Anybody achieved this?

[Moloko Fan]

It came to me while playing as Durham in the County Championship that it might be possible for a certain player to be on the field for every ball of a 4-day match, by opening the first innings and carrying the bat throughout, fielding twice, and then carrying the bat as an opener again to the finish - If you see what I mean?

I nearly managed it, I had Michael Hussey as an opener and he made 218 by the second morning. We were all out for 440-odd halfway through the morning session, Hussey unbeaten. He then fielded twice (follow-on enforced) - But chasing about 150 in the Afternoon session of the fourth day, he was finally back in the pavillion - A golden duck would you believe it!

Just wondering if anyone had achieved a staggeringly stamina-tastic feat on the game before?

 

[mojomama1967]

It came to me while playing as Durham in the County Championship that it might be possible for a certain player to be on the field for every ball of a 4-day match, by opening the first innings and carrying the bat throughout, fielding twice, and then carrying the bat as an opener again to the finish - If you see what I mean?

I nearly managed it, I had Michael Hussey as an opener and he made 218 by the second morning. We were all out for 440-odd halfway through the morning session, Hussey unbeaten. He then fielded twice (follow-on enforced) - But chasing about 150 in the Afternoon session of the fourth day, he was finally back in the pavillion - A golden duck would you believe it!

Just wondering if anyone had achieved a staggeringly stamina-tastic feat on the game before?

Geoff Boycott done it in real life in a Test match.

 

[edenkor]

Geoff Boycott done it in real life in a Test match.

Andrew Flintoff has done it as well in a test.

 

[scritty]

Andrew Flintoff has done it as well in a test.

Can't find a test where Andrew Flintoff opened in the first innings (Which you'd need to , to be on the field for every ball of a match) ... Am I missing something here ?

Clarker

 

[rickyp]

yes you are, edenkor is obviously wrong

 

[edenkor]

yes you are, edenkor is obviously wrong

yup, I am wrong, Freddy obviously does not open the batting, however, he has batted on every day of a five day test. See the question put to Bill Frindell on the Stump Bearders website.

Who was the last batsman to bat on every day of a Test match? What were the circumstances?

What a timely question, Graham! The answer is Andrew Flintoff and his feat went unnoticed until Indian statistician Rajneesh Gupta alerted me by email. In England's recent second Test against India, at Mohali in Chandigarh, 'Freddie' was 4 not out at the end of a first day shortened to 50.3 overs by rain and bad light, took his score to 22 not out during the 14.3 overs possible on the second day, and was eventually out for 70 on the third day. By stumps on the fourth day he had scored 16 not out in his second innings and he took his score to 51 on the last day when his was the final England wicket to fall.

Prior to Flintoff's instance, there had been only five occasions when a player had batted on each day of a five-day Test: M L Jaisimha (2, 18, 0, 59, 15) for India v Australia at Calcutta in 1959-60; G Boycott (1, 86, 20, 12, 68) for England v Australia at Trent Bridge in 1977, K J Hughes (47, 35, 35, 38, 46) Australia v England at Lord's in 1980; A J Lamb (13, 10, 30, 79, 1) England v West Indies at Lord's in 1984; and R J Shastri (26, 0, 82, 3, 7) India v England at Calcutta in 1984-85.

 

[Gilchrist]

Please acknowledge where you got those stats from.

 

[edenkor]

Please acknowledge where you got those stats from.

Go to the following web address:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_talk/stump_bearders/4816384.stm

 

[scritty]

Go to the following web address:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_talk/stump_bearders/4816384.stm

Rain and coming in to bat with minutes before the close of play a couple of times did indeed mean that Freddie has done this.

Good call (rain stretched his innings out nicely)

Clarker

 

[jdeus]

yes i did it!!!

my character was on the field for both bowling innings and started as opener and was still in at the end when we declared!

the score card was great, Eng vs Pak

Pak 1st inn - 555 all out
Pak 2nd inn - 333 all out

Eng 1st inn - 1221-5 dec - Largent 648*

So yes he was on the field for every ball!!!!

 

[cricketjimmy]

That's almost impossible

 

[Jaztheman]

no it is possible i havnt done it before though

 

[langerrox]

Can you guys stop bumping up old threads please?

 

[Jaztheman]

I have a friend who just text me saying he had Abdul razzaq on the field for every ball which means he opened with him?lol