A couple of updates on topics of regular interest (yes, all right, of interest to me anyway): firstly, following the review of Killing Mister Watson, I should note that the book is another for the list of books with maps in, in this case a couple of maps of the south-western Florida area where the story takes place. It's just a general map of the area, no attempt made to highlight particular locations relevant to the story except The Watson Place, which as we saw is actually marked on general modern-day maps of the area anyway.
Secondly, a cricket-related update in recognition of the start of the home Test match season tomorrow: an update to a couple of occasional lists last visited here and here respectively. Firstly the list of batsmen with multiple innings scores of over 250 needs a couple of additions: David Warner of Australia and Tom Latham of New Zealand. The full current list with each joiner's date (i.e. the date on which they made their second and qualifying score) is below:
- Don Bradman (1930)
- Walter Hammond (1933)
- Javed Miandad (1987)
- Brian Lara (1994)
- Graeme Smith (2003)
- Sanath Jayasuriya (2004)
- Virender Sehwag (2006)
- Stephen Fleming (2006)
- Kumar Sangakkara (2006)
- Younis Khan (2009)
- Ramnaresh Sarwan (2009)
- Mahela Jayawardene (2009)
- Chris Gayle (2010)
- Hashim Amla (2012)
- Michael Clarke (2012)
- Alistair Cook (2015)
- David Warner (2019)
- Tom Latham (2022)
Both Warner and Latham are recent featurees on the other list, as well, which is the list of lowest never-made scores in men's Test matches. The lowest entry on that list, as it has been since Herschelle Gibbs made 228 in early 2003, is 229. Interestingly the next five gaps above it in the list as of 2015 (238, 245, 252, 263, 264) have now all been filled, and the next gap is now at 265. The most recent bit of gap-plugging was by Latham himself when he made 252 against Bangladesh in early 2022.
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