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2005 in cricket

31 October - India wicket-keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni hits 183 not out in India's six-wicket win over Sri Lanka at Jaipur, setting a record for the highest score by a wicket-keeper in ODIs.

Alan Ratcliffe

This record though stood for only one day, as the next day the Nawab of Pataudi broke this record by scoring 238 not out for Oxford University.

Arthur Morris with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

During the Australian season of 1947–48, which preceded the tour of England, Morris played in the first four Tests against the touring Indians, scoring 45 and an unbeaten 100 in the Third Test victory in Melbourne.

Cedric Boyns

Worcestershire won by an innings thanks to a superb all-round display by Imran Khan (111*; 7–53 and 6–46) so Boyns was only allowed a single innings, in which he scored 23.

Geoffrey Darks

Not usually a productive batsman, with six single-figure scores in his eight innings (albeit three of those not out), he did however make 39 against Cambridge in the same match in late June 1950 in which he took his final wicket, that of David Sheppard.

Harold Edge

With the bat unbeaten on 19 in the Welsh first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by Cyril Ormerod.

Harry Calder

He never appeared in a first-class game, although he did play for the Surrey Second XI in 1920, scoring 0 and 6 not out and bowling four wicketless overs for 21 against Staffordshire.

Ian Sturmer

With the bat, Sturmer scored 2 not out in Loughborough's first-innings, while in their second he was dismissed for 5 runs by Adam Riley.

John Santall

Santall was never a conspicuous success with the county: in 13 innings he only thrice reached double figures (his best being the unbeaten 36 he hit against Lancashire), and with the ball he never added to the 2–29 he took in the first innings of his debut against Essex; the first of his two victims was Stan Nichols and the other Joe Hipkin.

Lionel Gough Arbuthnot

His best match, and that of the whole team, was the second of the "international" fixtures he played in against the West Indies at Georgetown, Guyana, when he made his top score of 17 not out and shared in a 10th wicket partnership of 43 with wicketkeeper Arthur Whatman, who was captaining the side in Bennett's absence.

Melbourne Park, Kingston

Playing for Jamaica against Lord Tennyson's XI in February 1932, he struck 344 not out, at the time the highest innings made in the West Indies and still (as of 2007) a ground record.

Merrik Ward

Ward made three County Championship appearances the following season, where Ward made his two highest scores of 47* against Gloucestershire and his highest score of 48 against Kent, a match in which Ward captained Hampshire in the absence of Lord Tennyson.

Pradyumansinhji Lakhajirajsinhji, 14th Thakore Saheb of Rajkot

Maharashtra were 826/4, with B. B. Nimbalkar having scored 443 not out, the first (and only) quadruple century in Indian first-class cricket, and nine runs behind Sir Donald Bradman's world record score of 452 not out.

Ravinder Senghera

Worcestershire declared their first innings at 388/1 (Turner 202*) and eventually won by an innings, so Senghera did not get to bat, but he claimed five wickets in the match, his maiden scalp being that of Peter Hayes.

Ray Strauss

However, his performance in that match was largely overshadowed by that of Burnley's professional, Indian Test player Dattu Phadkar, who took 8/54 and scored 68 not out.

Scorecard of A. E. J. Collins

Captain Arthur Edward Jeune "James" Collins, better known as A. E. J. Collins (18 August 1885 – 11 November 1914), was a cricketer and soldier, most famous for his achievement, as a schoolboy, of the highest-ever recorded score in cricket, 628 not out, over four afternoons in June 1899.

Stephen Capon

Forced to follow-on in their second-innings, Kent reached with 324/3, with Les Ames scoring an unbeaten century to help guide Kent to a draw.


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