-best bowling figures in both Tests and one-day internationals
8 Women in Uniform
Female Test cricketer scores century in men s match
9 Births and Deaths
Two Test cricketers with same nickname share the same date of birth and death
10 Team Triumphs and Tribulations
Century partnerships by opening and last-wicket pairs in same Test innings
11 Media Moments
Cricket commentator goes undercover to play in match
12 Cricket and Combat
Adolf Hitler and cricket
13 The Low and the Slow
Golden ducks on consecutive days
14 Writers and Painters
Arthur Conan Doyle takes a hat-trick
15 Cricket and the Classroom
Four ex-students from same school hit first-class centuries on same day
16 With Bat and Ball
A match double of 287 and 7-1
17 This Sporting Life
Queensland club cricketer becomes British Open golf champion
18 Personal Matters
Mass wedding to mark the World Cup
19 Pitch Perfect
Michael Jackson agrees to play cricket
20 Sundries
Same cricket match played in two countries at same time
Credits
Foreword
T HE fascination with our great game continues to grow. We now have three forms of cricket that are thriving at all levels. This has created a broader base of interest in the community. Test cricket in my view is still the flagship of all formats, and it s the game all players want to master. Cricket s followers have developed through the growth of the various media platforms and of the recent success of Twenty20 cricket around the world. There was a time when our fathers and grandfathers introduced the game to us through Test matches over the summer, now we have our grandchildren and children introducing the new brand of the game, Twenty20. It s contagious either way. The wheel has turned and turned for the better from a participation point of view, whether one plays, umpires, watches, scores, studies or just chats about the game, it s all a healthy pastime.

Marc Dawson has once again produced an absorbing book on our game which covers all areas imaginable with an intriguing approach. You will have a chance to see the game through others and reflect on their view and lose yourself in your own opinion; it s like that healthy discussion that is carried out in the members bar during tea or after play.
We have for ever been lost in the real facts and history in almost everything we do, cricket is no different, and statistics have always been the measure of a player or team over time. With Inside Edge you will be taken on an extraordinary journey of facts that gravitate around our game. Some will shock you and others will captivate you like a classical mystery. I am sure you will be lost in partnership with it for a number of sessions. Enjoy

Tom Moody
former Australian Test cricketer
Hit and Run
While no batsman had ever scored a double-century in the first ten World Cups, two did so in the 2015 edition. West Indies opener Chris Gayle was first cab off the rank with 215 against Zimbabwe in Canberra only to have his record usurped a month later by New Zealand opener Martin Guptill who made an unbeaten 237.
After going 19 months without a three-figure score in one-day internationals, Gayle let loose with a World Cup-record 16 sixes becoming the first batsman to score 175 or more in an innings in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket and the first to attain the feat of a century in a Twenty20 international, a double-century in a ODI and a triple-century in a Test match. Along the way, Gayle and Marlon Samuels (133*) staged a second-wicket 372-run stand, the highest partnership for any wicket in List A cricket.

The West Indies opener marked the 1,000th international match to be staged in Australia by hitting the first World Cup 200 on the same day - 24 February - that Sachin Tendulkar had made the first 200 in a one-day international, in 2010.
Gayle then watched his record taken in a quarter-final in Wellington as New Zealand compiled a match-winning 393/6 against the West Indies with Guptill scoring his country s first double-century in one-day international cricket.
Within a single of scoring his maiden double-century in the County Championship, Kent batsman Brendan Nash pulled the plug on his innings in the match against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham in 2013. Battling exhaustion on what was the hottest day of the summer at the time, the Australian-born former West Indies Test batsman retired on 199.
On his way to a century in a second XI match in 2013, Lancashire batsman Jordan Clark hit six sixes in over. Clark, who made his List A debut for the club in 2010, took to the bowling of Yorkshire spinner Gurman Randhawada for the full house of sixes during the match at Scarborough. On the same day, in a first-class match at Cambridge, Middlesex wicketkeeper Adam Rossington (103*) also hit the jackpot with six consecutive sixes. Facing Cambridge MCCU s Akbar Ansari, Rossington hit a six off the last five balls of an over, then struck another off the first ball of his next.
After Charlie Bull had carried his bat in a first-class match in 1935, his opening partner repeated the feat in the second innings. Bull scored 57 not out in Worcestershire s first innings of 150 against Lancashire at Kidderminster while Harold Gibbons carried his bat for 83 in their second-innings follow-on total of 148. The match provides the only instance of different openers carrying their bats for the same team in each innings of a first-class match.
Simon Katich celebrated his 50th first-class match for New South Wales with a fifty, becoming the fifth batsman to score 500 runs in Sheffield Shield finals. Batting against Tasmania in Hobart in 2010/11, the Blues skipper hit 96 and joined Martin Love, Tom Moody, Stuart Law and Geoff Marsh in reaching the 500-run milestone in Shield finals. Love was the first batsman to achieve 1,000 runs, posting 1,107 with five centuries and a further three fifties.
With an innings of 107 against the West Indies at Kingston in 2014, Jimmy Neesham became the first player to score centuries in his first two Tests but against different opponents. The eighth batsman overall to score a ton in each of his first two Tests from debut, the New Zealand medium-pacer had made an unbeaten 137 in his first Test, against India at Wellington, earlier in the year.
Soon after making a move from New Zealand to Australia in 2011, former Test all-rounder Chris Cairns hit a scorching century for his new club in the national capital. Playing for North Canberra Gungahlin (319/5), the 41-year-old smashed 141 off 66 balls in a one-day match against the Australian National University (124). His last 90 runs came off just 27 deliveries.
Will Williams marked his first-class debut in 2013/14 by being dismissed handled the ball. Batting at No. 10 for Canterbury against Otago at Dunedin, Williams became the first player to be out in such fashion in his first match.
Madhya Pradesh batsman Aditya Shrivastava began his first-class career in 2014/15 in record-breaking style becoming the first batsman to score a ninety and a century on debut. Opening the batting against Karnataka at Indore, Shrivastava scored 91 in the first innings and an unbeaten 108 in the second for a match-total of 199.
Appearing in his first Test against Australia in nearly a de