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Today Mark Butcher made 51 off 207 balls. THe number ten batsman Johnston made 26 off 28.

In total disregard of forum etiquette, I'm asking a trivia question to which I do not know the answer.

What is the slowest half centuary recorded in Test cricket?

― powwow, Thursday, 4 December 2003 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Woolmer must have gone close ...

― pieman (pieman), Thursday, 4 December 2003 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

powwow:

century = 100 runs

centuary = place they keep native animals.

I think it may have been Trevor Bailey, who made 68 in about a week in 1958-59.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 4 December 2003 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Woolmer/Bailey or 'Slasher' Mackay maybe ...

― pieman (pieman), Thursday, 4 December 2003 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Nerkie is right with Trevor Bailey (357 minutes for his fifty).
I have no idea how many balls he faced.

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

In the context of the game I feel that Butcher was a hinderance to his teams effort. Yes he top scored with 51 and obviously took a lot of Murali's bowling, but to simply not score must add pressure to the other batsman. To not even attempt to score of Murali-who at one point had 5/27 odd off about 24 overs- allows him to dictate entirely. I mean the Australians still took runs of the Turbanator in Inida - at least Hayden did.

― powwow, Friday, 5 December 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Trevor Bailey faced 460-odd balls in all, to get his score of 67.

― Kiwi in Oz (Kiwi in Oz), Monday, 8 December 2003 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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