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<p>There are 7 players from India or Pakistan who have batted in a minimum of 75 innings with an average of over 50. 4 are from Pakistan</p>
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<p>There are 25 players from India or Pakistan who have batted in a minimum of 75 innings with an average of over 40. 10 are from Pakistan</p>
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<p>There are 11 pace bowlers from India or Pakistan who have taken at least 50 wickets with an average of under 30. 1 (Kapil) is from India - and he has the worst average</p>
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<p>There are 20 pace bowlers from India or Pakistan who have taken at least 50 wickets with an average of under 35. 5 (Kapil, Srinath, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Karsan Ghavri) are from India</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="dogmeat" data-cid="551419" data-time="1452217333"><p>There are 7 players from India or Pakistan who have batted in a minimum of 75 innings with an average of over 50. 4 are from Pakistan<br>
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There are 25 players from India or Pakistan who have batted in a minimum of 75 innings with an average of over 40. 10 are from Pakistan<br>
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There are 11 pace bowlers from India or Pakistan who have taken at least 50 wickets with an average of under 30. 1 (Kapil) is from India - and he has the worst average<br>
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There are 20 pace bowlers from India or Pakistan who have taken at least 50 wickets with an average of under 35. 5 (Kapil, Srinath, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Karsan Ghavri) are from India</p></blockquote>
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Well those stats back up my bowling argument but surprised at the batting one, off the top of my head the Indian batsmen would be Gavaskar, Tendulkar and Dravid for India and Miandad.....and......shit can't guess the other three Pakistanis... -
<p>off the top of my head, Younis Khan and Mohammed Yousef would be in there, and what about fat old Inzie?</p>
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off the top of my head, Younis Khan and Mohammed Yousef would be in there, and what about fat old Inzie?</p></blockquote>
Nope, Mr spud head only managed 49.60.<br><br>
Just read a link on Joe Root, in England's entire history only seven blokes have averaged over 50........Shit I woulda thought it'd be more than that.<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/959395.html">http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/959395.html</a><br><br>
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<p>Now you've made me use Cricinfo</p>
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<p>And it tells me the following Pakistani bat's man have played more than 75 innings and average more than 50</p>
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<p>Younis Khan - 53.94</p>
<p>Javed Miandad - 52.57</p>
<p>Mohammade Yousef - 52.29</p>
<p>Inzamam-ul-Haq - 50.16</p>
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<p>on England, i assume you mean "... and played more than 50 test innings"</p>
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<p>The number isn't high, but the names are some of the greatest in test history.</p>
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<p>They also have an awful lot in the very late 40s</p>
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<p>It doesn't surprise me that much actually. England weren't much chop for a long time in the batting era, and even then they didn't have stand-out test batsmen, but a lot of very good guys who are in the really late 40s.</p>
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<p>Australia, who fucking dominated much of the "batting" era, only have 9 guys to play 50 innings and average over 50, and 2 are still playing. </p> -
I see what's happened. For Pakistan, yes you are right about lard boy.....<br><br>
But one shit match for ICC brought the average below 50......<br><br>
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Off the top of my head for other countries I'd say.....( with no cricinfo cheating ) <br><br>
Oz: Bradman, Border, G Chappell, S Waugh, M Hayden, Ponting, Clarke, Hussey....( probably a few more )<br><br>
WI: Lara, Sobers, Richards, Worrall, Weekes, Walcott, Chanderpaul, Headley<br><br>
Zimbabwe: Flower<br><br>
SL: Sangakara<br><br>
SA: Kallis, Amla<br><br>
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<p>For Aus Clarke didn't get there, but Smith and Warner are both in. </p>
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<p>Who the fuck is Headley? Worrall didn't get there</p>
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Dude, hand on heart that was totally off the top of my head like I said. Pretty happy with my awesome level of cricket nerdness. <br><br>
This joker.....career was too short to qualify.....get a load of that fucken first class average though. <br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/52050.html">http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/52050.html</a><br><br>
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<p>cracking record! </p>
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<p>While i was looking at this stuff, it showed how fucking good Bradman's numbers are. He played 52 tests, batted 80 times, and scored 7,000 runs. What was the 1930s equivalent of PEDs?</p> -
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<p>cracking record! </p>
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<p>While i was looking at this stuff, it showed how fucking good Bradman's numbers are. He played 52 tests, batted 80 times, and scored 7,000 runs. What was the 1930s equivalent of PEDs?</p>
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cracking record! <br><br>
While i was looking at this stuff, it showed how fucking good Bradman's numbers are. He played 52 tests, batted 80 times, and scored 7,000 runs. What was the 1930s equivalent of PEDs?</p></blockquote>
Without a word of a lie I truly believe the Rugby equivalent of Bradman would be a guy who plays like Richie McCaw with the added bonus of getting wide and playing like Jonah at the next phase. <br><br>
I still wonder if he wasn't actually real and was made up, how can anyone have dominated the game like that? The thread a few years back on here comparing Tendulkar to him was laughable, I'd argue ST was not even the best of his generation let alone being compared to 'The Don'<br><br>
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<p>It's called the war. Take out 3/4 of the good cricketers who were killed in WW2 and suddenly, his record doesn't seem that great.... :fishing:</p>
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<p>I said that to an aussie mate once, he dead seat punched me in the head. We are sitll good mates to this day, and he confesses it's the greatest wind-up he's ever heard. I'm not convinced he's 100% over it, and it was over 10 years ago.</p> -
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I said that to an aussie mate once, he dead seat punched me in the head. We are sitll good mates to this day, and he confesses it's the greatest wind-up he's ever heard. I'm not convinced he's 100% over it, and it was over 10 years ago.</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="551444" data-time="1452230393"><p>cracking record! <br><br>
While i was looking at this stuff, it showed how fucking good Bradman's numbers are. He played 52 tests, batted 80 times, and scored 7,000 runs. What was the 1930s equivalent of PEDs?</p></blockquote>
6,996 runs to be pedantic, hence the shit 99.94 average.<br><br>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Virgil" data-cid="551506" data-time="1452286556"><p>6,996 runs to be pedantic, hence the shit 99.94 average.<br>
Clearly a choker too.</p></blockquote>
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Next best is 60. How many guys finish a long career averaging 60?<br><br>
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<p>10 - 20 tests is far too small of a career to gauge how good someone is. Lots of batsmen in the more modern era have started off with a rush of runs and had massive figures early on.</p>
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If Voges was to quit now would he be regarded as a great?</p></blockquote>
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I doubt it. People would point out how many he got against probably the worst Windies side ever. The bloke with the 60 average is Herbert Sutcliffe and his opening partner ( who experts consider a much better player in Jack Hobbs ) averaged 56. That woulda been rather daunting. -
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<p>I doubt it. People would point out how many he got against probably the worst Windies side ever. The bloke with the 60 average is Herbert Sutcliffe and his opening partner ( who experts consider a much better player in Jack Hobbs ) averaged 56. That woulda been rather daunting.</p>
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<p>Sutcliffe is a whole different matter, outstanding first class record, and formed one of the greatest opening partnerships of all time with Hobbs.</p> -
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Without a word of a lie I truly believe the Rugby equivalent of Bradman would be a guy who plays like Richie McCaw with the added bonus of getting wide and playing like Jonah at the next phase. <br><br>
I still wonder if he wasn't actually real and was made up, how can anyone have dominated the game like that? The thread a few years back on here comparing Tendulkar to him was laughable, I'd argue ST was not even the best of his generation let alone being compared to 'The Don'<br><br>
You have to feel for a guy like Walter Hammond who played in the same era and who, whilst rightly regarded as one of the best of all time, averaged FORTY ONE less than he did!!!!</p></blockquote>
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I remember that thread! Laughable doesn't begin to describe it. Check out the Roar thread about the same topic. Headley was cited as "evidence" that Bradman wasn't exceptional for his time. The fact that Bradman's test average was still 30 fooking runs better than Headleys first class average didn't seem to register. -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Rancid Schnitzel" data-cid="551546" data-time="1452307096"><p>I remember that thread! Laughable doesn't begin to describe it. Check out the Roar thread about the same topic. Headley was cited as "evidence" that Bradman wasn't exceptional for his time. The fact that Bradman's test average was still 30 fooking runs better than Headleys first class average didn't seem to register.</p></blockquote>
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Arguements could be made for Lara and Kallis from Tendulkars era alone let alone other eras. There were also any number of fine batsmen like Ponting, Hayden, Dravid, S Waugh, Chanderpaul etc who Tendulkar was better than but shit, not exactly much in it. <br><br>
We have a bit of a laugh on here about 50 being the new 40 but all that being said even in a batting friendly era a 50 average is still a fucken excellent effort as illustrated by the fact not a hell of a lot of guys have done it. -
And it's still 49 less than that fellow Bradman
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Its a schoolboy team. I mean sure, they are not as sexy as I like to picture 12-15 year olds.. but still.</p></blockquote>
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<p>This story just gets better. The field had 27 m boundaries - that makes Eden Park look big! :mocking:</p>
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<p>For Aus Clarke didn't get there, but Smith and Warner are both in. </p>
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<p>Who the fuck is Headley? Worrall didn't get there</p>
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<p>Headley was the "West Indian Bradman". Pre-war he averaged close to 70 with 10 hundreds in 19 matches, he was already nearly 40 when he came back for 3 more matches after the war. Headley and Constantine were the pre-war West Indian stars that launched the post-war stars like the 3 W's, Ramadhin and Valentine, Sobers, Kanhai, Hall, Gibbs etc etc.</p> -
Who the fuck doesn't know who George Headley is?<br>
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<p>This story just gets better. The field had 27 m boundaries - that makes Eden Park look big! :mocking:</p>
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<p>Mid 1990's we used to joke about players soon "being able to block it for 6" with the new flash ($500+) bats that were starting to appear in the sport shops, but in this instance...</p> -
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Who the fuck doesn't know who George Headley is?<br>
It's like you didn't read those amazing fat little yellow cricket bibles for hours on end.</p></blockquote>
A collection of Wisdens at the Bach we were staying kept me amused for hours on end during a family holiday in Waikanae in the early 90s when it fucken hosed down the whole time. Happily enough last time I went there they were still there and I had a flick through, fucken outstanding reading. Vivid memories involved reading about a heavily moustached Graham Gooch and a heavily mulletted Mark Waugh plundering county attacks for Essex. That was when the elder Waugh had a pretty middle of the road test average and MW was starting out. I boldly predicted 'Afghanistan' would get the outstanding record of the two, how wrong I was although 8000 odd runs at 42 is still very good. -
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<p>A collection of Wisdens at the Bach we were staying kept me amused for hours on end during a family holiday in Waikanae in the late 80s when it fucken hosed down the whole time. Happily enough last time I went there they were still there and I had a flick through, fucken outstanding reading.</p>
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<p>I've got most of them since 1946 ...... don't refer to them so often now you can find any scorecard online but they are always good for a browse. Also I started acquiring them before they became known as having value - once picked up the 1951 for 2p in a charity shop in England - the Ramadhin and Valentine series.</p>
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Well with Cricinfo being what it is they're pretty much redundant now but they served their purpose. The articles were always well written and genuinely conjured up images of quaint county grounds, people sipping lemonade with hankies on their heads.....which all sounds kinda gay when written down haha.
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<p>A collection of Wisdens at the <strong>Bach</strong> we were staying kept me amused for hours on end during a family holiday in Waikanae in the early 90s when it fucken hosed down the whole time. Happily enough last time I went there they were still there and I had a flick through, fucken outstanding reading. Vivid memories involved reading about a heavily moustached Graham Gooch and a heavily mulletted Mark Waugh plundering county attacks for Essex. That was when the elder Waugh had a pretty middle of the road test average and MW was starting out. I boldly predicted 'Afghanistan' would get the outstanding record of the two, how wrong I was although 8000 odd runs at 42 is still very good.</p>
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<p>world record by Indian cricketer.</p>
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<p>I've got most of them since 1946 ...... don't refer to them so often now you can find any scorecard online but they are always good for a browse. Also I started acquiring them before they became known as having value - once picked up the 1951 for 2p in a charity shop in England - the Ramadhin and Valentine series.</p>
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<p>Do you get the NZ Cricket Almanack as well, Kiwipie?</p> -
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<p>Do you get the NZ Cricket Almanack as well, Kiwipie?</p>
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<p>I don't collect them as such but I do have a few from assorted years. Bookcase is already full of yellow, wouldn't be able to fit in the NZ ones as well!</p> -
<p>Detailed story on the "world record".</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/pictures-tell-a-1000-runs-25-chances-10-year-old-pacers-30-yard-boundaries/'>http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/pictures-tell-a-1000-runs-25-chances-10-year-old-pacers-30-yard-boundaries/</a></p>
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<p><img src="http://images.indianexpress.com/2016/01/ground.jpg" alt="ground.jpg"></p>
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<p>22 missed catches and 3 missed stumpings - one of those days ....</p>