STATISTICS

MARK RAVIN RAMPRAKASH

Born 5 September 1969 in Bushey, Hertfordshire

Middlesex 1987–2000, Surrey 2001–present

Tests: 52 (1991 to 2001–02)

One-day internationals: 18 (1991 to 2001–02)

Cricket Writers’ Club Young Cricketer of the Year 1991

PCA Cricketer of the Year 2006

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2007

In 2006, Mark Ramprakash became the first cricketer to score 2,000 runs in twenty first-class innings (beating the previous record of twenty-one innings, set by Don Bradman in 1938 and Graham Gooch in 1990), the first to make scores of 150 in each of five successive first-class matches (eclipsing the previous record of four set by Vijay Merchant in India in 1941–42), and the first to reach double figures in each of his twenty-four first-class innings in an English season. His first-class average of 103.54 was also the highest by an English player in a home season, beating Geoff Boycott’s 102.53 in 1979.

In 2007, Ramprakash topped 2,000 first-class runs and averaged more than 100 for the second successive season, the first player to do so in consecutive English summers. His 2,026 runs (at 101.30) was also a remarkable 30.02 per cent of all Surrey’s runs from the bat (out of 6,747), a record for all counties, beating Graeme Hick’s 28.96 per cent for Worcestershire in 1988. The previous Surrey record was Tom Hayward’s 23.98 per cent in 1906.

THE HUNDRED HUNDREDS’ CLUB

Mark Ramprakash was at equal 16th place on the list of those in the Hundred Hundreds’ Club when this book went to press, with 108 first-class hundreds.

‘I am very proud of the fact that my name is now in such an exclusive list of some of the true greats of the game,’ he said. ‘In fact, all the names on this list are legends of cricket and are synonymous with great cricketing achievement. I cannot claim to have been as successful at international level as a lot of the other 24 players who have scored a hundred hundreds, or more, but I am honoured to be classified among them. As for Jack Hobbs scoring 98 of his hundreds after the age of 40 . . . well, that is something which I imagine will be a bit beyond me!’

	Year reached	Age	Total 100s
W.G. Grace	1895	46	126
Tom Hayward	1913	42	104
Jack Hobbs	1923	40	197
Phil Mead	1927	40	153
Patsy Hendren	1928	39	170
Frank Woolley	1929	42	145
Herbert Sutcliffe	1932	37	149
Ernest Tydesley	1934	45	102
Wally Hammond	1935	31	167
Andy Sandham	1935	31	107
Don Bradman	1947	39	117
Les Ames	1950	44	102
Les Hutton	1951	35	129
Denis Compton	1952	34	123
Tom Graveney	1964	37	122
Colin Cowdrey	1973	40	107
John Edrich	1977	40	103
Geoff Boycott	1977	37	151
Glenn Turner	1982	35	103
Zaheer Abbas	1982	35	108
Dennis Amiss	1986	43	102
Vivian Richards	1988	36	114
Graham Gooch	1993	39	128
Graeme Hick	1998	32	136
Mark Ramprakash	2008	38	108*

as at 14 August 2009

Ramprakash is the fifth Surrey batsman to score 100 first-class hundreds, following Tom Hayward, Jack Hobbs, Andy Sandham and John Edrich.

THE HUNDRED HUNDREDS

After completing his hundredth first-class hundred, at 4.12 p.m. on Saturday, 2 August 2008, with a four cut away off David Wainwright, the slow left-arm spinner, Ramprakash put the fact that ten innings had passed since his 99th century down to the loss of his favourite bat. ‘After scoring the 99th at Hove, I broke the bat I’d been using for the past two years,’ he said. ‘I’ve used five bats since and I’ve not played that well.’

1	128	Middx v. Yorks	Headingley	20 July 1989
2	118*	Middx v. Camb Univ	Fenner’s	3 May 1990
3	146*	Middx v. Somerset	Uxbridge	24 July 1990
4	100*	Middx v. Kent	Canterbury	26 July 1990
5	125	Middx v. Kent	Canterbury	27 July 1990
6	132	Middx v. Notts	Lord’s	7 Sept. 1990
7	158	Eng A v. Sri Lanka A	Kandy	10 Feb. 1991
8	119	Middx v. Sussex	Lord’s	11 May 1991
9	110	Middx v. Notts	Trent Bridge	3 Sept. 1991
10	108	Middx v. Lancs	Lord’s	9 May 1992
11	233	Middx v. Surrey	Lord’s	23 May 1992
12	117	Middx v. Surrey	The Oval	14 Sept. 1992
13	140	Middx v. Yorks	Scarborough	14 August 1993
14	117*	Middx v. Lancs	Lord’s	11 Sept. 1993
15	154*	Eng v. WIBP XI	Guyana	10 March 1994
16	135	Middx v. Durham	Lord’s	23 June 1994
17	131	Middx v. Derbys	Derby	1 July 1994
18	123*	Middx v. Essex	Uxbridge	29 July 1994
19	124	Middx v. Surrey	The Oval	27 August 1994
20	163*	Middx v. Hants	Lord’s	5 May 1995
21	214	Middx v. Surrey	Lord’s	29 June 1995
22	133	Middx v. Glos	Bristol	7 July 1995
23	205	Middx v. Sussex	Lord’s	27 July 1995
24	155	Middx v. Durham	Chester-le-Street	11 August 1995
25	235	Middx v. Yorks	Headingley	24 August 1995
26	111	Middx v. Northants	Uxbridge	31 August 1995
27	158	Middx v. Leics	Uxbridge	8 Sept. 1995
28	111*	Middx v. Leics	Uxbridge	11 Sept. 1995
29	115	Middx v. Som	Taunton	16 Sept. 1995
30	134	Middx v. Yorks	Lord’s	30 May 1996
31	169	Middx v. Warwicks	Lord’s	27 June 1996
32	108	Middx v. Hants	Portsmouth	30 August 1996
33	110	Middx v. Som	Uxbridge	16 Sept. 1996
34	108*	Rest of Eng v. Eng A	Edgbaston	20 April 1997
35	145	Middx v. Sussex	Lord’s	7 May 1997
36	111	Middx v. Northants	Lord’s	29 May 1997
37	113*	Middx v. Kent	Lord’s	25 July 1997
38	190	Middx v. Hants	Lord’s	7 August 1997
39	123*	Middx v. Worcs	Kidderminster	30 August 1997
40	154	Eng v. West Indies	Barbados	13 March 1998
41	122	Middx v. Worcs	Uxbridge	23 May 1998
42	108	Middx v. Worcs	Uxbridge	24 May 1998
43	128*	Middx v. Glam	Lord’s	1 June 1998
44	110	Middx v. Leics	Leicester	19 August 1998
45	140*	Eng v. South Australia	Adelaide	10 Nov. 1998
46	101	Middx v. Glos	Bristol	30 April 1999
47	209*	Middx v. Surrey	Lord’s	12 Sept. 1999
48	101	Middx v. Worcs	Southgate	8 July 2000
49	110*	Middx v. Sussex	Southgate	28 July 2000
50	112	Middx v. Sussex	Southgate	30 July 2000
51	120*	Middx v. Warwicks	Edgbaston	19 August 2000
52	146	Surrey v. Kent	The Oval	22 April 2001
53	143	Surrey v. Som	The Oval	7 June 2001
54	133	Eng v. Australia	The Oval	25 August 2001
55	131	Surrey v. Yorks	The Oval	7 Sept. 2001
56	105	Eng v. IBP XI	Hyderabad	22 Nov. 2001
57	119*	Surrey v. Lancs	The Oval	11 May 2002
58	121	Surrey v. Camb Univ	Fenner’s	15 May 2002
59	218	Surrey v. Som	Taunton	3 July 2002
60	210*	Surrey v. Warwicks	The Oval	11 July 2002
61	205	Surrey v. Lough Univ	The Oval	24 April 2003
62	152	Surrey v. Leics	The Oval	15 May 2003
63	110	Surrey v. Middx	Lord’s	29 June 2003
64	182*	Surrey v. Warwicks	Edgbaston	10 July 2003
65	104	Surrey v. Sussex	Hove	1 August 2003
66	279*	Surrey v. Notts	Whitgift Sch.	13 August 2003
67	113*	Surrey v. Oxford Univ	The Parks	10 April 2004
68	157	Surrey v. Kent	The Oval	25 May 2004
69	145*	Surrey v. Warwicks	Guildford	22 July 2004
70	161	Surrey v. Northants	Northampton	29 July 2004
71	130	Surrey v. Worcs	The Oval	4 August 2004
72	100*	Surrey v. Worcs	The Oval	5 August 2004
73	134	Surrey v. Lancs	Whitgift Sch.	12 August 2004
74	152	Surrey v. Sussex	The Oval	16 April 2005
75	107	Surrey v. Glamorgan	Cardiff	29 April 2005
76	107	Surrey v. Notts	The Oval	9 May 2005
77	192	Surrey v. Glos	The Oval	17 August 2005
78	126	Surrey v. Warwicks	Edgbaston	13 Sept. 2005
79	252	Surrey v. Middx	The Oval	22 Sept. 2005
80	113	Surrey v. Leics	Leicester	26 April 2006
81	292	Surrey v. Glos	The Oval	4 May 2006
82	118	Surrey v. Worcs	The Oval	18 May 2006
83	156	Surrey v. Glam	Swansea	22 June 2006
84	155	Surrey v. Northants	Northampton	16 July 2006
85	167	Surrey v. Som	Guildford	21 July 2006
86	301*	Surrey v. Northants	The Oval	3 August 2006
87	196	Surrey v. Worcs	Worcester	9 August 2006
88	115	Surrey v. Yorks	The Oval	20 April 2007
89	107*	Surrey v. Hants	The Oval	27 April 2007
90	120*	Surrey v. Warwicks	The Oval	12 May 2007
91	266*	Surrey v. Sussex	Hove	16 May 2007
92	108	Surrey v. Kent	Whitgift Sch.	2 June 2007
93	142	Surrey v. Worcs	Guildford	26 July 2007
94	188	Surrey v. Hants	Rose Bowl	30 August 2007
95	175	Surrey v. Warwicks	Edgbaston	7 Sept. 2007
96	196	Surrey v. Lancs	The Oval	19 Sept. 2007
97	130*	Surrey v. Lancs	The Oval	21 Sept. 2007
98	118	Surrey v. Lancs	The Oval	16 April 2008
99	123	Surrey v. Sussex	Hove	3 May 2008
100	112*	Surrey v. Yorks	Headingley	2 August 2008

BREAKDOWN OF GROUNDS ON WHICH RAMPRAKASH MADE HIS 100 HUNDREDS:

26 – The Oval; 18 – Lord’s; 8 – Uxbridge; 5 – Edgbaston; 3 – Guildford, Hove, Headingley, Southgate, Whitgift School (Croydon); 2 – Bristol, Canterbury, Fenner’s (Cambridge), Leicester, Northampton, Taunton; 1 – Adelaide (Australia), Cardiff, Chester-le-Street, Derby, Georgetown (Guyana), Hyderabad (India), Kandy (Sri Lanka), Kensington Oval (Barbados), Kidderminster, Portsmouth, Rose Bowl (Southampton), Scarborough, Swansea, The Parks (Oxford), Trent Bridge, Worcester

CAREER RECORD

TESTS

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
52	92	6	154	2350	27.32	2	12

TESTS V. AUSTRALIA

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
12	24	2	133	933	42.40	1	6

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
18	18	4	51	376	26.85	0	1

FIRST-CLASS

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
424	698	89	301*	33103	54.35	108	138

as at 14 August 2009

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100+	150+	200+
317	521	70	301*	27188	60.28	97	33	14

as at 14 August 2009

LIST A ONE-DAY

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
396	384	62	147*	12923	40.13	17	83

as at 11 August 2009

TWENTY20

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
52	52	8	85*	1388	31.54	0	10

as at 14 August 2009

FOR MIDDLESEX (FIRST-CLASS)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
211	345	47	235	15046	50.48	46	73

FOR SURREY (FIRST-CLASS)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
123	200	27	301*	13294	76.84	55	40

as at 14 August 2009

FOR SURREY AT THE OVAL (FIRST-CLASS)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
52	84	9	301*	6124	81.65	26	14

as at 14 August 2009

ALL FIRST-CLASS AT THE OVAL (FOR MIDDLESEX, SURREY AND ENGLAND):

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
64	107	10	301*	7167	73.88	29	19

as at 14 August 2009

FOR ENGLAND YOUNG CRICKETERS (1986–89)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
7	12	2	120*	519	51.90	2	0

FOR ENGLAND YOUNG CRICKETERS (ONE-DAY MATCHES, 1986–87 TO 1989)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
14	14	0	61	332	23.00	0	3

Note: To 14 August 2009, Ramprakash had taken 34 first-class wickets at an average of 64.58, including 4 in Tests, and 46 wickets in List A one-day cricket at 29.43, including 4 in ODIs.

CAREER BREAKDOWN

FIRST-CLASS CRICKET

1987 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
8	14	3	71	321	29.18	0	2

1988 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
9	13	4	68*	421	46.77	0	3

1989 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
21	34	5	128	1052	36.27	1	7

1990 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
24	42	10	146*	1541	48.15	5	6

1990–91 – England A in Pakistan and Sri Lanka

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
5	7	0	158	250	35.71	1	0

1991 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
15	26	4	119	964	43.81	2	7

1991 – England v. West Indies

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
5	9	0	29	210	23.33	0	0

1991 – England v. Sri Lanka

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
1	1	0	0	0	0.00	0	0

1991–92 – England in New Zealand (first-class matches)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
4	5	2	19*	47	15.66	0	0

1991–92 – England A in West Indies

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
5	9	1	86	322	40.25	0	3

1992 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
16	27	1	233	1156	46.24	3	5

1992 – England v. Pakistan

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
3	5	1	17	31	7.75	0	0

1992 – England A v. Essex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
1	1	0	12	12	12.00	0	0

1993 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
16	22	1	140	813	38.71	2	4

1993 – England v. Australia

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
1	2	0	64	70	35.00	0	1

1993–94 – England in West Indies (Tests)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
4	7	0	23	73	10.42	0	0

1993–94 – England in West Indies (other first-class matches)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
4	7	2	154*	384	76.80	1	2

1994 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
18	26	2	135	1270	52.91	4	6

1994–95 – England A in India

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
2	4	1	99	210	70.00	0	2

1994–95 – England in Australia (Test)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
1	2	0	72	114	57.00	0	1

1995 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
17	27	3	235	2157	89.87	10	6

1995 – England v. West Indies

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
2	4	0	18	22	5.50	0	0

1995 – England A v. Warwickshire

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
1	1	0	79	79	79.00	0	1

1995–96 – England in South Africa (Tests)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
2	3	0	9	13	4.33	0	0

1995–96 – England in South Africa (other first-class matches)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
3	5	0	70	170	41.32	0	1

1996 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
16	29	2	169	1406	52.06	4	8

1996 – The Rest v. England A

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
1	2	0	18	35	17.50	0	0

1997 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
17	27	3	190	1293	53.87	5	7

1997 – England v. Australia

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
1	2	0	48	52	26.00	0	0

1997 – The Rest v. England A

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
1	1	1	108*	108	-1	0

1997–98 – England in West Indies (Tests)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
3	5	1	154	266	66.50	1	1

1997–98 – England in West Indies (other first-class matches)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
2	3	1	77	123	61.50	0	1

1998 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
9	15	2	128*	635	48.84	4	0

1998 – England v. South Africa

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
5	9	1	67*	249	31.12	0	1

1998 – England v. Sri Lanka

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
1	2	0	53	95	47.50	0	1

1998–99 – England in Australia (Tests)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
5	10	2	69*	379	47.37	0	4

1998–99 – England in Australia (other first-class matches)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
5	9	1	140*	466	58.25	1	3

1999 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
12	22	2	209*	929	46.45	2	6

1999 – England v. New Zealand

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
4	6	1	69*	127	25.40	0	1

2000 – Middlesex

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
13	21	4	120*	1088	64.00	4	6

2000 – England v. Zimbabwe

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
2	3	0	56	75	25.00	0	1

2000 – England v. West Indies

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
2	4	0	18	20	5.00	0	0

2001 – Surrey

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
9	14	0	146	776	55.42	3	4

2001 – England v. Australia

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
4	8	0	133	318	39.75	1	0

2001–02 – England in India (Tests)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
3	5	0	58	159	31.80	0	1

2001–02 – England in India (other first-class matches)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
2	4	0	105	159	39.75	1	0

2001–02 – England in New Zealand (Tests)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
3	5	0	31	77	15.40	0	0

2001–02 – England in New Zealand (other first-class matches)

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
2	3	0	42	48	16.00	0	0

2002 – Surrey

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
15	25	4	218	1194	56.85	4	6

2003 – Surrey

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
15	23	4	279*	1444	76.00	6	2

2004 – Surrey

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
17	29	5	161	1564	65.16	7	6

2005 – Surrey

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
14	23	2	252	1568	74.66	6	5

2006 – Surrey

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
15	24	2	301*	2278	103.54	8	9

2007 – Surrey

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
15	25	5	266*	2026	101.30	10	4

2008 – Surrey

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
14	23	3	200*	1235	61.75	6	1

2009 – Surrey

M	Inns	NO	HS	Runs	Ave	100	50
9	14	2	274	1209	100.75	5	3

as at 14 August 2009