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India win the 4th Test by 6 wickets & the Series 4
India 158-4 Pujara 82 not out

Chris Gayle hit the fastest century in cricket history in the IPL today,taking just 30 balls.he finished on 175 not out from 66 balls.His innings included 17 sixes & 13 fours.
Bangalore scored a T20 record high 263-5

In a 2nd XI match Lancashire right-handed batsman Jordan Clark hit Yorkshire slow left-armer Gurman Randhawa for six sixes in an over.This is only the 5th time the feat has been recorded in professional cricket & the only Englishman to do so.Following in the footsteps of Garry Sobers,Ravi Shastri,Herschelle Gibbs & Yuvraj Singh.

Amazing that Ravi Bopara is picked for another England squad??? How many chances is he allowed when others get one/two and their out.Surely this was a chance to get another new young face in
Captains pick?

Joe Root has 646 runs so far & only had the next 2 Test to become the first Englishman for 75 years to 1000 runs before May.

Compton was close last year,Hick did it in 1988,but despite the early start to the season now they still played more 3 day matches with potentially more innings to reach the landmark.

Yesterday Jimmy Anderson became only the 4th Englishman after Botham,Willis Truman to reach 300 Test wickets.

Graham Napier took 4 wickets in 4 balls & finished with figures of 8-3 -32-7 as Essex beat Surrey by 178 runs in the YB40 match.

(13-05-2013 11:20 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  Joe Root has 646 runs so far & only had the next 2 Test to become the first Englishman for 75 years to 1000 runs before May.

Compton was close last year,Hick did it in 1988,but despite the early start to the season now they still played more 3 day matches with potentially more innings to reach the landmark.

Yes ,but back in the days of 3day matches most games ended as one innings draws due to time lost with the weather or forefitted innings to try and manufacture a "positive"result .

Note the comparisons :
Yorkshire doing very well at 4day cricket ,absolute crap in the 1dayers .
England doing very well at the test matches ,absolute crap in the 1 dayers !
Uncanny !

Watched Napier takes 4 wickets in a row why haven't england noticed him?