ankitj
Hall of Fame Member
They are amassing **** load of runs in IPL, BBL, BCL etc. What are you talking about?
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Meaningless and stupid cricket statistics
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Coronis
International Coach
Please, lil 20 over games. 8 year olds can play longer and harder than that.
Senile Sentry
International Debutant
Yes, back in Hobbs time men were asked to chose between war and cricket. And invariably most picked the former.
Coronis
International Coach
Well if you were English at least, play 25-30 county matches (plus the other encounters), then take a boat to Australia for weeks or a month or however long to play some tests. Sounds harder than a couple 2 hour hit arounds where you can just slog and bowl rank ****.
Coronis
International Coach
Barnes later wrote in his autobiography that he had deliberately lost his wicket because ‘‘it wouldn’t be right for someone to make more runs than Sir Donald Bradman’’.
Mark Taylor a gentleman and a scholar.
Was just looking at the Statsguru figures for bowlers aged 35+, and found that:
- most 5+ wickets in an innings: 18, by each of Barnes, Grimmett and Herath (no-one else has more than 11)
- most 10+ wickets in a match: 6, also by each of Barnes, Grimmett and Herath (no-one else has more than 3)
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
This has always been a bizarre thing for me - I mean, don't you want your team to make more runs? And what is the Bradman Threshold - how many runs can he have made before it becomes disrespectful to outscore him? I don't recall instances of Aussie bats throwing their wickets away for single figures in innings where Bradman had failed.
Then again, from everything I've read about Sid Barnes, he may well have been trolling (before the word was invented) everyone with that quote anyway.
Coronis
International Coach
Barnes - the original troll. Tbf Australia was 300 runs ahead in that test and did end up going on to win by an innings. And Taylor was on 334* and 599/4 at the end of Day 2, would’ve been kind of a dick move to jump in for one ball to break his record and then declare. Didn’t end up mattering anyway though.
Senile Sentry
International Debutant
Herath WAG.
Coronis
International Coach
Probably not meaningless but eh, fits this thread more than most others. SR’s for some great batsmen prior to Tendulkar (the 90’s was when it began to be consistently recorded as a stat iirc)
Richards 69
Trumper 67.1
Bradman 61
Hill 59
Weekes 59
Pollock 55.8
Walcott 53
Sobers 52
Hobbs 51
Chappell 51
Miandad 47
Hammond 45.2
Gavaskar 45
Headley 44
Nourse 42.7
Worrell 42
Compton 41.2
Barrington 41.1
Border 41
Hutton 38.3
Sutcliffe 37.3
For comparison generally most modern greats have SR’s between 50-55, with notable exceptions e.g Sehwag and Gilly around 80, Lara, Hayden Smith and Ponting around 60, Kallis, Flower, Chanders and Dravid 45-42.
Richards 69
Trumper 67.1
Bradman 61
Hill 59
Weekes 59
Pollock 55.8
Walcott 53
Sobers 52
Hobbs 51
Chappell 51
Miandad 47
Hammond 45.2
Gavaskar 45
Headley 44
Nourse 42.7
Worrell 42
Compton 41.2
Barrington 41.1
Border 41
Hutton 38.3
Sutcliffe 37.3
For comparison generally most modern greats have SR’s between 50-55, with notable exceptions e.g Sehwag and Gilly around 80, Lara, Hayden Smith and Ponting around 60, Kallis, Flower, Chanders and Dravid 45-42.
Line and Length
Cricketer Of The Year
Interesting SR stats. Barrington about the same as Compton yet one is regarded as ultra defensive, the other a dashing stroke player.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Over rate was a lot slower in Barrington's time.
Brook's side
International Regular
I'd be interested to know if there's ever been a bowler with a higher average than strike rate.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
That would just require a bowler to have an economy rate over 6 and at least one wicket, so these players:
Coronis
International Coach
Bazball strikes again.
Brook's side
International Regular
The most runs in a test career without ever hitting a six.
Jonathan Trott 3835.
Jonathan Trott 3835.
Coronis
International Coach
Most 6’s in a test career without scoring a century - Southee with 82, HS 77* average 16. ~25% of his runs come from sixes. Next is Starc with 45. Trueman also hit 25 without scoring a 50 (HS 39*)