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Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats

TheJediBrah

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flibbertyjibber said:
Alec Stewart 100 in his 100th test on the Queen Mother's 100th birthday.
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Meaningless and stupid cricket statistics

I alluded to this in one of the Australia-India threads last night. In cricket there are certain figures that people love to use to prove how good or bad a player is that, if you think about it, don't really prove or tell you anything. My least favourite is the old 'player x only averages y if...
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Coronis

Coronis

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Slifer said:
Not a stat but a fact, in his entire 17 year test career, Viv has only been a part of one series loss. That's bonkers imo.
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Guess he wasn’t good enough to go to New Zealand in 1980..

Anyway similar facts can be drawn up on other Windies players of that era, not really impressive as individual achievements imo.
 
Slifer

Slifer

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Coronis said:
Guess he wasn’t good enough to go to New Zealand in 1980..

Anyway similar facts can be drawn up on other Windies players of that era, not really impressive as individual achievements imo.
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I know you're being facetious but he was injured after the tough Australian tour.
 
Silver Silva

Silver Silva

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Silver Silva said:
Mohammad Nabi has beaten 43 different nations with Afghanistan..
A real fairytale career that started from humble beginnings ..

The teams :

Bahrain, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Iran, Thailand, Nepal, UAE, Japan, the Bahamas, Botswana, Jersey, Fiji, Tanzania, Italy, Hong Kong, Argentina, Papua New Guinea, Cayman Islands, Oman, Denmark, Bermuda, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, China, Namibia, Singapore, Canada, USA, Kenya, Pakistan, Trinidad & Tobago, Bhutan, Maldives, Barbados, Uganda, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, West Indies, Sri Lanka and England.
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You can now make that 45 different teams with Afghanistan defeating NZ and Australia.
 
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Coronis

Coronis

International Coach
Highest run totals vs a single opponent:

Bradman vs Eng - 5028
Hobbs vs Aus - 3636
Tendulkar vs Aus - 3630
Border vs Eng - 3548
Smith vs Eng - 3417

Bradman aside obvs, Smith has a chance to break Hobbs longstanding number in the next Ashes. Gower, Sobers and Waugh are the only others to surpass 3000, Gower vs Aus, the other two vs Eng, all around 3200. Lara has 2900 and 2800 against Aus and Eng.

Of non Aus/Eng countries, the closest three are:

Sangakkara vs Pak - 2911
Root vs Ind - 2846
Gavaskar vs WI - 2749
 
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h_hurricane

h_hurricane

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Garry Sobers ratio of batting to bowling average in tests: 1.6979
Jacques Kallis ratio of batting to bowling average in tests : 1.6958

Chris Martin : 233 wickets and 123 runs in tests. 599 wickets and 479 runs in FC.
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar: 242 wickets and 167 runs in tests. 1063 wickets and 600 runs in FC.

Ravindra Jadeja in all FC outside tests : batting average 55.35 , bowling average 23.49
 
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