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    Trescothick reaches 5000 milestone

    By Will 3 years ago, mid-August Leave a comment on this post

    Marcus Trescothick hit his 5000th Test match run today at Old Trafford against Australia. Interestingly, only Jack Hobbs (55 matches), Len Hutton (55), Wally Hammond (59) and Ken Barrington (61) have reached 5000 Test runs for England in fewer matches than Trescothick (64). Nice stat. Update: Viv Richards and Bill Lawry also reached 5000 Test runs in 64 matches.

    Second update:

    More stats:

    1. Shortest time span from debut to 5000 runs in Tests

    5 years 12 days ME Trescothick
    6 years 64 days R Dravid
    6 years 94 days MA Taylor
    6 years 186 days AR Border

    2. Fewest Tests to reach 5000 runs in Tests

    36 DG Bradman
    52 SM Gavaskar
    55 JB Hobbs
    55 L Hutton
    55 ML Hayden
    56 GS Sobers
    59 WR Hammond
    60 GS Chappell
    61 RN Harvey
    61 KF Barrington
    61 RB Kanhai
    61 BC Lara
    63 R Dravid
    63 HH Gibbs
    64 WM Lawry
    64 IVA Richards
    64 ME Trescothick

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    6 Responses to “Trescothick reaches 5000 milestone”

  • Scott Wickstein wrote:
    August 14th, 2005 at 12.38 pm

    Filching content off Richie Benaud, aye? Good. If you are going to steal, steal off the best, that is my motto.

  • Will wrote:
    August 14th, 2005 at 12.40 pm

    ‘fraid so. I’m laid up in bed today with the TV on, so…my brain can’t muster interesting stats, so I’ll leave R.Benaud to do it :)

  • Scott Wickstein wrote:
    August 14th, 2005 at 12.41 pm

    Get well soon mate.

  • Innocent Abroad wrote:
    August 14th, 2005 at 7.23 pm

    The best of day 4 is simply this - that if you had known before play started that in England’s second innings Trescothick, Vaughan, KP and Freddie would get 60 between them you’d've assumed that Australia would be very handily placed.

    Even if Australia get out of jail (with some help from the local weather) they know that none of the England batsmen fear their bowlers any more.

    And I hope that Vaughan does some net bowling, too (are you listening, Fletch :)?)

  • Paul wrote:
    August 14th, 2005 at 7.34 pm

    Innocent Abroad,

    Very good observation. Spot on. I hadn’t thought of that one.

    Get Well Will.

  • Harry R wrote:
    August 14th, 2005 at 10.11 pm

    That’s heady company. I’d be interested to know how much difference it makes if you take out matches against Bangladesh, but still - well done Marcus Trescothick. You may have a name that sound like the hero of a historical romance novel, but you can clearly bat.

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