Chin Music
State Vice-Captain
Didn't think it would take you too long to find this! Not surprised that the old 247 regulars enjoy this, but it seems to be popular enough with others! ND indeed has a very peculiar record although to be honest he was a rather ordinary wicket-keeping batter who was better with the gloves than bat, albeit a dreadful review caller being my main memory of him.Ah, my favourite thread from the old forum. The thing with Root was that even though he was failing to convert, if you combined the records of the rest of his teammates in that period, they were even worse! It was a particular English disease at the time.
Globally, Niroshan Dickwella is, err, dick-ing on everyone from a great height currently. 22 fifties, HS 96. He's even exceeded his sometime teammate Mathews who for a long trot in the early part of his career was averaging over 50 despite having only converted 4 of 25 50+ scores. He's been more effective converting since, even though his average has fallen back to 45!
I note the mention of Graham Thorpe. He probably did slightly underachieve with the number of tons he scored, but he tended to ton up when the team was under pressure and was less likely to score big when the team already had a big score on the board. One of my favourite players from the 90s/early 00s when 3 runs an over was seen as good going.