Tuesday, 30 December 2003

2003 Calendar Year Test Bowling - Most Wickets : Top 10

Cricinfo has posted the current list of top wicket takers for 2003

Based on all matches up to and including
Test # 1678: Australia v India at Melbourne, 3rd Test, 26/12/2003

Name

Mat

O

M

R

W

Ave

Best

5

10

SR

Econ

Team

SCG MacGill

11

524.4

107

1688

57

29.61

5-56

4

1

55.2

3.21

AUS

M Ntini

11

417.1

90

1428

51

28

5-75

3

1

49

3.42

RSA

M Muralitharan

7

470.1

182

849

48

17.68

7-46

3

1

58.7

1.8

SL

SM Pollock

10

379.2

126

843

42

20.07

6-39

2

-

54.1

2.22

RSA

JN Gillespie

10

391.3

118

923

41

22.51

5-39

1

-

57.2

2.35

AUS

B Lee

10

378.2

84

1331

38

35.02

4-63

-

-

59.7

3.51

AUS

Shabbir Ahmed

6

286.5

70

719

33

21.78

5-48

2

-

52.1

2.5

PAK

Mohammad Rafique

6

314.5

77

792

33

24

6-77

3

-

57.2

2.51

BDESH

AJ Bichel

9

312.5

68

1064

32

33.25

4-63

-

-

58.6

3.4

AUS

SJ Harmison

8

264

64

752

31

24.25

5-35

1

-

51

2.84

ENG

[listening to: Another One Bites The Dust - Queen ]
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2003 Calendar Year Test Batting - Most Runs : Top 10

Cricinfo has posted the current list of top runscorers for 2003

Based on all matches up to and including
Test # 1678: Australia v India at Melbourne, 3rd Test, 26/12/2003

Name

Mat

I

NO

Runs

HS

Ave

SR

100

50

Ct

St

Team

RT Ponting

11

18

3

1503

257

100.2

60.26

6

4

8

-

AUS

ML Hayden

12

21

4

1312

380

77.17

75.66

5

3

23

-

AUS

BC Lara

9

17

1

1261

209

78.81

64.76

5

4

17

-

WI

GC Smith

11

18

0

1184

277

65.77

68.36

4

2

12

-

RSA

HH Gibbs

11

18

1

1014

228

59.64

61.12

3

3

10

-

RSA

ME Trescothick

13

24

3

1003

219

47.76

55.75

2

6

20

-

ENG

MA Butcher

13

23

1

979

137

44.5

46.73

3

5

13

-

ENG

MP Vaughan

13

24

1

958

183

41.65

48.87

3

3

6

-

ENG

SR Waugh

12

15

4

876

156*

79.63

57.63

4

3

4

-

AUS

JL Langer

12

21

1

824

146

41.2

56.9

3

4

10

-

AUS

[listening to: It Wasn't Me - Shaggy ]
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Probe to get Wild on dust

Offtopic, but high level of geekness....

Early on Saturday, Melbourne time, mankind will attempt to catch its first pocketful of comet dust. Almost 390 million kilometres away, a NASA space probe, Stardust, will dive deep inside a cloud of dust and gas spewing from a comet called Wild 2. Travelling at 21,000 km/h, it will use a tennis racquet-shaped collector to snare more than 1000 dust particles from the cloud, possibly providing clues to the birth of life on Earth. Canberra's Tidbinbilla tracking station will stay in touch as Stardust zooms 300 kilometres above the comet. [more]

This is cool. Even cooler, the names of all my family are on a microchip embedded on the probe. Over 1 million names were collected and placed on the STARDUST spacecraft. If you look closely, you will see many Arrigo's listed!! (Sorry Bricey you aren't on the chip - but then again, you weren't born when this was launched!).

[listening to: Planet Earth - Duran Duran ]
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Moira Arrigo

A picture named Moira Arrigo.jpgMy kids have been asking me why I never write or post anything about their mum. Good question.

Moira is a shy private person who doesn't like the limelight. Time to change all that!

She's my dear sweet wife, and mother of 4 fantastic kids. She puts up with a lot of stuff (mainly from me), but she is always smiling. Good on ya Moi!

[listening to: Imagination Is a Powerful Deceiver - Elvis Costello ]
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ABC Sport - Cricket - Hayden powers Australia home

"Big-hitting Matthew Hayden powered Australia to a crushing nine-wicket win against India on the final day of the third Test at the MCG this morning. Hayden clubbed nine boundaries for his unbeaten 53 from 63 balls as Australia, chasing 95 runs to win, raced to 1 for 97 after 100 minutes of batting. Man of the match Ricky Ponting brought up the winning runs when he swept Anil Kumble to the boundary. The win levelled the four-Test series at 1-1, and set up a thrilling final Test when Steve Waugh farewells the international arena in his 168th and final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground from January 2." [more]

[listening to: I'm Looking Through You - The Wallflowers ]
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