Ikki
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I may have misunderstood it but it looks like yes, the bat ave for the bowlers won't be affected by minnows but his bowl ave will still be what it is, because of them.
Not trying to say it will be in Warne's favour but on my rough estimation the difference almost halves.In any case, if we remove B/Z Murali still has a bowling average about one point better than Warne. And the average value of wicket which is already higher for Murali will become even higher. So that won't tilt it in Warne's favour at all.