Durham earned all 48 bonus bowling points on offer this season. That's 48 out of 48. Even Yorkshire's beleaguered bowling staff managed 44 out of 48. In all, nearly 80% of "bonus" bowling points were "earned" this season.

If ever a bonus points "system" needed changing.

all you have to do is take 9 wickets in 120 overs each game.

Our problem has been letting teams off the hook at 100-6 too often

"Interesting Stat"
Is that an oxymoron?

7 Surrey
10 for 10 Verity
18 Compton
19 for 90 Laker
30 Yorkshire
36-22-36 My wife's figure
56.83 Boycott
60.73 Sutcliffe
95.14 Bradman
99.94 Bradman
197 Hobbs
208 & 2,385 Hirst
341 Hirst
364 Hutton
400* Lara
501* Lara
555 Holmes & Sutcliffe
887 Yorkshire vs Warwickshire
903-7d Eng. vs Aust.
3,816 Compton
4,187 Rhodes
61,237 Hobbes

There are a few interesting ones...

It takes a lot to keep a good man down...........

I sense the hand of Mr Roberts.

You do...

"Numbers give us an attitude. They tell us what to think about ourselves."

- J.K. Galbraith

Compton 18.
Is that centuries in a season?
And I don't belive yur wife's bowling analysis.

Yes, Compton. Whoops, and I forgot to date my wife's "bowled me over" figure(s): 19-85

I saw part of Brian Lara's 501. And I saw Sobers bat at Headingley. And Graeme Pollock at Trent Bridge. And Gower. And Vaughan. And then there was this young ginger-haired kid who came in to bat at Kidderminster one day...

Went on to play a brilliant little cameo in a meaningless end of season game at headingley....

Can you REALLY get excited about numbers? I guess you see some sort of pattern in them...
I've always preferred words.

Baudelaire wrote "Tout est nombre, le nombre est dans tout", but he wasn't having one of his better days in my view (and to be fair he was writing about the intoxicating effect of crowds). And he never saw Graeme Pollock bat.

Was he a foreigner?

And Pollock was a messy painter.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Charles Baudelaire

An innings by Bairstow perhaps.

Sort of like breaking 90 in golf or scoring your first century in club cricket. Numbers can be beautiful.