NZ tour of India
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@crucial said in NZ tour of India:
@rapido said in NZ tour of India:
@crucial said in NZ tour of India:
@rapido said in NZ tour of India:
@crucial said in NZ tour of India:
A little side stat I looked up out of curiosity.
Best test average for bowlers with minimum 50 wickets.
Our boy Kyle is 3rd on the alltime list BUT, and here's the interesting part. He is easily first of players from this century and easily first over the past two centuries. Most of the top of the list got their records in the 1800s!
Players who have played in the 2000s
1 Jamieson 15.06 - 3rd alltime
2 Ambrose (just sneaks in having played in 2000) 20.99 - 20th alltime
3 Cummins 21.6 - 26th alltime
4 Hasan Ali 21.69 - 28th
5 Shane Bond 22.09 - 30thHe's good. But he's no Axar Patel ....
averaging 11.24
After 4 matches all in the conditions he grew up in?
He's a fine bowler but that's why you put a minimum of wickets (50) or matches on cricket stats to see if the results contain outliers.For sure. Axar is no Jamieson. It's unlikely he will play an overseas test (or non-Asian test) until / unless Jadeja or Ashwin retire or are injured.
But the 50 over threshold you've used is a bit false. There have been other players who have rushed to 50 wickets but who's careers then flattened out more to the norm and therefore who's averages at that moment in time aren't captured in your list.
The may or may not be as good as Jamieson's of 15ish, I can't remember. But off the top of my head I recall Philander and Brett Lee racing ahead early with bowling averages in the teens.
If you look at first 10 matches then Philander had 63 wickets at 15.97. That'skind of the outstanding numbers I think Jamieson will produce as well. Philander ended up around 22avg which is still mighty impressive for 200+ wickets and up with the Marshall, Garner, Ambrose, Trueman levels Paddles was 22.3.
Time will tell but it is a fine start and fingers crossed we might see what the likes of Bond may have produced. He's streaks ahead of any other NZer on the fastest 50 list and the most impressive part is that he has achieved it over three different countries.He's a truely incredible talent. Just so perfectly rounded to get wickets in all conditions. I fully expect him to eventually settle into the low 20s bowling averages, because .... that's just what happens, even to the best.
I said earlier in thread that I suspected he might be the least effective of our 3 seamers on this tour due to lack of bounce. But he was superb on that Kanpur sponge.
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Waqar Younis was another interesting one.
After 5 test he only had 10 wickets at an average of 46.10.
But by 10 tests he had 53 wickets at an average of 18.54.The longest he could keep that average below 20 was 35 tests, 194 wickets, average 19.72
Final career stats were 373 wickets at 23.56.
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@rapido Steyn is another interesting progression.
After 10 matches he had 38 wickets at 32.58 but by 20 matches had 100 wickets at 22. Consistently kept his avg around that 22 for another 73 matches and 339 wickets! Avg ranged from 21.42 to 23.99. That's amazing consistency
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@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
Paddles average from about 1980 onwards must have been exceptional given he was ( relatively speaking ) a bit of a tear away early in his career.
If that was a guess it's fairly bang on.
It was 1980 and 26 matches before he dipped his avg into the 20s and stayed there. From that point he just slowly brought that avg down. Mainly by being more accurate as his economy rate followed his avg going from mid 3 an over to mid 2.
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@crucial said in NZ tour of India:
@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
Paddles average from about 1980 onwards must have been exceptional given he was ( relatively speaking ) a bit of a tear away early in his career.
If that was a guess it's fairly bang on.
It was 1980 and 26 matches before he dipped his avg into the 20s and stayed there. From that point he just slowly brought that avg down. Mainly by being more accurate as his economy rate followed his avg going from mid 3 an over to mid 2.
Same wickets at same rate for less runsFrom 1980 onwards.
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@rapido said in NZ tour of India:
@crucial said in NZ tour of India:
@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
Paddles average from about 1980 onwards must have been exceptional given he was ( relatively speaking ) a bit of a tear away early in his career.
If that was a guess it's fairly bang on.
It was 1980 and 26 matches before he dipped his avg into the 20s and stayed there. From that point he just slowly brought that avg down. Mainly by being more accurate as his economy rate followed his avg going from mid 3 an over to mid 2.
Same wickets at same rate for less runsFrom 1980 onwards.
60 matches, 324 wickets, average 19.70That's some fine numbers but I guess he had to learn some early lessons to become that bowler.
Impressive thing is that once he got it he was pretty consistent and didn't slip away.
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@crucial said in NZ tour of India:
@rapido said in NZ tour of India:
@crucial said in NZ tour of India:
@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
Paddles average from about 1980 onwards must have been exceptional given he was ( relatively speaking ) a bit of a tear away early in his career.
If that was a guess it's fairly bang on.
It was 1980 and 26 matches before he dipped his avg into the 20s and stayed there. From that point he just slowly brought that avg down. Mainly by being more accurate as his economy rate followed his avg going from mid 3 an over to mid 2.
Same wickets at same rate for less runsFrom 1980 onwards.
60 matches, 324 wickets, average 19.70That's some fine numbers but I guess he had to learn some early lessons to become that bowler.
Impressive thing is that once he got it he was pretty consistent and didn't slip away.
Yeah, 1978 was probably the threshold year for him. That was also when he signed for Notts.
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It took Hadlee from 1973 until 1976 to become a permanent feature of the side, via this 7-23 and 11 wicket haul: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-tour-of-new-zealand-1975-76-62323/new-zealand-vs-india-3rd-test-63158/full-scorecard
From a fairly vague memory of one of his books, the gist was
- He (or others) felt he was lucky to be selected (ahead of Hedley Howarth, who may have been 12th man?)
- He was only picked to bowl second change... but made the most of it, and the rest began to follow
Notts and professionalism also made a big difference for R J Hadlee.
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@donsteppa said in NZ tour of India:
It took Hadlee from 1973 until 1976 to become a permanent feature of the side, via this 7-23 and 11 wicket haul: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-tour-of-new-zealand-1975-76-62323/new-zealand-vs-india-3rd-test-63158/full-scorecard
From a fairly vague memory of one of his books, the gist was
- He (or others) felt he was lucky to be selected (ahead of Hedley Howarth, who may have been 12th man?)
- He was only picked to bowl second change... but made the most of it, and the rest began to follow
Notts and professionalism also made a big difference for R J Hadlee.
100%. If it wasn’t for that he’d just be remembered as a pretty good player, not our GOAT. ( disclaimer: will reassess when KW retires )
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@donsteppa said in NZ tour of India:
Last week the team wasn't announced until after the toss.
Righto. I predict unchanged apart from Wags for Somerville then.
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@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
@donsteppa said in NZ tour of India:
It took Hadlee from 1973 until 1976 to become a permanent feature of the side, via this 7-23 and 11 wicket haul: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-tour-of-new-zealand-1975-76-62323/new-zealand-vs-india-3rd-test-63158/full-scorecard
From a fairly vague memory of one of his books, the gist was
- He (or others) felt he was lucky to be selected (ahead of Hedley Howarth, who may have been 12th man?)
- He was only picked to bowl second change... but made the most of it, and the rest began to follow
Notts and professionalism also made a big difference for R J Hadlee.
100%. If it wasn’t for that he’d just be remembered as a pretty good player, not our GOAT. ( disclaimer: will reassess when KW retires )
It's an interesting question - what does a batsman have to achieve to equal or surpass Hadlee as NZ's GOAT cricketer.
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@godder said in NZ tour of India:
@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
@donsteppa said in NZ tour of India:
It took Hadlee from 1973 until 1976 to become a permanent feature of the side, via this 7-23 and 11 wicket haul: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-tour-of-new-zealand-1975-76-62323/new-zealand-vs-india-3rd-test-63158/full-scorecard
From a fairly vague memory of one of his books, the gist was
- He (or others) felt he was lucky to be selected (ahead of Hedley Howarth, who may have been 12th man?)
- He was only picked to bowl second change... but made the most of it, and the rest began to follow
Notts and professionalism also made a big difference for R J Hadlee.
100%. If it wasn’t for that he’d just be remembered as a pretty good player, not our GOAT. ( disclaimer: will reassess when KW retires )
It's an interesting question - what does a batsman have to achieve to equal or surpass Hadlee as NZ's GOAT cricketer.
be the dominant batsman in the world for an extended period of time.
perform home and away.
dominate the Australians.
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@arhs said in NZ tour of India:
Does Mitchell come in for one of the middle order as well as Wags in?
Interesting idea, should be more in for the seamers for sure, if Mitchell was to be included Im guessing Mr Rahul-Sachin is the one that misses out, Im thinking likely only one change however I am not a selector.
I would have never left Wags out of the last test, so who knows what they are thinking.
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@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
@donsteppa said in NZ tour of India:
Last week the team wasn't announced until after the toss.
Righto. I predict unchanged apart from Wags for Somerville then.
Odds on - I reckon!
