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Sunday 25 January 2015

Dismissing every opponent in a series, and twin 90s in ODIs

What is the most players used by a team in a Test series such that one opposing bowler dismissed all of them? - Michael Jones

16, used by Australia in India in 2012-13 - MJ Clarke, EJM Cowan, XJ Doherty, BJ Haddin, MC Henriques, PJ Hughes, MG Johnson, NM Lyon, GJ Maxwell, JL Pattinson, PM Siddle, SPD Smith, PM Siddle, MS Wade, DA Warner and SR Watson - when R Ashwin (29 wickets in the series) dismissed all of them.

Three instances of 15 (bowlers in parentheses):

India (SP Gupte) v New Zealand in India, 1955-56
England (JH Wardle) v South Africa in South Africa, 1956-57
(Wardle played in only four matches of the 5-match series)
India (BS Chandrasekhar) v England in India, 1972-73

Note - England used 29 players during their home series against Australia in 1989; Terry Alderman dismissed 23 of them, the most different players dismissed by a bowler in any Test series.

Aslam Siddiqui

Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor were both dismissed in the 90s in the sixth ODI against Sri Lanka. How often have two batsmen on the same team been thus dismissed? - Milind Gokhale

Instances of two batsmen on the same team scoring nineties (dismissed or not) in the same ODI:

West Indies v Australia, Lord's, Jun 18, 1983 W
CG Greenidge 90/IVA Richards 95*

New Zealand v Bangladesh, Sharjah, Apr 28, 1990 W
JG Wright 93/AH Jones 93

Sri Lanka v Pakistan, Sharjah, Apr 4, 1997 W
MS Atapattu 94/PA de Silva 97

Sri Lanka v Pakistan, Mohali, May 24, 1997 W
ST Jayasuriya 96/PA de Silva 90

Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe, Colombo(RPS), Dec 12, 2001 W
DA Gunawardene 90/DPMD Jayawardene 96

Australia v South Africa, Port Elizabeth, Apr 6, 2002 W
RT Ponting 92/DS Lehmann 91

Australia v South Africa, Basseterre, Mar 24, 2007 W
RT Ponting 91/MJ Clarke 92

India v England, Bristol, Aug 24, 2007 W
SR Tendulkar 99/RS Dravid 92*

Sri Lanka v India, Colombo(RPS), Sep 12, 2009 W
ST Jayasuriya 98/SHT Kandamby 91*

Australia v England, The Oval, Jun 30, 2010 W
RT Ponting 92/MJ Clarke 99*

India v Sri Lanka, Bombay, Apr 2, 2011 W
G Gambhir 97/MS Dhoni 91*

Australia v India, Ranchi, Oct 23, 2013 NR
GJ Bailey 98/GJ Maxwell 92

New Zealand v Sri Lanka, Dunedin, Jan 25, 2015
KS Williamson 97/LRPL Taylor 96

Note: At Basseterre South African AB de Villiers was dismissed for 92, making it the only ODI with three individual scores in the 90s.

Aslam Siddiqui 


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