10 Strangest cricket stats you probably don't know
Everything from strange dismissals to an astronomical number of runs being scored in a single over, cricket has seen it.
8. One batsman scoring more than 80 per cent of the team’s total
Everyone might have heard of a grace saving inning or a match-saving inning, which was played by a player at a time when the team was struggling and that inning saved its boast from sinking. But the inning in focus, played by New Zealand batting legend, Glenn Turner was something that no one would have imagined.
It happened in the year 1977, during a game between Worcestershire and Glamorgan at Swansea. Playing for Worchestershire, Glenn Turner, almost scored the entire team’s total all by himself. He scored 141 runs, out his team’s total of 169 runs. When calculated as a percentage, it amounts to 83.4% which is in no sense a small number.
When playing for New Zealand, Turner did equally well. He played a total of 41 Tests and 41 One Day International matches for the Blackcaps and scored 2991 and 1598 runs in the two formats respectively. His average in the two formats was also really good, 44.64 in Tests and 47.00 in ODIs. One of the most prolific batsmen to ever play for New Zealand, Glenn Turner’s name will go down in the record books, etched in golden letters.
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