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In five first-class matches he scored 295 runs at an average of 42. 14, including a highest score of 164, and took 11 wickets at an average of 46. 45 ; Afridi also played 11 one day matches for the club, scoring 481 runs at an average of 40. 08 and taking 18 wickets at 24. 04.
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Playing 34 matches on tour — three of which were not first-class — including the five Tests, they remained unbeaten, winning 27 and drawing only 7.
Limited overs cricket, also known as one-day cricket and in a slightly different context as List A cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day, whereas Test and first-class matches can take up to five days to complete.
The following Australian season in 1952-53, Benaud started modestly and in the five first-class matches before the Tests, scored 208 runs at 26. 00 including a 63 and 69, and 14 wickets at 38. 64.
In 1967-68 he captained a Commonwealth team against Pakistan, playing in his last five first-class fixtures.
After two first-class matches against Sri Lankan domestic teams over the winter of 1977-78, in which he scored 76 runs at 38. 00 in first-class and a score of 22 in the only one day fixture, Gower topped 1, 000 runs in a season for the first time in his career, scoring 1098 runs at 37. 86 including two hundreds, five fifties and a call up to the national team.
With a first-class average of 10. 33, Waugh was dropped for the next five matches.
Emirates Airline has installed showers for first-class passengers on the A380 ; twenty-five minutes are allotted for use of the room, and the shower operates for a maximum of five minutes.
On October 5, 2007, the United States Postal Service announced that it would honor five journalists of the 20th century with first-class rate postage stamps, to be issued on Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Martha Gellhorn, John Hersey, George Polk, Rubén Salazar, and Eric Sevareid.
Clarke also played 27 first-class cricket matches, mostly for Auckland and Northern Districts, taking five or more wickets in an innings on four occasions.
Hobbs played just five first-class matches in 1921.
He averaged 49. 66 in all first-class cricket during the tour, and took five wickets with the ball as England won the Test series 1 – 0.
Sufficiently recovered, Chappell totally dominated the season of 1975-76, amassing a record 1547 first-class runs at an average of 85. 9, with five centuries.
Trueman played in eight first-class matches in 1949, all for Yorkshire ; in five matches for the Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship ; and in one other match for Yorkshire's first team against an Army XI which included another up and coming fast bowler, Frank Tyson.
Trueman played in 30 first-class matches in 1958 including all five Tests against New Zealand.
He made 27 first-class appearances in 1963, taking 129 wickets at only 15. 15 with best figures of 8 – 45 among ten 5-wicket returns and five matches when he took 10 wickets.
He played in eight first-class matches, including three of the five Tests, and took 27 wickets at 33. 66 with a best effort of 5 – 45.
On the New Zealand leg of the tour, Trueman played in all five first-class matches, including two Tests, and took 20 wickets at 12. 20 with best figures of 8 – 45 and 10 wickets in a match once.
When the MCC toured West Indies in 1959 – 60, Trueman took 37 wickets and 11 catches in 10 first-class appearances including all five Test matches.
He completed a degree in Medicine at the University of Baghdad where he received first-class honours. He has five daughters and three sons.
On October 5, 2007, the United States Postal Service announced that it would honor five 20th century journalists with first-class rate postage stamps, to be issued on Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Martha Gellhorn ; John Hersey ; George Polk ; Rubén Salazar ; and Eric Sevareid.
* The West Indian team touring England in the 1928 season is the first to play Test cricket but is not very successful, losing all three Tests by an innings and winning only five out of 30 first-class matches.
In all first-class matches, he scored 1, 168 runs at an average of 64. 88, the highest aggregate among the tourists, and accumulated five centuries.
Hutton scored 553 Test runs at an average of 88. 83, and in all first-class matches accumulated 1, 199 runs with five centuries and an average of 70. 52.
Against Nottinghamshire, he scored 194 in five hours, his final first-class century.
five and matches
A series of " The Ashes " comprises five Test matches, two innings per match, under the regular rules for Test match cricket.
In 1905 England's captain Stanley Jackson not only won the series 2 – 0, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages.
Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).
The series alternates between the United Kingdom and Australia, and within each country each of the usually five matches is held at a different cricket ground.
He later recalled " a simple scheme that enabled us to pull several matches out of the fire " during the 1934 – 35 season: when the team was in trouble " the centre-half was to forsake his defensive role and go up into the attack to add weight to the five forwards.
The number of nations playing Test cricket increased gradually over the years, with the addition of West Indies in 1928, New Zealand in 1930, India in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952, but international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, four or five days.
He lost only five competitive matches during his tenure and England rose to a No. 4 world ranking under his guidance.
The Tsar reportedly awarded the title to the five finalists: Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Frank Marshall ( respectively, the World Champion, the next two World Champions, and two players who had lost World Championship matches to Lasker ).
The national team has been less successful in such limited-overs matches at the ground, including a five year stint between 1996 and 2001, when they failed to win any matches.
A team which has lost all five matches is said to have been ' whitewashed '.
In competition play, matches are typically best of five or seven games.
Test matches are played between national representative teams with " Test status ," as determined by the International Cricket Council ( ICC ), with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days.
In 1970, a series of five " Test matches " was played in England between England and a Rest of the World XI.
The series, which was the first to be held over five matches, as we know it today, was won 3 – 2 by England.
These two did not play each other and both were unbeaten in six matches, but Nottinghamshire won five and Gloucestershire won four.
He struggled to adapt to the English game and failed to score in the club's next five league matches, prompting ridicule by the national press.
In the 1985 – 86 season, he scored 37 goals in 26 league matches, including six goals against Sparta Rotterdam and five against Heracles Almelo, and won the European Golden Boot.
As manager of Tottenham in the mid-1990s, he played several matches utilizing a formation that had five forwards, a formation that hadn't been used in English football since the 1950s.
Beginning in the second season, the returning champion rule was reinstated ; a player could stay on for a maximum of five days ( or, in the final season, matches ).
He resigned in December 2002 after just five matches ( 2 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats, including a 0: 1 debacle at home against Latvia in a European Championship qualifier ).
Hillsborough was a regular venue for FA Cup semi-finals in the 1980s, hosting five matches.
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