In Pursuit of Wisdom

My latest cricket statistics finding - Rahul Dravid has (highest) 85 test century partnerships followed by Sachin 81 & Ponting 80! But when it comes to 200 or more runs of partnerships in Test, Sachin is ahead with 18, followed by Dravid & Ponting 15 each, Bradman 14! I found in cricinfo statsguru, some partnership related statistics here in a 2007 article of Players involved in most 100 and 200 partnerships - http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/conte...ry/300539.html . However, as its 3 years old already. According to this , Tendulkar's only been in three triple-century stands. 5: Bradman 4: Jayawardene, Smith, Gibbs, Dravid 3: Inzamam, Javed Miandad, Kallis, Sangakkara, Ponting, Tendulkar, Laxman, Younis Khan 2: Gower, Worrell, Gooch, Sobers, Amla, Trott, Viv Richards, Hutton, Hussey, Mohammad Yousuf, Atapattu, S Waugh, Jayasuriya, Sehwag, Ponsford, Lawr You can get some more details and how we came to these statistics if you follow the forum thread h...

Bangladesh has defeated West Indies by 95 runs in the first test match of the 2 test series in their Caribbean tour. This is Bangladesh's second test match win in almost 10 years of its test cricket history. It's true that most of the regular West Indies players didn't play this game due to their financial issues with the West Indies cricket board. But even then the team that played has played well enough to generate a very interesting and competitive Test cricket match. I have followed most of the 4th and 5th day plays of the match and I can say definitely that it was a very competitive match with the win swinging over West Indies and Bangladesh side alternately everyday. Tamim Iqbal (128) was declared Man of the Match due to the only century in all the 4 innings in this match. For Bengali readers, see Tamim's match winning knock being compared with his brother Nafees Iqbal and Uncle Akram Khan's innings in a newspaper article at http://www.ittefaq.com/content/20...

I followed most of the first test and almost all of the fifth day's magical chase of Tendulkar winning the test against England in Chennai with a fine 103 not out. It was a dream come true for me like many others to see Sachin in this perfect role . Read the details here - http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/indveng/content/current/story/382035.html There are so many good batting points he wrote besides his yesterday and one of those are his 3rd fourth innings century where he is ahead of Lara, equal to Bradman but behind Pointing yet. Last year, Tendulkar made a fourth innings half-century (56*) to defeat Pakistan as I observed that with intense as well like this time as I knew Tendulkar has a poor fourth innings record compared to Ponting or Gavaskar (and almost same as Lara). Not to the same scale worthy of mentioning that amongst all his fourth innings Tendulkar had 36* not out chasing 184 against Zimbabwe in 2001 and 32 * not out chasing 123 against South Africa in 2004. H...