Out for a duck yet still named man-of-the-match! Benedict Bermange reveals the latest cricketing stats.
Sky Sports' cricket stats man Benedict Bermange has teamed up with skysports.com to bring you statistical highlights from Sky's cricket coverage of the past week.
The glorious game will be brought to you in numbers every week as Benedict unearths relevant historical facts that have arisen from the past seven days in the world of cricket.
He will also be on hand to answer your statistical cricketing questions, be it about an existing record, player, team, ground, umpire, laws of the game or whatever your query may be.
If something has been puzzling you, or you have come across a fact or stat during Sky Sports' cricket coverage that you must have verified to cure your insanity.
Or maybe if you have been stumped by a quiz question at your local, just email Benedict here or fill out the comment form at the bottom of the page and he will answer your questions.
(Lack of) Runs on the board
Of course, England bounced back from losing the two opening one-day internationals of the series with a fine victory in Auckland.
England's batsmen hit just seven fours in their total of 130 in the first one-day international with New Zealand at Wellington.
However, it could have been worse. Back in 1984/85 against India at Sydney, they were bowled out for 149 in 41.4 overs with just 2 boundaries - one each for Graeme Fowler and Martyn Moxon.
The previous summer, at Lord's against the West Indies, they struggled to 196 for 9 in our 55 overs against the West Indies.
That time, Fowler hit a four, and my fellow
Sky Sports colleague, Sir Ian Botham hit a four and a six. No-one else managed to reach the boundary!
Benedict's bumpers
At Wellington Scott Styris became the 20th man to be named man-of-the-match in a one-day international in which he was dismissed for a duck.
He received the award for his bowling but among fellow Kiwis only Dayle Hadlee - back in 1973 against Pakistan - had previously achieved that feat.
Robin Jackman is the only Englishman on the list - for his efforts against Australia at Sydney in 1983.
Neck and crop
England's top four batsmen were all dismissed 'bowled' which equals their record from 2002 against India at Lord's when Marcus Trescothick, Nick Knight, Nasser Hussain and Andrew Flintoff all had their stumps rearranged.
The record, however, dates from April 1985 where the first seven New Zealand batsmen were dismissed in this method by the West Indies.
New Zealand's victory by 10 wickets at Hamilton was their largest in terms of wickets against England.
Their previous widest margin of victory was by eight wickets at Brisbane in December 1990.
Brendon McCullum's undefeated innings of 80 is the highest by a New Zealand wicket-keeper against England in one-day internationals, surpassing Chris Nevin's 55 at Christchurch in 2002.
Safe hands
With two catches in Australia's innings in the recent one-day international at Sydney, Mahela Jayawardene (135 in 263 matches) overtook New Zealand stalwart Stephen Fleming's tally of 133 in 280 matches.
Jayawardene moves to second place behind Mohammad Azharuddin - who snapped up 156 in 334 matches.
Stats all for now, but I will be back next week with all things statistical from the week that was in cricket.
Don't expect many Test match stats though as we have a busy limited overs schedule during February until England take on New Zealand in the 1st Test on March 3rd.
And do send in your questions as I love a challenge.
Email Benedict here or fill out the comment form below and he will answer your questions.
Benedict answers your questions...
Do you know which batting line-up has the highest number of Test runs? And how does the current Indian batting line-up compare? Thanks, Tim, London
BENEDICT REPLIES: The Indian team who played at Perth had scored a total of 43,812 Test runs before that match. That is the highest number for any team who have taken the field in a Test match, apart from the ICC World XI team who played against Australia at Sydney in October 2005. That line-up had scored 49,128 Test runs. It didn't help them though, as they were beaten by 210 runs.
Benedict, Great page! Can you help me with a non-test match statistical quirk? Is it true that in a County match Middlesex once fielded a team, none of whom were born in England? There's a round of drinks going on this one! Thanks, Peter Grey.
BENEDICT REPLIES: In 2002 Middlesex did have 11 players on their staff who were born overseas, although they did not all play together in any one match. However, back in 1981 Middlesex did field a team which consisted entirely of players who had played Test cricket. Their team which faced Essex at Lord's was: Brearley, Downton, Radley, Gatting, Butcher, Barlow, Emburey, Edmonds, Thomson, Selvey, Daniel. Sorry Peter but I guess it's your round.
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