THE WEEK IN NUMBERS: Joe Clarke's pain and another James Anderson milestone

The Cricketer looks at the numbers of the week including from the Indian Premier League and the County Championship

97

Destined for a second century in Nottinghamshire's County Championship opener against Yorkshire, Joe Clarke was left stranded just three runs short of another milestone score. 

Having already hit 112 in the first innings, the 24-year-old looked set to carve his name into the record books, but Notts skipper Steven Mullaney declared in an attempt to force a fourth day victory.

It proved to be in vain as Joe Root and Gary Ballance's centuries saw the game end in a draw. Clarke's frustration - though Mullaney claimed he was happy with the decision - was accentuated when he was dismissed for just two on the opening morning against Somerset later in the week.

31

Mumbai Indians had a 15 per cent chance of victory according to the forecasters when the West Indian came to the crease in pursuit of 198 to win against the Kings XI.

The run-rate did even rise to 14 but Pollard rose to the occasion with some breath-taking hitting. Three fours and 10 sixes followed, including two from the penultimate over off a poor Sam Curran.

Though the 31-year-old was not around to hit the winning runs, his innings was the latest contribution from a West Indies player during his cosmopolitan Indian Premier League.

GLOBAL GAME

5

As cricketers up and down the country began their 2019 campaign, Worcestershire youngster Ben Twohig's is sadly already over.

The 20-year-old has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury which will require surgery and up to nine months of rehab, ruling him out for the entire season.

Twohig may only have himself to blame however, with the injury occurring while playing a game of five-a-side football with a group of friends.

We're hopeful of Ben Twohig being fit for the start of the 2020 campaign after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament tear.

Ben will undergo surgery next week before starting rehab work with the County for the next six to nine months.

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— Worcestershire CCC (@WorcsCCC) April 9, 2019

6

England's Tammy Beaumont this week was named among the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 2019.

The 28-year-old made a mockery of the record books last summer, scoring the fastest century by an England women - in one of three in the space of nine days. 

She finished the summer with 628 runs at 57, the most made by any previous England player. Beaumont is just the sixth female to be recognised by Wisden, following in the footsteps of Claire Taylor, Charlotte Edwards, Heather Knight, Natalie Sciver and Anya Shrubsole.

1,500,000

The amount in Australian dollars (some £800,000) that Mitchell Starc is claiming from an insurance firm after he missed last year's IPL due to injury.

The seamer took out the policy last year before a calf problem prevented him from bowling a single ball for the Kokata Knight Riders.

^{Twohig is the latest cricketer to fall victim to a football injury}

1

After Alzarri Joseph's fireworks on debut with the ball, Siddhesh Lad produced some brilliance of his own on his IPL bow.

The 26-year-old clipped his first ball in the T20 competition from Ankit Rajpoot off his hip for six to get the chase off to the perfect start.

Another boundary followed the very next ball via the same route though he did soon succumb, as Mohammed Shami bowled him round his legs.

300

Another match, and yet another milestone for James Anderson. His dismissal of Sam Robson in Lancashire's County Championship opener at Middlesex, caught by Glenn Maxwell at second slip, was his 300th first-class scalp for the Red Rose.

WICKET WATCH Here's how @jimmy9 took his 300th first-class wicket for @lancscricket Sam Robson caught at second slip by @Gmaxi_32 Middlesex 14/1 #MIDvLAN pic.twitter.com/xXyFqq5DiL

— Lancashire Cricket (@lancscricket) April 11, 2019

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