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(Stats Video) Most days spent as #1 Batsman & Bowler in Test Cricket

OverratedSanity

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trundler said:
Why wouldn't they be? If bored coders on here can account for those things in their rankings why wouldn't the official ICC rankings be more nuanced?
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He's got a point, bored coders here are atleast transparent on the methodology/formula used.
 
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Most days spent as #1 Batsman in Test Cricket (1990 to 2020)


Note: Every single day since Jan 1990 till today has been shown. Data is 100% accurate and anyone can verify. Mods if possible please insert this video in main thread. Thanks.
 
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Smith's going to stay there for a while, will definitely go past Lara, what with the pandemic and all.
 
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ankitj said:
Really fun to watch it.
  • Gooch's dominance is interesting to note in early 90s
  • Lara - Wow
  • Ponting, Kallis and Chanderpaul more late to party than I thought
  • Smith towards the end be like - hold my beer
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Gooch was among very few batsman in 90s to have 50+ avg. I think sachin, waugh & lara are the others.
 
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_00_deathscar

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ankitj said:
Really fun to watch it.
  • Gooch's dominance is interesting to note in early 90s
  • Lara - Wow
  • Ponting, Kallis and Chanderpaul more late to party than I thought
  • Smith towards the end be like - hold my beer
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I think that's because of the 'delay' right - your points are an accumulator (correct? over the past few years?), so people generally remember Ponting starting to peak some time from the early 2000s - but his preceding years weren't as great relatively speaking, so by the time he was showing up as number 1, he was already well into his peak or even towards the end of it.
Conversely, it also stays with you for a bit longer than your ACTUAL period of dominance because of the accumulator effect: see Sachin briefly there showing a number 1 rating some time around mid to late 2011s in the chart, when he was already past it by that point and his second peak was actually between 2004-2011 (albeit with one bad year, and three decent but not great years including the final 2011)

On top of that, it's also dependent on other batsman (and their peaks/troughs etc reflecting as per above).
 
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_00_deathscar

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StatsLance said:
Gooch was among very few batsman in 90s to have 50+ avg. I think sachin, waugh & lara are the others.
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Yep.

Sachin: 69 matches, 5,626 runs @ 58.00 with 22 100s
Waugh: 89 matches, 6,213 runs @ 53.10 with 18 100s
Lara: 65 matches, 5,573 runs @ 51.60 with 13 100s
Gooch: 45 matches, 4,176 runs @ 51.55 with 12 100s

Wright, Kambli, Gower were the others to average 50+, but only played between 11-18 tests.

Dravid (49.96) and Ganguly (49.63) were just a shade below 50 with 30+ tests each.

Everyone else was 46.82 (De Silva) and below.
 
ankitj

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Haq's average in 90s stands out for me among those who played a lot of cricket in 90s. He was averaging just 43 at the end of decade and then finished with average of just shade under 50. It illustrates how much easier naughties were for batting (without meaning disrespect to Haq).
 
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Bolo. said:
I reckon these rankings must place a decent premium on top order wickets/ quality of wickets? Ambrose's amount of time at the top is otherwise pretty surprising, as is the fact that mcgrath was so far ahead of warne- I would have expected their wpm and average to have evened out somewhat.
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According to Marcus Berkmann’s book on the ratings, dismissing high-rated batsmen does get a bowler more credit than dismissing low-rated batsmen. (Admittedly that book is now 30 years old).
 
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Great videos to watch. The most impressive to me is Ambrose being #1 for so long with such ridiculous competition. Biggest surprise is Pollock having such a long stay and Mushy getting #1 at any point in his career.

ankitj said:
Haq's average in 90s stands out for me among those who played a lot of cricket in 90s. He was averaging just 43 at the end of decade and then finished with average of just shade under 50. It illustrates how much easier naughties were for batting (without meaning disrespect to Haq).
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You're probably right but he also took it up a notch when handed the captaincy.
 
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_00_deathscar

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ankitj said:
Haq's average in 90s stands out for me among those who played a lot of cricket in 90s. He was averaging just 43 at the end of decade and then finished with average of just shade under 50. It illustrates how much easier naughties were for batting (without meaning disrespect to Haq).
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Ganguly finished the 90s with a near 50 batting average, but his career average is 42.17 with his last test in 2008. Tanked the 00s when he should have been adding.
 
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