centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
Well, to sum it up then- Just watch them head to head, no better indicator of how they went. Simple 
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Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
I agree and hence just bare statistics might not be a good way of going about it.. You just have to watch the game.Sure.. But consider this too.. If you are really looking at a bowler V batsman, you need to boil it down to the barest of facts.. Runs scored by said batsman against said bowler.. And assuming an average of a great batsman is 50 and assuming 4 bowlers bowl to you in a typical inning, that translates to roughly 13 runs off a bowler.. Of course, the number of balls bowled by a bowler to a batsman and the number of bowlers a batsman faces all varies very heavily depending on how long the innings went more than any other factor but going any further down increases the levels of complexity exponentially.. So just taking such a simplistic view, if a batsman has scored upwards of 10 runs off a bowler in an inning, does it mean the batsman did get the better of the bowler for that knock?
I know I am oversimplifying and overanalyzing at the same time here, but honestly, just trying to make a bowling team Vs a batsman to be a bowler V batsman is just fraught with the same level of banalness... It is so complicated and comes with so many provisos and assumptions that such a comparison is ultimately pointless and mostly fruitless...
For example in 2012 in the second England-SA test match,
Morkel got Pietersen out in the end and finished with 2/96 off 30 overs. They are not terrible figures by any means but anyone who saw that match would know how Pietersen played both Morkel and Steyn with utter disdain that day.
Ultimately it boils down to a significant period of time that is the important factor for me.
I remember in the Delhi test match where Kumble got all 10, I am sure you remember this test match, Pakistan got off to a decent start and Afridi had hit Kumble for a few boundaries, surely more than 10 runs, but that was victory to Kumble hands down..because Afridi just wan't able to do it for long enough.