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SANGAKKARA Shares World Record With Weekes, Flower & Chanderpaul - Rev Al - 07-18-2014
HERE IS THE WORLD RECORD---listed over at shivisgreat.com
CONSECUTIVE FIFTIES---The most consecutive fifties ever scored by a batsman in tests is 7. Four batsmen share that record: Weekes, Flower, Chanderpaul and Sangakkara.
http://www.shivisgreat.com/stats/
* Going into the test against South Africa, Sangakkara had the chance to hold the record all by himself. His last 7 test scores were: 75, 319, 105, 147, 61, 79, 51
* Sangakkara scored 24 in the first innings of the first test versus South Africa.
* So he shares the WORLD RECORD for most consecutive fifties with Weekes, Flower, and Chanderpaul.
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Re: SANGAKKARA Shares World Record With Weekes, Flower & Chanderpaul - Rev Al - 07-18-2014
* Only 4 batsmen in history have scored 12,000+ test runs.
* If you don't know who they are you are not a cricket fan.
* The great Brian Lara is not among the 4.
11,953---Lara
11,517---Sangakkara
11,496---Jayawardene
11,414---Chanderpaul
* Sangakkara is on track to become the 5th batsman in history to score 12,000 test runs.
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