From Newsgroup: uk.sport.cricket
On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 21:05:34 +0000, miked wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 2:40:33 +0000, David North wrote:
On 03/07/2025 00:45, miked wrote:
And so to Grenada where i think England were beaten the last time they
visited. I dont expect this to happen to oz cos Windies batting is so
weak, yet it seems they are only thinking of changing the bowelrs. If
Braithwaite plays it will be his 100th test, presumably retaining his
place cos windies dont have anyone better, hes only 32, so other than
prob tendulkar, has anyone else got to 100 younger?
The youngest to 100 Tests was Alastair Cook, 12 days before his 29th
birthday. He was exactly the same age that Brathwaite is today on the
day he started his 143rd Test. He has the most Tests at every birthday
from 28 to 36 (even though he retired from Tests at 33), although Root
will have one more at 35 if he plays all of the remaining 7 Tests this
year.
Tendulkar was 29 and 134 days when he started his 100th Test.
Root, Boucher, Kapil Dev, Broad and Kallis were 30.
Ponting, Graeme Smith, de Villiers, Vettori, Jayawardene and Gower were
31.
Atherton, Anderson, Bell, Clarke, Chanderpaul, Javed Miandad, Ishant
Sharma, Steve Waugh, Stokes, Vengsarkar, Harbhajan Singh, Ntini, Shaun
Pollock and Warne were all 32, although I haven't checked whether they
were younger than Brathwaite.
Crikey so many! When yor old, 32 seems so young.. cheers
mike
and he duly made 0. But Windies at one stage 160-4, King going well,
well it didnt last long. This time oz take a small lead, but whatever
they make in 2nd did, itl prob b enough cos windies bats so fragile. The Webster can bowl spin and seam, didnt know that. Hes gonna be useful in
the ashes.
mike
--- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2