Monday 30 December 2013

Milestones and Records achieved by Jacques Kallis in his Final Test Match

Jacques Henry Kallis, the greatest All-Rounder of modern Cricket bid adieu to his Test Career at Durban against India where he made his Test Debut vs England 18 years ago in 1995. Kallis was running out of form the whole year. Before taking field in his 166th and final Test of his career he was averaging just 17.63 in 7 tests and 12 innings he batted in 2013. It was a challenge for him to finish on top and make the test a memorable one. 

Kallis had lot of milestones and records to aim for in this period of 5 days as he being a complete cricketer who finds his name in all categories of milestones, statistics and records which not many claim for. Nevertheless great cricketers pass through some milestone in every match they play. 

'King' Kallis walks to bat in his last test through a guard of honour given by the Indian Team

Lets have a look at some of the Milestones and Records achieved by Jacques Kallis in his Final Test Match

# On the second day of the Test (27th Dec 2013), on the 5th ball of 108th over, Kallis caught Ravindra Jadeja off the bowling of JP Duminy to get his 200th Catch of his 166 match Test Career. He became only the second player to take 200 or more catches as non-wicketkeeper after Rahul Dravid who also took his 200th catch at the same venue exactly 3 years ago (27th December 2010). 

The catch was also his 336th in his International Career. It made him equal Rahul Dravid as the 3rd most number of catches as non-wicketkeeper in International Cricket. 

Most Catches as non-wicketkeeper in 
Test Cricket 
210 - Rahul Dravid
200 - Jacques Kallis
196 - Ricky Ponting
194 - Mahela Jayawardene
181 - Mark Waugh

International Cricket
409 - Mahela Jayawardene
364 - Ricky Ponting
336 - Rahul Dravid
336 - Jacques Kallis
306 - Stephen Fleming

Kallis taking a catch


# Jacques Kallis came to bat at No.4, his usual position, it was his 85th inning at No.4 in Tests at home. He overtook Jayawardene (84) to bat 2nd most number number of innings at No.4 in Tests at home. Only Sachin Tendulkar (138) is ahead of him. 

# On the 5th ball of 44th over, Kallis and AB de villiers completed 3000 partnerships runs between them. AB de Villiers is the 3rd batsman with whom Kallis have added 3000 or more partnership runs in Test Cricket. Other 2 being Hashim Amla (3923) and Gary Kirsten (3592).

# At South Africa's score of 163/3, Kallis and AB de Villiers added 50 runs for the 4th wicket. It was Kallis' 127th partnership of half century (50-99) in his Test career. He overcame Dravid and Sachin who both had 126 half century partnerships in their respective careers. 

# Kallis and de Villiers, on the 1st ball of 65th over, converted their 50 run partnership into a century stand and it was Kallis' 69th 100+ partnership in Tests. He left Chanderpaul (68) to the 5th position and is lead by Dravid (88), Sachin (86) and Ponting (85). 

# On the last ball of 86th over, Kallis had aggregated 28000 partnership runs, South Africa scored 28000 runs when Kallis was at the crease since 1995. It is the 3rd highest aggregate after India with Dravid (32010) and Tendulkar (31144). 

# Kallis added another 2 50+ partnerships in the inning, 58 with Duminy and 83 with Steyn, which summed to 128 partnerships in range of 50-99 and 69 100+ partnerships in his Test career. 

Some Numbers on Partnerships in Test Cricket

Kallis' Partnership Summary
Partners - 50
Partnerships - 613
Runs - 28121
Not Outs - 36
Avg - 48.40 
100s - 69
50s - 128
50+ - 197
Highest - 377*
Dismissals at Other End - 337

Most Partnership Runs in Test Cricket
32101 - Rahul Dravid
31144 - Sachin Tendulkar
28121 - Jacques Kallis
27245 - Ricky Ponting
25546 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Most Partnerships in Test Cricket
738 - Rahul Dravid
716 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul
675 - Sachin Tendulkar
617 - Allan Border
613 - Jacques Kallis

Most 50+ Partneships in Test Cricket
214 - Rahul Dravid
212 - Sachin Tendulkar
197 - Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting
167 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Allan Border

Most Dismissals at the Other End
481 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul
453 - Rahul Dravid
364 - Allan Border
350 - Sachin Tendulkar
348 - Steve Waugh
337 - Jacques Kallis

Jacques Kallis is the only player to add 1000+ runs with 10 different partners in Test Cricket. Next best are Chanderpaul and Ponting who have 1000+ partnership runs with 8 players each. 

# Jacques Kallis's half century in this inning was his 150th half century in International Career. 

# Kallis, when he reached 80 runs, completed 7000 Test Runs at Home. He became only the 3rd cricketer after Ponting (7578) and Tendulkar (7216) to reach the landmark. 

Most Test Runs at Home Venues
7578 - Ricky Ponting @ 56.97
7216 - Sachin Tendulkar @ 52.67
7035 - Jacques Kallis @ 56.73
6846 - Mahela Jayawardene @ 61.12
6217 - Brian Lara @ 58.65

# Kallis, when he reached 82 runs, completed 9000 Test Runs batting at No.4 in his 170th inning. After Sachin Tendulkar (13492) he is the only one to reach the milestone. Sachin Tendulkar scored 13492 in 275 innings.

Most Test Runs Batting at No.4
13492 - Sachin Tendulkar @ 54.40
9033 - Jacques Kallis @ 61.86
8656 - Mahela Jayawardene @ 52.46
7535 - Brian Lara @ 51.25
6925 - Javed Miandad @ 54.10

# Jacques Kallis' Century (115 off 316)

Kallis celebrating his 45th Test Century in his final Test match. 

* It was his 62nd International Century, 62nd First Class Century, 45th in Tests, 35th at No.4, 34th in Team's 1st Innings, 23rd at Home, 14th in Match's 2nd inning, 7th vs India, 1st in 2013. 

* Kallis with 23 Test Centuries at Home equaled Ponting's record of Most Test Centuries at Home.

Most Test 100s at Home Venues
23 - Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis
22 - Sachin Tendulkar, Mahela Jayawardene
21 - Matthew Hayden, Kumar Sangakkara

* Only 3 batsmen scored Test 100s vs India more than Kallis

8 - Garry Sobers, Viv Richards, Ricky Ponting
7 - Everton Weekes, Clive Lloyd, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Jacques Kallis

* Kallis became the 34th batsman and 4th South African to score a century in career's last Test Match. 2 out of 3 other South African scored in South Africa's last test match before being banned from International Cricket and 1 was in the last match before the World War II.

125 PGV van der Bijl vs Eng, Durban, March 1939 
126 BA Richards vs Aus, Port Elizabeth, March 1970
102 BL Ervine vs Aus, Port Elizabeth, March 1970

* With this century in 2013, Kallis continued his long streak of scoring centuries in every single year in Tests since 1997 (the year in which he scored his first test 100). He is the only player to score a century every single year in last 17 years. Dravid did it for 15 years (1997 to 2011) and also Jayawardene (1998-2012) but he is yet to score a century this year to continue the sequence. 

* Kallis at score of 115 runs became the 3rd highest run getter in Test Cricket.
Leading Run Getters in Test Cricket
15921 - Sachin Tendulkar
13378 - Ricky Ponting
13289 - Jacques Kallis
13288 - Rahul Dravid
11953 - Brian Lara

* Kallis' strike rate in this inning was 36.39. It is his 4th lowest strike rate in a century inning. Other 3 are
31.50 - 109* (346) vs WI, Georgetown, March 2005
33.53 - 110 (328) vs WI, Cape Town, January 1999
36.20 - 101 (279) vs Aus, Melbourne, December 1997 (Maiden 100)

South Africa eventually went onto win this Test match by 10 wickets.

# This inning turned out to be 50th 50+ score for Jacques Kallis in Test Wins. Only Ricky Ponting (72) has more 50+ scores in Test wins. 

Most 50+ scores in Test wins 
72 (30 100s + 42 50s) - Ricky Ponting
50 (22 100s + 28 50s) - Jacques Kallis
50 (25 100s + 25 50s) - Steve Waugh
44 (20 100s + 24 50s) - Sachin Tendulkar
43 (15 100s + 28 50s) - Mark Waugh 

# Jacques Kallis, with the final win, featured in 53 Test wins for South Africa in South Africa. He equaled Glenn McGrath as the 2nd highest number wins at home. Only Ponting featured in more wins. 

Featuring in Most Test Wins at Home Venues
67 - Ricky Ponting
53 - Glenn McGrath, Jacques Kallis
52 - Sachin Tendulkar
49 - Steve Waugh, Shane Warne 

These all were just the records and milestones achieved by Kallis in his final Test Match. 

Finally, the Cricket World has seen the retirement of all the top 5 batting legends of the modern era in longer version of the game.

(All stats updated till 30th December 2013)

Monday 23 December 2013

Performance in First 50 Tests as Captain

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, in the Epic Draw vs South Africa at Johannesburg, was captaining for the 50th time in Tests for India. He became the first Indian to captain in 50 Tests overcoming Sourav Ganguly's 49 Tests as captain. He became only the 2nd Asian after Arjuna Ranatunga (56 Tests) to achieve this feat and 14th captain overall.

MS Dhoni in his first 50 Tests as captain lead India to 26 Victories, 12 Draws and 12 Defeats. Out of his 26 wins, 8 came against Australia, 5 against West Indies and 4 against New Zealand. He has captained against all nations except Pakistan and Zimbabwe as India haven't played them since he became Captain in 2008.

MSD became the first Indian and second Asian to captain in 50 Test Matches

Below is the break up of India's performance under MS Dhoni's Captaincy. 

Opposition
Matches
Wins
Lost
Drawn
Win %
Australia
11
8
3
0
72.72
Bangladesh
1
1
0
0
100.00
England
10
2
6
2
20.00
New Zealand
7
4
0
3
57.14
South Africa
7
3
2
2
42.85
Sri Lanka
6
3
1
2
50.00
West Indies
8
5
0
3
62.50
Total
50
26
12
12
52.00

Home vs Away 

Venue
Matches
Won
Lost
Drawn
Win %
Home
30
21
3
6
70.00
Away
20
5
9
6
25.00
Total
50
26
12
12
52.00


Performance of Captains in their first 50 Tests as Captain

The first player to captain in 50 Tests was Clive Lloyd when he captained led West Indies against India at Sabina Park in on 23rd February 1983. Allan Border and Vivian Richards were the next two to follow.After which 11 other players captained in 50 or more Tests while Graeme Smith became the first to captain in 100 Test Matches in 2013. In all, MS Dhoni is the latest and 14th to reach the landmark. 

The Legendary Australian Captains and Batsmen, Waugh and Ponting, lead others by a fair distance by winning 37 and 35 tests respectively in their first 50 Tests as Captain. Richards (27), Taylor (26),Vaughan (26), Dhoni (26) and Cronje (25) are the other captains to win 25 or more tests in their first 50 Tests as Captain.
Ponting and Waugh had the best success rate in their first 50 Tests as Captain


Arajuna Ranatunga had won the least number of matches (9) in his first 50 Tests as Captain. He is followed by Allan Border (13) and Mike Atherton (13). Allan Border and Arajuna Ranatunga had most number of Draws in their first 50 Tests as Captain - 24 each. 

Australia had drawn only 5 Tests under Steve Waugh in his first 50 Tests as Captain while under Ricky Ponting they drew 9 Tests. Ponting lost least number of Matches in his first 50 Tests as captain (6) followed by Richards and Waugh - 8 each. 

Below is the table containing the Win/Loss/Draw analysis of all those 14 captains. 

Captain
Team
Span
Won
Lost
Drawn
Win %
Steve Waugh
Aus
1999-2003
37
8
5
74
Ricky Ponting
Aus
2004-2008
35
6
9
70
Viv Richards
WI
1984-1991
27
8
15
54
Mark Taylor
Aus
1994-1999
26
13
11
52
Michael Vaughan
Eng
2003-2008
26
10
14
52
MS Dhoni
Ind
2008-2013
26
12
12
52
Hansie Cronje
SA
1994-2000
25
10
15
50
Andrew Strauss
Eng
2006-2012
24
11
15
48
Graeme Smith
SA
2003-2007
22
13
15
44
Clive Lloyd
WI
1974-1983
21
11
18
42
Stephen Fleming
NZ
1997-2003
19
15
16
38
Allan Border
Aus
1978-1990
13
13
24
26
Mike Atherton
Eng
1989-1998
13
18
19
26
Arjuna Ranatunga
SL
1989-1998
9
17
24
18


Other Captains who won 20 or more Tests despite captaining in less than 50 Tests in their career. 
Greg Chappell - 21 in 48 Tests
Sourav Ganguly - 21 in 49 Tests
Peter May - 20 in 41 Tests

Performance at Home in their first 50 Tests as Captain 

Among all the 14 Captains Andrew Strauss (31) and MS Dhoni (30) played 30 or more of their first 50 Tests as Captain at Home and won 19 and 21 respectively. Leaving off the number of matches played the highest win % was Ponting's 84.61% as he won 22 of his 26 Tests at Home. He is followed by his previous captain Steve Waugh who won 81.81% of the home matches. Both Aussie Captains lost one and drew three while winning 22 and 18 respectively. 

Strauss captained 31 of his 50 Tests as Captain at Home - Most by any captain


MS Dhoni won 70% of the Tests i.e 21 out of 30 at Home. Mark Taylor (62.96) and Richards (62.50) follow him.

Most wins at Home were Ponting's 22, Dhoni's 21, Strauss 19 and goes on. Arajuna Ranatunga won only 6 of the 23 Tests at Home losing 5 and drawing 12. 

Most Draws were Border's 13 followed by Ranatunga (12). 

Ranatunga (26.08), Border (27.58) and Atherton (30.76) are the only captains to win less than 50% of their home matches as captain in first 50 Tests as captain. 

Clive Lloyd captained only 16 Tests at home in his first 50 Tests. Still his win % is 56.25 as he won 9, losing 2 and drawing 5.

Below is the table containing the Win/Loss/Draw analysis of all those 14 captains at Home.

Player
Team
Span
Mat
Won
Lost
Drawn
Win %
Ricky Ponting
Aus
2004-2008
26
22
1
3
84.61
Steve Waugh
Aus
1999-2003
22
18
1
3
81.81
MS Dhoni
Ind
2008-2013
30
21
3
6
70.00
Mark Taylor
Aus
1994-1999
27
17
5
5
62.96
Viv Richards
WI
1984-1991
24
15
2
7
62.50
Hansie Cronje
SA
1994-2000
29
18
4
7
62.06
Andrew Strauss
Eng
2006-2012
31
19
4
8
61.29
Michael Vaughan
Eng
2003-2008
28
17
5
6
60.71
Graeme Smith
SA
2003-2007
24
14
4
6
58.33
Stephen Fleming
NZ
1997-2003
23
13
6
4
56.52
Clive Lloyd
WI
1974-1983
16
9
2
5
56.25
Mike Atherton
Eng
1989-1998
26
8
9
9
30.76
Allan Border
Aus
1978-1990
29
8
8
13
27.58
Arjuna Ranatunga
SL
1989-1998
23
6
5
12
26.08


Performance Away from Home in their first 50 Tests as Captain 

Only two captains could manage to win more than 50% of their away matches in their first 50 Tests as captain - S Waugh (67.85) and Ponting (54.16). Clive Lloyd captained most number of away tests (34) out of his first 50 Tests as captain. 

Arajuna Ranatunga could win only 11.11 % of away matches as he won only 3 out of his 21 tests with 12 lost and equally drawn. Mike Atherton (20.83), Fleming (22.22) and Border (23.80) had less than 25% of wins away. 

Clive Lloyd captained 34 of his first 50 Tests as Captain outside West Indies 


Most wins - 19 S Waugh, 13 Ponting, 12 Richards and Lloyd. 

Most loses - 12 Ranatunga, 9 Fleming, Atherton, Dhoni and Lloyd. 

Most Draws - 13 Lloyd, 12 Ranatunga and Fleming. 

Player
Team
Span
Mat
Won
Lost
Drawn
Win %
Steve Waugh
Aus
1999-2003
28
19
7
2
67.85
Ricky Ponting
Aus
2004-2008
24
13
5
6
54.16
Viv Richards
WI
1984-1991
26
12
6
8
46.15
Michael Vaughan
Eng
2003-2008
22
9
5
8
40.90
Mark Taylor
Aus
1994-1999
23
9
8
6
39.13
Clive Lloyd
WI
1974-1983
34
12
9
13
35.29
Hansie Cronje
SA
1994-2000
21
7
6
8
33.33
Graeme Smith
SA
2003-2007
26
8
9
9
30.76
Andrew Strauss
Eng
2006-2012
19
5
7
7
26.31
MS Dhoni
Ind
2008-2013
20
5
9
6
25.00
Allan Border
Aus
1978-1990
21
5
5
11
23.80
Stephen Fleming
NZ
1997-2003
27
6
9
12
22.22
Mike Atherton
Eng
1989-1998
24
5
9
10
20.83
Arjuna Ranatunga
SL
1989-1998
27
3
12
12
11.11

Mike Atherton is the only captain to lose both his first test and 50th test as captain. Ponting, Waugh, Lloyd and Smith won both their first and 50th tests as captain.