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The week in numbers: w/e 28/8/11

August 29, 2011 Leave a comment

1 – England‘s Test world ranking after the 4-0 series whitewash of India. They were ranked just fifth in the world 12 months ago.

Bresnan - a talisman?

10 – England have now won all 10 Test matches in which Tim Bresnan has played. In those 10 matches he has taken 41 wickets and averaged 45 with the bat.

4 – For the first time in its 66-race history, cycling’s Vuelta a España had four different wearers of the race leader’s red jersey in its first four stages.

4 – Number of Premier League teams who were knocked out of the Carling Cup by lower league opposition: Sunderland, Norwich, QPR and Swansea.

8 – England have all eight of their Champions League and Europa League teams still in their respective competitions. They are the only country to still have all their entrants intact.

0 – By contrast, for the first time since European club competitions began in 1955, there will be no teams from Scotland left on September 1.

14 – Arsenal‘s 2-1 win at Udinese (3-1 on aggregate) marked their 14th successive qualification for the main Champions League tournament. Only Manchester United (16) and Real Madrid (15) have longer active streaks.

10 – Arsenal‘s victory meant they have won all 10 of their matches in Champions League qualifiers – five home wins, five away wins.

Chanderpaul outscored the entire Yorkshire team

193 – Runs scored by Warwickshire’s Shivnarine Chanderpaul in their innings and 58 run victory over Yorkshire at Headingley. The hosts could manage only 127 as an entire team in their second innings.

4 – The England football team’s latest FIFA ranking, up two places from sixth. They are now ranked higher than Brazil, Argentina, Italy and Portugal. (No, I don’t understand it either.)

12 - Sebastian Vettel‘s ninth pole position of 2011 at the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps means that Red Bull have now claimed the front spot on the grid at all 12 races this season.

92 – Vettel won the race – his seventh win in 12 grands prix in 2011 – to extend his championship lead to 92 points. There are a maximum of 175 still available in the remaining seven races.

6 – Kenyan athletes finished 1-2-3 in the only two finals on day one of the IAAF Athletics World Championships in Daegu to sweep the medals in the women’s marathon and 10,000 metres.

21 – After world record holder Usain Bolt was disqualified for a false start in the men’s 100 metres final, Yohan Blake became the youngest ever men’s world 100m champion at 21. However, his time of 9.92s had been bettered 15 times in previous World Championship finals.

8 – A Rachel Yankey double for Arsenal Ladies set up a 3-1 win at Liverpool to clinch the inaugural Women’s Super League. It is their eighth league title in a row, their 13th overall since 1993, and completed their eighth league and FA Cup double.

The Premier league in numbers

49 – There was a total of 49 shots in Manchester United‘s 3-0 over Tottenham on Monday night. The last game to see more efforts on goal was United vs Sunderland in April 2006, which had 50.

Di Santo scored as many goals against QPR as he had in his first 57 league games

2 – Goals scored by Franco Di Santo in Wigan’s 2-0 win over QPR. He had scored two goals in his previous 57 Premier League matches.

3 – Blackburn missed two penalties in their 1-0 home defeat by Everton, their third defeat in a row this season. The last time they their opening three top-flight games was in the 1947/48 season – also including defeats to Wolves and Everton – at the end of which they were relegated.

10 - Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Bolton was their tenth consecutive top-flight win against these opponents, equalling the club record (also ten in a row versus Derby, 1977-97).

62 - Chelsea‘s 3-1 win over Norwich was their 62nd league consecutive game undefeated against a promoted side.

101 – Juan Mata‘s debut goal for Chelsea came in the 101st minute of the match.

Džeko bagged four goals at White Hart Lane

4 – Edin Džeko became the first player to score four times in a Premier League game this season in Manchester City’s 5-1 win at Tottenham. He had scored just three times in his previous 17 league appearances for the club.

10 - West Bromwich Albion‘s 1-0 defeat meant they have failed to beat Stoke in their last ten meetings.

115 – Arsenal‘s 8-2 defeat by Manchester United marked only the second time they had conceded eight times in a league game. The previous occasion came in 1896, 115 years ago, an 8-0 defeat against Loughborough in the old second division.

3 – Carl Jenkinson‘s red card meant Arsenal became the first Premier League side to have players sent off in each of their first three games. (Gervinho was dismissed at Newcastle, with Emmanuel Frimpong seeing red against Liverpool. Alex Song also received a retrospective ban after the Newcastle game.)

3 - Only three Premier League teams are undefeated in both the first three games of both this and last season. Manchester United and Chelsea are two - Wolves are the other after their 0-0 draw at Aston Villa.

(Some statistics courtesy of Opta Sports, The Times, StatManJon and Infostrada.)

There will be no ‘Week in numbers’ next week as I am on holiday. Normal service will be resumed the week after.

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The week in numbers: w/e 20/3/11

March 21, 2011 Leave a comment

Evans won Tirreno-Adriatico by 11 seconds

21 – Australia’s Cadel Evans became the 21st different winner of the Tirreno-Adriatico seven-day cycling race, defeating Robert Gesink by just 11 seconds.

1 – Australia’s Matt Goss became the first non-European to claim the Milan-San Remo one-day classic, winning a thrilling eight-man sprint in Saturday’s 102nd edition of the race.

2 – Inter Milan became only the second club ever to win a Champions League knockout tie after losing the first leg at home. They won 3-2 at Bayern Munich, going through on the away goals rule after the tie finished 3-3 on aggregate.

0 – Number of representatives from Germany, Italy, England and France in the quarter-finals of the Europa League – the first time this has happened in the history of the Europa League/UEFA Cup.

27 – Barcelona‘s 2-1 win over Getafe means they are now unbeaten in their last 27 La Liga matches, a new club record.

8 - England‘s points total in the 24-8 defeat to Ireland which denied them a grand slam. It was their lowest score in a Six Nations game since a 31-6 loss to France in March 2006.

25 - Brian O’Driscoll scored his 25th Five/Six Nations try against England, breaking the competition record set by Scotland‘s Ian Smith between 1924-33.

18 – Novak Djokovic improved his 2011 record to 18-0 by defeating world number one Rafael Nadal 4-6 6-3 6-2 in the BNP Paribas Open final in Indian Wells. Djokovic had already guaranteed he would move up to the number two spot by defeating Roger Federer in their semi-final.

60:23 – At his first competitive attempt at the distance, Mo Farah won the New York half-marathon in a new British record time of 60:23.

The cricket World Cup in numbers

131 - Ireland‘s 131-run defeat by South Africa was their largest losing margin in a World Cup match, surpassing their 129-run loss to New Zealand in 2007.

Duminy fell one run short of a century against Ireland

99 - In that same game, South Africa’s J P Duminy became only the second batsman (after Adam Gilchrist) to be dismissed for 99 at a World Cup.

183 - Shane Watson and Brad Haddin put on 183 runs, the highest opening-wicket partnership for Australia at the World Cup, as they cruised to a seven-wicket win over Canada.

2 - The Netherlands‘ Ryan ten Doeschate scored his second century of this tournament, tying with A B de Villiers and Sachin Tendulkar. However, his 106 was not enough to avoid defeat as Paul Stirling‘s 101 (off 72 balls) helped Ireland to a six-wicket win.

206 – Bangladesh‘s 206 -run defeat by South Africa – they were bowled out for just 78 – was their largest margin of defeat in a World Cup match, and their second-largest in all one-day internationals.

34 – Pakistan ended Australia’s 34-game winning streak after bowling out the defending champions for just 176.

0 – Kenya‘s 176-run defeat at the hands of Zimbabwe ensured they finished this World Cup with no wins from their six games. The Netherlands were similarly winless.

21 – The West Indies lost their last eight wickets for just 34 runs as they were beaten by India by 80 runs in the final group phase match. They have not beaten a Test-playing nation in an ODI since June 2009 – a period of 21 months.

The Premier League in numbers

31 – Including blocked attempts, Tottenham had 31 shots in their goalless draw with West Ham.

Van Persie averages exactly a goal per game in his last 19 appearances (image courtesy of arsenal.com)

19 – In scoring Arsenal‘s equaliser in their 2-2 draw at West Bromwich Albion, Robin van Persie improved his record to 19 goals in his last 19 Premier League games.

28 – West Brom have now failed to keep a clean sheet in 28 consecutive matches – a new Premier League record.

1 – Steven Reid‘s third-minute goal in that game marked the first time Arsenal had conceded a goal in the first 15 minutes of a league game this season – making them the last team to do so.

4 – Stoke City‘s 4-0 win over Newcastle marked the first time they have ever scored more than three times in a Premier League game.

22 – Junior Hoilett‘s 93rd-minute equaliser in Blackburn‘s 2-2 draw with Blackpool should have come as little surprise. There have now been 22 goals in the last ten minutes of matches involving these two teams this season.

18 – Everton‘s 2-1 win over Fulham was their 18th straight home league win against these opponents (and the tenth in the Premier League era).

(Some statistics courtesy of Opta Sports, The Times, @InfostradaLive, Cricinfo and @StatManJon.)

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The week in numbers: w/e 27/2/11

February 28, 2011 Leave a comment

Anelka scored twice against Copenhapen

4 – All four goals in last Tuesday’s Champions League matches were scored by Frenchmen. Nicolas Anelka registered both Chelsea goals in their 2-0 win at FC Copenhagen, while Bafétimbi Gomis and Karim Benzema scored in the 1-1 draw between Lyon and Real Madrid.

43 – Benzema scored Real Madrid’s goal 43 seconds after entering the field as a substitute.

512 - Marseille‘s 0-0 draw with Manchester United means they have now gone 512 minutes in the Champions League without conceding a goal.

1 – Ben Foden scored the only try of the game as England defeated France 17-9 in the clash between the only two unbeaten teams in the Six Nations.

8 – Defeat ended France’s eight-match winning streak in the Six Nations. England were also the last team to beat them, in March 2009.

Kaymer takes over as world number one

1 – Despite losing the WGC Match Play final to England’s Luke Donald, at the age of 26 Germany’s Martin Kaymer has now displaced Lee Westwood at the top of golf’s world rankings.

19 – Barcelona‘s 3-0 win at Mallorca extended their unbeaten streak away from home in La Liga to 19 matches, equalling the Spanish top flight record of Real Sociedad (1979-1980).

5 – Arsenal have now lost more League Cup finals than any other team (1968, 1969, 1988, 2007, 2011) after a late defensive mix-up allowed Birmingham City to win 2-1 at Wembley yesterday.

7 – Arsenal’s last seven Cup final defeats (both domestic and European) have come as a result of a goal after the 80th minute (six) or a penalty shootout (one).

36 – Former Bradford, Wolves, Southampton and Tottenham defender Dean Richards died on Saturday after a long fight against illness. He was aged just 36. He is perhaps best known for being on the wrong end of three major comebacks during his career where his side had led 3-0 at half-time – a 4-3 FA Cup defeat (in 2001) to Tranmere while at Southampton, a 5-3 Premier League defeat to Manchester United later that year after transferring to Tottenham, and then a 4-3 FA Cup replay loss to ten-man Manchester City in 2004.

The cricket World Cup in numbers

30 – In Australia’s 91-run win over Zimbabwe, Ricky Ponting was run out for the 30th time in one-day internationals, second only to Mark Waugh‘s 32 among Australian batsmen. Ponting also holds the record for most run outs in Tests (14).

Ten Doeschate scored his 4th ODI ton

4 – Of the eight centuries by Netherlands’ batsmen in one-dayers, four have been scored by Ryan ten Doeschate, who notched up 119 in the defeat by England.

37 – In losing to Pakistan by 205 runs, Kenya conceded 37 runs in wides, equalling the world record in ODIs.

107 - AB de Villiers‘ unbeaten 107 in South Africa‘s seven-wicket win over the West Indies was his seventh ODI century in 39 matches since the beginning of 2009. In those games he has averaged an impressive 62.80.

31 – Victory over New Zealand on Friday extended Australia’s unbeaten streak in World Cup matches to an astonishing 31. Their last defeat was against Pakistan in the group stage in 1999.

4 – Bangladesh‘s Shafiul Islam took 4/21 in their 27-run victory over Ireland. It was the first time a Bangladeshi bowler has taken four wickets in a World Cup match.

47 – Sachin Tendulkar‘s 120 in Sunday’s tied game was his 47th ODI hundred, but only his second ever against England.

3 – Tendulkar still has more ODI wickets against England (three) than he does centuries (two).

5 - Tim Bresnan‘s 5/48 made him only the second England player to take five wickets in a World Cup innings. The first was Vic Marks in 1983.

158 – Andrew Strauss‘s 158 in England’s reply was his highest ever one-day score.

The Premier League week in numbers

4 – By scoring in the 3-1 win over Tottenham, Brett Ormerod has now scored for Blackpool in all four English league divisions.

11- Sébastien Squillaci’s eighth-minute goal in Arsenal‘s 1-0 victory over Stoke was the eleventh scored by Arsenal in the first 15 minutes in the Premier League this season, more than any other side. Stoke have not scored in the first 15 minutes all season.

Nolan celebrated his 50th Premier League goal

50 – Kevin Nolan‘s goal in Newcastle‘s 1-1 draw with his former club Bolton was his 50th Premier League goal. He has 11 this season alone, a career high.

12 – Wigan, who lost 4-0 at home, have now lost all 12 of their Premier League encounters with Manchester United.

31 – Wolves‘ 4-0 thrashing of Blackpool was their biggest top flight win in more than 31 years, since a 4-0 win at Norwich City in February 1980.

21 – Fulham‘s 1-1 draw with his former club Manchester City meant that Mark Hughes has now drawn 21 of his last 39 games while in charge of these two clubs.

(Some statistics courtesy of Opta Sports, The Times, @InfostradaLive, Cricinfo and @StatManJon.)

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The week in numbers: w/e 20/2/11

February 21, 2011 1 Comment

Armstrong has now retired (again)

7 – Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong officially confirmed his second retirement from cycling, at the age of 39.

326 - Club goals scored (in 466 games) by Brazilian striker Ronaldo, who retired last week. He also scored 62 goals in 97 international appearances.

6 – Arsenal came from behind to beat Barcelona 2-1 in their Champions League last-16 first leg match. It is the first time in six meetings the English side has beaten the Spanish champions (two draws, three defeats).

70 – Raúl scored his 70th goal in European competition as Schalke 04 drew 1-1 in Valencia in their Champions League last-16 match.

176 – Price (in pounds, including a £26 booking fee) of the cheapest tickets available for May’s Champions League final at Wembley, as announced by UEFA last week.

Wozniacki regained the ladies' number one ranking (image courtesy of Wikipedia)

1 – Caroline Wozniacki won the Dubai Championships final yesterday. In so doing, she regained the number one ranking from Kim Clijsters, to whom she lost the top spot last week.

10 – Stephen Hendry equalled Ronnie O’Sullivan‘s record of ten 147 breaks in professional competition, but nonetheless lost 4-2 to Stephen Maguire in the second round of the Welsh Open.

2 – Genoa‘s comeback from 3-0 down to defeat AS Roma 4-3 was only the second time this century this has happened in Serie A. Roma boss Claudio Raineri resigned after the game.

3 – Gold medals won by Britain in Olympic events at the cycling track World Cup in Manchester. Chris Hoy won the men’s keirin, while both the men’s and women’s pursuit teams won their competitions.

20 – In centimetres, the length of the splinter which had to be removed from the calf of Malaysia’s Aziz Awang, after a crash in the men’s keirin on Saturday.

13:10.60 – Mo Farah set a new British and European indoor 5,000 metres record at the Birmingham Grand Prix. He took one second off the former European record, and ten off the British one.

The cricket World Cup in numbers

370 – India‘s 370/4 against Bangladesh in the opening match of the tournament was the fifth highest total ever at the cricket World Cup. They have scored three of the five highest totals.

Sehwag scored 175 against Bangladesh

175 - Virender Sehwag hit 175 against Bangladesh. Only three players have ever scored more in a World Cup match.

203 – Sehwag and Virat Kohli put on 203 for the third wicket. It was the ninth double century partnership in World Cup history, and the eighth highest overall. India have accounted for five of those nine 200-plus partnerships (Sourav Ganguly has been part of three of them.)

4 – Mahela Jayawardene scored 100 off 81 balls as Sri Lanka eased to an opening victory over Canada. It was the fourth-fastest century in World Cup history.

69 – Kenya were bowled out for just 69 as New Zealand cruised to an easy ten-wicket win.

The FA Cup in numbers

16 - Brighton‘s 3-0 defeat at the Britannia Stadium meant they have failed to win in their last 16 visits to Stoke City.

6 - Crawley Town, who lost 1-0 at Manchester United, were only the sixth non-league team since World War II to reach the fifth round. None has progressed further.

5 - Leyton Orient‘s 1-1 draw with Arsenal was the first time they had avoided defeat against the Gunners in five FA Cup meetings – and only the second time they had scored.

8 – Arsenal have now failed to keep a clean sheet in their last eight FA Cup matches. They have conceded exactly one goal in each of their four matches so far in this season’s competition.

7 - Chelsea lost on penalties to Everton in their fourth round replay, having finished 1-1 after extra time. They have now lost seven of their last eight penalty shootouts in all competitions.

3 - All three penalty shootouts in this season’s FA Cup have been won by the away team.

(Some statistics courtesy of Opta Sports, The Times, @InfostradaLive and @StatManJon.)

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