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Sunday 11 January 2015

Most runs off an over in the second innings, the fastest wicket-taking ball, and sixes off de Villiers

Is it true that 18 is the most runs scored off an over in the second innings of a T20I? - Ramesh Parajuli Avi

18 isn't even the highest this week: Chris Gayle hit 22 off Kyle Abbott (0, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6) in West Indies' record chase at Johannesburg. The overall record in the second innings is 30, by Aaron Finch (4, 1) and Glenn Maxwell (4, 6, 6, 5 no balls, 4) off Bilawal Bhatti at Mirpur in the 2014 World T20. - Adee Amjad

What is the fastest ball ever to take a wicket? - Martin Ructions Rusis

Any answers to questions involving bowling speeds come with the caveat that data on the subject is far from complete, but the ball with which Shoaib Akhtar blasted out Stephen Fleming in Pakistan's crushing victory at Lahore in 2002 is a plausible candidate. The Cricinfo commentator reported that the ball was "measured at 157kph on the broadcaster's gun and 153kph on the ground sponsor's gun"; the fact that two guns are capable of giving results differing by 4kph illustrates the margin of error involved, so no delivery can ever be definitively declared the fastest, but Shoaib's effort seems to have as good a claim as any. - Michael Jones

Did anyone ever hit Fanie de Villiers for six in an international match? - Malay Shah


In Tests, there are three sixes recorded off de Villiers, all in 1994: by Craig McDermott at Johannesburg, Mike Atherton at Leeds and Shane Thomson at Durban. Atherton's was one of only four sixes in his Test career.

Keith Miller took the most wickets in Tests without ever being hit for six (170); Maurice Tate bowled the most balls. - Charles Davis
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