Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Courtesy Of Cricinfo - Did You Know this?

Seems our man Dan is in some fairly illustrious company!

Daniel Vettori recently became the 12th man to take 200 wickets and score 2000 runs in Tests. Richard Hadlee and Chris Cairns also did it for New Zealand - but who are the other nine players? asked Bob Abraham from New Zealand


The first person to achieve this feat was Richie Benaud, who finished his 63-Test career in 1963-64 with 2201 runs and 248 wickets. The others to have done this double, apart from the three New Zealanders you mention, are Ian Botham (5200 runs, 383 wickets), Imran Khan (3807, 362), Kapil Dev (5248, 434), Shaun Pollock (3406, 391), Garry Sobers (8032, 235), Chaminda Vaas (2251, 301), Shane Warne (2958, 685) and Wasim Akram (2898, 414). Two other men are close to completing it: Jacques Kallis needed just three wickets before the second Test against New Zealand at Cape Town, and Anil Kumble needs another 108 runs.

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