1st & 2nd highest run rate achieved in a test innings is against BD

Mohiul · #1 January 17, 2006, 03:21 PM

One more negative point in our test performance.

Read this para in the following link. "India's scoring rate of 5.30 is the third-highest for a Test innings of more than 400. The two faster efforts both came against Bangladesh: England scored at 5.73 against them at Chester-le-Street, while Sri Lanka managed a rate of 5.36 at Colombo (SSC).

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/pakvi...ry/232916.html

Tigers_eye · #2 January 17, 2006, 03:36 PM

Most of the records are there just to be broken. The way test cricket is heading I am pretty sure this will not last for long.

Some of the cricketing records that no team can break is going 20 years before getting a test win.

al Furqaan · #3 January 18, 2006, 11:50 AM

SA scored at more than 7 an over against Zimbabwe about a year ago. not sure if they posted 400 plus, but its kinda hard not to if you score at 7 an over

RazabQ · #4 January 19, 2006, 12:20 AM

Perhaps we need some normalizing here. Divide the data into periods say

Old days 1800-1920s
Pre war 1920 - 1940
War 1940 - 1945
Post war 1945 -

Well you get the picture. Then we can look at relative run rates for those periods and then the record for highest run rate for that period.

This should show whether Bangladesh's record is particularly bad or just a case of being in the right place at the wrong time