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Name: Manoj Nair
Query: How many sixes has been scored by Mckenzie in the 2000 Coca cola trophy final at Sharjah?

Mohandas Menon:
Neil McKenzie (58) did not hit any sixes in the final of the 2000 Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah on 31-3-2000 against Pakistan. However he did score three fours.


Name: Yogesh Kalantre
Query: Name the players in test cricket history who achieved the featof 10 wickets in a test and a century in a single test match? Name the players who have at least one 10 wicket haul in a test match and at least one century in their career? Name the players who have taken 5 wickets in an innings and a century in the same test match?

Mohandas Menon:
Only two players have the distinction of scoring a hundred in an innings and capturing 10 or more wickets in the same Test match. And interestingly both these instances have come against India --

a. England's Ian Botham (114 and 6-58 & 7-48) at Mumbai, 1979-80 and Pakistan's Imran Khan (117 and 6-98 & 5-82) at Faisalabad, 1982-83.

b. As regards to your second part of the question there are several instances to players scoring a hundred and taking 10 wickets during their Test career.

c. There have been 25 instances of players scoring a century and taking a five wicket haul in the same Test innings, with England's Ian Botham doing so on five separate occasions.


Name: KARTHIK DAS MANNIL
Query: What is the highest ever one day international score made by a team batting first and also the highest score chased by a team batting second? thanks karthik.

Mohandas Menon:
The highest ever team score made in ODIs remains as the 398-5 in 50 overs by Sri Lanka while batting first against Kenya at Kandy on 6-3-1996 (in the 1996 World Cup), while the highest score chased by a team batting second - will obviously be the above score. Kenya had to chase 399 in 50 overs to win the match (they made 254-7)


Name: madhu
Query: Hello, What is maximum speed(mph) a bowler bowled till now.(in any form of cricket) I was thinking around 140 MPH....

Mohandas Menon:
Australian Jeff Thomson was clocked 99 mph (or 158.4 kmph) sometime in the late seventies. However in the recent times Pakistani Shoaib Akhtar and Australian Brett Lee were consistently clocking speeds between 152 to 155 kmph.


Name: Rajesh K.V
Query: I feel any Indian debutant playing against Pakistan turns out to be all-time great player. Kapil & Sachin to name one or two. Am I correct? How many great Indian player's started their career playing against Pakistan?

Mohandas Menon:
I am afraid this is not true, although you did rightly mentioned Kapil Dev and Sachin Tendulkar. Some of other players (though not great) who made their Test debut against Pakistan were: Roger Binny, Maninder Singh, Sandeep Patil, Chetan Sharma, Rusi Surti and Naren Tamhane. But none of them have made a big impact as Kapil and Tendulkar.


Name: Uday
Query: In the last five seasons, how many one day internationals have been played in asia (Subcontinent, sharjah etc) and how many in the rest of the world (australia, england, nz, south africa, west indies). Are there more one days being played in asia as compared to the rest of the world.

Mohandas Menon:
Since 1-1-1996 -- 661 ODI matches have been played all over world. Out of which 278 matches (42.06%) were played in Asia (Singapore and Sharjah included), while the rest of the 383 matches have been played rest of the world. Just for your info.

The summary of matches played in each of the Asian countries are: Bangladesh 31; India 75; Pakistan 44; Singapore 14, Sri Lanka 44; Sharjah 70.


Name: prashantparlikar
Query: Against which contry sachin makes his first one day cricket century?

Mohandas Menon:
Tendulkar's first ODI hundred (110) came against Australia at the Ketttarama Stadium at Colombo on 9-9-1994 in the Singer Cup four-nation series. He was appearing in his 79th ODI match.


Name: SK Anand
Query: "How many times as a batsman been run-out in test cricket,and ODI,after the fielder has kicked the ball on to the stumps" - Who were the fielders and batsman

Mohandas Menon:
There have been several instances of fielders kicking the ball on to the stumps to run-out a batsman in international cricket. However the most famous run-out came at the Oval on the second day (19 August 1946) of the third Test match between England and India. England batsman Dennis Compton (who also played soccer for the English club - Arsenal) ran out Indian opener Vijay Merchant (128) while kicking the ball from mid-on into the stumps.


Name: Anantharam Subramanian
Query: Who is the first Indian to score a century in One day International?

Mohandas Menon:
Kapil Dev's famous unbeaten 175 against Zimbabwe at Tunbridge Wells on 18-6-1983 during the 1983 World Cup was the first ever hundred scored by an Indian batsman in ODIs.


Name: vineetgarg
Query: Has Keith Miller ever toured India and what are his stats?

Mohandas Menon:
Australian all-rounder Keith Miller never made an official tour of India, although he did come here as a part of the Australian Services team in 1945. He appeared in three Un-official Test matches against the Indian team. In fact Miller was to tour India in 1956-57, but was injured just before the tour - he then immediately retired from Test cricket.His record in Test cricket was 55 matches from 1945-46 to 1956-57 - 2958 runs (avg 36.98) with seven hundreds (highest: 147 v West Indies at Kingston, 1954-55), 170 wickets (avg. 22.98); best bowling: 7-60 v England at Brisbane, 1946-47.


Name: seema
Query: Can you please tell me how many times an Asian team has won a test or ODI series when playing in a non-Asian country? And compare that to the number of wins for non-Asian teams playing in Asia in a test or ODI series. Please provide some details and I am only interested in series wins not individual matches wins.

Mohandas Menon:
India has won four Test series in the following non-Asian countries:

in New Zealand 1967-68 (3-1)
in West Indies 1970-71 (1-0)
in England 1971 (1-0)
in England 1986 (2-0)

The following non-Asian countries have won 13 Test series in India:

by England 1933-34 (2-0)
by West Indies 1948-49 (1-0)
by Australia 1956-57 (2-0)
by West Indies 1958-59 (3-0)
by Australia 1959-60 (2-1)
by West Indies 1966-67 (2-0)
by Australia 1969-70 (3-1)
by West Indies 1974-75 (3-2)
by England 1976-77 (3-1)
by England 1979-80 (1-0) - this was a one-match series (Jubilee Test match)
by West Indies 1983-84 (3-0)
by England 1984-85 (2-1)
by South Africa 1999-00 (2-0)


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