Tuesday, 30 December 2003 2003 Calendar Year Test Bowling - Most Wickets : Top 10 Cricinfo has posted the current list of top wicket takers for 2003 Based on all matches up to and including Test # 1678: Australia v India at Melbourne, 3rd Test, 26/12/2003 Name Mat O M R W Ave Best 5 10 SR Econ Team SCG MacGill 11 524.4 107 1688 57 29.61 5-56 4 1 55.2 3.21 AUS M Ntini 11 417.1 90 1428 51 28 5-75 3 1 49 3.42 RSA M Muralitharan 7 470.1 182 849 48 17.68 7-46 3 1 58.7 1.8 SL SM Pollock 10 379.2 126 843 42 20.07 6-39 2- 54.1 2.22 RSA JN Gillespie 10 391.3 118 923 41 22.51 5-39 1- 57.2 2.35 AUS B Lee 10 378.2 84 1331 38 35.02 4-63— 59.7 3.51 AUS Shabbir Ahmed 6 286.5 70 719 33 21.78 5-48 2- 52.1 2.5 PAK Mohammad Rafique 6 314.5 77 792 33 24 6-77 3- 57.2 2.51 BDESH AJ Bichel 9 312.5 68 1064 32 33.25 4-63— 58.6 3.4 AUS SJ Harmison 8 264 64 752 31 24.25 5-35 1- 51 2.84 ENG [listening to: Another One Bites The Dust - Queen ] 10:31:38 PM comment [ ] trackback [ ] G! • My Interests 2003 Calendar Year Test Batting - Most Runs : Top 10 Cricinfo has posted the current list of top runscorers for 2003 Based on all matches up to and including Test # 1678: Australia v India at Melbourne, 3rd Test, 26/12/2003 Name Mat I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St Team RT Ponting 11 18 3 1503 257 100.2 60.26 6 4 8- AUS ML Hayden 12 21 4 1312 380 77.17 75.66 5 3 23- AUS BC Lara 9 17 1 1261 209 78.81 64.76 5 4 17- WI GC Smith 11 18 0 1184 277 65.77 68.36 4 2 12- RSA HH Gibbs 11 18 1 1014 228 59.64 61.12 3 3 10- RSA ME Trescothick 13 24 3 1003 219 47.76 55.75 2 6 20- ENG MA Butcher 13 23 1 979 137 44.5 46.73 3 5 13- ENG MP Vaughan 13 24 1 958 183 41.65 48.87 3 3 6- ENG SR Waugh 12 15 4 876 156* 79.63 57.63 4 3 4- AUS JL Langer 12 21 1 824 146 41.2 56.9 3 4 10- AUS [listening to: It Wasn’t Me - Shaggy ] 10:09:46 PM comment [ ] trackback [ ] G! • My Interests Probe to get Wild on dust Offtopic, but high level of geekness… Early on Saturday, Melbourne time, mankind will attempt to catch its first pocketful of comet dust. Almost 390 million kilometres away, a NASA space probe, Stardust, will dive deep inside a cloud of dust and gas spewing from a comet called Wild 2. Travelling at 21,000 km/h, it will use a tennis racquet-shaped collector to snare more than 1000 dust particles from the cloud, possibly providing clues to the birth of life on Earth. Canberra’s Tidbinbilla tracking station will stay in touch as Stardust zooms 300 kilometres above the comet. [ more ] This is cool . Even cooler, the names of all my family are on a microchip embedded on the probe. Over 1 million names were collected and placed on the STARDUST spacecraft. If you look closely, you will see many Arrigo’s listed !! (Sorry Bricey you aren’t on the chip - but then again, you weren’t born when this was launched!). [listening to: Planet Earth - Duran Duran ] 5:46:07 PM comment [ ] trackback [ ] G! • Family • My Interests Moira Arrigo My kids have been asking me why I never write or post anything about their mum . Good question. Moira is a shy private person who doesn’t like the limelight. Time to change all that! She’s my dear sweet wife, and mother of 4 fantastic kids . She puts up with a lot of stuff (mainly from me), but she is always smiling. Good on ya Moi! [listening to: Imagination Is a Powerful Deceiver - Elvis Costello ] 4:12:34 PM comment [ ] trackback [ ] G! • Family ABC Sport - Cricket - Hayden powers Australia home ” Big-hitting Matthew Hayden powered Australia to a crushing nine-wicket win against India on the final day of the third Test at the MCG this morning. Hayden clubbed nine boundaries for his unbeaten 53 from 63 balls as Australia, chasing 95 runs to win, raced to 1 for 97 after 100 minutes of batting. Man of the match Ricky Ponting brought up the winning runs when he swept Anil Kumble to the boundary. The win levelled the four-Test series at 1-1, and set up a thrilling final Test when Steve Waugh farewells the international arena in his 168th and final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground from January 2. ” [ more ] [listening to: I’m Looking Through You - The Wallflowers ] 2:33:54 PM comment [ ] trackback [ ] G! • My Interests © Copyright 2006 Frank Arrigo. A Geek Microsoft Blogger Last update: 8/07/2006; 9:55:17 AM.