NZ Super Smash 20/20
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@booboo said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:
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@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:
Watching the Kings for the first time in a while. Foulkes is an interesting bowler. I haven't seen inswing like that since, jeez, Lance Cairns? He looks very awkward for the batters. I hear he can hold a bat too.
You have to admire a guy like Cairns for having the legacy he does when he averaged 16 with the bat.
All about the MCG knock that legend status.
Big, but not only factor. Others include (but not limited to):
- Couple of big hits in THAT Eden Park ODI
- hitting it over the stand at Carisbrook
Yep that one at Carisbrook was pretty big.A Lance flick was all it was.
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Lance Cairns hit 59% of all the 6s hit by New Zealanders in internationals during the span of his career.
(although cricinfo's records are incomplete, some games boundaries haven't been retained in the uploaded scorecards).
He hit 69 known sixes of the known 117 known sixes NZers hit in tests and ODIs during his time.Or, another way ...
- Nzers batted 1963 times for 177 sixes
- Cairns batted 130 times for 69 sixes
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@Rapido said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:
Lance Cairns hit 59% of all the 6s hit by New Zealanders in internationals during the span of his career.
(although cricinfo's records are incomplete, some games boundaries haven't been retained in the uploaded scorecards).
He hit 69 known sixes of the known 117 known sixes NZers hit in tests and ODIs during his time.Or, another way ...
- Nzers batted 1963 times for 177 sixes
- Cairns batted 130 times for 69 sixes
Also the boundaries were way longer and you had to clear the fence that marked the boundary for the full six runs to be scored, hitting the fence on the full only counted for four. The bats he used would not have had the benefit of the minute computer design analysis todays slabs of willow are given to ensure they were optimal for six hitting. It is not uncommon to see mishits and thick top edges going for six these days.
Batting records | Combined Test, ODI and T20I records | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com
