Ashes by the Numbers

ASHES BY THE NUMBERS BIGPOND SPORT 76 Series 37 Wins Wins 8. Drawn 321 132 Matches Wins 90 Drawn 52 90 Wins Bamboozled in flight 11 David Boon's unofficial record for beers drunk on the flight to England. (Read the full story below) Quack, Quack Syd Gregory holds the record for most ducks with 11 from 92 innings. (More on the Ashes batting bunnies below) 0. [Dullestbe lest batsman Geoff Boycott faced 8568 balls in Ashes Tests, but never hit a ball for six. Boycott also hit no boundaries at all on the WACA ground, over a span of 575 balls (almost 13 hours batting) in five innings between 1970 and 1979. 8 poughtiest Dead-bat Trevor 'Barnacle' Bailey holds the record for fewest runs in a session. (More on Barnacle's batting below) 9164 Bowling Miser Clarrie Grimmett bowled 9164 balls in Ashes Tests without a single recorded no ball or wide. That's the equivalent of 1500 6-ball overs. 18 Super Strike Rate The most runs credited to a single stroke, thanks to a double set of overthrows, by Elias Henry 'Patsy" Hendren off Percy Hornibrook,at Melbourne in 1928-29. 45 Same, same, but different Australia's winning margin in the first Ashes Test (1877) and the Centenary Test (1977) 31