Yet another year passes and cricket's governing body, ICC announced that three more legendary cricketers will be added to its Hall of fame.
Andrew Ward described it as ‘a game finishing in such poor light that conditions were more favourable to live bats than dead ones’.
George Lohmann played only once more, in the Ashes Test at Lord’s in 1896.
The oft-forgotten strike rate tells a different tale of the success of bowlers.
As many as 18 wickets fell before lunch on August 31, 1888 as England got caught on a 'sticky’ wicket. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at the day when Bobby Peel and treacherous combined to claim the Ashes for England.
With 112 wickets in 18 Tests, George Lohmann boasts the best bowling average and strike rate among bowlers with more than 15 wickets.
The Proteas juggernaut rolls on with a series-clinching victory against Pakistan at Cape Town. With world class batsmen and dangerous bowlers, Graeme Smith’s unit has proved that they have the right mix to topple any challenge along their way. That very strength is reflected in the fact that they haven’t lost a Test since December 2011 and haven’t conceded a series in almost four years. A major catalyst in that phenomenal run has been the crafty seamer Vernon Philander, who keeps getting better with each passing game.
George Lohmann followed his first-innings 7 for 38 with 8 for 7.
Statistics may not tell the whole story, but do trace the footprints left by the cricketers across time. Having analysed the batsmen, Arunabha Sengupta now looks at how bowlers performed over the decades in Tests.
Being bowled out for under 100 used to be commonplace back in the time of Queen Victoria, but until recently instances were few and far between in the modern game and normally (although not always) featured Bangladesh.