Daily Ashes Quiz: Fastest scoring team

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Hello, welcome to the Test Match Special Daily Ashes Quiz with me Andy Zaltzman, TMS statistician and guardian of all the numbers relating to the Ashes. Every weekday during the current series I will have an Ashes related question which will hopefully intrigue and interest you. Mull it over, take a guess and see how close you can get. The quiz is only available on BBC Sounds. In the TMS podcast feed you'll get the answer to the previous day's question and that day's question. You can also catch up on previous episodes on BBC Sounds. Let's start with the answer from Friday's question After Mitchell Stark's superb tenfa in Perth, the question was regarding wickets taken by left arm seamers in the Ashes. Starks tenfer was the first by an Australian in the Ashes since Shane won at the Oval in 2005, his fourth and final Ashes tenfer. All other bowlers between them, including Stark, have taken six Ashes tenfers since the start of Warne's career. He was quite good at bowling. He was the first by an Australian pace bowler since Craig McDermott in 1990-91. It was the first by any left arm bowler in the Ashes since Test Match Special's Phil Tufnell at the Oval in 1997 when he took a glorious 11 for 93. And of course you can hear toughers on our exclusive Ball by Ball commentary of every ball of the Men's ashes available on five Sports Extra and BBC Sounds. My question was in the men's Ashes since 1956 a total of 428 wickets have now been taken by left arm pace bowlers. How many of those were taken by Australians? The correct answer was 376 to England's 52. It is a curiosity of cricket how England have never had many left arm pace bowlers. Ryan Sidebottom, the most effective of recent years, never played against Australia. So our scoring system the closer you get, the more runs you get. If you're within 10 you can have a 6. So 366 to 386 that's a 6 within 25. So 351 to 401 excluding. If you score a 6 you score 4, within 40 you score 2. So the between 336 and 426 within 60 you can have a single 316242. I hope you didn't go more than the number of wickets taken. If you're more than 100 out, say 275 and under, you're out. Otherwise it's a dot ball. Let's move on to today's question. England scored at 4.97 per over in Perth, the second fastest a team has ever scored in an Ashes Test, behind the 5.49 England at Racktop. When smacking 592 at Old Trafford. In 2023, Australia went at 4.59 per over the fastest they have ever SC scored in an Ashes Test and overall it was the fastest scoring Ashes match In history in 2023 England scored at 5.75 across the series in Australia at 3.35. My question is in all the 57 Ashes series from 190102 up to 2021 22, how many times did England score faster in the series than Australia? So in 57 men's ashes from the start of the 20th century to the end of the pre Basbalian era In the in 2022 how many times were England the faster scoring team? I'll have the answer and another question for you tomorrow. And remember, you will now find this quiz only on BBC Sounds. Do follow bore by ball coverage of every test from the Men's Ashes with TMS on BBC Sounds and five Sports Extra. Until tomorrow. Goodbye.

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