Absurdly Awesome Cricket Stats

[AndrewB]

It's pretty absurd that these 3 West Indian fast bowlers ended their careers with such awesome averages so close to each other

Marshall - 20.94
Garner - 20.97
Ambrose - 20.99

If you list all Test cricketers by their bowling average, the three of them appear consecutively: no-one else has a Test bowling average of 20.9x .

Also consecutive are Waqar Younis (23.56) and Wasim Akram (23.62). And, temporarily, England's batting all-rounder captains Tony Greig (32.20) and Ben Stokes (32.21).

 

[Coronis]

Boycott (perhaps unsurprisingly) holds the test record for highest innings without a boundary. Scored 77 (did have a single four which was all run)

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

The ODI record for that is even higher.

 

[mr_mister]

The ODI record for that is even higher.

Paroare too soft to reach the fence with his shots

 

[Ali TT]

Adil Rashid taking 3-6 off 2 overs in a T10 match in which the other 16.3 overs went for 219 runs.

 

[govinda indian fan]

Anderson v batsmen who average 50+

Tendulkar (9), Williamson (9), Smith (8), Kallis (8), Sangakarra (7), Dravid (5), Chanderpaul (4), Ponting (4), de Villiers (3), Hussey (3), Y Khan (3), Jaiswal (2), Lara (1), Yousuf (1), Voges (1)

Broad
Smith (11), de Villiers (10), Williamson (6), Y Khan (6), Chanderpaul (5), Hussey (3), Kallis (3), Ponting (3), Tendulkar (3), Dravid (3), Voges (2)

Smudge is broad s bunny so is sachin with anderson

 

[govinda indian fan]

2015 world cup was first world cup not to feauture one among javed maindad or sachin tendulkar

 

[AndrewB]

2015 world cup was first world cup not to feauture one among javed maindad or sachin tendulkar

2019 was the first with neither Miandad nor Shahid Afridi/Mahela Jayawardene. (They both only played in 5 World Cups to Miandad and Tendulkar's 6 each, but Miandad and Tendulkar had a 2 World Cup overlap - 1992 and 1996).

 

[Coronis]

Only one player has scored 5 centuries in a series; Walcott vs Australia 1955.

15 other players have scored 4 tons in a series.

Sutcliffe (2)
Hammond
Headley
Bradman (3)
Compton
Weekes
Harvey (2)
Walters
Gavaskar (2)
Mudassar
Kallis
Yousuf
Kohli
Smith
Root

Kohli and Smith both did this in the same series (14/15 Border Gavaskar)

 

[govinda indian fan]

Only one player has scored 5 centuries in a series; Walcott vs Australia 1955.

15 other players have scored 4 tons in a series.

Sutcliffe (2)
Hammond
Headley
Bradman (3)
Compton
Weekes
Harvey (2)
Walters
Gavaskar (2)
Mudassar
Kallis
Yousuf
Kohli
Smith
Root

Kohli and Smith both did this in the same series (14/15 Border Gavaskar)

Root in which series?

 

[Coronis]

Root in which series?

21/22 in India

 

[Sunil1z]

Hope the stats is not wrong

 

[Coronis]

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Pakistan have 5. Nice job excluding South Africa which has 11. Does help that he himself has played 5+ more matches in Australia than any team apart from England.

 

[Sunil1z]

Pakistan have 5. Nice job excluding South Africa which has 11. Does help that he himself has played 5+ more matches in Australia than any team apart from England.

Someone posted on Twitter. Knew the stats was too good to be true

 

[sayon basak]

Anderson v batsmen who average 50+

Tendulkar (9), Williamson (9), Smith (8), Kallis (8), Sangakarra (7), Dravid (5), Chanderpaul (4), Ponting (4), de Villiers (3), Hussey (3), Y Khan (3), Jaiswal (2), Lara (1), Yousuf (1), Voges (1)

Broad
Smith (11), de Villiers (10), Williamson (6), Y Khan (6), Chanderpaul (5), Hussey (3), Kallis (3), Ponting (3), Tendulkar (3), Dravid (3), Voges (2)

Provide his average against them too. I bet that's gonna be even more absurd.

 

[Sunil1z]

Lowest average after number of Test matches played

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Fewest balls to take 7 wickets in an innings:

•41, Hugh Trumble (Australia) vs England, 1904
•41, Marco Jansen (South Africa) vs Sri Lanka, 2024
•42, Stuart Broad (England) vs Australia, 2015

 

[Qlder]

Only 3 batsmen in history have scored a century every 5 innings or less

1. Don Bradman - century every 2.8 innings
2. George Headley - every 4.0 innings
3. Clyde Walcott - every 4.9 innings

Harry Brook has just moved into 4th with a century every 5.1 innings

 

[Silver Silva]

Marco Jansen now qualifies for a SR ranking on cricinfo after bowling minimum 2000 balls in his test career.

This now means that 5 of the current top 8 bowlers with the greatest career strike rates in test cricket played Test cricket in 2024 :

Marco Jansen (2nd) , Kuldeep Yadav (3rd),
Kagiso Rabada (5th), Duanne Olivier (7th), Jayden Seales (8th).

No.1 is George Lohmann who played Test cricket in the 1800's.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Where is Bumrah on this list?