Occurrences in International Cricket
Carrying one's bat is a relatively rare occurrence. In Test cricket, a batsman has carried his bat only 48 times in over 2,000 Test matches. The first such occurrence being South African Bernard Tancred in 1889 in the 2nd test against England at Newlands in Cape Town. South Africa lost that test convincingly as Tancred scored an unbeaten 26 in an innings where his team were bowled out for 47 in 91 minutes. He only had to face 91 balls in that time. The most recent example of an opener carrying his bat is Australian batsman David Warner at Bellerive Oval, Hobart in 2011 against New Zealand, scoring an unbeaten 123 in Australia's second innings. In One Day International cricket, the feat has been achieved only nine times, most recently by Pakistani opener Azhar Ali on 16 June 2012 and scoring an unbeaten 81, he is the second Pakistani to achieve this feat. In Twenty20 cricket Chris Gayle carried his bat in the West Indies defeat against Sri Lanka in the ICC World Twenty20 semi-final at The Oval on June 20, 2009.
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