Best individual years from a cricketer

[kingkallis]

2008-2009 Gautam Gambhir. Scored heavily in these 2 years.

 

[Burgey]

2007 - Jacques Kallis ( 1242 runs at 86. 42, 20 wickets at 25.75 )

I think you may have that wrong. 25.75 was his batting strike rate.

 

[vicleggie]

2009 Mitchell Johnson
Belongs in the comedy hall of fame.

 

[peterhrt]

Aussies here will know more about this one.

Bill O'Reilly's career bowling average in first-class cricket was 16.60. It seems no other Australian bowler starting after 1900 has managed an average under twenty (happy to be corrected but can't find any). He played in a high-scoring era and enjoyed seven successful Test series out of seven.

It's difficult to find a weakness. Ugly action? Not as good against left-handers? There were not as many left-handers back then and O'Reilly dismissed English specialist lefties twelve times in Tests, the same number as Mailey and Grimmett.

Any thoughts?

 

[Coronis]

Aussies here will know more about this one.

Bill O'Reilly's career bowling average in first-class cricket was 16.60. It seems no other Australian bowler starting after 1900 has managed an average under twenty (happy to be corrected but can't find any). He played in a high-scoring era and enjoyed seven successful Test series out of seven.

It's difficult to find a weakness. Ugly action? Not as good against left-handers? There were not as many left-handers back then and O'Reilly dismissed English specialist lefties twelve times in Tests, the same number as Mailey and Grimmett.

Any thoughts?

Him and Bradman were besties.

 

[trundler]

Er, OK. I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about.

Hint: Gooch is also an Aussie slang word

 

[Gremlin]

Er, OK. I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about.

Anyway, here's another.
Everton Weekes in 1948 scored 878 runs at an average of 87.8, including five consecutive hundreds.

And Jonny Bairstow this year: 1061 runs at 70.7 isn't too shabby.

Bonus points to YJB for the match changing quality of the runs, something you don't get out of the stats records alone.

Loses the bonus points for a freak golf accident however... taking the shine off 2022 for him

 

[Dendarii]

1998 - Allan Donald (80 wickets ) & Shaun Pollock ( 69 wickets )

If we're looking at pairs of players then 2001: Kallis 1120 runs at 70, 35 wickets at 26.65; Pollock 573 runs at 52.09, 55 wickets at 21.38.

 

[BazBall21]

Bonus points to YJB for the match changing quality of the runs, something you don't get out of the stats records alone.

Loses the bonus points for a freak golf accident however... taking the shine off 2022 for him

What a time for it to happen man he would be steaming into the Ashes with an average north of 40 without that

 

[Tom Flint]

What a time for it to happen man he would be steaming into the Ashes with an average north of 40 without that

And a wc

 

[BazBall21]

And a wc

Rough.

 

[a massive zebra]

Aussies here will know more about this one.

Bill O'Reilly's career bowling average in first-class cricket was 16.60. It seems no other Australian bowler starting after 1900 has managed an average under twenty (happy to be corrected but can't find any). He played in a high-scoring era and enjoyed seven successful Test series out of seven.

It's difficult to find a weakness. Ugly action? Not as good against left-handers? There were not as many left-handers back then and O'Reilly dismissed English specialist lefties twelve times in Tests, the same number as Mailey and Grimmett.

Any thoughts?

This is incorrect. Geff Noblet took 282 first-class wickets @ 19.26.

 

[BazBall21]

Someone could theoretically make a case for Tiger being the ?

 

[Adders]

Hint: Gooch is also an Aussie slang word

Is it???

You sure you're not getting confused with root or am I totally missing something here?

 

[Tom Flint]

It's also used in England. Though not sure if the same meaning

 

[Coronis]

Is it???

You sure you're not getting confused with root or am I totally missing something here?

I certainly hope you’re not missing your gooch.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

And a legitimate wc

 

[Migara]

This



Murali - 11 matches 90 wickets, 12 matches 80 wickets, 10 matches 75 wickets . . .
Warne's 1994 is massively impressive too.

 

[Aritro]

It's also used in England. Though not sure if the same meaning

It means the same thing. My mate's band wrote a rap-metal song called "Gooch" which was not at all about cricket. I like to imagine Dave Matthews Band's "The Space Between" was about the same subject matter.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Is it???

You sure you're not getting confused with root or am I totally missing something here?

Trundler really gooched that one