It's a numbers game! Here The Cricketer takes a look back at some of the stats to come out of the world of cricket this week...
England’s World Cup opener against South Africa marked Eoin Morgan’s 200th ODI appearance for the country.
His 57 with the bat at The Oval saw him pass the 7,000-run milestone in the format.
Class is permanent, as they say. By his own high standards, Sir Alastair Cook hadn’t had the greatest of starts to this summer but the visit of Kent to Chelmsford sparked a return to form.
Having hit his first century (his 65th first-class hundred) of the Championship season in the first innings, Cook fell 10 short of making it back-to-back centuries in Essex’s 113-run victory.
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Chris Gayle now hold the record for most sixes in World Cup matches. Universe Boss struck three sixes in his half-century against Pakistan on Friday, moving him ahead of AB de Villiers’ 37.
Pakistan’s heavy loss against West Indies made it 11 defeats in a row for Sarfraz Ahmed’s team in completed ODIs.
Yorkshire’s Gary Ballance made history by registering his fifth century in consecutive County Championship fixtures - the first to ever complete the feat in the club’s history.
He has reached three figures in all four of Yorkshire’s Championship matches this summer to go with a hundred against Worcestershire at the end of last season.
The Zimbabwe-born batsman has scored 538 Championship runs at 89.67 in the current campaign.
Surrey’s Gareth Batty picked up career-best first-class figures of 8 for 64 against Warwickshire. The 41-year-old spinner took 10 in the match, including a hat-trick in Surrey’s 130-run defeat at Edgbaston.
🔥 What a day for Gareth Batty!
— Surrey Cricket (@surreycricket) May 30, 2019
👀 Here's a look at all 8 of Batty's wickets including his hat-trick. pic.twitter.com/VGcCnbCmm2
Another veteran spinner, another career-best. On the opposing side to Batty, Jeetan Patel picked up 8 for 36 in Surrey’s second innings and 12 wickets in the match.
Sri Lanka skipper Dimuth Karunaratne became only the second player in World Cup history to carry his bat through a completed innings. The captain registered an unbeaten 52 in his side’s 10-wicket thrashing at the hands of New Zealand.
Ridley Jacobs (49*) carried his bat for West Indies against Australia at the 1999 World Cup.
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