DoG's Test Innings and Bowling Performances. Updates thread.

[Starfighter]

56 RJ Kirtley 6 34 South Africa Nottingham 2003 18.47

Well I'll be...

 

[Prince EWS]

I remember that Test. He actually didn't bowl that amazingly, but man were his wickets ever influential. It seems entirely consistent to me that it'd statistically rank where it does.

 

[vcs]

How come Agarkar's effort in Adelaide didn't make the cut?

 

[Burgey]

He made a pair iirc

 

[Days of Grace]

How come Agarkar's effort in Adelaide didn't make the cut?

Just misses the cut.

 

[Riggins]

Here is another question: in calculating a match average runs per wicket, how much more weight would you give to the innings in which a batsman played his innings against the other innings in the match. Twice as much? Three times as much?

For example, in an innings of 500-5 against the total analysis in the other innings of 900-30, the match average would be (500*3+900)/(5*3+30) = 53.33

If two times weight is used it would be (500*2+900)/(5*2+30) = 47.50

This may look like a marginal difference but it makes a big change to the batting and bowling lists.

What is the reasoning behind weighting this? Assuming the higher average per wicket means the innings is less meaningful, does this mean that by increasing the weight of the innings in which the player scored his runs, they become less valuable? If this innings defined the game, which for big scores on this list they probably did, this seems a bit counter intuitive. Should you instead look at a 'match average runs per wicket' excluding the player in question's contribution?

 

[Days of Grace]

Dimuth Karunaratne's magnificent innings in the first test against South Africa where he carried his bat lands him no.16 on the alltime list.

1 VVS Laxman 281 Australia Kolkata 2001 22.46
2 IT Botham 149* Australia Leeds 1981 21.56
3 ST Jayasuriya 253 Pakistan Faisalabad 2004 21.49
4 BC Lara 153* Australia Bridgetown 1999 21.28
5 BKG Mendis 176 Australia Pallekele 2016 21.25
6 V Sehwag 201* Sri Lanka Galle 2008 21.05
7 GA Gooch 154* West Indies Leeds 1991 21.04
8 DG Bradman 270 England Melbourne 1937 20.96
9 Saeed Anwar 188* India Kolkata 1999 20.90
10 LD Chandimal 162* India Galle 2015 20.77
11 C Hill 188 England Melbourne 1898 20.40
12 DPMD Jayawardene 180 England Galle 2012 20.04
13 CG Greenidge 214* England Lord's 1984 19.91
14 BB McCullum 302 India Wellington 2014 19.86
15 AC Gilchrist 149* Pakistan Iobart 1999 19.85
16 FDM Karunaratne 158* South Africa Galle 2018 19.73
17 R Dravid 233 Australia Adelaide 2003 19.67
18 KS Williamson 242* Sri Lanka Wellington 2015 19.65
19 GL Jessop 104 Australia TIe Oval 1902 19.61
20 MA Butcher 173* Australia Leeds 2001 19.47
21 DL Amiss 262* West Indies Kingston 1974 19.47
22 SM Gavaskar 221 England The Oval 1979 19.47
23 C Bannerman 165* England Melbourne 1877 19.45
24 DG Bradman 299* South Africa Adelaide 1932 19.42
25 Azhar Mahmood 132 SoutI AIrica Durban 1998 19.35
26 J Darling 160 England Sydney 1898 19.24
27 CL Walcott 220 England Bridgetown 1954 19.23
28 RE Foster 287 Australia Sydney 1903 19.13
29 BC Lara 213 Australia Kingston 1999 19.00
30 DG Bradman 334 England Leeds 1930 19.00
31 DG Bradman 212 England Adelaide 1937 18.99
32 RN Harvey 167 England Melbourne 1959 18.95
33 Hanif Mohammad 337 West Indies Bridgetown 1958 18.90
34 BC Lara 226 Australia Adelaide 2005 18.86
35 Younis Khan 267 India Bangalore 2005 18.84
36 G.C. Smith 154* England Birmingham 2008 18.77
37 ME Trescothick 180 South Africa Johannesburg 2005 18.73
38 Younis Khan 171* Sri Lanka Pallekele 2015 18.73
39 KC Sangakkara 232 South Africa Colombo (SSC) 2004 18.72
40 JL Langer 191 Pakistan Perth 2004 18.62
41 R Dravid 180 Australia Kolkata 2001 18.58
42 BB McCullum 224 India Auckland 2014 18.57
43 B Mitchell 164* England Lord's 1935 18.52
44 GS Sobers 168 Australia Sydney 1961 18.48
45 JE Root 190 South Africa Lord's 2017 18.47
46 L Klusener 118 Sri Lanka Kandy 2000 18.45
47 BF Butcher 133 England Lord's 1963 18.44
48 ME Waugh 116 South Africa Port Elizabeth 1997 18.43
49 KC Sangakkara 156* New Zealand Wellington 2006 18.43
50 KJ Hughes 100* West Indies Melbourne 1981 18.41
51 RT Simpson 156* Australia Melbourne 1951 18.39
52 JT Brown 140 Australia Melbourne 1895 18.38
53 Inzamam-ul-Haq 329 New Zealand Lahore 2002 18.37
54 WR Endean 162 Australia Melbourne 1952 18.37
55 GA Headley 270* England Kingston 1935 18.35
56 S Chanderpaul 137* India Bridgetown 1997 18.26
57 JV Coney 111* Pakistan Dunedin 1985 18.25
58 DW Randall 150 Australia Sydney 1979 18.25
59 CG Greenidge 134 England Manchester 1976 18.22
60 SR Tendulkar 214 Australia Bangalore 2010 18.22
61 GR Viswanath 124 West Indies Chennai 1979 18.18
62 SM Gavaskar 236* West Indies Chennai 1983 18.12
63 HP Tillakaratne 115 Pakistan Faisalabad 1995 18.10
64 DPMD Jayawardene 237 South Africa Galle 2004 18.10
65 PS McDonnell 147 England Sydney 1882 18.09
66 MN Samuels 123 New Zealand Kingston 2012 18.04
67 DG Bradman 304 England Leeds 1934 18.03
68 VT Trumper 159 South Africa Melbourne 1911 18.03
69 V Sehwag 319 South Africa Chennai 2008 18.01
70 BB McCullum 225 India Hyderabad (Deccan) 2010 17.98
71 DM Jones 184* England Sydney 1987 17.97
72 R Dravid 270 Pakistan Rawalpindi 2004 17.97
73 R Cowper 307 England Melbourne 1966 17.97
74 AD Nourse 231 Australia Johannesburg 1935 17.95
75 J Ryder 201* England Adelaide 1925 17.95
76 DI Gower 173* Pakistan Lahore 1984 17.90
77 GS Chappell 182* West Indies Sydney 1976 17.89
78 CH Gayle 333 Sri Lanka Galle 2010 17.89
79 DG Bradman 226 South Africa Brisbane 1931 17.89
80 LPRL Taylor 290 Australia Perth 2015 17.89
81 DR Martyn 161 Sri Lanka Kandy 2004 17.87
82 DG Bradman 103* England Melbourne 1933 17.87
83 MC Cowdrey 102 Australia Melbourne 1954 17.84
84 Hon.FS Jackson 128 Australia Manchester 1902 17.84
85 WR Hammond 177 Australia Adelaide 1929 17.83
86 WR Hammond 240 Australia Lord's 1938 17.82
87 CG Greenidge 226 Australia Bridgetown 1991 17.82
88 Hanif Mohammad 187* England Lord's 1967 17.82
89 PF Warner 132* South Africa Johannesburg 1899 17.81
90 KC Sangakkara 230 Pakistan Lahore 2002 17.81
91 RG Pollock 125 England Nottingham 1965 17.79
92 PHB May 285* West Indies Birmingham 1957 17.79
93 Mohammad Wasim 192 Zimbabwe Harare 1998 17.78
94 MJ Clarke 151 South Africa Cape Town 2011 17.78
95 Inzamam-ul-Haq 138* Bangladesh Multan 2003 17.77
96 CG Greenidge 213 New Zealand Auckland 1987 17.76
97 MEK Hussey 134* Pakistan Sydney 2010 17.75
98 WW Armstrong 159* South Africa Johannesburg 1902 17.74
99 GS Chappell 204 India Sydney 1981 17.71
100 Shahid Afridi 141 India Chennai 1999 17.70

 

[Days of Grace]

What is the reasoning behind weighting this? Assuming the higher average per wicket means the innings is less meaningful, does this mean that by increasing the weight of the innings in which the player scored his runs, they become less valuable? If this innings defined the game, which for big scores on this list they probably did, this seems a bit counter intuitive. Should you instead look at a 'match average runs per wicket' excluding the player in question's contribution?

It is a measure to give extra focus on the pitch conditions or opposition performance in that specific innings of the match. If all innings were given equal weighting, then an innings of 200 out of 500/3 against Zimbabwe where your side won by an innings would be rated too highly.

 

[OverratedSanity]

List needs more VVS imo. The right innings is finally at number 1 though

 

[Daemon]

For all the **** this SL team gets, Mendis, Chandimal and Karuna have played Sri Lanka's best knocks ever in the last 3 years.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Langer's 191 v Pakistan at no. 40? No way was that a particularly important or good innings. Probably not even in Langer's own top 15 Test hundreds.

Overrated because Pakistan crumbled in both innings (and Aus in the 1st innings) making conditions look more difficult than they were

1st Test, Pakistan tour of Australia at Perth, Dec 16-19 2004 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

 

[OverratedSanity]

Surprised Sehwag's triple against SA is that high. I'd have thought his triple against Pakistan would be higher since it came in a win and not a dull draw, but I guess the fact that it was against Steyn/Ntini/Morkel had a big impact on the rating.

 

[Singh767]

How do Kohli and Pujaras 100s rank from the latest tour?

 

[Days of Grace]

How do Kohli and Pujaras 100s rank from the latest tour?

Sorry for the late reply on this. Here are the ratings of all the centuries (and some other major innings) from the just completed England vs India series.

First test at Birmingham:

JE Root 80 11.36
V Kohli 149 16.68
SM Curran 63 10.55

Second test at Lord's

JM Bairstow 93 11.87
CR Woakes 137* 15.66

Third test at Nottingham

V Kohli 97 12.04
V Kohli 103 10.90
JC Buttler 106 12.54

Fourth Test at Southampton

SM Curran 78 12.33
CA Pujara 132* 14.68

Fifth Test at The Oval

AN Cook 147 14.37
JE Root 125 13.50
KL Rahul 149 14.25
RR Pant 114 12.81

 

[OverratedSanity]

Currans fifty in the first test?

 

[Days of Grace]

Best test match performances by an Indian batsman in Australia

29.98 R Dravid 233 (19.67) & 72* (10.31) at Adelaide 2003
27.32 VS Hazare 116 (12.20) & 145 (15.11) at Adelaide 1948
26.14 CA Pujara 123 (17.78) & 71 (8.37) at Adelaide 2018
24.14 V Kohli 115 (10.42) & 141 (13.72) at Adelaide 2014
23.35 V Sehwag 63 (6.69) & 151 (16.66) at Adelaide 2008
20.90 V Kohli 169 (14.89) & 54 (6.01) at Melbourne 2014

 

[Kirkut]

I'd go for Laxman's 167 in Sydney to be the best innings by an Indian batsman in Aus. Never seen Mcgrath get hit for fours in Australia like that, Lara maybe an exception.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I'd go for Laxman's 167 in Sydney to be the best innings by an Indian batsman in Aus. Never seen Mcgrath get hit for fours in Australia like that, Lara maybe an exception.

It was a great exhibition of batting but also completely pointless.

 

[Kirkut]

It was a great exhibition of batting but also completely pointless.

Series wise it maybe pointless but you had to be too ambitious to think of winning there in 1999/2000. The next tour to Australia in 2003 was good but the difficulty of bowling was not like 1999/2000.

 

[Burgey]

I'd go for Laxman's 167 in Sydney to be the best innings by an Indian batsman in Aus. Never seen Mcgrath get hit for fours in Australia like that, Lara maybe an exception.

Azharuddin made a cracking ton in Adelaide in 91/92 iirc.