Amazing Records and Performance & History of BGT
As the Border Gavaskar trophy begins next week and when the excitement levels could go sky rocketing. Its a good time to look back at history of BGT and lets look deeper into the records and performances of players. For latest updated records visit here
Border- Gavaskar as name suggest is named after Legendary Cricketers Allan Border from Australia & Sunil Gavaskar from India. It started in 1996. Before that India and Australia played 50 test matches from 1947 to 1996.Australia winning 24 matches and India winning 8. 18 were drawn. Those days tours were not planned often and played on 4 years gap. Just for mathematic purpose it was 12 tours in period of 49 years. From 1996 till today this will be 16th tour in 27 years. You can do the your mathematics on the frequency.
From 1996 to 2023 the current year records between both teams are competitive with India now edging Australia. If we have a look at records 52 test matches are played. India winning 22 and Australia 19. 11 draws. Though these numbers look close. Let me take you to the point above where I said its 16th tour under BGT .India has won 9 series. Australia 5 and 1 draw in 2003. As the 16th tour is around the corner lets look at the trophy itself in the below image.
With history discussed let us focus now on some statistical data of performance and some great Historic matches.
Batsman with most runs: In the competition history Sachin Tendulkar is the leading run getter with 3262 runs from 65 innings.read more https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=6;type=trophy
Bowler with most wickets: In the competition history Anil Kumble is the leading wicket taker with 111 wickets from 20 matches.
Batting Facts:-
Some Fun Facts for you All
Player with most Ducks : Ishant Sharma- 12
Player with Highest Score: Michael Clarke- 329
Player with Highest Average: Steve Smith-72.58
Player with Highest Strike Rate: Adam Gilchrist-76.90
Player with Most Hundreds: Sachin Tendulkar- 9
Player with Most Fifties: Sachin Tendulkar- 25
Player with Most Sixes: Sachin Tendulkar-25
Bowling Facts:-
Best Bowling Figures in an innings: Nathan Lyon- 8 for 50
Best Bowling Figures in a Match: Harbhajan Singh- 15 for 217
Best Average of a Bowler- Glenn Mcgrath- 18.64
Best Economy of Rate of a Bowler: Ravindra Jadeja-2.22
Player with Most 5 Wickets Haul : Anil Kumble-10
Player with Most 10 Wickets Haul : Harbhajan Singh- 3
Player with Most Wickets in a Series: Harbhajan Singh -32
Fielding Facts:-
Player with Most Catches: Rahul Dravid- 46
Player with Most Catches in an Innings: Mark Waugh- 4
Player with Most Catches in a Match: Mark Waugh- 6
Player with Most Catches in Series: Rahul Dravid-13
Wicket Keeping Facts:-
Player with most Dismissals: Adam Gilchrist- 75
Player with Most Dismissals in an Innings: Brad Haddin-6
Player with Most Dismissals in a Match: Rishabh Pant-11
Players with Highest wicket Partnership: Ricky Ponting & Michael Clarke-386 for 4th Wicket
Individual Matches Played: Sachin Tendulkar- 34 matches played.
Above were some of the amazing facts which I am sure you were not aware about. As the frenzy for India and Australia is about to pick up in next few days . This was a article written to take people into memory lane. Some of the matches like the 2001 Kolkatta test just zoomed through my mind as if it was played yesterday. While compiling this article I had to dig into the History records of these 2 great teams who have been a connoisseur for Cricketing fans all around the globe. With this hope that more records are broken and new chapter is entered soon, I would like you to go through my other article if you have not yet..https://infostoriez.com/bowlers-to-have-ultimate-say-in-border-gavaskar-trophy/ about bowlers and https://infostoriez.com/ultimate-5-batsmen-to-watchout-for-australia-vs-india/ about batsmen. Hoping for Amazing Batting and Amazing Bowling for this Amazing series ahead!
Very informative