Re: Another century for Bopara

On May 14, 4:57 pm, John Hall <nospam_no...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <nqvo05h11q5ou9kh2fjfjdo48b3vk24...@xxxxxxx>,
 Mike Holmans <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[re 3 hundreds in successive innings]

The opportunities are mostly for people at the head of the order but
they also risk getting a small not out, either because they're winning
by several wickets or playing out time in a draw.

Yep. Had Strauss or Cook got out in the second innings at Lord's, Bopara
would presumably have come in at number 3 and so have suffered that
fate.

Hayden suffered that fate in 2001-02. He made 131 in the second
innings
against South Africa at Adelaide, then followed that with 138 and 3*,
105 and 21*, and 122 in his next three tests. The two not-out innings
came from 10W wins.

Harvey suffered sort of the reverse fate once. Batting late in the
order he was only able to get to 56* in the first innings of the
Johannesburg Test in 1950. He'd made 151* in the innings before and
he made 100 and 116 in the two innings after.

Incidentally, are Bopara's three ducks + three hundreds unique?
.

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