Best and worse pressure players?

[Richard]

It is, but I honestly don't think it really matters all that much. So many of those innings fail to fit the generalisation of fourth-innings = always the toughest time to bat and the most important time to make runs.

In any case, one can play a good fourth-innings innings even if they score only 15; if they last 100 deliveries and help save a game that would otherwise have been lost it's a tremendous effort. An example would be Darren Gough (all right, he's not a front-line batsman, but an innings is an innings) here, or, more famously, Paul Collingwood here (that was only 51 balls, so not quite so impressive as the Gough effort, but with even more at stake).

Now I don't actually know that there are any instances of such in the Stephen Waugh case, there may well not be, but this is more about the stereotype than the case-scenario.

 

[Agent TBY]

Best and worse players under pressure?

Doesn't that like include everyone?

 

[Salmon Butt]

Dead rubber dominators....

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/columns/content/current/story/315649.html

Always had a feeling that Lara scored heavily in such matches.

 

[Richard]

Well given the number of dead-rubber games he played due to West Indies' general awfulness in the last 6 years of his career, it's hardly surprising is it?

 

[Salmon Butt]

Well given the number of dead-rubber games he played due to West Indies' general awfulness in the last 6 years of his career, it's hardly surprising is it?

True... But,he has tended to perform better in those matches(when you can argue that the opposition lets it's guard down,relatively speaking).So,a little less pressure and all that.

Typically,there is too much of stereotyping going on with this type of thing..good/bad pressure player based on one or two instances..Over a career and looking through things objectively(without romanticizing stuff) can throw up surprising things.

 

[Unattainableguy]

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