Some bowlers do love to bat and they have often shown their mettle with the bat and contributed to their team’s cause in the most effective manner.
Putting a price tag on their wickets, they have often bailed their teams out of trouble with the skill they are not known for. In doing so, bowlers have also created some records which would have made any batsman proud.
We thought we should give them the credit they deserve and make a list of the batting records they own.
What are those records? Let’s find out
5) Jason Gillespie
Always known to be a gutsy customer with the bat, the tall fast bowler often stitched some important partnerships with his teammates to bail Australia out of trouble.
However, he made history when he scored an unbeaten 201 against Bangladesh in Chittagong in 2006 and owned the record of scoring the most number of runs as a nightwatchman in Tests. It is also the only double century scored by a nightwatchman in the history of Test match cricket.
Gillespie shared a 320-run partnership with Michael Hussey and helped Australia post a mammoth total of 581. He batted for 574 minutes and faced 425 balls during his monumental knock.
This surely talks a volume about Gillespie’s batting abilities.And it must also be noted that Gillespie scored his maiden double ton on his birthday.(19th April)
4) Ajit Agarkar
The former Indian fast bowler often displayed his batting expertise and he stunned everyone when he scored a magnificent Test hundred at Lord’s against England.
Agarkar, however, holds a special record with the bat. He scored a fifty off 21 balls against Zimbabwe in 2000 in an ODI in Rajkot and owns the record for scoring the fastest fifty by an Indian in ODIs till date. With a blistering strike rate of 268, Agarkar scored 67 off just 25 balls that day and struck seven fours and four massive sixes to propel India’s score to 301.
He surely was no mug with the bat!
3) Shane Warne
The legendary leg-spinner was no mug with the bat either. Besides his record 708 wickets in the longest format of the game, he also holds the record for scoring the most number of runs in Tests without a hundred.
It’s true that a Test match hundred always eluded this prolific cricketer, but it could never take away the batting abilities this legend possessed which often bailed his team out of precarious positions.
Warne scored 3,154 runs in the 145 Tests he played and tops the list of scoring the most number of runs in Tests without a hundred. His highest Test score was 99, which he made against New Zealand in Perth in 2001.
2) Ashton Agar
The young boy, showed immense batting abilities on his Test debut when he scored 98 against England in the first Test of the Ashes 2013 in Trent bridge. Doing so, he broke many records and notably owns the record for scoring the most number of runs as a number 11 batsman on his debut.
Ashton Agar's 98 is also the highest by a No. 11 batsman in Test history. The slow left-arm orthodox spinner made the headlines for his batting abilities which helped Australia post a total of 280, He also shared a record last-wicket partnership of 163 runs with Phil Hughes who scored 81.
1) Wasim Akram
The legendary Pakistan fast bowler always preferred to use the long handle to good effect and shattered the history books when he made 257 against Zimbabwe in Sheikhpura in 1996.
During his knock, Akram hit 12 sixes and it still is the highest number of sixes in a Test innings by any batsman. Akram also shared a record 313-run partnership with Saqlain Mushtaq to propel the Pakistan total to 553. Akram’s 257 is also the highest score by any number 8 batsman in Tests.
The match was drawn and one should credit Akram for his batting heroics. The man, who has 916 international wickets, will surely be proud of this unbelievable achievement which he achieved with the bat.
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