In message <ir84p9Fk72aU1@mid.individual.net>, David North
<nospam@lane-farm.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>On 23/09/2021 15:26, Richard Dixon wrote:
>> "The first eleven batters to come to the crease in the Surrey v
>>Glamorgan match at The Oval all reached 30. This is the first time
>>this has happened in all first-class cricket."
>
>By the end, the first 13 had all reached 30 (36 in fact). The only one
>who didn't was Rikki Clarke, who finished on 12 not out.
>

So every dismissed batsman reached 30. That record could stand for a
long time (ignoring matches heavily curtailed by rain so that only a few
batsmen reached the crease). Perhaps Surrey should have claimed some of
the last hour to allow Clarke also to reach the landmark. :) Though the
umpires might have given them short shrift had they tried it. There's a
sort of precedent, though, as I believe the umpires allowed Surrey to
take part of the extra half-hour (as it then was), with the consent of
the opposition, to allow John Edrich to get the last few runs to
complete his hundredth f-c century, back in 1976 or thereabouts.
--
John Hall
"Home is heaven and orgies are vile,
But you *need* an orgy, once in a while."
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

In message <ir7rqlFiib3U1@mid.individual.net>, David North
<nospam@lane-farm.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>On 24/09/2021 21:54, John Hall wrote:
>> In message <ir6negFc48cU1@mid.individual.net>, Brian Lawrence
>><Brian_W_Lawrence@msn.com> writes
>> <snip>
>>> Surrey have conceeded 500+ 94 times:
>>>
>>> 1860s   2
>>>
>>> 1880s   1
>>> 1890s   3
>>> 1900s  10
>>> 1910s   4
>>> 1920s   9
>>> 1930s  14
>>> 1940s   4
>>> 1950s   2
>>>
>>> 1990s   9
>>> 2000s  21
>>> 2010s  14
>>> 2020s   1
>>>
>>> 55 of those were at The Oval.
>> Thanks. The two in the 1860s came as a surprise, considering how
>>poor pitches generally were back then.
>
>Both of those were by England though: 503 in 1862 (Thomas Hayward,
>uncle of his more famous namesake, 117), and 521 in 1866 (WG Grace
>224*).

Thanks.

>
>Possibly more surprising was that they went 3 consecutive complete
>decades without conceding 500, a run that was ended by the famous match
>in 1990 when Lancashire made 863 (Fairbrother 366) in reply to Surrey's
>707-9 dec.
>

Pitches in the 1960s were poor, but it's surprising that it never
happened in the 1970s or 1980s. Perhaps the decline in over rates,
coupled with matches still being of three days, meant that teams felt
that they didn't have enough time to bat on till they'd reached 500 if
they wanted a good chance of winning the match.
--
John Hall
"Home is heaven and orgies are vile,
But you *need* an orgy, once in a while."
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

On 25/09/2021 10:31, John Hall wrote:
> In message <ir84p9Fk72aU1@mid.individual.net>, David North
> <nospam@lane-farm.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>> On 23/09/2021 15:26, Richard Dixon wrote:
>>> "The first eleven batters to come to the crease in the Surrey v
>>> Glamorgan match at The Oval all reached 30. This is the first time
>>> this has happened in all first-class cricket."
>>
>> By the end, the first 13 had all reached 30 (36 in fact). The only one
>> who didn't was Rikki Clarke, who finished on 12 not out.
>>
>
> So every dismissed batsman reached 30. That record could stand for a
> long time (ignoring matches heavily curtailed by rain so that only a few
> batsmen reached the crease). Perhaps Surrey should have claimed some of
> the last hour to allow Clarke also to reach the landmark. :)

He had already had 47 minutes, and faced 51 balls, so it's not as if he
hadn't had the chance. At that rate, he would have taken more than the hour.

--
David North