Mark Ramprakash is currently on....

.........99 FC tons.

Would be 25th bat overall to score 100 FC tons.

Word, all us Poms know it. There's discussions going on that he could probably be the last.

Brass Monkey wrote:Word, all us Poms know it. There's discussions going on that he could probably be the last.

Ponting and Tendulkar might get close.

Sachin's cricinfo page is showingf him with 65 FC 100s and 39 intl. 100s. Is the 39 included in the 65?

Should be.

Henry wrote:
Ponting and Tendulkar might get close.

Reckon? They need 32 and 35 respectively. They'd have to do a County stint for them to get enough FC matches...

doremi wrote:Sachin's cricinfo page is showingf him with 65 FC 100s and 39 intl. 100s. Is the 39 included in the 65?

Yeah it is. Hmm, he probably wont make it then.

doremi wrote:Sachin's cricinfo page is showingf him with 65 FC 100s and 39 intl. 100s. Is the 39 included in the 65?

Yeah. It's FC cricket.

I guess looking a long way down the track, Ali Cook is in with a chance.

Langer needs 15, IIRC . . . a couple of good seasons for Zummerzet and he might get them . . .

Haydos needs 21 . . . but time is well against him.

Henry wrote:I guess looking a long way down the track, Ali Cook is in with a chance.

Gooch remarked on Cook but said that, at his current rate, he'd be scoring 70 of them for England. Which is poop.

tac wrote:Langer needs 15, IIRC . . . a couple of good seasons for Zummerzet and he might get them . . .

Possibly. Ramps got 18 in two seasons. But then, no-one's as good as Ramps in CC.

Brass Monkey wrote:

Henry wrote:I guess looking a long way down the track, Ali Cook is in with a chance.

Gooch remarked on Cook but said that, at his current rate, he'd be scoring 70 of them for England. Which is poop.

Typical Gooch. Going over the top talking up his young Essex charges....

I think he said Bopara was one of the best young bats he'd ever seen 5 years ago.

You do that every week, Trev.

How many has Hick got?

Henry wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:

Henry wrote:I guess looking a long way down the track, Ali Cook is in with a chance.

Gooch remarked on Cook but said that, at his current rate, he'd be scoring 70 of them for England. Which is poop.

Typical Gooch. Going over the top talking up his young Essex charges....

I think he said Bopara was one of the best young bats he'd ever seen 5 years ago.

Come on, Trev, he's not saying that Cook will score 70 for England, just that if he is going to score 100 tons, 70 would have to be for England because he doesn't play much FC outside the test matches . . .

SG wrote:How many has Hick got?

135. He already had 57 first class hundreds when he made his Test debut aged 24!

SG wrote:How many has Hick got?

About 135.

tac wrote:
Come on, Trev, he's not saying that Cook will score 70 for England, just that if he is going to score 100 tons, 70 would have to be for England because he doesn't play much FC outside the test matches . . .

Spot on.

Stewart Law also has 80 something - will probably just fall short like Langer.

JGK wrote:Stewart Law also has 80 something - will probably just fall short like Langer.

And do it with a miserable look on his face.

Fark me. Ramps on 99 FC tons!! Well done to him. I'd have lost money on that bet.

Cheers LLL and BM.

OK, here is the list of bats who made atleast 90 FC tons.

199 JB Hobbs 1905-1934
170 EH Hendren 1911-1937
167 WR Hammond 1923-1946/47
153 CP Mead 1906-1936
151 H Sutcliffe 1919-1939
151 G Boycott 1963-1986
145 FE Woolley 1906-1938
135 GA Hick 1985-2008
129 L Hutton 1934-1955
128 GA Gooch 1974-1996
124 WG Grace 1866-1904
123 DCS Compton 1936-1963/64
122 TW Graveney 1948-1970
117 DG Bradman 1927/28-1948/49
114 IVA Richards 1974-1993
108 Zaheer Abbas 1968/69-1986/87
107 A Sandham 1913-1937
107 MC Cowdrey 1951-1975
104 TW Hayward 1893-1914
103 JH Edrich 1959-1978
103 GM Turner 1968-1982
102 GE Tyldesley 1912-1935
102 LEG Ames 1927-1950/51
102 DL Amiss 1964-1987
99 MR Ramprakash 1989-2008
96 JW Hearne 1910-1934
94 MW Gatting 1978-1998
94 CB Fry 1892-1920
92 CG Greenidge 1971-1990/91

Not many non English bats there. And even the ones who are there would've surely played lot of country cricket.

Outstanding from Boycott. I think people often forget how good he was.

This is interesting.

117 DG Bradman 1927/28-1948/49

As per his cricinfo records he didn't play any county cricket. So I was wrong then.