Several of CricketWeb’s feature writers have contributed to Patrick Ferriday and Dave Wilson’s latest book, Supreme Bowling, a companion volume to Masterly Batting, which presents 100 great Test bowling performances.
In this first of three extracts Martin Chandler and Sean Riley are featured.
In which Dave Wilson tries to compare batsmen of different eras by putting things in a team context.
What do Vinod Kambli and Mick Hucknall out of Simply Red have in common? Read on and find out…
Thanks to forum members Watson, Red Hill and the big bambino for this feature and the next – here we discuss the opinion of Stephen Jay Gould that high averages are becoming unachievable.
My forum user name, chasingthedon, is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that Don Bradman is lauded as the greatest cricketer ever, despite the fact that there was never really a way to compare him directly with bowlers and all-rounders. Now there is….
Eight years ago I started working on a method to rate all cricketers together regardless of discipline – Series Points. Three years ago I started on its successor, Match Impact – that work is now complete…
Bat to the Future – October 21, 2015 may have come and gone with no sign of Marty McFly in a flying De Lorean, but in this piece Dave shows that we can still see the future. And not a flux capacitor in sight.
Greg Matthews was a high impact player, having had much higher impact than I ever gave him credit for. Here’s where he stands against the all-time greats…
Following on from Martin’s piece on Seymour Nurse, Dave looks at other great swansongs and how Nurse measures up against them.
At least the title of the book makes it clear what its premise is, so rather than have the review team look at this we decided to set our top man to work on it – it’s fair to say Dave was not too impressed