Median bowler to average exactly 30?

[AndrewB]

George Hirst (59@30.00), Arshad Khan (32@30.00) or Dermot Reeve (2@30.00)? You decide.

 

[Athlai]

The Andrew Ellis rule

 

[howitzer]

Horge Girst for mine.

 

[howitzer]

I prefer the vote on bowlers to average exactly 36.

 

[capt_Luffy]

George Hirst is comfortably the best.
Dermott Reeve is probably the worst.

Yup, Arshad Khan is the median bowler.

 

[a massive zebra]

George Hirst was a giant of first class cricket, one of the greatest county cricketers ever. Lord Hawke described him as the greatest county cricketer of all time. In 1906, he became the only cricketer to score 2,000 runs and take 200 wickets in an English cricket season. Also in 1906, he scored two centuries and took eleven wickets in the match against Somerset at Bath. He scored 1,000 runs and took 100 wickets in 14 seasons - a figure surpassed only by Wilfred Rhodes. He made 60 first class centuries and took 10 wickets in a match 40 times.

Yet his Test record is pretty underwhelming. A bowling average of 30 in his time is more like 40 today. The early 20th century all rounder equivalent of Graeme Hick or Mark Ramprakash.

 

[Starfighter]

George Hirst is comfortably the best.
Dermott Reeve is probably the worst.

Yup, Arshad Khan is the median bowler.

This is absolutely brilliant reasoning.

 

[Coronis]

George Hirst was a giant of first class cricket, one of the greatest county cricketers ever. Lord Hawke described him as the greatest county cricketer of all time. In 1906, he became the only cricketer to score 2,000 runs and take 200 wickets in an English cricket season. Also in 1906, he scored two centuries and took eleven wickets in the match against Somerset at Bath. He scored 1,000 runs and took 100 wickets in 14 seasons - a figure surpassed only by Wilfred Rhodes. He made 60 first class centuries and took 10 wickets in a match 40 times.

Yet his Test record is pretty underwhelming. A bowling average of 30 in his time is more like 40 today. The early 20th century all rounder equivalent of Graeme Hick or Mark Ramprakash.

Thats legit crazy.

 

[shortpitched713]

In the words of FRAZ, "Arshad Khan's is a long gone stories."

 

[a massive zebra]

Thats legit crazy.

Yep. He reached the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in June, beating everyone else in history by a comfortable margin. In the match against Somerset at Bath, he scored 111 and 117*, and picked up 6 for 70 and 5 for 45. He remains the only cricketer with two hundreds and two five-fors in the same first-class match.