Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats

[AndrewB]

Wow. Poor old India first had Sobers then Botham to give nightmares .

Sobers stats better, but I'm not sure which was a better allround performance though? Sobers had a lot of not outs and same wkts in 11 more bowling innings and only 1 5fer to Botham's 6? Happy to call it a tie

Sobers - 18 Tests
Bat: 30 Inn, 7 no, 1920 runs @ 83.47, HS 198, 8 100s, 7 50s
Bowl: 34 inn, 59 wkts @ 25.69, BB 5-63, 1 5fer

Botham - 14 Tests
Bat: 17 Inn, 0 no, 1201 runs @ 70.64, HS 208*, 5 100s, 5 50s
Bowl: 23 Inn, 59 wkts @ 26.40, BB 7-48, 1 10fer, 6 5fers

Also Imran scored 1091@51.95 and took 94@24.04 against them.

There's no other instance (so far) of a player scoring 1000 @ 40+ and taking 50 @ <30 against a country.

 

[Qlder]

Also Imran scored 1091@51.95 and took 94@24.04 against them.

There's no other instance (so far) of a player scoring 1000 @ 40+ and taking 50 @ <30 against a country.

Keith Miller played far fewer tests so much harder to reach that cut-off against anyone not England. He did manage this vs West Indies though

10 tests, 801 runs @ 53.40 and 40 Wkts @ 25.97 (4 hundreds and 3 5fers in 10 Tests)

 

[reyrey]

In the years

Also Imran scored 1091@51.95 and took 94@24.04 against them.

There's no other instance (so far) of a player scoring 1000 @ 40+ and taking 50 @ <30 against a country.

Stokes has a chance of getting there. Has the runs and batting average, just needs 9 more wickets against WI or 11 more against SA.

 

[sayon basak]

Gooch scored eleven of his 20 test centuries after the age of 37.

 

[Jumno]

Kumble's 10 in an innings against Pak 99.

 

[sayon basak]

Kumble's 10 in an innings against Pak 99.

Yeah that's awesome

Another absurdly awesome cricket stat is-

Anil Kumble's away average÷anil Kumble's home average= 35.85/24.88= 1.4409 which approximately equals to square root of two (with 98.1% accuracy)

 

[Sunil1z]

 

[nightprowler10]

Gooch scored eleven of his 20 test centuries after the age of 37.

Same as Younis, though he had a total of 34 100s.

 

[Sunil1z]

 

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[h_hurricane]

Viv Richards averages exact 47 with the bat in ODIs.

He took exact 100 catches in ODIs.

He played exactly 500 List A matches.

He took exactly 150 international wickets.

He captained WI in exactly 50 tests.

In his best batting year in 1976, he averaged exactly 90 in tests.

 

[howitzer]

Same as Younis, though he had a total of 34 100s.

This is amateur hour. Hobbs scored 10 of his 15 after his 38th birthday, 8 of them after his 41st and 7 after his 42nd. A shame that he couldn't bat for a lot of his peak years.

 

[howitzer]

Found this interesting as I would've expected a "hit the deck hard" type bowler to get a lot of caught behinds and I see Chatfield and Roach as both being more "wicket to wicket" I guess, and lacking a couple of yards of pace to be the sort of bowler I stereotypically imagine catching the edge a lot.

Chatfield was legendary for his accuracy and wasn't very quick, so I've probably misinterpreted that as him bowling at the stumps more than he actually did.

He was excellent at maintaining a 4th stump line with impeccable length. With an extra yard of pace he'd have been a world beater.

 

[Sunil1z]

Test 50 at Lords
Sachin, Ponting, Kallis , Kohli, ABD : 0

Shami: 1

 

[Sunil1z]

First and fourth name

 

[Coronis]

Whilst the Australian tour of England is mainly remembered for Hutton’s 364 (would you even know the Ashes were drawn off the top of your head?), Bradman was also quite notable.

Whilst 1930 may have been his most famous pre war tour, he completely surpassed it in ‘38 in my opinion.

1000 first class runs before the end of May, in just 7 innings, beating WG’s record of 10 innings in 1895 (age 46!)

in total on the tour…

20 matches 26 innings 2429 @ 115.66 13 tons 5 50’s (remains as equal 4th for tons in a season)

compared to his famous 1930 tour..

11 innings to reach 1000 before May

26 matches 36 innings 2960 @ 98.66 10 tons 5 50’s

He also broke 2000 runs on the 34 and 48 tours, scoring 11 tons in 48

 

[Coronis]

3000 runs has been surpassed 28 times in an English season, only 6 batsmen have done it multiple times. Ranji (1899, 1900), Hayward (1904, 1906), Mead (1921, 1928), Hendren (1923, 1928, 1933), Sutcliffe (1928, 1931, 1932) and Hammond (1933, 1937, 1938). Hammond narrowly missed doing it in 1927 with 2969 runs. Bradman with 2960 runs remains the closest by a touring batsman. Ranji was in fact the first to accomplish it in 1899, the last was Bill Alley (an Australian) in 1961, despite an overall FC average of 31 he scored 11 of his 31 tons that season. The closest anyone has come to 3000 since then was Jimmy Cook (another SA opening batsman whose career was curtailed by apartheid - 50 average in FC) scoring 2775 runs in 1991.

 

[howitzer]

3000 runs has been surpassed 28 times in an English season, only 6 batsmen have done it multiple times. Ranji (1899, 1900), Hayward (1904, 1906), Mead (1921, 1928), Hendren (1923, 1928, 1933), Sutcliffe (1928, 1931, 1932) and Hammond (1933, 1937, 1938). Hammond narrowly missed doing it in 1927 with 2969 runs. Bradman with 2960 runs remains the closest by a touring batsman. Ranji was in fact the first to accomplish it in 1899, the last was Bill Alley (an Australian) in 1961, despite an overall FC average of 31 he scored 11 of his 31 tons that season. The closest anyone has come to 3000 since then was Jimmy Cook (another SA opening batsman whose career was curtailed by apartheid - 50 average in FC) scoring 2775 runs in 1991.

Those three seasons Cook played for Somerset seem like they were child's play to him, a bit like when Mike Hussey played for Northants.