Cricket: Many times in the history of cricket, such records are made which make the fans proud of their stars. However, in many cases shameful records are also made. Now something similar has happened and a shameful record has been created.
In fact, a batsman has played the slowest innings in the history of Test cricket and he could not even open his account in 77 balls. This inning is the slowest innings in the history of Test cricket and it is not good at all for their fans.
This player played the slowest innings in test cricket
Actually, the player we are talking about here is former New Zealand player Geoff Allott. He had registered a shameful record in his name in Test cricket and he became the batsman who played the slowest innings in the history of Test cricket.
Let us tell you that in 1999, a test match was played between South Africa and New Zealand. In this match, Kiwi team's left arm fast bowler Geoff Allott faced 77 balls and during this he could not even open his account. With this he was out on zero.
This match between South Africa and New Zealand was a draw
If we talk about the match played between the two teams, there was no result in this match and the match was a draw. In this match, Africa, batting first, declared its innings by scoring 621 runs at the loss of 5 wickets.
After this, the Kiwi team could score only 352 runs and then the African team gave them follow-on. After this, Blackcaps scored 244 runs at the loss of 3 wickets but after that the match was drawn.
Geoff Allott's cricket career
Let us tell you that Allott's cricket career was not long for the Kiwi team but despite this he has performed brilliantly while playing for his team.
If we look at the cricket career of this fast bowler, he has played a total of 10 test matches in his career, in which he has 19 wickets in his name. Geoff Allott took 52 wickets in 31 ODI matches.
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