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>Subject: Improvement with each outing


>Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 16:37:15
>Organization: Indiana University Radiology
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> The following players improved their individual highest score in Tests in
>each of their *first* five or six innings:
>6     S.P.Gupte (Ind)      1951/52 - 1952/53     0, 0*, 1, 2, 5, 17
>5     G.MacGregor (Eng)    1890    - 1891/92     0, 1, 2*, 9*, 16
>      F.L.Fane (Eng)       1905/06               1, 3, 8, 65, 143
>      H.Larwood (Eng)      1926    - 1928/29     0, 5, 17*, 32, 70
>      I.A.R.Peebles (Eng)  1927/28               2*, 3*, 6, 18, 26
>      D.Tallon (Aus)       1945/46 - 1946/47     5, 14, 30, 35, 92
>      L.Tuckett (SAf)      1947                  0, 5, 9, 13, 17
>      M.R.Bynoe (WI)       1958/59 - 1966/67     1, 2, 5, 19, 48
>      M.L.Jaisimha (Ind)   1959    - 1960/61     1,8, 20*, 74, 99
>      P.J.L.Dujon (WI)     1981/82               41, 43, 44, 48, 51
>      V.G.Kambli (Ind)     1992/93               16, 18*, 59, 224, 227
> The following players registered four consecutive personal highest scores in
>succession from the start of their Test careers (their fourth innings scores
>are in the parentheses):
>Eng: D.A.Allen (30*), A.H.Bakewell (107), F.Barratt (17), A.Fielder (14*),
>     W.Gunn (10), A.J.L.Hill (124), R.Illingworth (50), J.Langridge (70),
>     G.A.E.Paine (49), E.Paynter (77), G.Ulyett (63), D.V.P.Wright (22).
>Aus: I.M.Chappell (37), D.J.Colley (54), C.Hill (14), T.V.Hohns (40),
>     A.R.Morris (155), W.A.S.Oldfield (50), G.M.Ritchie (106*), J.Ryder (44),
>     J.V.Saunders (3), N.F.D.Thomson (41), M.R.J.Veletta (39).
>SAf: G.A.Faulkner (19), G.D.Varnals (23), W.W.Wade (28).
>WI : A.G.Barrett (19), I.R.Bishop (30*), E.H.Mattis (71).
>NZ : R.O.Collinge (34), R.S.Cunis (16*), J.G.Leggat (47), G.O.Rabone (39*),
>     G.L.Weir (63).
>Ind: Kapil Dev (59), P.E.Palia (16), C.T.Sarwate (26).
>Pak: Azeem Hafeez (18), Fazal Mahmood (33), Wasim Akram (8*).
>SL : Y.Goonasekera (23).
> Barratt, A.J.L.Hill, Colley, Thomson, Palia and Goonasekera batted in only
>four innings in their careers.
> Four player - Gupte, MacGregor, Saunders and Wasim Akram - began their
>careers with four consecutive improvements to their HSs, yet their HSs
>remained in the single figures at the end of these sequences. Gupte went on to
>register a fifth single-figure HS.
> By contrast, six players have recorded four or more consecutive HSs from
>debut after starting with a double-figure innings. They are Dujon and Kambli
>from the main lists, together with A.J.L.Hill (25, 37, 65, 124), I.M.Chappell
>(11, 17, 19, 37), Rabone (13, 25, 33, 39*) and Fazal (21*, 27, 29 33).  
> While the 52 players named above have improved their personal HS in four or
>more consecutive innings from their Test debut, only four players have have
>recorded 4 consecutive HSs in "mid-career". They are:
>T.A.Ward (SAf)    1912         Previous HS (in  3 inn):0   0*, 1*, 7, 24
>A.Melville (SAf)  1938/39-1947 Previous HS (in  4 inn):23  67, 78, 103, 189
>I.D.S.Smith (NZ)  1983/84      Previous HS (in 13 inn):20  24, 29, 32, 113
>T.J.Franklin (NZ) 1987/88      Previous HS (in  3 inn):7   10, 12, 27, 62
>aslam
>GO COLTS!!!
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