New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time
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@mariner4life said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Cyclops said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Crucial said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
KW up to nuber 2 in the latest test batsman rankings. Probably a good chance to try and compare some of those arguments about where this side really sits.
Raval (33)
Latham (11)
Williamson (2)
Taylor (24)
Nicholls (7)
Wagner (133)
Watling (31)
CDG (60)India with 1 and 3 and SA with 8,9,10 are they only other team with more than one current players in the top 10 (Smith and Warner don't count)
Boult (8)
Southee(9)
Wagner (11)
CDG (47)
Astle (104)Tim Southee and Colin de Grandhomme also rank 10 and 15 respectively on the all-rounder rankings (although Pat Cummins is 6 and Mitchell Starc 9 so I'm a bit dubious about what they measure exactly).
I would say on recent evidence Pat Cummins is a genuine all-rounder. A gun with the ball who is more than handy with the bat. At times over the summer he looked the most at ease against the Indian attack.
If Cummins is then so is Kane. Cummins is a handy batsman but well short of the standard needed to be a genuine all-rounder. He's the bowling equivalent of a part timer.
Just to add, that's not meant as a criticism of Cummins who is a fantastic player.
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@Cyclops said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@mariner4life said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Cyclops said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Crucial said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
KW up to nuber 2 in the latest test batsman rankings. Probably a good chance to try and compare some of those arguments about where this side really sits.
Raval (33)
Latham (11)
Williamson (2)
Taylor (24)
Nicholls (7)
Wagner (133)
Watling (31)
CDG (60)India with 1 and 3 and SA with 8,9,10 are they only other team with more than one current players in the top 10 (Smith and Warner don't count)
Boult (8)
Southee(9)
Wagner (11)
CDG (47)
Astle (104)Tim Southee and Colin de Grandhomme also rank 10 and 15 respectively on the all-rounder rankings (although Pat Cummins is 6 and Mitchell Starc 9 so I'm a bit dubious about what they measure exactly).
I would say on recent evidence Pat Cummins is a genuine all-rounder. A gun with the ball who is more than handy with the bat. At times over the summer he looked the most at ease against the Indian attack.
If Cummins is then so is Kane. Cummins is a handy batsman but well short of the standard needed to be a genuine all-rounder. He's the bowling equivalent of a part timer.
Just to add, that's not meant as a criticism of Cummins who is a fantastic player.
fair enough, a quick squiz at his record shows my impression is a little higher than his stats back up. Probably needs to improve his average by 8 runs to really qualify.
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@Cyclops said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
If Cummins is then so is Kane. Cummins is a handy batsman but well short of the standard needed to be a genuine all-rounder. He's the bowling equivalent of a part timer.
Just to add, that's not meant as a criticism of Cummins who is a fantastic player.
This is how they measure it:
To obtain the index, simply take the player's batting and bowling points, multiply them together and divide by 1000. So a player with 800 batting and 0 bowling gets an index of zero (because he can't bowl and therefore isn't an all-rounder!), 600 batting/200 bowling gets a rating of 120, and 400 batting/400 bowling points gets a rating of 160. An index of 300 plus is world class.
The bowling rankings are more skewed towards specialists with a bigger drop off in points to the non specialists
Cummins is the 93rd batsman and has 360 batting points
Williamson is the 84th bowler with 129 bowling pointsThe ~90th batsman will still bat twice in most Test matches. The ~90th bowler won't bowl that often so won't accumulate points.
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@Duluth said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Cyclops said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
If Cummins is then so is Kane. Cummins is a handy batsman but well short of the standard needed to be a genuine all-rounder. He's the bowling equivalent of a part timer.
Just to add, that's not meant as a criticism of Cummins who is a fantastic player.
This is how they measure it:
To obtain the index, simply take the player's batting and bowling points, multiply them together and divide by 1000. So a player with 800 batting and 0 bowling gets an index of zero (because he can't bowl and therefore isn't an all-rounder!), 600 batting/200 bowling gets a rating of 120, and 400 batting/400 bowling points gets a rating of 160. An index of 300 plus is world class.
The bowling rankings are more skewed towards specialists with a bigger drop off in points to the non specialists
Cummins is the 93rd batsman and has 360 batting points
Williamson is the 84th bowler with 129 bowling pointsThe ~90th batsman will still bat twice in most Test matches. The ~90th bowler won't bowl that often so won't accumulate points.
So kind of the opposite of the batting average - bowling average lists we were all looking at a week or two ago.
So really you need to adjust the scores to reflect the respective availability of each discipline. Maybe divide batting score by 11 and bowling score by 6 before multiplication to reflect that.
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@Cyclops said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
So really you need to adjust the scores to reflect the respective availability of each discipline. Maybe divide batting score by 11 and bowling score by 6 before multiplication to reflect that.
Weighting the bowling higher might get a similar result. Yes, someone like Kane's bowling would get a boost but so would Cummins bowling
It's more about the different distribution of points in the two disciplines
I think you're screwed trying to come up with any index for all-rounder
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@mariner4life said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Cyclops said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@mariner4life said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Cyclops said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Crucial said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
KW up to nuber 2 in the latest test batsman rankings. Probably a good chance to try and compare some of those arguments about where this side really sits.
Raval (33)
Latham (11)
Williamson (2)
Taylor (24)
Nicholls (7)
Wagner (133)
Watling (31)
CDG (60)India with 1 and 3 and SA with 8,9,10 are they only other team with more than one current players in the top 10 (Smith and Warner don't count)
Boult (8)
Southee(9)
Wagner (11)
CDG (47)
Astle (104)Tim Southee and Colin de Grandhomme also rank 10 and 15 respectively on the all-rounder rankings (although Pat Cummins is 6 and Mitchell Starc 9 so I'm a bit dubious about what they measure exactly).
I would say on recent evidence Pat Cummins is a genuine all-rounder. A gun with the ball who is more than handy with the bat. At times over the summer he looked the most at ease against the Indian attack.
If Cummins is then so is Kane. Cummins is a handy batsman but well short of the standard needed to be a genuine all-rounder. He's the bowling equivalent of a part timer.
Just to add, that's not meant as a criticism of Cummins who is a fantastic player.
fair enough, a quick squiz at his record shows my impression is a little higher than his stats back up. Probably needs to improve his average by 8 runs to really qualify.
Your impression is correct.
Cummins' recent batting is good and is getting better. He looked technically the second best Australian batsman in the Indian series.
Where as the comparison with Kane is of someone who's second discipline is recently bad and getting worse (post chucking).
Cummins currently bats 8 for his team and will nudge his batting average up close to 30 by the end of his career.
There are only 10 test test teams, and most have only 1 all rounder, if people look too far down the allrounder list you will see some strange shit.
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@Rapido said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@mariner4life said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Cyclops said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@mariner4life said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Cyclops said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
@Crucial said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
KW up to nuber 2 in the latest test batsman rankings. Probably a good chance to try and compare some of those arguments about where this side really sits.
Raval (33)
Latham (11)
Williamson (2)
Taylor (24)
Nicholls (7)
Wagner (133)
Watling (31)
CDG (60)India with 1 and 3 and SA with 8,9,10 are they only other team with more than one current players in the top 10 (Smith and Warner don't count)
Boult (8)
Southee(9)
Wagner (11)
CDG (47)
Astle (104)Tim Southee and Colin de Grandhomme also rank 10 and 15 respectively on the all-rounder rankings (although Pat Cummins is 6 and Mitchell Starc 9 so I'm a bit dubious about what they measure exactly).
I would say on recent evidence Pat Cummins is a genuine all-rounder. A gun with the ball who is more than handy with the bat. At times over the summer he looked the most at ease against the Indian attack.
If Cummins is then so is Kane. Cummins is a handy batsman but well short of the standard needed to be a genuine all-rounder. He's the bowling equivalent of a part timer.
Just to add, that's not meant as a criticism of Cummins who is a fantastic player.
fair enough, a quick squiz at his record shows my impression is a little higher than his stats back up. Probably needs to improve his average by 8 runs to really qualify.
Your impression is correct.
Cummins' recent batting is good and is getting better. He looked technically the second best Australian batsman in the Indian series.
Where as the comparison with Kane is of someone who's second discipline is recently bad and getting worse (post chucking).
Cummins currently bats 8 for his team and will nudge his batting average up close to 30 by the end of his career.
There are only 10 test test teams, and most have only 1 all rounder, if people look too far down the allrounder list you will see some strange shit.
38 is probably still too high for Mitch Marsh
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Active allrounders in test cricket currently, with enough matches to rank
Only about 7 or 8 of them.
Shakib
Ashwin
Jadeja
Stokes
Holder
CdG
Ali
and yes, cough, Mitch Marsh
SantnerAfter that you're getting into bowlers who can bat and batters who can bowl.
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@Rapido said in New Zealand rise to No. 2 in Test rankings for the first time:
Active allrounders in test cricket currently, with enough matches to rank
Only about 7 or 8 of them.
Shakib
Ashwin
Jadeja
Stokes
Holder
CdG
Ali
and yes, cough, Mitch Marsh
SantnerAfter that you're getting into bowlers who can bat and batters who can bowl.
His stats are ok especially considering the loose use of the term 'all rounder' but he has yet to register a single Michelle or hundy at test level.
I'm quite triggered by this.
