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Top 10 Shield runscorers (final to come)

Worrying signs when Manenti is 7th on the list , well done to him

Pleasant surprise seeing Davies there , been tracking Clayton for a few years , needs to push to that 750+ mark

Webster 914 @ 65.28 , 3 centuries , 6 fifties
Bancroft 778 @ 48.62 , 3 , 4
McSweeney 762 @ 40.1 , 3 , 3
Davies (7 matches) 670 @ 67 , 3 , 3
Whiteman 658 @ 38.7 , 2 , 2
Wakim 635 @ 33.42 , 2 , 2
Manenti 609 @ 38.06 , 0 , 5
Handscomb 593 @ 32.94 , 1 , 4
Clayton 555 @ 32.64 , 2 , 3
Silk 554 @ 34.63 , 1 , 3

Selectors don't seem to rank Shield runs though and are reluctant to make changes.

Ideally the current Test bats all play Shield cricket before the Indian series instead of the white ball matches v Pakistan.
 
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Top 10 Shield runscorers (final to come)

Worrying signs when Manenti is 7th on the list , well done to him

Pleasant surprise seeing Davies there , been tracking Clayton for a few years , needs to push to that 750+ mark

Webster 914 @ 65.28 , 3 centuries , 6 fifties
Bancroft 778 @ 48.62 , 3 , 4
McSweeney 762 @ 40.1 , 3 , 3
Davies (7 matches) 670 @ 67 , 3 , 3
Whiteman 658 @ 38.7 , 2 , 2
Wakim 635 @ 33.42 , 2 , 2
Manenti 609 @ 38.06 , 0 , 5
Handscomb 593 @ 32.94 , 1 , 4
Clayton 555 @ 32.64 , 2 , 3
Silk 554 @ 34.63 , 1 , 3

Selectors don't seem to rank Shield runs though and are reluctant to make changes.

Ideally the current Test bats all play Shield cricket before the Indian series instead of the white ball matches v Pakistan.
Yeah pretty sad there's only 2 guys averaging 50+, although gone are the days when internationals play much shield cricket (even white ball internationals).
 
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Yeah pretty sad there's only 2 guys averaging 50+, although gone are the days when internationals play much shield cricket (even white ball internationals).
I guess they have ear marked Renshaw to replace Khawaja when the time comes.

Davies and McSweeney come out next summer and start with a bang might put some pressure on Labuschagne and Head.

Hardie probably next in line for Marsh's spot (ahead of Webster)

Couldn't even guess when Cummins , Hazlewood & Starc last played a Shield game.

Queries on quite a few of the Bats , you would think Shield cricket would be the best preparation but the powers that be see things differently now.
 
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the 1st Test is 8 months away !!!!! :mad:

Cricket Australia cut Lyon's Lancashire stint short
Off-spinner allowed to play seven of first nine Championship matches to manage workload ahead of Tests vs India

They all ready withdrew Hardie's county stint , how does that help his red ball development ?
 
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This one might have gone unnoticed

All Kamindu Mendis and Dhananjaya de Silva's twinning records


3 - Number of instances of two players from the same team with twin hundreds in a Test match - Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis did it for Sri Lanka in Sylhet. The Chappell brothers - Ian and Greg - scored twin tons against New Zealand in Wellington in 1974, while Azhar Ali and Misbah-ul-Haq did the same against Australia in Abu Dhabi in 2014.

There have also been three Test matches where one player from each side scored twin hundreds - Arthur Morris and Denis Compton in Adelaide in 1947, Andrew Jones and Asanka Gurusinha in Hamilton in 1991, and David Warner and Virat Kohli in Adelaide in 2014.

3 - Number of pairs with two 150-plus partnerships in a Test match, including Dhananjaya and Kamindu with 202 and 177 in Sylhet. Paul Gibb and Eddie Paynter added 184 and 168 for the second wicket against South Africa in the 1938 Johannesburg Test, while Joe Burns and David Warner had opening stands of 161 and 237 against New Zealand in the 2015 Brisbane Test.

2 - Players with hundreds in both innings of a Test match while batting at No. 6 or lower before Dhananjaya and Kamindu in Sylhet. Kamindu became the first batter with two hundreds in a Test while batting at No. 7 or lower.

Allan Border had two 150-plus scores while batting at No. 6 against Pakistan in Lahore in 1980, while Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 162 and 143 at No. 6 against Bangladesh in the 2009 Chattogram Test.

266 - Runs scored by Kamindu in Sylhet are the second-most by any batter while batting at No. 7 or lower in a Test match. Don Bradman's 270 runs against England in the 1937 Melbourne Test are the highest: he scored 270 in Australia's second innings while batting at No. 7.

164 - Kamindu's score in Sri Lanka's second innings is now the sixth-highest individual score while batting at No. 8 or lower in Test cricket. Only one player before Kamindu had a 150-plus score for Sri Lanka in Tests while batting outside the top six - 154* by Prasanna Jayawardene while batting at No.7 against India in 2009.

375 - Partnership runs by Dhananjaya and Kamindu in Sylhet - the third-most by any pair for the sixth wicket or lower in a Test match. They are also the third pair with two century partnerships for the sixth wicket or lower in a Test.

292 - Runs added by Sri Lanka after the fall of the sixth wicket in their second innings. These are the most runs by Sri Lanka in a Test innings after the fall of the sixth wicket, surpassing the 223 runs against Bangladesh in 2007 in Colombo.

528 - Runs scored by Sri Lanka across the two innings in Sylhet after the fall of the fifth wicket, the most by them in a Test match. These are the fifth-most runs added by any team after losing their fifth wicket across two innings in a Test match.
 
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