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@acscricket is running a series of talks for members in March, April
& May which will be serious, academic discussions on cricket. We kick off on 14th March at 10.00am UK time with a panel discussion on Literary Sports Journalism with #tombradshaw #elizabethellison #kaseysymons

Happy 70th birthday to West Indies legend, Desmond Haynes born 15 February 1956. He played 116 Tests scoring 7,487 runs at 42.29 with 18 tons. Haynes also tallied 238 ODI’s notching 8,648 runs at 41.27 with 17 centuries. Congratulations to a great cricketer. #cricketcounts

How cricket has changed. Aiden Markram of South Africa scored a brilliant 86* v New Zealand at the World T20I group game on 14.2.26. His 50 came up in 19 balls, all shots text book pieces of art. Joint fastest 50 of the tournament. Eight 4’s & 4 sixes. #cricketcounts

Repeating our appeal for anyone who can help @acscricket fill the gaps in scorecards for many of the 1,583 first-class matches (especially for Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa and the West Indies) so that the records can become even more comprehensive!

https://archive.acscricket.com/research/womens_fc_match_list.html

#WomensCricket #CricketStatistics

WOMEN'S CRICKET RECORDS

We have just supplemented the women's international records on the @acscricket website with an extensive range of women's first-class, List A and T20 records, thanks to the help of Cricket Archive.

https://stats.acscricket.com/Records/Womens_First_Class/index.html

https://stats.acscricket.com/Records/Womens_List_A/index.html

https://stats.acscricket.com/Records/Womens_Twenty20/index.html

This follows @acscricket's adoption last year of a definitive list of women’s first-class matches:

https://archive.acscricket.com/research/womens_fc_match_list.html

#WomensCricket #CricketStatistics

Continuing 8th Feb’s Indian theme, it is happy 63rd birthday to Mohammad Azharuddin (6,215 Test runs at 45.00) & it is the 32nd anniversary of Kapil Dev claiming his 432nd Test match wicket to pass Richard Hadlee’s world record. Dev took 434 Test wickets in all. #cricketcounts

India may be favourites for the 2026 T20I World Cup, but it is 74 years ago today that they won their first ever Test match beating England by an innings & 8 runs in Madras. The great all-rounder, Vinoo Mankad span India to victory with 8-55 in the 1st innings & 4-53 in the 2nd. #cricketcounts

At the end of the 2026 WPL, Nandani Sharma & Sophie Devine were leading wicket takers with17 apiece. The leading run maker was RCB superstar Smriti Mandhana with 377 runs. #cricketcounts

The next @acscricket auction gets underway at 8.00am Sat 14th Feb GMT & ends Mon 23rd Feb at 10.00pm. Pride of place are several James Lillywhite Cricketers’ Annuals which form a core of material. View the catalogue https://archive.acscricket/auction/auction_page_all.html

Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s 175 in today’s Men’s U19 World Cup Final for India v England was the highest score in an U19 WC Final; it was the 6th highest score in any U19 WC match; & his 15 sixes was the highest number in any innings in an U19 WC match. & he is not even 15 years old.

India beat England to win their sixth Under-19 Men's World Cup after 175 in 80 balls, the highest U19 ODI score against a Full Member side, from Vaibhav Suryavanshi.

India's total of 411-9 was also a U19 ODI record against a Full Member.

Suryavanshi is *still* only 14 but anticipated his 15th birthday in March with 15 fours and 15 sixes!

England's 311 (inc Caleb Falconer's 115 off 67) exactly matched India's U19WC record chase in the semi-final.

https://acscricket.com/?page_id=6039

#U19WorldCup #U19CWC

@PVTejas Sadly not! It felt like RCB's name was always on this particular trophy, though there were moments when DC must have felt hopeful.

Highest successful women's T20 chase:

213 West Indies v Australia, 2023
204 RCB v Delhi Capitals, today
202 RCB v Gujarat Giants, 2025
199 England v India, 2018
193 Mumbai Indians v Gujarat Giants, 2026
192 Central v East Coast, 2009
191 Mumbai Indians v Gujarat Giants, 2024

#WPL #T20
#cricket #womenscricket

Delhi Capitals have reached all four Women's Premier League finals, and lost them all - two to Mumbai Indians, and now two to Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Congratulations to Smriti Mandhana's RCB, who survived a late scare when they lost three in three overs, including Georgia Voll for 79 off 54 balls and then Mandhana herself for 87 off 41!

https://acscricket.com/?page_id=8147

#WPLFinal #WPL2026

It will be England v India in Harare on 6th Feb in World Cup ODI U19 Final. England have not won the trophy since 1998 whilst India have reached the final for the 10th time. In scoring 311 v Afghanistan in the semi-final, India achieved the highest target ever in U19 WC history.

RCB play Delhi Capitals in WPL Final on 5th Feb & have the most economic bowler (Lauren Bell 5.63 runs/over), the batter with best strike rate (Grace Harris 180.95), the bowler with best strike rate who has bowled more than 3 overs (Nadine de Klerk 11.2). Can they deliver again?

Welcome to the latest edition of ‘The Cricket Statistician’, the quarterly Journal of ACS where Editor Russ Houldin has done a great job of blending historical & statistical articles to form a fine body of work. To buy a copy go to https://acscricket.com #cricketcounts

RIP Sussex, Surrey & one-cap wonder for England, Tony Pigott. He scored 4,841 first class runs at 19.28 & took 672 first class wickets at 30.99. In his only Test match Pigott took 2-75 as England lost having been bowled out twice for less than 100. Pigott scored 8* & 4.

Congratulations to Sophie Molineux who has been named as Australia Women’s Cricket Captain across all formats. Molineux, who succeeds Alyssa Healey, has played 3 Test matches, 11 ODI’s & 38 T20I’s. 7 wkts in Tests at 24.85; 22 wkts at 11.77 in ODI’s; 41 wkts at 18.68 in T20I’s.