Players with no peak

[bagapath]

among the truly greats with long careers, Kapil Dev is a good shout. Despite the usual end career flagging, he never dropped his top standards, never hit a stratospheric peak either.

 

[ankitj]

Lillee was pretty much around the same level entire career, yes?

Yeah, when I calculated averages in moving window of smallish number of tests, I found virtually no deviation for Lillee from his overall aveage.

It's statistically unlikely for a player to not have a peak (and consequently a trough) as such.

 

[h_hurricane]

Sanjay Manjrekar with the mike in hand.

 

[Bahnz]

Hadlee was remarkably consistent from 1978 to 90. The only notable peak year was 1984, when he took advantage of a stoned English batting lineup and an associate standard Sri Lanka to average 13. If you want to narrow it down to one series then you can obviously point to his outrageous 33 wicket haul in the 1985 Australia tour, but otherwise he was just pretty consistently rocking up and taking 5 wickets a game at an average of somewhere between 18-24.

 

[shortpitched713]

among the truly greats with long careers, Kapil Dev is a good shout. Despite the usual end career flagging, he never dropped his top standards, never hit a stratospheric peak either.

His bowling peak was definitely the early part of his career. Bothamesque on that end, I'd say. But he maintained and improved his batting much better than Botham.

 

[shortpitched713]

Also, this thread makes me think of this:

What about my prime, Mick?!

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[Coronis]

His bowling peak was definitely the early part of his career. Bothamesque on that end, I'd say. But he maintained and improved his batting much better than Botham.

C’mon mate.

 

[subshakerz]

C’mon mate.

Not that Botham, but that Botham.

 

[Daemon]

Rubel Hossain

ffs beaten

 

[BazBall21]

Gower was a similar level throughout but did have a golden series

 

[shortpitched713]

C’mon mate.

Kapil was massively underrated, purely as a bowler alone, in the early part of his career.

 

[Coronis]

Kapil was massively underrated, purely as a bowler alone, in the early part of his career.

Kapil 5 year bowling peak (79-84)

48 matches 77 innings 203 @ 25.86 51.5 SR 17 5’fers 2 10’fers

Home 49 innings 129 @ 22.20 46.2 SR 11 5’fers 2 10’fers
Away 28 innings 74 @ 32.24 60.7 SR 6 5’fers

Botham (77-82)

52 matches 89 innings 237 @ 23.14 51.1 SR 19 5’fers 4 10’fers

Home 48 innings 130 @ 22.40 48.1 SR 12 5’fers 2 10’fers
Away 41 innings 107 @ 24.30 54.8 SR 7 5’fers 2 10’fers

 

[shortpitched713]

Kapil did extremely well in his home conditions, which weren't well suited for pace bowling, and to an extent that no Indian pace bowler before ever did (or any after, not named Bumrah).

 

[Coronis]

Kapil did extremely well in his home conditions, which weren't well suited for pace bowling, and to an extent that no Indian pace bowler before ever did (or any after, not named Bumrah).

Cool story bro. Still doesn’t have a “Bothamesque” peak.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Cool story bro. Still doesn’t have a “Bothamesque” peak.

Well did better than Botham at home and would had done better away if not for all those cheating racist umpires.....

 

[Coronis]

Well did better than Botham at home and would had done better away if not for all those cheating racist umpires.....

C-c-copium

 

[capt_Luffy]

C-c-copium

That's racist!! To expect him to perform in any white country is racist (except Australia for reasons)

 

[bagapath]

Kapil did extremely well in his home conditions, which weren't well suited for pace bowling, and to an extent that no Indian pace bowler before ever did (or any after, not named Bumrah).

botham too did very well in india