Ashes Stats: Joe Root's failure to convert in second innings of Tests
Steve Smith secures Ashes first; Nathan Lyon passes 50 wickets for 2017; Marshes and Broads makes Ashes family affair
Sunday 26 November 2017 12:33, UK
Joe Root has 13 Test tons but finds them hard to come by in second innings after passing fifty, reveals Sky Sports statistician Benedict Bermange...
Root's second-innings dismissal was the 11th time in his last 30 dismissals that he been out lbw - of his first 71 dismissals, he was lbw just seven times.
Since 2012, England have converted 64 out of 267 fifties into hundreds (24%), whereas from 2004-2011, they converted 129 out of 365 (35%).
Steve Smith became just the third Australian to score a century and take four catches in an innings in the same Test - and the first to do so for Australia in Ashes cricket:
- Bobby Simpson - 201 and four catches v Windies in Bridgetown 1965
- Matthew Hayden - 130 & four catches v Sri Lanka in Galle in 2004
- Steve Smith - 141no & four catches v England in Brisbane in 2017
Nathan Lyon became the third bowler to take 50 Test wickets in 2017 after South Africa's Kagiso Rabada and Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath.
He is the first Australian off-spinner to take 50 Test wickets in a calendar year since Hugh Trumble in 1902.
Here is the list of England players who faced an opposition player, and then their son subsequently faced the opposition player's son:
Frank Mann v Dave Nourse
George Mann v Dudley Nourse
Len Hutton v Vinoo Mankad
Richard Hutton v Ashok Mankad
Micky Stewart v Vijay Manjrekar
Alec Stewart v Sanjay Manjrekar
Colin Cowdrey v Datta Gaekwad
Chris Cowdrey v Anshuman Gaekwad
Chris Broad v Geoff Marsh / Ken Rutherford
Stuart Broad v Mitchell and Shaun Marsh / Hamish Rutherford
