9th February, 2002

Name: Kumar
Question: Who holds the record of the maximum career sixes in ODI's. Who are in the top 3 positions and what is Ganguly's record?

Answer:
The top five batsmen with most sixes are:
ST Jayasuriya 149 sixes,
S Tendulkar 126,
Viv Richards 124,
Shahid Afridi 119 and
S Ganguly 118.
(records updated upto the end of the VB series final match on 8-2-2002)

Name: Vinu George
Question: Sir, What is your opinion in keeping Sourav Ganguly in the middle order, especially when batsman like Sehwag scores quickly than Ganguly in the first fifteen overs? Not only that, if Ganguly was there in middle order we can score more runs in the slog overs than now. Hope you will give me your opinion.

Answer:
With Sehwag batting well in the opening slot, perhaps Ganguly can be used better in the middle-order. However for your information, produced below is Ganguly's record in ODIs in each batting position. From this stats you will notice that Ganguly has an outstanding record as an opener.

Pos	Inn	NO	Runs	Ave	ScRt	HS	100	50	0
Opener	159	12	6637	45.15	74.18	183	18	37	6
#3	7	0	280	40.00	66.35	80	0	2	0
#4	7	1	227	37.83	78.01	85	0	2	1
#5	3	0	104	34.67	68.87	69	0	1	0
#6	2	0	15	7.50	44.12	12	0	0	0
#7	1	0	59	59.00	78.67	59	0	1	0
#8	1	1	11	-	137.50	11*	0	0	0
Ttl	180	14	7333	44.17	73.86	183	18	43	7

Name: Terence Rodrigues
Question: Which is the cricket ground that can hold the largest number of spectators in the world? Also do mention the no. of spectators that Lords in England can hold and the SCG? Thanks.

Answer:
The cricket grounds at Melbourne and Calcutta can hold over 100000 spectators, while Lord's can accommadate 28,000 and Sydney 60,000.

Name: Ashok Gopalakrishnan
Question: Dear sir, Following the recent 4th ODI between India and England at Kanpur, you had mentioned that India's strike rate (roughly 7.5 - 221/3 in 29.4 overs)was ranked sixth in all ODIs for teams that scored 200 plus or thereabouts. Could you please list the other 5 instances?

Answer:
India's feat at Kanpur should be the 10th best in ODIs.

Highest scoring rates in an innings by teams (scoring over 200 runs)
R/o	Sc	Overs	For	vs	Date	Venue
8.32	219-1	26.2	Pak	Ind	2/10/1997	Lahore
8.17	245-6	30.0	Ind	Zim	4/09/1999	Singapore (Kallang)
7.96	398-5	50.0	SL	Ken	6/03/1996	Kandy
7.64	252-3	33.0	Pak	Ind	31/12/1982	Lahore
7.52	376-2	50.0	Ind	NZ	08/11/1999	Hyderabad
7.48	299-4	40.0	Ind	SL	17/01/1987	Bombay (WS)
7.46	373-6	50.0	Ind	SL	26/05/1999	Taunton
7.42	371-9	50.0	Pak	SL	04/10/1996	Nairobi (Gym)
7.40	333-8	45.0	WI	Ind	7/12/1983	Jamshedpur
7.38	219-2	29.4	Ind	Eng	28/01/2002	Kanpur
7.26	363-3	50.0	SA	Zim	23/09/2001	Bulawayo
7.23	289-7	40.0	SL	Ind	17/01/1987	Bombay (WS)
7.20	360-4	50.0	WI	SL	13/10/1987	Karachi

Name: A Verma
Question: Who was the first player to appear in 50 Test matches?

Answer:
The distinction goes to Australian SE Gregory who was the first to appear in 50 Tests in 1909. He later went on to appear in 58 matches until 1912.

Name: Sarat Popuri
Question: How many Sixers has Tendulkar hit before his back injury and after ? Has he cut down a lot?

Answer:
Before the back injury in 1999, Tendulkar had 97 sixes in 211 ODIs, which means he hits one six in every 2.18 matches. However since then in 75 matches he has 29 sixes. This means his match frequency has dropped down to 2.59%.

Name: Andy
Question: Many times we have seen more than five bowlers being used in a single innings of a cricket match. Which are the matches which has maximum number of bowlers being used in both forms of cricket ?

Answer:
Using more than five bowlers in a single innings of a Test and ODI has been done on several occasions. The most being when all eleven players bowled twice in a Test innings - by England against Australia (551) at the Oval in 1884 and by Australia against Pakistan (382-2) at Faisalabad in 1979-80

Name: Bharath Srinivasan
Question: Could you please list for me all the instances when a team has successfully chased a target of 300 plus in one-day internationals. Could you also list for me all the occasions when a target of 300 plus has been UNsuccessfully chased in ODIs? Thank you very much.

Answer:

Results - Victories of team batting second, chasing a large target
Winner	Score	Vs	Score	Date	Venue
Ind	316 - 7	Pak	314 - 5	18/01/1998	Dhaka
Aus	316 - 4	Pak	315 - 8	10/11/1998	Lahore (Gd.)
SL	313 - 7	Zim	312 - 4	23/02/1992	New Plymouth
Eng	306 - 5	Pak	304 - 9	24/10/2000	Karachi (NS)
SL	303 - 9	Eng	302 - 3	23/01/1999	Adelaide
Ind	302 - 7	SA	301 - 3	9/03/2000	Cochin
Highest scores while batting second and losing
Loser	Score	Vs	Score	Date	Venue
SL	329 - 10	WI	333 - 7	16/10/1995	Sharjah
Pak	315 - 10	SL	349-9	02/04/1996	Singapore
Ind	310 - 10	SA	320-7	19/03/2000	Nagpur
Ind	306 - 10	NZ	349-9	05/11/1999	Rajkot
SL	301 - 10	Ind	307-6	07/07/1998	Khettarama
NZ	301 - 9	Aus	349-6	26/02/2000	Christchurch
Zim	301 - 6	Aus	302-5	04/02/2001	Perth (WACA)
Ind	300 - 7	SL	302-4	17/08/1997	Khettarama

Name: N Gopi
Question: Dear sir, Can you please inform me how many batsmen have batted in all the eleven positions in One-day cricket? Thanks

Answer:
The nearest anyone has done this is Pakistan's Abdur Razzaq, who has this unique distinction of batting at all positions - as an opener to number 11. However it should be noted that Razzaq has never batted at the number one position, although he has opened the Pakistani batting on two occasions.

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