Dawson - Inside edge: another eclectic collection of cricketing facts, feats & figures

ABC Cricket Quiz (1986) This book is probably one of the
best of its kind, and unless history repeats itself in my lifetime I
may never get another opportunity to witness such an all-round
masterpiece on sporting questions.
former West Indies opening batsman Gordon Greenidge

Cricket in Question (1989) An intriguing book full of facts,
figures and events about the history of world cricket. It allows you
to relive some of the magical moments of the game.
former New Zealand all-rounder Richard Hadlee

Cricket Extras 2 (1994) Marc Dawson once again exposes
crickets universal appeal.
former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy

Through the Covers (2005) Marc Dawsons fine book gives
a lot of food for thought. I heartily recommend this book to all
number crunchers.
former Zimbabwe fast bowler Henry Olonga

The Cricket Tragics Book of Cricket Extras Volume 2
(2010) Another in the long line of remarkably researched
products from Marc Dawson. The high quality of the work
is deserving of success.
Indian cricket statistician Rajesh Kumar

Outside Edge (2013) A wonderfully entertaining book that will
amuse and entertain in equal measure.
Steve Dolman, Derbyshire County Cricket Club

First published by Pitch Publishing, 2015

Pitch Publishing

A2 Yeoman Gate

Yeoman Way

Durrington

BN13 3QZ

www.pitchpublishing.co.uk

Marc Dawson, 2015

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Triple-century with a broken bat

Don Bradman, the actor

Brother and sister open the bowling for same state in same year

99 not out on Twenty20 debut

Prime Minister bats and bowls for both sides in same match

Police officer interrupts his own innings to make an arrest

Identical career-best bowling figures in both Tests and one-day internationals

Female Test cricketer scores century in mens match

Two Test cricketers with same nickname share the same date of birth and death

Century partnerships by opening and last-wicket pairs in same Test innings

Cricket commentator goes undercover to play in match

Adolf Hitler and cricket

Golden ducks on consecutive days

Arthur Conan Doyle takes a hat-trick

Four ex-students from same school hit first-class centuries on same day

A match double of 287 and 7-1

Queensland club cricketer becomes British Open golf champion

Mass wedding to mark the World Cup

Michael Jackson agrees to play cricket

Same cricket match played in two countries at same time

T HE fascination with our great game continues to grow. We now have three forms of cricket that are thriving at all levels. This has created a broader base of interest in the community. Test cricket in my view is still the flagship of all formats, and its the game all players want to master. Crickets followers have developed through the growth of the various media platforms and of the recent success of Twenty20 cricket around the world. There was a time when our fathers and grandfathers introduced the game to us through Test matches over the summer, now we have our grandchildren and children introducing the new brand of the game, Twenty20. Its contagious either way. The wheel has turned and turned for the better from a participation point of view, whether one plays, umpires, watches, scores, studies or just chats about the game, its all a healthy pastime.

Marc Dawson has once again produced an absorbing book on our game which covers all areas imaginable with an intriguing approach. You will have a chance to see the game through others and reflect on their view and lose yourself in your own opinion; its like that healthy discussion that is carried out in the members bar during tea or after play.

We have for ever been lost in the real facts and history in almost everything we do, cricket is no different, and statistics have always been the measure of a player or team over time. With Inside Edge you will be taken on an extraordinary journey of facts that gravitate around our game. Some will shock you and others will captivate you like a classical mystery. I am sure you will be lost in partnership with it for a number of sessions. Enjoy

Tom Moody

former Australian Test cricketer

While no batsman had ever scored a double-century in the first ten World Cups, two did so in the 2015 edition. West Indies opener Chris Gayle was first cab off the rank with 215 against Zimbabwe in Canberra only to have his record usurped a month later by New Zealand opener Martin Guptill who made an unbeaten 237.

After going 19 months without a three-figure score in one-day internationals, Gayle let loose with a World Cup-record 16 sixes becoming the first batsman to score 175 or more in an innings in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket and the first to attain the feat of a century in a Twenty20 international, a double-century in a ODI and a triple-century in a Test match. Along the way, Gayle and Marlon Samuels (133*) staged a second-wicket 372-run stand, the highest partnership for any wicket in List A cricket.

The West Indies opener marked the 1,000th international match to be staged in Australia by hitting the first World Cup 200 on the same day 24 February that Sachin Tendulkar had made the first 200 in a one-day international, in 2010.

Gayle then watched his record taken in a quarter-final in Wellington as New Zealand compiled a match-winning 393/6 against the West Indies with Guptill scoring his countrys first double-century in one-day international cricket.

Within a single of scoring his maiden double-century in the County Championship, Kent batsman Brendan Nash pulled the plug on his innings in the match against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham in 2013. Battling exhaustion on what was the hottest day of the summer at the time, the Australian-born former West Indies Test batsman retired on 199.