Purple Patches

[Daemon]

Mustafizur's debut year in ODIs where he took 26 wickets in 9 ODIs at 12 apiece, including consecutive 5-fers against a full strength Indian team which led to Bangladesh's first ever ODI series win over India.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Think we can be fairly confident Voges's average against the Windies (542.00) will never be bettered by any batsman against any opponent.

 

[honestbharani]

A double purple patch:

Shaun Pollock had a period of a year when he averaged 74.33 with the bat and 20.63 with the ball. Over that same period, Jacques Kallis averaged 63.90 with the bat and 22.44 with the ball.

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And ****ing South Africa were still not #1?

 

[Duckster]

Richard Hadlee from 1980 and Malcolm Marshall from 1982 onwards to the end of their careers. They were still magnificent in their last series and never took it easy in county cricket.

 

[subshakerz]

Imran Khan's 40 wickets against India in 82 and Hadlee's 33 against Australia in 85-86 come to mind. The greatest fast bowling performances in a series ever.

Lara's three tons Australia in 99 were the best quality tons I have seen in such a sequence.

 

[Kirkut]

South African fast bowling had hit the purple patch from 2010 till 2013. Bowled out Australia (47 all out), NZ (45 all out) and Pakistan (49 all out) in that span of time.

 

[Gob]

Thread

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Roger Twose from 19 Jan 1999 to end of 2000 in ODIs:

 

[h_hurricane]

Kapil Dev had 75 wickets in an incredible 18 tests in 1983 @ 23.18 bowling as the sole test level bowler in his side for most of the time with only batting AR Ravi Shastri as his support. The second highest amount of wickets that year was 54 by Marshall. 11 of those 18 tests were against the ATG WI side against whom he took 46 wickets @ 20.89. The remaining 6 tests were against Pakistan which was the second best side at the time. He also scored 579 runs @ 22.26 to add to the above including a 100* out of 95 balls against a bowling attack of Marshall, Holding, Roberts and Garner at Port of Spain.

That is not even the most remembered part of his year as he also led India to an impossible world cup victory in 1983 scoring 303 runs @ 60.06 with a SR of 108.99 and taking 12 wickets @ 20.41 over 8 games.

Another great purple patch for Kapil was his first full year in test cricket in 1979 at the age of 20 which was another time he led the wicket taking charts in tests by a massive margin. He took 74 wickets @ 22.9 and scored 609 runs @ 30.9 in 17 tests.

The below puts into context the bowling attack Kapil was working with in 1983:

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From the beginning of that WI tour in 1983 till end of 1986, Kapil had an outstanding peak in ODIs as well.

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85 wickets at 22.64(ER 3.50)
1388 runs at 30.84(SR 103.04 )

And crucial contributions in WC 1983 and WCC 1985.

The first great ODI allrounder and arguably the best ODI cricketer in the world during this period when he was like Mcgrath+Sehwag combined.

 

[mr_mister]

Michael Bevan averaged 59.77 over 122 ODI matches from Jan '97 to Jan '02

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[mr_mister]

and just because it's Graeme Hick of all people, I love his little period in the 98/99 ODI tri series, against the 2 previous WC finalists SL and Australia, where he had 4 innings on the trot, in a little over a week of 108, 66*, 126* and 109. For that brief period he really had finally lived up to the hype

 

[Beamer]

Shai Hope has scored 1737 ODI runs at 59.89 with 6 hundreds since 2019.

He also averages 89 opening the batting, having scored 1700 runs in 24 innings since 2017.

Insane.

 

[Jayro]

105*, 79*, 6*, 116*, 48 ... Scores Ajay Jadeja made in an ODI triangular series involving Aus and Zimb in 1998.. as the other two sides... Only gotten out in the final caught before remaining not out in the whole series.

 

[Jayro]

1997 friendship cup played between India vs Pakistan saw probably the peak of Sourav Ganguly as a Bowler -- out of 5 completed matches he remained mom in 4 , was the leading run scorer of both sides, was also the leading bowler by some margin.... Could go down as the most dominated series of all time by a single player.

 

[tony p]

John Carr of Middlesex in 1994.
Final 7 innings of season, 854 runs, to top first-class averages ahead of Brian Lara,

78no v Glamorgan
171no v Somerset
136 & 106no v Northants
40no & 62no v Surrey
261no v Gloucestershire.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Over that same period, Jacques Kallis averaged 63.90 with the bat and 22.44 with the ball.

Only a moderate upgrade on his career stats tbh

 

[tony p]

A small purple patch of just 10 days, however it got him a new contract at the age of 43,

Darren Stevens, Between 10th-19th September 2019,

V Notts, Trent Bridge, 88 + 0, 5-39, 5-53
V York, Leeds, 237 + 21, 2-50, 5-20.

 

[Starfighter]

Clarke's 2012

 

[Days of Grace]

Martin Crowe 1992 world cup

Jim Laker 1956-1958

Viv Richards 1976-1980

Sir Garfield Sobers 1958-1962

Imran Khan 1982-1986

 

[Engle]

" The 1970-71 West Indies tour was the last chance for Dilip Sardesai. He was lucky to be picked - it had looked as if his career was dead and buried - he went on to be Indian cricket's Renaissance Man in the watershed year of 1971. A technically correct player, the solid, wristy Sardesai was proficient against spin, but in West Indies he showed his mettle against pace, and pulled India repeatedly out of quicksand. He scored 642 runs, with two single hundreds and a double, and provided an inspirational launching-pad for a legend - Sunil Gavaskar, in his first series. "