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The Not Out King reaches another landmark and a half-century of players
Francis Payne - 5 February 2001

In last week's edition of The Numbers Game, we pointed out that Chris Harris now topped the all-time list for not outs in the Shell Cup. An unbeaten 39 in the first one-dayer against Sri Lanka at Napier brought him a further landmark, equalling another not out expert's tally in One-Day Internationals. Harris has now been not out on 46 occasions, the same number as Australia's Michael Bevan. Not surprisingly, the list is headed by three players with a lot of games to their credit and reads as follows:

                      Not Outs    Matches
Steve Waugh              54         304
Mohammad Azharuddin      54         334
Arjuna Ranatunga         47         269
Michael Bevan            46         152
Chris Harris             46         170
Wasim Akram              43         311
Javed Miandad            41         233
Imran Khan               40         175
Kapil Dev                39         225
Allan Border             39         273
Heath Streak             38         121
Hashan Tillekeratne      38         181


Sri Lanka went two-up in the current one-day series without any major contributions from their two leading run scorers. Sanath Jayasuriya (4 and 38) and Aravinda de Silva (17 and 37) continued what has been a modest run in one-dayers in New Zealand since they both first appeared here in the 1990/91 season.

Their records are:

de Silva         Matches   Runs    Ave
Overall            272     8415   35.35
In New Zealand      13      305   23.46

Jayasuriya Matches Runs Ave Overall 225 6182 29.57 In New Zealand 13 267 20.53

Overall against New Zealand, Jayasuriya has an innings of 140 at Bloemfontein in 1994/95 to his credit but de Silva's 66 at Christchurch in 1996/97 is his highest anywhere.


In the match at Napier, Mutiah Muralitharan finished with figures of 5-30 from 7.5 overs. This was the fifth time he had taken five wickets in a One-Day International innings - only three players have done so more often. The leaders on the list are:

                      5WI   Matches
Waqar Younis           10     199
Lance Klusener          6     109
Saqlain Mushtaq         6     129
Richard Hadlee          5     115
Mutiah Muralitharan     5     156
Wasim Akram             5     311
Glenn McGrath           4     127
Aaqib Javed             4     163
Curtley Ambrose         4     176

Waqar Younis has performed the feat five times against New Zealand alone.


Lou Vincent's selection for the third One-Day International produces an interesting scenario. He is the 28th player selected for New Zealand this season (i.e. since Singapore in August) and it brings to 50 the number of current players who have played for New Zealand.

The 28 used so far this season are:

Geoff Allott
Nathan Astle
Chris Cairns
Stephen Fleming
James Franklin
Chris Harris
Matt Horne
Craig McMillan
Hamish Marshall
Chris Martin
Dion Nash
Chris Nevin
Shayne O'Connor
Jacob Oram
Adam Parore
Andrew Penn
Mark Richardson
Mathew Sinclair
Craig Spearman
Scott Styris
Glen Sulzberger
Daryl Tuffey
Roger Twose
Daniel Vettori
Lou Vincent
Brooke Walker
Kerry Walmsley
Paul Wiseman

The other 22 current players who have played for New Zealand are:

Mark Bailey
Matthew Bell
Grant Bradburn
Carl Bulfin
Martyn Croy
Heath Davis
Mark Douglas
Simon Doull
Chris Drum
Lee Germon
Matthew Hart
Mark Haslam
Llorne Howell
Robert Kennedy
Greg Loveridge
Bruce Martin
Richard Petrie
Blair Pocock
David Sewell
Gary Stead
Alex Tait
Warren Wisneski

This includes Bruce Martin who was in the twelve for the third Test against Australia at Hamilton last season but does not include Tama Canning, who, according to popular opinion, had actually been selected for the one-dayers against Zimbabwe before his non-eligibility prevented him from playing.


In our first edition of the Numbers Game (16 October) we listed the longest first-class innings played by New Zealand batsmen. Mark Richardson, with his triple century at Kwekwe, headed the list but we noted that if the official time of 785 minutes was correct, New Zealand would have had to bowl their 19 overs at the end of the second day in 33 minutes!

Since that time, an inspection of the scorebook has revealed that the correct time should be a more feasible 741 minutes. Presumably the time for a lunch interval had not been taken into account. However, Richardson's innings is still comfortably the longest by a New Zealander and for the sake of completeness we list the amended table here.

Mins   Runs
741    306   MH Richardson   New Zealand v Zimbabwe A         Kwekwe         2000/01
704    259   GM Turner       New Zealand v West Indies        Georgetown     1971/72
685    180   JF Reid         New Zealand v Sri Lanka          Colombo        1983/84
671    212*  MH Richardson   New Zealand A v Sussex           Hove           2000
655    146*  MJ Greatbatch   New Zealand v Australia          Perth          1989/90
647    251*  CZ Harris       Canterbury v Central Districts   Rangiora       1996/97
636    170*  AH Jones        New Zealand v India              Auckland       1989/90
625    222   IA Rutherford   Otago v Central Districts        New Plymouth   1978/79
610    299   MD Crowe        New Zealand v Sri Lanka          Wellington     1990/91
609    120*  JJ Crowe        New Zealand v Sri Lanka          Colombo        1986/87
605    267*  BA Young        New Zealand v Sri Lanka          Dunedin        1996/97
603    259   GM Turner       New Zealand v Guyana             Georgetown     1971/72

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