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What would your stats be if you actually played international cricket?

weldone

weldone

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kiwiviktor81 said:
I don't think there's a batsman on earth that doesn't have a weakness to bowling that hits the top of off.
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Just hitting the top of off isn't good enough for the best batsmen. It needs to be 85+ mph with some movement on a responsive pitch to consistently bother them.
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
bagapath said:
I am so glad you asked. This has been an enduring fantasy of mine (along with certain others we don't want to get into).

As an Indian test cricketer I would:

Play England, Australia and South Africa once each at home and away, that is, in 2(4+4+3) = 22 tests
Will tour West Indies, Sri Lanka and New Zealand once = (4+3+3) = 10 tests
Would play a test series in Dubai vs Pak = 3 tests
Will not bother to turn up against Zim and Bang.

That will give me a total of 35 tests (11 at home and 24 overseas/neutral) over a period of four years.

Considering I am already 41, this is the most practical goal I can have (It was 52 tests - for obvious reasons - until two years ago)

Since I bowl off spin and bat in the lower order (in reality I never get to bowl or bat in any team any more; last time I was given the ball two years ago, I bowled three full tosses to the keeper and sprained my shoulder) I will usually bat at no.6 or no.7 - except in my last match, which I will come to later - and bowl at no. 3 or 4

my stats are very likely to be

- 35 tests. 62 innings. 7 not outs.
- 2872 runs. 52.21 batting average. 235* highest score. 11 hundreds. 14 fifties. 3 ducks.
- 164 wickets. 23.72 bowling average. 11 five-wicket hauls. 3 ten wicket match hauls.
- 51 catches. mostly snapped at second slip while the ball is new and, usually later in the innings, at forward short leg.

My last test, at the Oval, in which India are following on in a series that is still 0-0 (primarily because of my match saving 412 ball 101* at Lords in the first test) I bat at 7 in the first innings and score 42 and remain unbeaten. But I am in good nick. So I am asked to open the second innings. The 235* I score here (my only double making critics wonder how many more I would've scored if I had batted up the order) gives India a 171 run lead and I get England out with a 7 for 32 haul. The 277 runs I score in this match push my average from under 50 to 52+. And I finish on a real high note.
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Aren't you into film making of something?
 
OverratedSanity

OverratedSanity

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bagapath said:
I am so glad you asked. This has been an enduring fantasy of mine (along with certain others we don't want to get into).

As an Indian test cricketer I would:

Play England, Australia and South Africa once each at home and away, that is, in 2(4+4+3) = 22 tests
Will tour West Indies, Sri Lanka and New Zealand once = (4+3+3) = 10 tests
Would play a test series in Dubai vs Pak = 3 tests
Will not bother to turn up against Zim and Bang.

That will give me a total of 35 tests (11 at home and 24 overseas/neutral) over a period of four years.

Considering I am already 41, this is the most practical goal I can have (It was 52 tests - for obvious reasons - until two years ago)

Since I bowl off spin and bat in the lower order (in reality I never get to bowl or bat in any team any more; last time I was given the ball two years ago, I bowled three full tosses to the keeper and sprained my shoulder) I will usually bat at no.6 or no.7 - except in my last match, which I will come to later - and bowl at no. 3 or 4

my stats are very likely to be

- 35 tests. 62 innings. 7 not outs.
- 2872 runs. 52.21 batting average. 235* highest score. 11 hundreds. 14 fifties. 3 ducks.
- 164 wickets. 23.72 bowling average. 11 five-wicket hauls. 3 ten wicket match hauls.
- 51 catches. mostly snapped at second slip while the ball is new and, usually later in the innings, at forward short leg.

My last test, at the Oval, in which India are following on in a series that is still 0-0 (primarily because of my match saving 412 ball 101* at Lords in the first test) I bat at 7 in the first innings and score 42 and remain unbeaten. But I am in good nick. So I am asked to open the second innings. The 235* I score here (my only double making critics wonder how many more I would've scored if I had batted up the order) gives India a 171 run lead and I get England out with a 7 for 32 haul. The 277 runs I score in this match push my average from under 50 to 52+. And I finish on a real high note.
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Haha I can relate to this so much. My cricket fantasy involves very specific statistics and records and performances just like yours. Only difference is I'm a ***y leg spinning allrounder who bats at 3. Ponting+Stuart MacGill, basically.
 
cpr

cpr

International Coach
My cricket fantasies barely last 2 overs, I find its the best one for helping me fall asleep.

But then I learned a long time ago that bringing cricket into the bedroom is not a good idea :ph34r:
 
Son Of Coco

Son Of Coco

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social said:
Many international spinners are almost as quick as lower grade seamers

However, they are also deadly accurate, spin & dip the ball and are supported by genius fieldsmen

We'd be ****ed
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Yeah, I faced Bevan and he was a part-timer. First ball looked like a full toss out side off, but dipped and spun away. Missed it by a mile.



(Next ball was a full toss outside off and I square drove him for 4...)
 
vic_orthdox

vic_orthdox

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TheJediBrah said:
lol nah, going off from what I saw in the 2003 world cup (maybe he was better earlier), most first grade spinners (probably about a quarter of whom would have also played FC cricket as specialist bowlers) would be easily as good or better.
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Guys like Lehmann, de Silva are going to bowl far better to Test standard players, despite maybe being less talented as bowlers than a first grade spinner, because they're used to bowling to them and know where to bowl to restrict them better.
 
vic_orthdox

vic_orthdox

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mr_mister said:
unless Warnie is telepathic i could def score off him by charging down the crease at least once. even a single. you overestimate the power of a single flighted ball before its even pitched
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Glenn Maxwell played an early game for Richmond CC vs St Kilda, and Warnie was playing. His skipper, Ian Hewett who played some FC cricket for Victoria (would have been a gun in the T20 era) gave a team rule that no-one was to leave the crease to Warne, this was what he wanted.

Maxwell dances Warne third ball, gets stumped, walks off saying, "What can you do? It's Shane Warne..."
 
Son Of Coco

Son Of Coco

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OverratedSanity said:
The only Indian bowler I faced in the nets was Javagal Srinath in 1999. He bowled nowhere near full steam as the coach didn't want us to die, but boy, he was still ridiculously quick. Was a terrifying sight watching his relatively massive frame running up to bowl.

One of the best experiences I've had though, was watching Kiran More and Nayan Mongia keep to us. They planted a single stump on the ground and told us to basically run up and bowl as quickly as possible while aiming for the stump. Obviously we sprayed it all over the place, but nothing got past them. The agility and quick feet needed for an international keeper only truly dawned on me when I watched them in person.
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Yeah I bowled at indoor, and was reasonably quick (by local standards where I was...so not really that quick) at the time, and Wade Seccombe kept one night. The difference to the everyday nuffies who used to keep (or sometimes refuse to keep) was huge. He took everything with ease. Was really annoying as he made me look as slow as I undoubtedly was to him.
 
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