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Maffy's Man Marks - 1st Test: England vs India
Welcome to a new, deeply thoughtful, potentially erotic and effervescently (I just learnt that word, fuck you) exciting new take on player performances, brought to you by your favourite armchair critic and occasional shitposter, me.
After each of the England versus India games I'll be posting a quick breakdown of each England player's performance, and rating them out of ten. You may think "hold on Maffy, this sounds suspiciously similar to basically every other player rating thread ever... Like, the exact same. In fact who even are you? Didn't you do my nan's guttering last week?". Well that's where you are wrong ladies and genitalmen, because those other threads don't have my boyish charm and self deprecating humour. Though, I potentially did your nan's guttering last week, dependent on where she lives.
So if you've made it this far you probably DO want to hear my ratings. Or in fact you've decided you want to read to the end to make sure it wasn't just a meme. Well, it isn't. It's pure as Arctic snow and it's right here, right now. Get ready for the majesty of Maffy's Man Marks, episode 1.
A note before we begin:
A lot of the comments have been centered around me giving Joe a 9, and not a 9.5 or 10. The reason is thus:
1) Every rating defines, based on a universe of outcomes, how close to the greatest innings of all time (10) that player's performance was. Not "how good they did based on what they could achieve", how close to perfect they were.
2) It is a transitive rating system. Transitivity is a fundamental axiom of numbers, which means if A>B, and B>C, then A>C. It follows for equality too, A=B, B=C, then A=C.
3) To assert that Joe got a 10 would mean I had to concede that his performance was as good as any in history, which in my opinion is false. His performance was not as good as Laxman's 281, arguably the greatest test innings ever along with a few others... And even then, someone could beat those.
4) So, how can I maintain transitivity and give him a 10? A 10 is not "really really good", a 9 is "really really good", which is what Joe got.
So if you think he "deserved a 10" then fair enough, sure... But you aren't using transitivity in that case, and if you're gonna argue with me about it then you're arguing using different rules... Which is just a waste of everyone's time.
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Rory Burns aka Captain Jack Sparrow - 5.5
Despite his arguably disastrous hair he came out in fine form on day 1, playing some lovely deft touches that we all now associate with this pleasing moustachio'd man from Epsom. Though, on about 30 he decided against all sanity and reason, with the team on 70 and cruising towards an excellent opening stand to play a reverse swoosh. Stupid shot to end a great return to the team. He took a couple catches, and then got a good ball in the second innings, but we got a fun new statistic out of his wicket so who cares.
Dom Fridgely - 8
The man who people were calling to be dropped only 3 innings into a 6 test winter season has bounced back healthily in his last two games, reminding us all of the tremendous white good he is and that he can absorb pressure better than a competition-standard trampoline under the invitees of a fat kid's 8th birthday party. He played some great shots, and built the platform England subsequently stormed away on. Second innings again, like Rory he fell to a good ball but luckily bought himself plenty of goodwill with his first innings showing.
Dan Lawrence - 4
Unfortunately for Dan, who subbed in at the last minute after Zak Crawley apparently sat down too fast into his armchair, the momentum shattering his wrist on impact (bear in mind he was around 7 and a half feet in the air given he was stood up), he had a very quiet showing. Not a single catch and only 18 runs, with both dismissals alarmingly similar to each other - falling over the inswinger. Hopefully if he doesn't go well next game (assuming Crawley comes back in at 3 for the 3rd test) it won't damage his confidence too much, though if it does he won't be any different to the other 300 batsman we've tried there.
Root 66 - 9
Another double tonne, a quickfire 40 and two catches. This guy is in form that most can only dream of, and when I say that I mean literally because the majority of England fans will have slept through the bulk of his runscoring. They will genuinely have been asleep, cuddling up to teddy dreaming of Joe Root's wonderful form and his glimmering blue eyes... So shiny.
Stokesy - 8
Resident ginger Ben Stokes played a superb hand in this game - a brutal first innings which ended about 50 shy of what I would have liked, backed up by England's most economical figures in the first innings, as well as three catches and the all important wicket of Virat in the second innings, who looked justifiably annoyed at getting out to a bloke who probably argues with Taxi drivers if, after saying "anywhere here will do mate", the price of the fare goes up 20p as they pull in.
Ollie Pope (OP) - 6.5
A so-so return to the team for Ollie Pollie, who looked very scratchy in his first innings. He found fluency in the second, though like Rory decided getting out was definitely the best way of securing runs for his team, and decided to execute said strategy post-haste. Maybe 6.5 is a bit harsh given how generous I've been with the other players, but he just seemed a bit underwhelming given how talented we know he actually is. No problem, I'm sure he'll have a good showing at some point in this series. I really want him to average well over 40 in his test career, so let's get hustling on those numbers, OP (hey that's me too!).
JosButtler TM - 7
A good ship-steadying role in both innings played by one of the most destructive batsmen in world cricket. He kept nicely, and overall can leave this winter sequence of tours with his head held high. He will be, we hope, replaced by Lord Foakes who is inevitably going to suck given all the hype we keep pumping him with, but overall Buttler can be pleased with his performance I'd say. His wicket in the second innings looked a little reckless but he was clearly getting frustrated, and in reality was just soaking up deliveries so did the right thing trying to send Nadeem into the stands.
Dom "the Bess of all time" Bess - 8
How long before Bessy is referred to as a bowling all-rounder by the way? He looks very comfortable bat-in hand, and scored some gutsy runs in both innings, backed up by 4 wickets in the first half of the game and the wicket of the irritatingly good Washington Sundar in the second. He also now plays for Yorkshire, which naturally gives him a +0.5 to his rating, and anyone that doesn't like that can just fuck off.
Jof - 7
Decent game for Jof, picking up Sharma and Gill early in the first innings with some economical bowling throughout. He didn't look massively threatening in the second innings, though in his defence this is not his kind of wicket at all and he worked hard with what he had. His batting continues to entertain though, a guy with a first class average of 24 and 6 fifties who in test matches literally looks like the bat weighs 14 stone and his feet have been glued to the track using industrial-strength grouting adhesive.
"The Nut" Jack Leach - 7.5
Leachy with a soul-crushing pounding from Pant in the first innings bounced back to dismiss Sharma, Pujara, Ashwin and Nadeem, giving everyone a reminder of his capabilities both physically with ball-in-hand and mentally. A lovely little cameo in the first innings also gave Bess the support to add on some healthy runs. He seems to improve every innings, and I hope he gets a good run in the squad.
OOOOOOOH JIMMY JIMMY Anderson - 8
The guy is 38 and just bowled one of the best overs I've ever seen, splattering the dangerously in-form Shubman Gill, and scuppering Rahane who can be annoyingly resilient given the chance (though, not currently if you ask Indian fans). Going at 1.5 an over with 3 wickets in the second innings, and 17 overs backed by 2 wickets and 5 maidens in the first innings, Jimmy is just an icon of the modern game and I will get his face tattooed on my balls when he retires. If you don't believe me, fight me.
That's all folks. I would also do India's but I truly, truly don't care about them. No, I joke - but it is a lot of effort and I feel like by the time people reach the end of this alone they will be bored already and tired of my essentially recycling-quality witticisms. For the next edition, if there is demand, I'll do India too.
Well, thank you for stopping by and have a good day all you pomms, bhenchods, betichods, cunts, kiwis, braifolk, members of the Caribbean collective, Bangbros and anyone I've missed. Love and peace, and as always...
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Unusual Bowling Feats (Part Three)
Welcome to the final part of this series! Don't forget to read Parts
One and
Two first!
No-Balls
Remember how Virat Kohli took a wicket with his zeroth ball in T20Is? Has there ever been a situation in which a bowler has finished an innings with figures of 0-0-1-1? Unfortunately, no. It's possible, however, with the most likely circumstance being that a bowler dismisses the No. 11 with a legside stumping. Theoretically, a bowler could finish with
career figures of 0-0-1-1, which would give them a strike rate of 0; now that would be truly unusual!
Nonetheless, the question remains: What is more unusual than bowling one ball in an innings? Why, bowling zero balls in an innings while still conceding runs, of course! Now it is time to consider those bowlers who have bowled in an innings while still maintaining a '0' on the first column of their figures.
In Tests, this has occurred thrice. Firstly, we have Allan Lamb. During a 1986 Test against the West Indies, England were absolutely dominated, and the Windies required just five runs to win in their second innings. Desmond Haynes hit a four off of Greg Thomas' bowling in the first over, meaning that the West Indies required just one more run for victory. Utterly defeated, England sent in Allan Lamb to roll his arm, but his first delivery was a no-ball, which gave the West Indies the victory. Lamb finished with figures of 0-0-1-0. FWIW, this is often regarded as one of England's worst tours, and you can read all about it
here.
Later that same year, David Gower achieved this same feat. In the final innings of a 1986 Test between England and New Zealand, he finished with figures of 0-0-4-0. How? I'm not entirely sure, to be honest. Based on the
scorecard, he bowled one delivery (which was a no-ball) for four runs, so I presume it must have been a no-ball which was struck for three. That was apparently enough for New Zealand to win as Gower didn't bowl again after that.
More recently, we have Sri Lanka's Dhammika Prasad. The Lions toured South Africa in 2011-12, but they didn't do too well in the third Test. Prasad took 2/154 in SA's first innings at an economy rate of 5.13, and he wasn't even the worst of the Sri Lankan bowlers. The Sri Lankans batted the next two innings as they were forced to follow-on, and the Saffers were left with a target of two runs. The first delivery of the first over by Prasad was a no-ball which was hit for a single by Alviro Petersen, resulting in figures of 0-0-2-0 for Prasad.
This feat has supposedly been achieved four times in ODIs, though I have by doubts. I mean, it's being claimed by Cricinfo that Pakistan's Mansoor Akhtar ended up with innings figures of 0-0-1-0 in a 1984 ODI against the West Indies, but it's also claiming that he didn't bowl a no-ball or a wide, so where did that run come from? HowStat is instead claiming that Akhtar finished with figures of 0.1-0-1-0, which would make more sense. I think this is just a scorecard error on Cricinfo's part, like the 1*(0) I mentioned in my last post.
The first
actual case of this feat occurring in ODIs came in 2000, with the West Indies facing Zimbabwe. The Windies had managed a score of 232/7, but Zimbabwe found itself at 232/4 after 45 overs. For some bizarre reason, the West Indian captain, Jimmy Adams, chose not to bowl himself until 45 overs had passed, although considering his sole delivery was a wide which granted Zimbabwe the victory, the decision becomes a little more understandable.
The next case occurred in a 2006 ODI between Bangladesh and Kenya. Although Kenya fell for 184 in their innings, they had Bangladesh at 180/8 after 46 overs with two tailenders at the crease, so the match certainly hung in the balance. They entrusted all-rounder Collins Obuya with securing the win, but unfortunately, his first delivery of the match was a no-ball which was smacked for four, leaving him with figures of 0-0-5-0.
Now, this last one is very unusual indeed. Notice how in the previous section, the most I ever talked about was 0.1-0-6-0? Some of you may be wondering if it's theoretically possible to concede more than six runs from one ball, and the answer is yes, thanks to no-balls and wides resulting in runs being conceded despite not counting as 'balls'. However, the reason I never mentioned this was because it has never occurred in international cricket, ever. 0.1-0-7-0, 0.1-0-8-0, 0.1-0-9-0 etc. have never happened in any international innings, at least not yet. Heck, thanks to Kohli's zeroth-ball wicket, we know that even figures of 0-0-8-1 are possible (a no-ball which is hit for six, followed by a wide which dismisses the last batsman; note that this can only occur in Tests due to the 'free hit' rule in white-ball cricket). That has unfortunately never happened, but man, it'd be hilarious to see a bowler concede runs and take a wicket while still not technically bowling any balls!
Anyway, you know what the truly strange thing is? 0.1-0-8-0 has never happened, yet 0-0-8-0
has. Yes, there has been precisely one bowler in the history of international cricket who has conceded more than six runs in an innings despite not bowling a legal delivery. His name? Abdur Rehman.
It was the 2014 Asia Cup, and Pakistan were facing Bangladesh. To provide a rest to seamer Junaid Khan, Pakistan drafted in left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman to take his place. As you can tell from his bowling figures, it didn't go well. However, unless you already know about this match, Rehman's innings was even more bizarre than you may think.
Pakistan's captain Misbah-ul-Haq brought Rehman on in the eleventh over, and he began by bowling a beamer (a waist-high full toss) to Imrul Kayes (yes, a beamer from a spinner!). This resulted in a warning, of course, and nothing was thought of it. The very next delivery...another beamer. Imrul Kayes decided for whatever reason that it was worth playing at this delivery, and he ended up hitting the ball straight to deep midwicket. However, since it was a no-ball, he got away with it, and even scored a single in the process. Under ICC rules at the time, two beamers was enough for a bowler to be sent off, even a spin bowler. However, umpire Johan Cloete showed some leniency and allowed Rehman to continue.
Now, you'd think that Rehman would be more careful from here on out. After all, he had somehow managed to bowl two consecutive beamers despite being a spin bowler, and by the letter of the law, he should have been off. The fact that he was still bowling was due purely to an act of generosity from the umpire, who really should have told Misbah to replace him with another bowler. Rehman got more chances than he ought to have had, so surely, he'd thank his lucky stars and go on to bowl a fantastic spell?
Nope. His next delivery was yet another beamer, which was hit for four by Anamul Haque. The umpire clearly had enough and finally told Misbah to take Rehman out of the attack and bring someone else on; Fawad Alam bowled the rest of the over. This would be Rehman's final ODI, and it was probably the worst ever way to end his career. All-in-all, Rehman conceded one run from his first delivery, two from his second and five from his third; he had failed to bowl a single legal delivery. No other bowler in international cricket has been able to match this feat. In all honesty, I feel sorry for him; you do
not want to be known as the guy who once finished with figures of 0-0-8-0. Of course it's difficult to deny that there is something funny about the whole situation, but I can only hope that this incident hasn't affected him too badly.
Incidentally, Bangladesh scored 326/3 in their innings; Pakistan had never chased down such a large total in ODIs before and had only reached such a total in their second innings once. At one point during the chase, they were on 225/5 and required 102 runs from 52 balls to win. However, talented 15-year-old Shahid 'Boom Boom' Afridi arrived and smashed what was at the time the second-fastest fifty in ODIs (18 balls), finishing on 59(25). He probably would have made more had he not been injured during his innings, which eventually resulted in his run-out (he apparently asked the umpires for a runner before being reminded that they had since been abolished in international cricket!). Afridi is a bit of a meme nowadays, but when he was on it, he was an absolute delight to watch.
Despite Afridi's ridiculous knock, Pakistan were still left needing 33 runs from 19 balls to win, with just four wickets remaining. Fawad Alam and Umar Akmal did a fantastic job accelerating the innings, and by the final over, Pakistan required just three runs to win with Alam and Akmal still at the crease; they had put together a partnership of 30 runs from just 13 balls faced. Al-Amin Hossain was to bowl the final over with Akmal on strike, and it seemed as if Bangladesh had blown it. However, there was more drama yet to come.
First ball: A dot. 3 from 5 required. Pakistan still on top.
Second ball: Another dot. 3 from 4 now. Akmal went for a six but failed to connect. Alam reminded him that with just three required, he didn't need to take such risks.
Third ball: A single. 2 from 3, Fawad Alam on strike. Surely, Pakistan can't lose it from here, can they?
Fourth ball: WICKET! Alam run out, Umar Akmal on strike, 2 from 2 required. Alam went for the ramp shot but failed to connect properly. Pakistan were lucky that Umar Gul (the next batsman in) wasn't on strike, else Bangladesh would have been at a clear advantage going into the final two deliveries. As it stood, the match was evenly poised with Pakistan close to choking after all the hard work put in by Afridi, Alam and Akmal.
Fifth ball: FOUR! Akmal kept his nerve and slogged the penultimate delivery to the midwicket boundary, thus giving Pakistan the victory by the barest of margins. Absolute ecstasy for Pakistan; agony, agony for Bangladesh! Shahid Afridi of course received the man-of-the-match award, but damn, now I regret not watching this live! What a match!
Anyway, I don't know how surprising this fact will seem to you, but never in the history of T20I cricket has a bowler conceded runs without bowling a legal delivery, or at least they've never maintained that throughout an innings. I was sure there'd be at least one example, but apparently not. Looks like this record is still up for grabs, so be sure to keep an eye out for it!
Keeping All-Rounders
Traditionally, an all-rounder is a player who is adept with both the bat and the ball. I happen to subscribe to this narrow definition. However, in recent years, I've seen people refer to players who are good at both batting and keeping as 'all-rounders' (e.g. Adam Gilchrist), though I prefer to call them 'wicket-keeper-batsmen'. A few have even considered fielding in addition to batting or bowling, which is just pushing it too far in my opinion. With all this in mind, why are people ignoring players who are adept at both keeping and bowling?
Yes, I'm serious. There have been thirty-seven instances in Tests where the designated wicket-keeper has bowled. MS Dhoni has done it the most at seven times (good batsman, good wicket-keeper, good fielder, good captain and now good bowler; Dhoni is truly the all-round cricketer). Of course, in such cases, someone else has to take charge behind the stumps temporarily (for example, against New Zealand in 2014, Dhoni bowled himself for one over, with Kohli taking the gloves). Shockingly, in ten instances, the wicket-keeper has actually taken a wicket! If you look at wicket-keepers who have bowled in Tests, however, one name stands out above the rest.
Go back to 1884 and England are leading Australia 1-0 in the Ashes, requiring only a draw in the third Test to win the series. Back then, Tests in England were only three days long and declarations weren't allowed, so teams who wanted enough time to bowl the opposition out had to slog at everything and hope to be dismissed (obviously, this occasionally led to the bowling team not even trying to take wickets). Australia, who were on 532/6 on the second day, had no choice but to use this strategy to stand a chance at tying the series. What happened next was almost farcical.
Before that, however, I must introduce the Honourable Alfred Lyttelton. One of England's best amateur sportsmen of the Victorian era, he was adept not just at cricket but also at football, rackets (a British variant of squash), real tennis and the hammer throw; in fact, he was the first man to play both football and cricket for England. Despite his obvious talent, he considered himself more of a politician than an athlete, and retired from all sports at the age of 28 to pursue a political career (later becoming an MP and even the Colonial Secretary). At the time, most wicket-keepers didn't stand up to the stumps without a long stop in place, but Lyttelton was so talented that he went without.
Anyway, on the first day, with Australia cruising, the England captain brought on Lyttelton (who had never taken a first-class wicket at the time) to bowl military mediums which, by all accounts, were pretty terrible deliveries. On the second day, with Australia trying to get out, the captain once again brought on Lyttelton, who learned from the previous day and decided instead to bowl some underarm lobs. Amusingly, he gave his gloves to W. G. Grace (yes,
the W. G. Grace) while keeping his pads on, which must have been quite the image.
To the surprise of everyone, Lyttelton took a wicket with his first underarm delivery when the ball lodged in the wicket-keeper's gloves, though questions were asked (including by Grace) regarding whether the batsman had actually made contact. He went on to take 4/19 in the innings, easily the best bowling performance by a designated wicket-keeper in Tests (as well the best bowling performance of all the England bowlers used in that innings). He was one wicket away from being the only wicket-keeper to take a 5fer in a Test match! Those four wickets would be the only first-class wickets that Lyttelton ever took! Despite Australia enforcing the follow-on, the match ended up being a draw, with England's second innings lasting a little over an hour.
Designated wicket-keepers have bowled in ODIs eight times (taking wickets on three occasions) and in T20Is three times (Thailand's Md Shafiqul Haque being the only one of those to take a wicket, doing so in a 2019 T20I against the Maldives). That said, none of them have reached the prowess of Alfred Lyttelton, unfortunately. We still have to wait for a designated wicket-keeper to take a 5fer in international cricket.
Finally, there have been four instances in international cricket in which all eleven players have bowled in an innings, with all of these cases happening in Tests. Never before has it happened in ODIs or T20Is, so we're still waiting for that one.
The first such instance happened in 1884, in the same Test where Lyttelton took a 4fer as wicket-keeper. That's two unusual bowling feats for the price of one!
The second instance occurred in 1980, when Australia toured Pakistan. Having scored 617 in their first innings, Australia went on to bowl all eleven of their players against Pakistan. Despite this, only one Australian bowler (Geoff Dymock) took a wicket. The match ended as a draw.
The third occasion was in a 2002 Test between India and the West Indies. On a flat deck (1,142 runs were scored for the loss of just eighteen wickets), India used eleven bowlers in the West Indies' first innings to no avail. This match was most notable, however, for Anil Kumble bowling fourteen consecutive overs (and dismissing Brian Lara in the process) with a broken jaw after being struck by Merv Dillon while batting; as Cricinfo slyly notes, Kumble 'became the first bowler to dismiss Brian Lara while bowling with a broken jaw', which I suppose counts as an unusual bowling feat in itself.
The most recent instance of all eleven bowlers being used came in 2005, during the South African tour of the West Indies. As you might have guessed, this was yet another instance where the pitch was flatter than a motorway; Cricinfo writes that '[Graeme] Smith gave everyone a bowl, perhaps in an effort to stop someone wandering off to the local rum shop in search of a more interesting way of spending the final afternoon of the series'. Mark Boucher, who had never bowled in Tests before, gave the gloves to AB de Villiers and managed to dismiss Dwayne Bravo. This time, 1,462 runs were scored in the match for the loss of just seventeen wickets, and as you can imagine, numerous individual and partnership batting records were broken (not that the spectators would have been paying enough attention to notice).
You know what's sad about this whole thing? Wicket-keepers have bowled forty-eight times in international cricket, yet on only four occasions have all eleven players bowled. That means that on forty-four occasions, the wicket-keeper bowled ahead of some of the batsmen. Just how awful do you have to be at bowling that the captain would rather trust the bloody wicket-keeper with the ball over you? Granted, on some of these occasions, the captain
was the wicket-keeper, but it must be pretty embarrassing nonetheless.
Bonus
I've generally restricted myself to international cricket, but this is too hilarious not to include. What is the highest number of runs conceded in one over? 36, of course; just ask Stuart Broad. 36 is not the maximum possible, however; no-balls and wides can ensure that more than 36 runs are scored off one one over. This has never ever happened in international cricket, but domestic cricket is a different matter.
In List A cricket, the highest total off one over is 43. This occurred in a 2018 Ford Trophy match between Northern Districts and Central Districts (the former won by 25 runs, so they must have been dancing in the streets of Northern Districts that night). The Central Districts' Willem Ludick was the unlucky bowler on this occasion: His first delivery went for four; the next two were no-balls which were both hit for six; the second ball (fourth delivery) also went for six; the third ball went for a single; and the last three all went for six. Solid effort there.
However, that's not what I wanted to talk about. The most runs conceded off one over in
first-class cricket is...well, let me explain. Firstly, no, this
isn't the match where two batsmen supposedly ran between the wickets 286 times after the ball got stuck in a tree (the veracity of this urban myth is questionable, and in any case, the supposed match in which this happened didn't even have FC status; see
this article for more details). Now on to the
actual record.
This incident happened in a 1990 Shell Trophy match between Wellington and Canterbury. Wellington needed a win to secure the title (though a draw would have been enough if other results went their way), but there was a problem: Although Canterbury required 291 runs from 59 overs (a more-than-doable chase), they found themselves at 108/8 and so decided to shut up shop and hold out for the draw. This was inconvenient for Wellington as they wanted the win, and so once Canterbury were on 196/8, Wellington's captain Erv McSweeney hatched a truly unusual plan.
The strategy was thus: Send in batsman Bert Vance to lob numerous no-ball full tosses, which Canterbury would of course put away with ease. Once they approached the target, Canterbury would begin to go for the win, and then at that point, Wellington would begin to bowl normally and go for the win themselves. It was a high-risk, high-reward strategy, and when one thinks about it, it was a genius plan. It was unironically 4D chess, and it was brilliant.
Of Vance's first seventeen deliveries, only one was legitimate. He ended up conceding 77 runs off the over, which is now the record by quite a margin. Amusingly, the scorers were so confused by the chaos that they resorted to asking the spectators to keep track of the score, and the scoreboard was left in a frenzy. Even more amusingly, Vance only actually bowled five legitimate deliveries in the over, 'owing to the umpire's understandable miscalculation' as Cricinfo puts it.
The mathematical among you will have noticed that since Canterbury started the over at 196/8, since they scored 77 runs off it and since the target was 291, they required just 18 runs off the final over for victory. However, in a truly farcical turn of events, the scoreboard operators had given up trying to keep score at that point, so
neither team knew of this fact! The Canterbury batsmen scored 17 runs from the first five balls of the final over (since Wellington did not realise that their opponents were so close to the target, they left an incredibly leaky field), but unaware that they thus needed to score just one more run for victory, they blocked the last delivery of the match!
This series began with an instance where the bowler blatantly violated the spirit of the game, and so it has ended with another such instance. Needless to say, once the situation had finally been understood, Canterbury were furious at this stunt and demanded that points be docked from Wellington. Not only did that not end up happening, but results elsewhere meant that Wellington ended up winning the championship regardless. Fortune favouring the bold, or cheats getting away with it? I'll leave that up to you, but I have to say, there's no need for urban myths such as '286 runs off one ball' when real life already provides plenty of unusual stories, as this post has hopefully shown.
That's it from me! Man, that was much longer than I expected; I really wanted all this to be one post, but there was too much here to cut down (the initial draft was over twice the length of the character count!), so I had little choice but to cut it into three parts. I hope you enjoyed reading all that; if you guys want, I'd be happy to do one for fielding as well, though understand that it's going to be shorter than the first two as it's much harder to dig up statistics for fielding.
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I found an ancient cult in the middle of the woods, the members aren't human they’re far worse.
I woke up and started my day with a brisk cold shower. My feet traversed the oak staircase, down to the kitchen, where I only had time to scrounge together some eggs. I then headed to work.
I got off my shift at 5, and then I made my way to get something to eat from Chik-Fil-A. I got a chicken sandwich and a milkshake, and then I made my way home after that.
I got home, and let my dog out. I got out some leftovers from the other night to make dinner, and loaded up my PC.
I play a lot of video games to relax. I basically play in my free time, like before I go to bed.
The next day I only got called into work for a couple hours, which was nice, because I was super tired. After I got home I went up to my room to play some guitar, and just jam out for a little bit. I got pretty bored of that soon. So, I just turned my Xbox on in the living room, and put my feet up to play my favorite game for a little while.
It was getting pretty late by this point, so I threw a Netflix show on to fall asleep watching. It was around midnight at this point, and I was pretty sleepy. I think I dozed off pretty soon after that, but I was woken up a little while later by some type of sound.
I couldn't make out exactly what it was, because I was half asleep, but it definitely woke me up. It was pretty loud, and I thought it came from out front of my house. It was pretty damn close anyway.
It was like a light, high pitched sound, almost like someone was playing a violin with a piece of rusty scrap metal outside of my window. I didn't really think much of it at the time. I was half asleep, and I really didn't care at the time, so I just went back to sleep.
I woke up around 11 in the morning, and I felt like absolute shit. It felt like I was hungover, which was odd because I had nothing to drink the night before. I had a horrible headache, and a slight ringing in my ear.
I went to the medicine cabinet, grabbed two Tylenol out of the bottle, and took them. A little while after that my headache started to calm down, and the ringing eventually stopped.
I had to have had 2 cups of coffee at this point, not only because I felt awful, but because I am definitely a coffee addict. There's no doubt about it. I'm a total caffeine fiend, because it really helps my focus.
Thankfully, I wasn't scheduled to work until later that day, but I was going to see how I felt about working later. I was mostly waiting to see if I was even up to it.
Something about that day felt....off. As if some presence was watching my routines as a play upon a stage. I was alone, except for Gracie, but it felt like I was being watched. I was restless, and I just didn't want to be in the house anymore. I thought that maybe it was because I wasn't feeling good earlier, so I thought maybe some fresh air would do me some good.
I got the dog's leash, loaded us up in the car, and took my Gracie for a walk to the park. I thought once I got back I would feel better from just getting some fresh air. We walked in the park for almost an hour, and while I was there I discovered something strange.
I was walking Gracie on a path in the woods which I hadn't tread recently, but could remember taking in the near-distant past. All of sudden, my dog started freaking out, and growling to the left of me. I looked over to see what she was barking at, but I couldn't see anything.
It was totally out of character for her, as I had never seen her act so defensively before. I was sure that she had definitely either seen or could sense something out there that I couldn't.
This piqued my curiosity, so I decided to investigate. I walked off the path letting her lead me. Gracie was pulling the leash so hard I tripped a couple times. She was choking herself just trying to get there.
I was walking for what seemed to be forever, until we finally got to where she was leading me. It was in the middle of the woods, but above me was a huge, circular clearing in the trees, which was super random, because there were trees all around except in this one circle.
On the ground there was nothing but grass, but it was growing in a very weird way, in this almost hexagonal shaped area. It didn't look very natural at all, and my dog was now ripping up the grass, digging for...something.
There was something under there, and she was going to find it.
Everything that came next happened so fast. Gracie had dug up what looked like a bone. It was this dirty, yellowish-white stick, and I grabbed it out of Gracie's mouth. I then examined it further, and then realized maggots were festering inside, surely making a meal of whatever marrow was left. One even crawled onto my hand, and at that point I did my best Derek Jeter impression and threw the bone halfway across the field. I yelled at Gracie not to go after it. I then started jogging back to the path, where Gracie and I ran straight back to my car, and drove home.
I was just disgusted at what I saw, but I was also very curious about why there was a relatively large bone buried in the woods.
I didn't know it then, but this was only the beginning. I didn't get much sleep that night, because I was trying to understand it all.
The odd circle in the middle of the woods with no trees in that one area. The bone that belonged to a large animal that was buried.
I wanted to go back, and maybe do a little investigating so I could really see what was happening. It was around 1 in the morning at the time, and I heard a large whoosh come over my house, almost like an airplane flying over. You know how if you stand on the ground, and a jet flies by flying low? Well, that was the sound that came over my house.
I was startled from brainstorming ideas of what could be out in the woods when the loud sound went over my house. I got right up without blinking an eye, and headed downstairs. I hopped in my car, and flew down my street towards the park. I was 2 streets away from the park at a stop sign when I saw something in the air above the woods.
It looked large and black, and I couldn't make out many details, but there was a light underneath, and it was shining down on something I couldn't quite see.
I quickly made my way towards it, trying to keep my eye on it while driving at the same time. Nobody was out this late at night, and the street was mostly dark with a few flickering street lights. I parked my car in the park's parking lot, and got out. I didn't have much on me except for my phone, which I had in hand, and I turned the flashlight app on to see by.
I was on the same path I was on earlier, and all of sudden I started to hear this chanting. It almost sounded like some kind of ritual chant, like the kind those Gregorian Monks do, but it sounded oddly pleasant. The chant almost sounded like a choir filled with beautiful voices.
I didn't want to disturb whoever was making the sound, and I didn't know what else to do, so forgetting why I was there in the first place, I started to head back. I had gotten back to my car when I saw that thing in the sky again. It was almost hovering over me for a second, and the next when I looked back up at it, it just disappeared.
It was there one second, and gone the next. It was like something out of a movie, but this was real and right in front of my face.
I hopped in my car, and quickly sped off. I got to my house, and went right to my bed. I made sure all my doors were locked first though, because I was pretty frightened. I had no idea what I had seen, so I tried forgetting about it, and just falling asleep.
I don't know how much sleep I got that night, but I woke up around 1. Knowing I wouldn't be getting any more sleep anyway, I went online.
I was researching the flying thing I saw in the sky to see if anyone saw the same thing. I quickly realized that what I saw that night was a UFO. The way it acted, and how it defied physics, added up. It hovered without moving, and then flew away within microseconds. No man made thing can do what that thing did. My brain then sparked to the second thing I witnessed: the chanting.
I messaged a couple of my online buddies about what I saw, and they suggested that it was some type of cult. I told them about how I saw the circle in the middle of the woods, and the hexagon shaped grassy area, and they sent me this article on a nearby cult ritual that took place back in the 80's where they sacrificed a little boy.
It was all over the paper back then, and whispered about around town. If you lived here you would know about this story. There was speculation about if this cult was still functioning, or if it was even still around today. Most people thought that all the members had either died out or moved on.
So, I was sitting there thinking to myself about how I just found this strange cult that nobody knows about. Now, I really wondered if the UFO was connected to this "strange cult".
I tried to go about my day like usual. I went grocery shopping, and ran a couple other errands. While I was out I saw this really cool laser, which was green like the kind of tactical laser they use in the military. I got it for around $50, because I'm into that type of weird stuff. I wanted to use it next time I went out to explore the woods, and maybe to mess around with a couple of my neighbors.
Nothing odd happened that week until Saturday. This is when I saw something I never should have seen.
It was Saturday night, around 3 in the morning. The moon was full, and the wackos were out. You know what they say about the full moon and the crazies? Well, tonight that was the truth. I couldn't help myself but to explore the dark and spooky woods.
I really wanted to know where that beautiful chant was coming from. The way I would describe it would almost be like a siren's calling. A siren is a mythical creature that would lure in unknowing sailors to their death by thier enchanting song. It was like this, but a choir all in unison, together chanting this song. I still can't describe it in words, but I needed to find the source of it, and I was going to. So, I was walking around on and off the path until I came across where I witnessed it last.
I saw a dimly lit flame far ahead of me in the woods. I couldn't make much out around it though, because of the trees and brush around me. I started to make my way over to it, watching my steps so I wouldn't alert anyone to my prescence.
If I was going to see what was happening I would need to do it secretly and silently. I thought knew what I was getting myself into when reading those articles online. This was a cult where they did rituals to someone, or something, for God knows what reason. I could feel my adrenaline start kicking in just thinking about what I might see. For me, the danger just added to my excitement. It was like a key to my own personal door of blissfulness.
I believe that once you aren't afraid of death and the unknown then you can unlock the real joy of life.
Some might say I am a thrill seeker, but I like to call it my addiction. When I am in a situation I shouldn't be in, I feel as if I am whole. I break through a threshold of right and wrong, and the reward is stimulation to my mind. It might sound a bit crazy to you, but aren't we all a bit crazy in some ways?
Anyways, as I was creeping up on this fire I saw multiple people around it. I ducked down in the brush, trying to camouflage myself as best as I can. I was glad that I had thought to wear dark clothes that night. It really helped me to camouflage myself better in the dark woods.
I started to listen to what these people were saying. I was probably 30 yards away at this point. They began to chant that song, and it filled the air with this almost joyous feeling. I felt good just listening to it. It wasn't scary, and it didn't make me feel like I was in danger. I was just oddly at peace. I continued to watch to see what they were going to do next.
They started to switch from the chant to a constant repetition of this one word which seemed to be in some type of (possibly) ancient language I didn't recognize. They repeated this one word over and over again. I had no clue what would happen next, but then they doused the fire in gasoline, shooting embers up into the moonlit sky.
All of sudden I remember seeing someone bring some type of squealing animal out. The creature had to be in pain, because of the cries that this animal was making. They laid it on the ground, and sprinkled it with some sort of dust while continuing the chanting. I saw one of the members take a large knife that was glowing red from the fire. He took the knife and sank it right into the animal's neck, spewing blood everywhere, as the poor thing cried out one last time.
They then took the lifeless corpse of the animal, and threw it into the raging fire in the middle of the circle. It caught pretty quickly, and suddenly a putrid smell rushed my nose. It was the smell of rotten flesh being boiling. They had all began to chant louder and louder, all rising up, stretching their arms and lifting their hands to the sky like they were all reaching for something.
I was in shock of what I just saw, but I wasn't scared. My adrenaline now was pumping so fast through my veins I could feel it. I knew I had to get out of there before the sunrise, which would be soon. It was almost 5 am at this point. The sun would be coming up, and revealing my position, within the hour.
Out of nowhere they all stopped, and that made me nervous. It was dead quite to the point where you could hear a pin drop. I heard distant birds chirping, and a couple crickets here and there. I then felt something slither across my leg. This made me jump a little, because I wasn't too fond of snakes, but I knew I still needed to remain calm. As I moved my leg a branch cracked under me. At this point it was still dead quiet, and I knew someone had to have heard that. I looked up towards where the ritual was taking place. I peeked my head over the brush, and saw someone looking directly at me.
Then, as if the rest of the world quit existing, it was me and this cult member, eye to eye, about 30 yards apart. There were so many thoughts going through my mind at the time, but the one that stood out the most was: RUN.
I stood up, and with my adrenaline pumped legs, ran as fast as I could back to the path. I was pretty muddy from laying down in the dirt for the last hour, and I looked like shit. I wanted to look back to see if anyone was chasing after me, but I was too focused on getting to my car and getting the hell out of this park.
I got back to my car. Clicking the unlock button on my keys multiple times before it opened, and finally I got in the driver's seat. I locked my doors, and turned the engine on. It was still fairly dark out at this time, and my car lights were on. The lights were pointed right towards where I just ran from. It was foggy, but I could make out an abnormally tall man with some type of mask on in the distance.
The man was standing on the path holding something in his hands. I tried making out what it was, and it looked like it could be a baseball bat with nails in it. I put my car in reverse, and sped out of there trying to make sense of what just happened.
The rest of the day I just sat in my bed, thinking. I sat there for hours just trying to understand what I saw. I knew that I saw a cult doing a ritual. I wondered what that man would have done to me if he ever caught up to me. Knowing me, despite the events that had happened that night, it wouldn't stop me from exploring even more. That was yesterday.
I went to Walmart today, and bought some motion activated cameras, and some other kinds of trail cameras (like the kind that hunters use) that take pictures every few minutes. They also have night vision, too. All the videos and pictures that are taken on these cameras will be sent directly to my phone via an app.
I plan on setting these cameras up where the ritual happened. There is a chance I will get nothing back, because the cultists might go somewhere else. Otherwise, I plan to record them doing….whatever it was they were doing. Either way, I am planning on setting these up later today while it is light out, and will report back with what I get.
Update: I just got back from setting everything up, and everything is good to go. I can access the live feed from my cell phone, which is definitely going to come in handy. I also went back to where Gracie found that bone to see if I could find anything else. The last time I was there with my dog I ran off in a hurry.
While I was looking around I found a piece of paper that was pretty ripped up laying on the ground. It was pinned down under this rock, so it wouldn't blow away from the wind. I started to try and make out what was written on it.
I could only make out a few sentences. Here is what it said:
"The blood of the little one is forever sacred. We bless our sacrifice with the ashes of our past. Unison is all and all is forever. ηγέτης χαλάζι"
There was this ancient language, and I tried looking up what it meant. After a few Google searches I discovered that it was in Greek, and it meant "Hail Leader", as in the one who they sacrificed to.
I found it amusing that the language they were using was Greek. I reasoned that this cult must stem back all the way to ancient Greece.
It was around 9pm now, and I was preparing myself for the night.
Before I had left the woods I made sure that when I walked in front of where I placed the cameras that they would all take my picture. The cameras worked just like they should, with very high quality pictures. The only thing I was worried about was if I would be able to make out any pictures that were taken in the dark.
There was a night vision mode on the cameras, so I hope that it doesn't make the quality unbearable. I bought this one specific camera that had this really high tech thermal lens. It takes a picture if it detects body heat. So nobody and nothing that is warm-blooded could pass by it without getting their picture taken.
For what this whole situation is, I think I am prepared pretty well. I don't really have a plan B if something goes wrong, so I guess I'll keep this post saved on my computer. This way if something bad happens to me, or I go missing, then whoever finds this will know what was happening at the time.
I made myself some dinner, and put some Netflix on to make time go by faster until it was time to leave. I planned on leaving around 2 AM, and to be near the park just watching the cameras on my phone. I was a decently patient person, so I could sit there for hours and wait until something happens.
After watching a couple episodes of my favorite show I got up to go to the bathroom. My bathroom has a window that you can see my backyard from. I was just doing my business when I thought I heard something rustling around out back.
I peeked through the blinds from my bathroom, and didn't see anyone. I washed my hands, and headed downstairs to turn the outside lights on.
I had a way better angle now to view the whole backyard. I turned the lights on, but I didn't see anything then either. I started to chalk it up to my mind just playing dumb tricks on me, because of what I would be doing that night. I turned the lights back off, and all of sudden I could see this shadowy figure that was far back at the edge of my fence.
It was just standing there, apparently doing nothing. I closed my eyes, holding them shut for a long moment before I opened them again, because maybe it was just my mind playing tricks on me. When I opened my eyes again it was still there.
The figure was solid black, and unusually tall. I would say it had to be at least 7 feet tall. I turned my lights back on, and it instantly disappeared. It was almost 1 AM at this point, but I felt compelled to leave early. I made sure all my doors were locked, and I headed to my car. Tonight was just getting started.
I got into my car, put my keys in the ignition, started the engine, and I pulled out of my driveway. I headed to the parking lot of a closed coffee shop that was nearby to the woods. I turned my car off, and plugged my phone in to charge it. I loaded up the camera app to see what was currently going on, and there was nothing. What a surprise I thought.
I'm not too sure how long I waited, but it had to have been a few hours, before something caught my interest.
A notification popped up saying Camera 01 has activity. Click here for details. I clicked the notification, and I pulled the feed up. I couldn't make anything out, so I turned the night vision mode on. As I turned this mode on I could see to the far left of the screen two tiny, glowing eyes.
I tried zooming in, but it wouldn't let me. I swiped over to my other cameras, to try to make sense of what I was seeing. Camera 02 was the same, but now there was double the eyes. You know how a cat's eyes glow in the dark? Well, it was the same thing, but had to have been 7 feet in the air.
I went to my third camera, and I could finally make out a person. They had to be wearing some kind of dark colored robe, because I couldn't make out any features on it. It also had that weird mask on. It appeared to be some type of animal skull with sticks coming out of it.
This thing was wearing an animal's skull on its head.
Then, I remembered I had my thermal camera. I quickly pulled up the video feed, and clicked the Scan Area option.
This was the oddest thing, because it should have lit up like a Christmas tree in shades of red. It was actually quite the opposite. These things were cold as ice. No high temperatures were recorded. I only knew where they were, because their bodies were outlined in the cool blue color for temperatures 40 degrees and below. As I was focusing on this something else caught my eye.
The temperature meter lit up in the middle of the circle. It was the fire, and the temperature meter was the highest it could get. The ritual was beginning.
This didn't make any sense at all. If they were human it would be reading above 98 degrees, but these things in dark robes were colder than ice. The meter doesn't read below 40 degrees, so I can only assume they had ice water for blood.
I looked at the clock, and saw that it was 4 am, and shit was now getting real. My curiosity was beyond peaked at this point.
Then, out of nowhere, something lit up the camera with a bright light. I couldn't see anything but this large, super bright light. I switched over to my thermal camera to see what it was reading: Above 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
This was some crazy shit! The huge light (which I still have no clue as to where it came from) was hotter than that fire. I had only been looking at this light for a minute when I started to get error warnings from the apps. The errors read Camera nonfunctional ... Please reset.
I was really curious now that all of my cameras weren't working because of the heat.
This huge ass light from the sky melted my cameras, and somehow these "people" are still alive?
This was impossible! It had to be a mistake of some kind. An equipment malfunction of some kind maybe, because if this light was hotter than the fire, then shouldn't it kill those things?
I was on my way over to the park, and that's when it hit me. The light was from that UFO I saw earlier in the week. That was the only explanation I could come up with.
I just gotten to the park, and parked my car in the lot. I felt the adrenaline starting to slowly course its way through my body. I was moments away from seeing what was going on in the middle of the woods.
I was walking on the path, and I slowly began to see this very bright, exposing light. It looked like a spotlight, but was shining directly in my face. I was so fascinated, and curious as hell, to see what it was. It was still hovering over where the ritual was taking place.
I crept my way down into the brush, and that's when I saw Him. He was wearing this dark raggy looking robe, that large animal skull mask on his head, and had bright blue piercing eyes. When I tell you those eyes stared through your soul, I mean it.
It was obvious to me that these cult members weren't human. The way they did everything so in unison without missing a beat. The way they walked with their long legs. Most of the members were at least 7 feet tall or so. The tallest one was probably 8 feet, with these long inhuman arms. The way they stretched and morphed was unnerving.
I saw Him bend down, and it almost looked like He broke His arm, and then snapped it back into place without flinching. I found all of this absolutely fascinating.
Every bit of it pumped more adrenaline through my veins and into my brain. I was feeling amazing, but also killer focused.
I was now on a task to get a picture of this UFO. I took my phone out, and brought the camera app up. I didn't blink once, and zoomed in on the light. The damn light was so bright it wouldn't focus for one second. I held the focus to sustain it, and it started to clear at this point when I saw Him. He looked over towards me, and didn't move. He just stood there without breathing, staring at me.
This thing, this monstrosity, in not even 20 feet away from me, was staring through me with those piercing, blue, unnatural eyes. I had no clue what to do at this point, so I took the picture and bolted.
When I thought I couldn't have ran faster, I was overcome by my fight or flight instinct of "I know I am going to die", and I ran faster than ever. I began to hear multiple voices of THEM yelling in this deep ancient dialect. It was unlike anything I had ever heard before.
I was running on the path at this point, when I felt this horrible stomach cramp. The cramp was accompanied by that familiar piercing headache, and a dull ringing in my ears. My survival instincts kicked in to overdrive, screaming at me to get to my car. A few blurry moment s later, and I got back to the parking lot. I already had my car unlocked, so I jumped in, and turned my engine on faster than I ever had before.
I got out of there, leaving skid marks behind me, and then while I was driving down the road I felt an instant sense of relief and safety. I was safe, for now at least...
But that is it, isn't it. I have no clue whether or not I'll be alive in the next few days. I've decided to put my house up for sale, and legally change my name. I've already quit my job, and I'm ready to leave this shitty town behind. I'll be posting this document of my experience with this cult. I just hope they don't find me...
... Or maybe they already have. The reason I say that is because I've had some weird shit happen to me recently. While I was going to my local grocery store the other day I saw something strange. I was coming out of the store while looking at my phone, and all of sudden it was a notification from the camera app.
You see, I obviously never went back there. I thought that the notification had to be a glitch, since I knew the damn cameras were all apparently destroyed.
It said "Camera 01 has activity. Click here for details." I clicked on it, and what I saw shocked me.
It was a child, all alone with only a hat on his head. Then, one of those things wearing a dark robe came over, blocking the camera's view. I couldn't see what was happening, because he was standing in front of it at this point. My stomach sank just thinking about what I was about to witness, but then it just went black. The screen cut out and that damn message popped up. "Camera nonfunctional. Please reset."
What happened next is why I am leaving town and never coming back.
I had began to feel this weight fall over my chest, like an elephant was sitting on me. Then, that ringing in my ear started, just like the night I ran away from that thing. I then saw my phone start to glitch out, and it started to get extremely hot. I mean like when you leave it in the sun all day hot. It began giving a message saying "High temperature alert. Please let phone cool before using again."
I almost couldn't hold it, because it was so hot. I just put it in my pocket thinking (hoping) it was just a stupid glitch.
Then, my phone began playing a song at full volume.
It was the beautiful song that the cult member's were chanting in the woods. I neither had made a recording of their chant, nor did I find it anywhere on the web. My phone had accessed this audio from some external source, but only God knows where it came from.
This is what made me tip. This was the last straw for me, and I was no longer curious about this fucked up ancient extraterrestrial cult.
I shut my phone off, and threw it in the grocery store trash can. I'm writing all this on my new phone while sitting on a plane awaiting take off. I got a solid cash offer on my house, and we settled on a very lush price, so Gracie and I are gone!
I'll probably wind up somewhere in Europe. Maybe, I'll own a business, like a vineyard off the Bay of Naples. Maybe, I'll find something in the Maldives Islands right off the coast of India.
I will tell you this much, whoever may be reading this. I'm about to fly somewhere where I can hopefully begin a new life without this constant fear of these inhuman things that are lurking in your town.
I saw something I shouldn't have seen, and maybe went too far exploring it. I've experienced a lot in life, and I don't care what people say. I know I'm not in control of what happens next, and I've already accepted it. I'll either eventually live out my life somewhere nice and warm, or these supernatural things will find me and end my life one day.
I wish I still had that picture I had taken as proof, but the light had melted the camera lens on my now discarded previous phone, and the picture had ended up as a distorted mess anyway.
I don't want to know how they might end me, or what they might do to me. I just hope this message- this warning- gets out to the public. There are otherworldly things out there, whether or not you believe it. It's real, and I have seen it with my own eyes.
Goodbye now, and wish me luck on wherever I wind up going. Remember to be safe out there, and live life to its fullest, because you never know what could be out there, just waiting for you.
T
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An Analysis of Test Cricket's Greatest Fast Bowlers
There's no cricket on, so I thought I might as well add some guidance to the hordes of polls and ranking discussions. Here's a fairly detailed look at some of the game's greatest seam bowlers. There's too much information here for me to annotate everything, so I invite you to use the figures and draw some of your own conclusions.
My initial cutoff is at least 200 wickets, and an average beneath 30.
I find the overall strike rates and averages of fast bowlers during the span of each player's career, and for greater accuracy I exclude the player in question's contribution to those figures. Eg: During Andy Caddick's career, pace bowlers bowled 520764 balls, conceded 252109 runs, took 8282 wickets. Andy Caddick bowled 13558 balls, conceded 6999 runs, took 234 wickets. So all other pace bowlers combined for 507206 balls, 245110 runs conceded, 8048 wickets. The era figures are calculated from these numbers.
I then show a strike rate/average 'gap', the era figure subtracted from the player's figure to show where they stand. Think of it economically - you have a finite number of runs and want to buy a wicket, Michael Holding offers a price about 6 runs cheaper than his competitors.
Player | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
James Anderson | 584 | 56.12842466 | 26.83219178 | 60.6722061 | 32.42460087 | 4.543781438 | 5.59240909 |
Glenn McGrath | 563 | 51.95026643 | 21.64476021 | 63.12195982 | 32.0041417 | 11.17169339 | 10.35938149 |
Courtney Walsh | 519 | 57.84007707 | 24.44701349 | 63.48548342 | 30.03786526 | 5.645406345 | 5.590851776 |
Stuart Broad | 485 | 57.89484536 | 28.50927835 | 59.97355474 | 31.61900369 | 2.078709375 | 3.10972534 |
Dale Steyn | 439 | 42.38724374 | 22.95444191 | 60.9078846 | 32.48557487 | 18.52064086 | 9.531132952 |
Kapil Dev | 434 | 63.91705069 | 29.64746544 | 63.55484417 | 29.80780382 | -0.362206526 | 0.16033838 |
Richard Hadlee | 431 | 50.85382831 | 22.29930394 | 64.56143324 | 30.17600775 | 13.70760493 | 7.876703803 |
Shaun Pollock | 421 | 57.8456057 | 23.11876485 | 62.85831426 | 32.35936308 | 5.012708563 | 9.240598236 |
Wasim Akram | 414 | 54.65458937 | 23.62077295 | 63.78736655 | 30.36983986 | 9.132777176 | 6.749066911 |
Curtly Ambrose | 405 | 54.57530864 | 20.99012346 | 63.21567209 | 29.99553948 | 8.64036345 | 9.005416025 |
Makhaya Ntini | 390 | 53.42051282 | 28.82564103 | 63.06232267 | 32.93053517 | 9.641809849 | 4.104894147 |
Ian Botham | 383 | 56.95822454 | 28.40208877 | 63.31815199 | 29.4646279 | 6.359927445 | 1.062539131 |
Malcolm Marshall | 376 | 46.76595745 | 20.94680851 | 63.76241029 | 30.09135766 | 16.99645284 | 9.144549145 |
Waqar Younis | 373 | 43.54959786 | 23.56032172 | 63.83353198 | 30.55294001 | 20.28393413 | 6.992618292 |
Imran Khan | 362 | 53.75138122 | 22.8121547 | 64.17171294 | 29.93074908 | 10.42033172 | 7.118594387 |
Dennis Lillee | 355 | 52.01971831 | 23.92394366 | 65.3047958 | 29.66635444 | 13.28507749 | 5.742410778 |
Chaminda Vaas | 355 | 66.02253521 | 29.58028169 | 62.32701274 | 31.98430214 | -3.695522466 | 2.404020455 |
Allan Donald | 330 | 47.02727273 | 22.25454545 | 64.16867155 | 30.49751569 | 17.14139882 | 8.242970236 |
Bob Willis | 325 | 53.40615385 | 25.2 | 65.06281451 | 29.56949505 | 11.65666066 | 4.369495055 |
Mitchell Johnson | 313 | 51.12140575 | 28.4057508 | 62.77825739 | 33.52501998 | 11.65685164 | 5.119269185 |
Morne Morkel | 309 | 53.39158576 | 27.66990291 | 61.47594424 | 32.66400629 | 8.084358484 | 4.994103382 |
Fred Trueman | 307 | 49.43973941 | 21.57980456 | 73.15055922 | 28.793232 | 23.71081981 | 7.213427444 |
Craig McDermott | 291 | 56.99656357 | 28.63230241 | 63.87675946 | 30.12840163 | 6.880195888 | 1.496099221 |
Tim Southee | 284 | 57.72183099 | 29.00352113 | 60.07495618 | 31.56944015 | 2.353125195 | 2.565919022 |
Trent Boult | 267 | 55.70786517 | 27.65543071 | 58.85852373 | 30.33626245 | 3.150658557 | 2.680831737 |
Joel Garner | 259 | 50.84555985 | 20.97683398 | 63.17761693 | 29.53600594 | 12.33205708 | 8.559171962 |
Jason Gillespie | 259 | 54.95752896 | 26.13899614 | 62.94969565 | 31.97921213 | 7.99216669 | 5.840215989 |
Brian Statham | 252 | 63.71428571 | 24.8452381 | 72.10827028 | 28.4983042 | 8.39398457 | 3.653066105 |
Michael Holding | 249 | 50.92369478 | 23.68674699 | 63.04164551 | 29.57491112 | 12.11795073 | 5.888164134 |
Graham McKenzie | 246 | 71.87398374 | 29.78861789 | 71.62830114 | 30.15411904 | -0.245682597 | 0.365501152 |
Mitchell Starc | 244 | 48.16803279 | 26.9795082 | 59.0945422 | 30.41574709 | 10.92650941 | 3.436238895 |
Alec Bedser | 236 | 67.44915254 | 24.89830508 | 74.77192982 | 29.5214761 | 7.322777282 | 4.623171019 |
Andy Caddick | 234 | 57.94017094 | 29.91025641 | 63.02261431 | 30.45601392 | 5.082443374 | 0.545757506 |
Darren Gough | 229 | 51.62008734 | 28.39737991 | 62.75003287 | 30.48454964 | 11.12994554 | 2.087169726 |
Ray Lindwall | 228 | 59.86842105 | 23.03070175 | 74.89086385 | 28.58123 | 15.02244279 | 5.550528249 |
Vernon Philander | 224 | 50.85267857 | 22.32142857 | 58.90713559 | 30.56227293 | 8.054457019 | 8.240844354 |
Chris Cairns | 218 | 53.66055046 | 29.40366972 | 63.74806438 | 30.92057416 | 10.08751392 | 1.516904438 |
Heath Streak | 216 | 62.77314815 | 28.14351852 | 62.69429009 | 31.29565051 | -0.078858054 | 3.152131989 |
Merv Hughes | 212 | 57.94811321 | 28.38207547 | 64.86341576 | 30.40767275 | 6.915302554 | 2.025597281 |
Neil Wagner | 206 | 52.15048544 | 26.60194175 | 58.78626677 | 30.2320442 | 6.635781335 | 3.630102451 |
Andy Roberts | 202 | 55.12376238 | 25.61386139 | 62.95222655 | 28.88305231 | 7.828464169 | 3.269190927 |
John Snow | 202 | 59.50990099 | 26.66831683 | 70.83429542 | 30.78471986 | 11.32439443 | 4.116403032 |
Jeff Thomson | 200 | 52.675 | 28.005 | 64.03617443 | 29.5819293 | 11.36117443 | 1.576929303 |
Interesting make up of this group: Australia 10, England 10, South Africa 6, West Indies 6, New Zealand 5, Pakistan 3, India 1, Sri Lanka 1, Zimbabwe 1. The sole representatives from India and Sri Lanka - Kapil Dev and Chaminda Vaas - stand out as the least impressive compared to their peers, reinforcing my opinion that these 2 countries have been woefully behind everyone else in the fast bowling department, the only of the big 8 nations not to produce a truly great fast bowler. India have Shami who's comfortably on course to join this company, and Bumrah with even more talent but with a weird truncated test career so far and doubts over how much longevity his action will allow. Bangladesh is the only long time test nation with no one here, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
Now from this data + my own judgement, I've selected 15 bowlers to look more closely at:
Player | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
James Anderson | 584 | 56.1284 | 26.8322 | 60.6722 | 32.4246 | 4.5438 | 5.5924 |
Glenn McGrath | 563 | 51.9503 | 21.6448 | 63.122 | 32.0041 | 11.1717 | 10.3594 |
Courtney Walsh | 519 | 57.8401 | 24.447 | 63.4855 | 30.0379 | 5.6454 | 5.5909 |
Dale Steyn | 439 | 42.3872 | 22.9544 | 60.9079 | 32.4856 | 18.5206 | 9.5311 |
Richard Hadlee | 431 | 50.8538 | 22.2993 | 64.5614 | 30.176 | 13.7076 | 7.8767 |
Shaun Pollock | 421 | 57.8456 | 23.1188 | 62.8583 | 32.3594 | 5.0127 | 9.2406 |
Wasim Akram | 414 | 54.6546 | 23.6208 | 63.7874 | 30.3698 | 9.1328 | 6.7491 |
Curtly Ambrose | 405 | 54.5753 | 20.9901 | 63.2157 | 29.9955 | 8.6404 | 9.0054 |
Malcolm Marshall | 376 | 46.766 | 20.9468 | 63.7624 | 30.0914 | 16.9965 | 9.1445 |
Waqar Younis | 373 | 43.5496 | 23.5603 | 63.8335 | 30.5529 | 20.2839 | 6.9926 |
Imran Khan | 362 | 53.7514 | 22.8122 | 64.1717 | 29.9307 | 10.4203 | 7.1186 |
Dennis Lillee | 355 | 52.0197 | 23.9239 | 65.3048 | 29.6664 | 13.2851 | 5.7424 |
Allan Donald | 330 | 47.0273 | 22.2545 | 64.1687 | 30.4975 | 17.1414 | 8.243 |
Fred Trueman | 307 | 49.4397 | 21.5798 | 73.1506 | 28.7932 | 23.7108 | 7.2134 |
Joel Garner | 259 | 50.8456 | 20.9768 | 63.1776 | 29.536 | 12.3321 | 8.5592 |
Please toggle the ordering of these tables by clicking on a column heading in order to see how these players stand against each other in each aspect. But in short:
Best Strike Rate - 1) Steyn 2) Waqar 3) Marshall 4) Donald 5) Trueman
Best Average - 1) Marshall 2) Garner 3) Ambrose 4) Trueman 5) McGrath
Biggest Strike Rate Gap - 1) Trueman 2) Waqar 3) Steyn 4) Donald 5) Marshall
Biggest Average Gap - 1) McGrath 2) Steyn 3) Pollock 4) Marshall 5) Ambrose
Now let's look at each player's performances against each opposition, and in each country. Again we compare these numbers to the over performance of seamers against/in each nation during the span of the player's career, excluding the subject of the analysis.
Anderson Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 104 | 67.7981 | 34.5673 | 65.2731 | 37.7018 | -2.525 | 3.1345 |
Bangladesh | 9 | 56 | 24.7778 | 46.6204 | 24.1126 | -9.38 | -0.6652 |
India | 110 | 54.8818 | 25.9818 | 66.7363 | 35.6383 | 11.8545 | 9.6565 |
New Zealand | 60 | 49.2167 | 26.8333 | 58.5091 | 31.8933 | 9.2924 | 5.06 |
Pakistan | 63 | 48.6349 | 18.5873 | 63.5772 | 31.8846 | 14.9423 | 13.2973 |
South Africa | 93 | 64.086 | 31.5269 | 68.0326 | 36.6637 | 3.9466 | 5.1368 |
Sri Lanka | 52 | 51.8269 | 23.8654 | 58.7866 | 31.2834 | 6.9596 | 7.418 |
West Indies | 82 | 50.378 | 22.1585 | 55.3864 | 28.495 | 5.0083 | 6.3365 |
Zimbabwe | 11 | 34.9091 | 20.2727 | 51.8916 | 24.1084 | 16.9825 | 3.8356 |
Anderson In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 60 | 72.05 | 35.4333 | 61.3288 | 33.2319 | -10.7212 | -2.2014 |
England | 368 | 49.7853 | 23.7663 | 57.4824 | 31.9926 | 7.697 | 8.2263 |
India | 26 | 71.5 | 33.4615 | 70 | 37.0759 | -1.5 | 3.6144 |
New Zealand | 26 | 58.8462 | 32.8077 | 60.4811 | 32.4559 | 1.6349 | -0.35182 |
South Africa | 34 | 67.9706 | 34.6176 | 53.2031 | 28.5507 | -14.7675 | -6.067 |
Sri Lanka | 12 | 88.3333 | 46.0833 | 64.1703 | 35.1094 | -24.1631 | -10.9739 |
UAE | 22 | 58.9091 | 20.5455 | 75.2574 | 35.8168 | 16.3483 | 15.2714 |
West Indies | 36 | 57.75 | 24.8056 | 59.4715 | 29.6342 | 1.7215 | 4.8287 |
McGrath Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Bangladesh | 5 | 66.2 | 24.8 | 43.39 | 20.527 | -22.81 | -4.273 |
England | 157 | 46.3694 | 20.9299 | 63.2765 | 31.9333 | 16.9071 | 11.0034 |
India | 51 | 50.1569 | 18.6471 | 67.9531 | 33.6256 | 17.7962 | 14.9785 |
New Zealand | 57 | 60.1228 | 25.3333 | 62.8217 | 30.0915 | 2.6989 | 4.7582 |
Pakistan | 80 | 47.9375 | 21.7 | 63.6444 | 33.1457 | 15.7069 | 11.4457 |
South Africa | 57 | 71.614 | 27.3333 | 70.6572 | 36.1346 | -0.9568 | 8.8013 |
Sri Lanka | 37 | 49.4054 | 22.2432 | 61.7617 | 31.7822 | 12.3563 | 9.539 |
West Indies | 110 | 49.7727 | 19.3818 | 57.5181 | 28.6395 | 7.7454 | 9.2577 |
Zimbabwe | 6 | 54 | 15 | 56.4474 | 25.3329 | 2.4474 | 10.3329 |
McGrath in Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 289 | 54.7716 | 22.4325 | 67.5614 | 36.2477 | 12.7898 | 13.8151 |
England | 87 | 39.8736 | 19.3448 | 60.5088 | 32.3007 | 20.6352 | 12.9559 |
India | 33 | 56.9697 | 21.303 | 71.9914 | 35.1363 | 15.0212 | 13.8332 |
New Zealand | 30 | 48.3333 | 18.4 | 62.469 | 30.8581 | 14.1357 | 12.4581 |
Pakistan | 19 | 63.4737 | 31 | 61.724 | 32.2049 | -1.7497 | 1.2049 |
South Africa | 29 | 63.1724 | 23.6207 | 58.874 | 29.4379 | -4.2984 | 5.8172 |
Sri Lanka | 10 | 64.9 | 29.2 | 65.1181 | 34.3584 | 0.2181 | 5.1584 |
UAE | 10 | 21.6 | 7.4 | 55.597 | 28.2836 | 33.997 | 20.8834 |
West Indies | 50 | 47.86 | 20.7 | 63.7876 | 30.4011 | 15.9276 | 9.7011 |
Zimbabwe | 6 | 54 | 15 | 65.1058 | 30.3901 | 11.1058 | 15.3901 |
Walsh Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 135 | 63.4074 | 28.6815 | 69.3947 | 34.1124 | 5.9873 | 5.4309 |
England | 145 | 60.8138 | 25.4 | 60.0163 | 28.4238 | -0.7975 | 3.0238 |
India | 65 | 48.0615 | 20.2462 | 67.7857 | 32.4248 | 19.7242 | 12.1786 |
New Zealand | 43 | 52.3721 | 21.9302 | 67.46 | 29.692 | 15.0879 | 7.7618 |
Pakistan | 63 | 53.4921 | 23.0476 | 62.1856 | 29.8448 | 8.6935 | 6.7972 |
South Africa | 51 | 55.4706 | 19.8039 | 71.7131 | 33.7475 | 16.2425 | 13.9436 |
Sri Lanka | 8 | 72.875 | 34.75 | 59.2221 | 27.6961 | -13.6529 | -7.0539 |
Zimbabwe | 9 | 53.6667 | 14.8889 | 59.603 | 24.8488 | 5.9364 | 9.9599 |
Walsh In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 72 | 74.2083 | 34.3333 | 63.3184 | 29.9778 | -10.89 | -4.3555 |
England | 87 | 58.9425 | 24.4483 | 62.7392 | 31.198 | 3.7967 | 6.7497 |
India | 43 | 38.7907 | 18.5581 | 70.394 | 34.9522 | 31.6033 | 16.3941 |
New Zealand | 32 | 50.3125 | 20.75 | 69.6058 | 31.8301 | 19.2933 | 11.0801 |
Pakistan | 33 | 49.5758 | 21.9091 | 59.2275 | 28.0844 | 9.6517 | 6.1753 |
South Africa | 22 | 43.3182 | 18.9091 | 62.346 | 27.8944 | 19.0279 | 8.9853 |
Sri Lanka | 1 | 181 | 60 | 65.7267 | 31.3859 | -115.2733 | -28.6141 |
West Indies | 229 | 58.952 | 23.7031 | 56.7297 | 27.1536 | -2.2222 | 3.4506 |
Steyn Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 70 | 46.2857 | 27.4714 | 64.8245 | 37.15 | 18.5388 | 9.6785 |
Bangladesh | 28 | 32.7857 | 17.3571 | 48.8542 | 25.5599 | 16.0685 | 8.2028 |
England | 50 | 55.28 | 31.62 | 61.8408 | 33.4903 | 6.5608 | 1.8703 |
India | 65 | 41.8615 | 21.5385 | 65.1833 | 34.7861 | 23.3218 | 13.2477 |
New Zealand | 68 | 33.0294 | 16.0441 | 57.3731 | 31.8799 | 24.3437 | 15.8357 |
Pakistan | 59 | 44.8814 | 23.2881 | 63.7431 | 31.5636 | 18.8618 | 8.2754 |
Sri Lanka | 43 | 48.7209 | 27.814 | 57.6372 | 30.6818 | 8.9162 | 2.8679 |
West Indies | 48 | 35.6667 | 19.625 | 56.6762 | 28.4123 | 21.0096 | 8.7873 |
Zimbabwe | 8 | 33 | 10.5 | 51.5404 | 23.5053 | 18.5404 | 13.0053 |
Steyn In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 31 | 49.0645 | 28.7742 | 60.8918 | 32.9321 | 11.8273 | 4.1579 |
Bangladesh | 20 | 30.3 | 14.2 | 68.7728 | 37.3408 | 38.4728 | 23.1408 |
England | 23 | 55.4348 | 31.6522 | 56.7759 | 31.0539 | 1.3411 | -0.5983 |
India | 26 | 37.1154 | 21.3846 | 72.4828 | 38.9571 | 35.3675 | 17.5725 |
New Zealand | 9 | 66.8889 | 26.5556 | 58.9612 | 32.0022 | -7.9277 | 5.4466 |
Pakistan | 9 | 37 | 24.6667 | 69.8386 | 40.3094 | 32.8386 | 15.6428 |
South Africa | 261 | 40.2146 | 21.6207 | 54.5769 | 29.187 | 14.3623 | 7.5663 |
Sri Lanka | 23 | 49.4348 | 30.3478 | 64.6679 | 35.8558 | 15.2331 | 5.5079 |
UAE | 14 | 65.2857 | 32.7857 | 74.7233 | 35.1044 | 9.4376 | 2.3187 |
West Indies | 15 | 33 | 18.1333 | 60.1571 | 29.653 | 27.1571 | 11.5197 |
Zimbabwe | 8 | 33 | 10.5 | 62.4328 | 30.4925 | 29.4328 | 19.9925 |
Hadlee Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 130 | 46.9154 | 20.5692 | 68.0352 | 31.8782 | 21.1198 | 11.3089 |
England | 97 | 60.3402 | 24.732 | 63.2423 | 27.6092 | 2.9021 | 2.8773 |
India | 65 | 47.7846 | 22.9692 | 62.2702 | 29.7138 | 14.4856 | 6.7445 |
Pakistan | 51 | 57.8235 | 28.3922 | 66.4156 | 32.3738 | 8.592 | 3.9817 |
Sri Lanka | 37 | 37.973 | 12.7838 | 60.0407 | 27.5704 | 22.0678 | 14.7866 |
West Indies | 51 | 49.1373 | 22.0392 | 61.1609 | 32.5986 | 12.0236 | 10.5594 |
Hadlee In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 77 | 43.8052 | 17.8312 | 63.4857 | 29.1189 | 19.6805 | 11.2877 |
England | 70 | 58.7857 | 24.9429 | 62.54623 | 29.136 | 3.7605 | 4.1931 |
India | 31 | 44.0968 | 22.2258 | 63.1053 | 31.6489 | 19.0085 | 9.4231 |
New Zealand | 201 | 53.0498 | 22.9602 | 77.237 | 32.523 | 24.1876 | 9.5628 |
Pakistan | 10 | 60.2 | 44.7 | 71.3338 | 33.9684 | 11.1338 | -10.7316 |
Sri Lanka | 27 | 34.8148 | 12.2963 | 60.4744 | 28.1535 | 25.6596 | 15.8572 |
West Indies | 15 | 57.2 | 27.26667 | 58.5507 | 28.8378 | 1.3507 | 1.5711 |
Pollock Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 40 | 80.8 | 36.85 | 70.602 | 40.9524 | -10.198 | 4.1024 |
Bangladesh | 9 | 41.3333 | 15.4444 | 43.1747 | 20.7958 | 1.8414 | 5.3514 |
England | 91 | 62.8462 | 23.7363 | 62.2898 | 32.1772 | -0.5563 | 8.441 |
India | 52 | 52.1154 | 19.6346 | 68.2345 | 34.0539 | 16.1191 | 14.4193 |
New Zealand | 43 | 56.7907 | 21.9302 | 63.2797 | 31.0628 | 6.489 | 9.1326 |
Pakistan | 45 | 52.6 | 21.3556 | 62.948 | 33.10678 | 10.348 | 11.7512 |
Sri Lanka | 48 | 51.6875 | 22.3333 | 62.8386 | 33.5139 | 11.1511 | 11.1805 |
West Indies | 70 | 57.3286 | 22.9571 | 55.9602 | 27.4114 | -1.3684 | 4.4543 |
Zimbabwe | 23 | 44.2174 | 15.4783 | 57.7069 | 26.1597 | 13.49 | 10.6815 |
Pollock In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 32 | 76.6875 | 34.3125 | 64.3092 | 34.0187 | -12.3783 | -0.2938 |
Bangladesh | 7 | 34.2857 | 10.8571 | 58.7458 | 30.1229 | 24.4601 | 19.2658 |
England | 35 | 68.0286 | 25.2571 | 59.5663 | 32.1904 | -8.4623 | 6.9332 |
India | 13 | 75.3077 | 27.3846 | 73.5982 | 35.8761 | -1.7095 | 8.4915 |
New Zealand | 26 | 57 | 23 | 62.4495 | 31.1737 | 5.4495 | 8.1737 |
Pakistan | 18 | 54.4444 | 22.5556 | 63.4888 | 33.9227 | 9.0443 | 11.3671 |
South Africa | 235 | 52.566 | 21.0851 | 57.5821 | 30.315 | 5.0162 | 9.2299 |
Sri Lanka | 22 | 55.0909 | 25.1364 | 67.0383 | 35.5275 | 11.9474 | 10.3911 |
West Indies | 20 | 78.65 | 28.75 | 64.2508 | 30.5613 | -14.3992 | 1.8113 |
Zimbabwe | 13 | 53.7692 | 17.8462 | 66.3578 | 31.9057 | 12.5886 | 14.0595 |
Akram Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 50 | 59.8 | 25.76 | 70.5064 | 35.2061 | 10.7064 | 9.4461 |
Bangladesh | 0 | - | - | 46.2411 | 20.0804 | - | - |
England | 57 | 69.8596 | 30.6667 | 59.51795 | 28.1914 | -10.3417 | -2.4752 |
India | 45 | 65.0667 | 28.8667 | 66.5724 | 31.669 | 1.5058 | 2.8023 |
New Zealand | 60 | 42.1 | 17.0167 | 68.2288 | 30.3564 | 26.1288 | 13.3397 |
South Africa | 13 | 65.0769 | 29.7692 | 71.147 | 33.4106 | 6.0701 | 3.6414 |
Sri Lanka | 63 | 51.9683 | 21.2698 | 61.4524 | 29.6385 | 9.4842 | 8.3686 |
West Indies | 79 | 44.9367 | 20.8228 | 57.2293 | 28.3868 | 12.2926 | 7.564 |
Zimbabwe | 47 | 51.0851 | 21.2128 | 48.6706 | 26.7167 | -2.4145 | 5.504 |
Akram In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 36 | 58.0833 | 24.0556 | 65.2464 | 31.0938 | 7.163 | 7.0383 |
Bangladesh | 5 | 28.4 | 16.6 | 72.5862 | 34.5172 | 44.1862 | 17.9172 |
England | 53 | 63.9057 | 28.7358 | 61.9519 | 31.0778 | -1.9538 | 2.342 |
India | 27 | 62.963 | 27.7037 | 68.7217 | 34.0446 | 5.7588 | 6.3409 |
New Zealand | 50 | 41.06 | 17.18 | 68.9652 | 31.753 | 27.9052 | 14.573 |
Pakistan | 154 | 51.1169 | 22.2273 | 60.1581 | 29.03403 | 9.0412 | 6.8068 |
South Africa | 7 | 86.5714 | 39 | 61.7038 | 27.8648 | -24.8677 | -11.1352 |
Sri Lanka | 30 | 53.6667 | 20.4333 | 67.2853 | 33.1097 | 13.6187 | 12.6764 |
West Indies | 35 | 58.5429 | 26.8857 | 57.0081 | 26.6656 | -1.5347 | -0.2201 |
Zimbabwe | 17 | 65.7059 | 26.4706 | 71.275 | 30.9172 | 5.5691 | 4.4466 |
Ambrose Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 128 | 52.3125 | 21.2344 | 58.761 | 27.6066 | 6.4485 | 6.3722 |
England | 164 | 50.5122 | 18.7927 | 67.3251 | 34.6518 | 16.8129 | 15.8591 |
India | 15 | 99.4 | 38.2667 | 70.4929 | 34.2196 | -28.9071 | -4.047 |
New Zealand | 13 | 61.4615 | 21.3077 | 71.3207 | 34.6966 | 9.8592 | 13.3889 |
Pakistan | 42 | 68.3571 | 27.8571 | 53.6426 | 26.4355 | -14.7145 | -1.4216 |
South Africa | 21 | 53 | 18.5714 | 59.8524 | 25.6216 | 6.8524 | 7.0502 |
Sri Lanka | 14 | 27.6429 | 13.5714 | 80.2672 | 38.9061 | 52.6244 | 25.3346 |
Zimbabwe | 8 | 57.75 | 12.5 | 72.0593 | 32.3062 | 14.3093 | 19.8062 |
Ambrose In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 78 | 48.141 | 19.7949 | 64.287 | 30.786 | 16.146 | 10.9912 |
England | 88 | 55.8068 | 20.7727 | 62.177 | 30.953 | 6.3702 | 10.1803 |
New Zealand | 5 | 69.8 | 22.6 | 68.4894 | 31.9025 | -1.3106 | 9.3025 |
Pakistan | 15 | 60.2667 | 25.2 | 58.3549 | 27.9491 | -1.9118 | 2.7491 |
South Africa | 13 | 57.6154 | 23.7692 | 62.0881 | 27.6912 | 4.4727 | 3.922 |
Sri Lanka | 3 | 36.6667 | 9 | 70.4541 | 34.0141 | 33.7875 | 25.0141 |
West Indies | 203 | 55.7882 | 21.1921 | 57.7091 | 27.8906 | 1.9209 | 6.6984 |
Marshall Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 87 | 49.8276 | 22.5172 | 67.6169 | 30.8955 | 17.7893 | 8.3782 |
England | 127 | 45.5906 | 19.1811 | 60.1536 | 27.7048 | 14.563 | 8.5237 |
India | 76 | 46.1447 | 21.9868 | 65.6501 | 32.1447 | 19.5054 | 10.1579 |
New Zealand | 36 | 48.1944 | 21.5278 | 68.7855 | 29.5571 | 20.5911 | 8.0293 |
Pakistan | 50 | 44.34 | 20.7 | 65.2345 | 31.3013 | 20.8945 | 10.6013 |
Marshall In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 45 | 54.3111 | 23.1556 | 63.2705 | 28.6669 | 8.9594 | 5.5113 |
England | 94 | 45.6702 | 18.7021 | 64.0853 | 31.1115 | 18.4151 | 12.4093 |
India | 36 | 49.83333333 | 24.6111 | 64.2935 | 32.6387 | 14.4601 | 8.0276 |
New Zealand | 9 | 79.3333 | 32.1111 | 71.4793 | 30.6483 | -7.854 | -1.4628 |
Pakistan | 35 | 47.6286 | 21.4571 | 63.2822 | 30.0338 | 15.6536 | 8.5767 |
West Indies | 157 | 42.4968 | 20.0637 | 58.2185 | 29.0387 | 15.7217 | 8.975 |
Waqar Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 30 | 62.7667 | 33.8 | 69.352 | 35.5877 | 6.5854 | 1.7877 |
Bangladesh | 18 | 18.1111 | 10.0556 | 43.6378 | 19.8418 | 25.5266 | 9.7863 |
England | 50 | 48.5 | 27.04 | 61.3325 | 29.2173 | 12.8325 | 2.1773 |
India | 8 | 80.25 | 48.75 | 67.1091 | 31.4753 | -13.1409 | -17.2747 |
New Zealand | 70 | 42.9857 | 19.6 | 66.0405 | 29.8587 | 23.0548 | 10.2587 |
South Africa | 24 | 50.625 | 28.75 | 72.0142 | 34.3416 | 21.3892 | 5.5916 |
Sri Lanka | 56 | 38.625 | 22.7321 | 62.9186 | 30.5105 | 24.2936 | 7.7783 |
West Indies | 55 | 39.6364 | 23.3273 | 57.3493 | 27.7169 | 17.713 | 4.3896 |
Zimbabwe | 62 | 38.4032 | 19.8871 | 63.7759 | 27.1697 | 25.3727 | 7.2826 |
Waqar In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 14 | 81.4286 | 40.5 | 64.0237 | 31.0675 | -17.4049 | -9.4325 |
Bangladesh | 12 | 20.5833 | 11.4167 | 57.6942 | 28.0496 | 37.1109 | 16.6329 |
England | 45 | 48.2889 | 27.4889 | 62.4196 | 31.5996 | 14.1307 | 4.1107 |
India | 2 | 147 | 76.5 | 70.6245 | 33.7305 | -76.3755 | -42.7695 |
New Zealand | 34 | 54.3235 | 27.1765 | 63.795 | 30.3893 | 9.4715 | 3.2128 |
Pakistan | 162 | 38.7654 | 20.2963 | 62.9353 | 30.4148 | 24.1698 | 10.1185 |
South Africa | 20 | 47.55 | 28.3 | 61.0344 | 28.491 | 13.4844 | 0.191 |
Sri Lanka | 27 | 34.2593 | 21.6296 | 69.8989 | 34.8152 | 35.6396 | 13.1855 |
UAE | 12 | 39.5 | 23 | 53.3385 | 26.0462 | 13.8385 | 3.0462 |
West Indies | 24 | 41.7083 | 24.8333 | 60.7442 | 27.6652 | 19.0358 | 2.8319 |
Zimbabwe | 21 | 42.4762 | 21.9048 | 70.6794 | 31.0498 | 28.2032 | 9.145 |
Imran Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 64 | 62.4063 | 24.9688 | 66.6388 | 31.1342 | 4.2326 | 6.1655 |
England | 47 | 62.1064 | 24.6383 | 63.1598 | 27.6897 | 1.0534 | 3.0514 |
India | 94 | 54.0213 | 24.0426 | 62.102 | 29.6205 | 8.0807 | 5.578 |
New Zealand | 31 | 70.6774 | 28.1935 | 67.788 | 28.4424 | -2.8894 | 0.2489 |
Sri Lanka | 46 | 38.8696 | 14.6304 | 59.5426 | 27.6136 | 20.673 | 12.9832 |
West Indies | 80 | 43.6 | 21.1875 | 61.4773 | 32.4464 | 17.8773 | 11.2589 |
Imran In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 45 | 67.5111 | 28.5111 | 62.7219 | 28.7429 | -4.7892 | 0.2318 |
England | 47 | 62.1064 | 24.6383 | 63.1055 | 29.3446 | 0.9991 | 4.7063 |
India | 27 | 61.2222 | 28.037 | 62.3881 | 31.0736 | 1.1659 | 3.0366 |
New Zealand | 17 | 75.4706 | 26.6471 | 72.5271 | 31.0966 | -2.9435 | 4.4495 |
Pakistan | 163 | 47.0736 | 19.2086 | 70.3094 | 33.847 | 23.2358 | 14.6385 |
Sri Lanka | 15 | 46.4 | 18 | 58.3524 | 26.9383 | 11.9524 | 8.9383 |
West Indies | 48 | 45.75 | 25.125 | 60.3559 | 29.2956 | 14.6059 | 4.1706 |
Lillee Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
England | 167 | 50.994 | 21 | 67.9238 | 27.8191 | 16.9298 | 6.8191 |
India | 21 | 42.4286 | 21.5238 | 61.1438 | 28.4687 | 18.7152 | 6.9449 |
New Zealand | 38 | 46.5789 | 19.4737 | 68.3755 | 27.4694 | 21.7966 | 7.9957 |
Pakistan | 71 | 62.4366 | 30.4366 | 67.7692 | 33.4334 | 5.3326 | 2.9968 |
Sri Lanka | 3 | 60 | 35.6667 | 49.8205 | 22.8974 | -10.1795 | -12.7692 |
West Indies | 55 | 48.6727 | 27.7455 | 62.6965 | 32.3255 | 14.0238 | 4.5801 |
Lillee In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 231 | 49.9307 | 23.7316 | 63.56472 | 28.7298 | 13.634 | 4.9981 |
England | 96 | 50.1563 | 20.5625 | 62.7729 | 27.482 | 12.6166 | 6.9195 |
New Zealand | 22 | 51.5455 | 22.5 | 72.2794 | 29.7598 | 20.734 | 7.2598 |
Pakistan | 3 | 204 | 101 | 73.6305 | 35.9353 | -130.3695 | -65.0647 |
Sri Lanka | 3 | 60 | 35.6667 | 74.4 | 41.6667 | 14.4 | 6 |
West Indies | 0 | - | - | 67.4296 | 31.8842 | - | - |
Donald Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 53 | 61.6226 | 31.0755 | 69.9184 | 36.2771 | 8.2958 | 5.2016 |
England | 86 | 45.4884 | 23.0465 | 61.3104 | 28.2072 | 15.822 | 5.1607 |
India | 57 | 43.7544 | 17.3158 | 72.121 | 33.1529 | 28.3666 | 15.8371 |
New Zealand | 21 | 50.5714 | 21.0952 | 65.551 | 29.8298 | 14.9796 | 8.7346 |
Pakistan | 27 | 40 | 22.3704 | 62.047 | 30.6667 | 22.047 | 8.2963 |
Sri Lanka | 29 | 42.6207 | 19.1724 | 62.5021 | 30.5021 | 19.8814 | 11.3297 |
West Indies | 43 | 43.1628 | 20.7907 | 55.8092 | 26.7437 | 12.6464 | 5.953 |
Zimbabwe | 14 | 43.7857 | 16.5 | 62.2907 | 26.6725 | 18.505 | 10.1725 |
Donald In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 29 | 57.7241 | 28.4483 | 64.1264 | 31.6433 | 6.4023 | 3.195 |
England | 45 | 44.3778 | 23.6222 | 60.1335 | 30.0438 | 15.7557 | 6.4215 |
India | 17 | 42.8235 | 16.1176 | 71.6976 | 34.5486 | 28.8741 | 18.4309 |
New Zealand | 10 | 56.7 | 24.6 | 65.2093 | 30.4884 | 8.5093 | 5.8884 |
Pakistan | 7 | 58 | 32.2857 | 59.6466 | 29.5989 | 1.6466 | -2.6868 |
South Africa | 177 | 45.0169 | 21.6441 | 64.8549 | 29.2732 | 19.8379 | 7.6291 |
Sri Lanka | 12 | 51 | 19.3333 | 69.6361 | 34.5042 | 18.6361 | 15.1708 |
West Indies | 20 | 57.6 | 24.95 | 59.1794 | 26.6134 | 1.5794 | 1.6634 |
Zimbabwe | 13 | 31.9231 | 11.3846 | 71.9224 | 31.1941 | 39.9993 | 19.8095 |
Trueman Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 79 | 55.2025 | 25.3038 | 75.6772 | 32.8776 | 20.4746 | 7.5738 |
India | 53 | 33.6604 | 14.8491 | 71.7049 | 26.8388 | 38.0445 | 11.9898 |
New Zealand | 40 | 54.175 | 19.05 | 63.5481 | 20.8717 | 9.3731 | 1.8217 |
Pakistan | 22 | 44.9545 | 19.9545 | 64.3808 | 25.6466 | 19.4263 | 5.692 |
South Africa | 27 | 47.8889 | 22.963 | 77.6517 | 29.5846 | 29.7629 | 6.6216 |
West Indies | 86 | 53.3023 | 23.4651 | 74.0665 | 33.9182 | 20.7642 | 10.453 |
Trueman In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 29 | 67.6897 | 27.4828 | 73.4645 | 30.2914 | 5.7748 | 2.8087 |
England | 229 | 44.9563 | 20.0437 | 68.8404 | 26.7404 | 23.8841 | 6.6967 |
New Zealand | 19 | 41.9474 | 14.1579 | 67.4845 | 23.6495 | 25.5372 | 9.4916 |
West Indies | 30 | 70.7667 | 32.3 | 74.9055 | 34.5968 | 4.1389 | 2.2968 |
Garner Against Team | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 89 | 47.0787 | 20.8989 | 63.9288 | 28.9025 | 16.8501 | 8.0037 |
England | 92 | 48.1304 | 17.9348 | 63.0991 | 27.9819 | 14.9687 | 10.0471 |
India | 7 | 96.85714286 | 43 | 65.5964 | 31.443 | -31.2608 | -11.557 |
New Zealand | 36 | 55.9167 | 20.6111 | 64.4363 | 27.5045 | 8.5196 | 6.8934 |
Pakistan | 35 | 53.1429 | 25.1429 | 62.7559 | 30.9145 | 9.613 | 5.7716 |
Garner In Country | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Era Strike Rate | Era Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap |
Australia | 45 | 56.9778 | 25.3778 | 61.91871 | 27.7454 | 4.9409 | 2.3676 |
England | 55 | 46.9636 | 16.5636 | 61.9685 | 28.825 | 15.0049 | 12.2614 |
New Zealand | 26 | 45.9615 | 16.9231 | 70.2593 | 29.1067 | 24.2977 | 12.1836 |
Pakistan | 10 | 54.3 | 19.2 | 67.7166 | 32.4675 | 13.4166 | 13.2675 |
West Indies | 123 | 51.0894 | 22.3415 | 56.2085 | 29.382 | 5.1191 | 7.0406 |
Mountains to unpack here and I'm unable to grapple with anything. But things that stood out to me: Allan Donald isn't "underrated", he's just straight up one of the most impressive fast bowlers of all time, and his record comfortably surpasses a lot of players who generate far more hype. On the other hand Akram and Ambrose disappointed me a bit. Akram certainly belongs in this company, but when you compare him to this group he stops looking supernatural and some of his holes show up. In fact the gap between him and Waqar certainly isn't as big as people act, if that gap exists at all. Similar with Ambrose - at his best completely untouchable, but a meek/incomplete record in Asia takes him down a bit for me. Fred Trueman is the only player here with zero "blind spots" - ie a positive average/strike rate gap against everyone and everywhere. However it must be said he played in a completely different test cricket climate and only competed against a small, skewed sample of sides in a small, skewed sample of places. McGrath is essentially an upgraded Pollock - they both have similar abilities to hold and keep things tight, but McGrath's wicket taking ability is just on another level. England fans often ask about Anderson getting disrespect, but I think this clearly shows why he's not thought of as highly as some other greats - his record is just so lopsided, and even in his favoured conditions (England), his numbers fall behind quite a few of these guys overall figures.
Now let's look at the support these bowlers had from their teammates. We compare each players' performances to those of the other bowlers on their team, spinners included. We also look at the proportion of wickets each player takes out of all the wickets taken by their team in matches they've played.
Player | Wickets | Strike Rate | Average | Team Strike Rate | Team Average | Strike Rate Gap | Average Gap | Proportion of Wickets Taken |
James Anderson | 584 | 56.1284 | 26.8322 | 63.6835 | 33.6545 | 7.5551 | 6.8223 | 0.2389 |
Glenn McGrath | 563 | 51.9503 | 21.6448 | 56.3644 | 27.09497 | 4.4141 | 5.4502 | 0.259 |
Courney Walsh | 519 | 57.8401 | 24.447 | 64.5864 | 29.4403 | 6.7463 | 4.9932 | 0.2521 |
Dale Steyn | 439 | 42.3872 | 22.9544 | 60.7924 | 31.7053 | 18.4051 | 8.7509 | 0.2847 |
Richard Hadlee | 431 | 50.8538 | 22.2993 | 85.3595 | 37.0451 | 34.5057 | 14.7458 | 0.3571 |
Shaun Pollock | 421 | 57.8456 | 23.1188 | 63.7882 | 31.3219 | 5.9425 | 8.2032 | 0.2422 |
Wasim Akram | 414 | 54.6546 | 23.6208 | 62.0999 | 29.8755 | 7.4453 | 6.2548 | 0.2596 |
Curtly Ambrose | 405 | 54.5753 | 20.9901 | 64.2314 | 29.4137 | 9.6561 | 8.4235 | 0.262 |
Malcolm Marshall | 376 | 46.766 | 20.9468 | 61.9012 | 27.5185 | 15.1353 | 6.5717 | 0.2789 |
Waqar Younis | 373 | 43.5496 | 23.5603 | 61.3488 | 28.9626 | 17.7992 | 5.4023 | 0.2739 |
Imran Khan | 362 | 53.7514 | 22.8122 | 74.3059 | 33.2578 | 20.5545 | 10.4456 | 0.2791 |
Dennis Lillee | 355 | 52.0197 | 23.9239 | 66.9756 | 29.7057 | 14.9559 | 5.7818 | 0.3024 |
Allan Donald | 330 | 47.0273 | 22.2545 | 69.8816 | 29.4451 | 22.8544 | 7.1906 | 0.2892 |
Fred Trueman | 307 | 49.4397 | 21.5798 | 73 | 26.61 | 23.5603 | 5.0302 | 0.2832 |
Joel Garner | 259 | 50.8456 | 20.9768 | 58.6599 | 26.249 | 7.8143 | 5.2721 | 0.2606 |
Immediate standout here should be Hadlee... Absolutely mind boggling stuff, the sheer It weight he endured with such aplomb will never be matched. On the opposite end of the spectrum (but not as extreme) is McGrath. It would be idiotic to say he was carried, he's a huge part of what made this Australia team so formidable (imo only Warne is "greater"), but I do think his achievements are ever so minutely diminished by how good his teammates were.
It's often said bowling is much easier with a big total on the board, even the time to rest in the dressing room while your team bats. So let's look at how much support each bowler got from their teams's batsmen (including themselves - if Pollock the batsman scores a century that helps Pollock the bowler). I'll show the average runs scored per wicket lost by each player's team in matches they've played, and compare it to the overall average per wicket during the player's career.
Player | Team Average | Era Average | Average Gap |
James Anderson | 34.75 | 33.65 | 1.1 |
Glenn McGrath | 39.65 | 32.67 | 6.98 |
Courney Walsh | 29.64 | 31.81 | -2.17 |
Dale Steyn | 36.93 | 33.49 | 3.44 |
Richard Hadlee | 28.86 | 32.63 | -3.77 |
Shaun Pollock | 36.87 | 33.01 | 3.86 |
Wasim Akram | 31.73 | 32 | -0.27 |
Curtly Ambrose | 30.62 | 31.53 | -0.91 |
Malcolm Marshall | 34.15 | 32.54 | 1.61 |
Waqar Younis | 31.58 | 31.91 | -0.33 |
Imran Khan | 35.65 | 32.62 | 3.03 |
Dennis Lillee | 35.83 | 32.41 | 3.42 |
Allan Donald | 33.15 | 32.23 | 0.92 |
Fred Trueman | 34.4 | 30.66 | 3.74 |
Joel Garner | 36.29 | 32.09 | 4.2 |
Similar to the bowling support - Hadlee had to bowl defending shit totals, McGrath had to bowl defending great totals.
Finally, we check to see how often each bowler dismissed top order, middle order, and lower order batsmen.
Player | Percentage 1-3 Dismissed | Percentage 4-7 Dismissed | Percentage 8-11 Dismissed |
James Anderson | 37.5 | 36.5 | 26 |
Glenn McGrath | 40 | 34.8 | 25.2 |
Courtney Walsh | 34.1 | 34.5 | 31.4 |
Dale Steyn | 33.5 | 34.9 | 31.7 |
Richard Hadlee | 36.7 | 33.4 | 29.9 |
Shaun Pollock | 35.6 | 34.9 | 29.5 |
Wasim Akram | 31.9 | 33.1 | 35 |
Curtly Ambrose | 36.3 | 36 | 27.7 |
Malcolm Marshall | 33.2 | 40.4 | 26.3 |
Waqar Younis | 35.4 | 35.4 | 29.2 |
Imran Khan | 35.4 | 35.9 | 28.7 |
Dennis Lillee | 36.1 | 36.6 | 27.3 |
Allan Donald | 39.1 | 34.8 | 26.1 |
Fred Trueman | 33.9 | 34.5 | 31.6 |
Joel Garner | 32.8 | 33.6 | 33.6 |
Even with as much raw data I've thrown at you, there's still so much left untouched. We'll never be able to reach a unanimous conclusion on who ranks where, but I do think there's a lot of merit at looking at these kinds of figures. Stats may not tell the whole story, but they sure as hell tell more of it than unguided intuition does. For what it's worth here's who I'd regard as the 5 greatest fast bowlers to play cricket, unordered: Dale Steyn, Richard Hadlee, Allan Donald, Malcolm Marshall, Glenn McGrath.
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Most Successful Spinners In Each Country
There are lots of posts and statistical analyses on this subreddit that compare fast bowling greats but spinners do not get the same attention for some reason. Yes, we all know that Murali and Warne are the two greatest spinners in test history but what about the others besides them? In this post, I would like to focus on the most successful test spinners in each country with the exception of Ireland and Afghanistan.
For this, I will be presenting two tables for each country, one for home spinners and the other for overseas spinners. This will allow us to discern how well overseas spinners have done in each country compared to their local counterparts. The figures listed for each player will be the number of wickets, bowling average and wickets per innings ratio (WPI) and I will be limiting each table to 10 players to ensure that the data isn’t cluttered too much. I have set up a minimum requirement of 40 wickets for a home spinner and 20 wickets for an overseas spinner to filter out part-timers. Only the period after WW2 will be considered.
(Initially, I was going to consider both Pakistan and UAE as home for Pakistan and combine the stats for both countries together but I’ve decided to present their figures separately due to the difference in pitches and conditions.)
Australia (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
IWG Johnson | 57 | 25.7 | 1.58 |
SK Warne | 319 | 26.4 | 2.47 |
SCG MacGill | 135 | 27.7 | 2.50 |
R Benaud | 104 | 30.7 | 1.93 |
NM Lyon | 191 | 31.9 | 2.08 |
B Yardley | 79 | 32.2 | 2.19 |
AA Mallett | 63 | 32.8 | 1.62 |
JW Gleeson | 49 | 34.8 | 1.62 |
So, first of all, there are no surprises as to who dominates this list. Warne has taken the most wickets with the second-best bowling average. MacGill is pretty close behind in terms of average and WPI ratio while Lyon is currently just shy of 200 wickets at home.
Australia (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
G Miller (ENG) | 36 | 22.5 | 1.71 |
BS Bedi (INDIA) | 35 | 27.5 | 2.50 |
HJ Tayfield (SA) | 30 | 28.1 | 3.33 |
NS Yadav (INDIA) | 23 | 28.1 | 2.56 |
Iqbal Qasim (PAK) | 21 | 29.0 | 2.10 |
BS Chandrasekhar (INDIA) | 29 | 30.3 | 2.23 |
EAS Prasanna (INDIA) | 31 | 31.1 | 2.07 |
DL Underwood (ENG) | 50 | 31.5 | 1.85 |
JE Emburey (ENG) | 35 | 32.1 | 1.75 |
AL Valentine (WI) | 38 | 32.2 | 2.24 |
While reviewing this list, I made an interesting observation. Most of the players are from the 70s and 80s era, some of which (e.g. Geoff Miller) had played a few games against a Packer-weakened Australian team which contributed to better bowling averages when compared to spinners from other eras.
Bangladesh (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
Mehidy Hasan Miraz | 61 | 21.4 | 3.05 |
Taijul Islam | 93 | 27.1 | 2.66 |
Shakib Al Hasan | 142 | 31.1 | 2.25 |
Mohammad Rafique | 66 | 35.2 | 2.36 |
Enamul Haque jnr | 35 | 36.2 | 1.84 |
Due to the lack of players fulfilling the minimum cut-off criteria, I had to reduce the wickets cut-off for the local bowlers to 30 and overseas bowlers to 15.
There’s not much to glean from the figures besides the fact that Shakib is Bangladesh’s best bowler. However, there are some encouraging signs of potential from the current batch of spinners.
Bangladesh (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
DL Vettori (NZ) | 34 | 12.4 | 4.86 |
NM Lyon (AUS) | 22 | 14.3 | 5.50 |
A Kumble (INDIA) | 15 | 16.5 | 2.50 |
SCG MacGill (AUS) | 16 | 18.8 | 4.00 |
M Muralitharan (SL) | 29 | 19.4 | 3.63 |
D Bishoo (WI) | 18 | 23.8 | 3.00 |
GP Swann (ENG) | 16 | 25.3 | 4.00 |
MDK Perera (SL) | 15 | 38.5 | 1.88 |
England (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
JC Laker | 135 | 18.1 | 2.45 |
GAR Lock | 104 | 19.5 | 2.08 |
JH Wardle | 57 | 20.7 | 2.04 |
DL Underwood | 145 | 24.2 | 1.99 |
R Illingworth | 102 | 27.1 | 1.44 |
MS Panesar | 81 | 28.8 | 2.13 |
GP Swann | 120 | 28.9 | 2.11 |
PCR Tufnell | 48 | 29.0 | 2.40 |
FJ Titmus | 54 | 29.7 | 1.42 |
MM Ali | 98 | 32.5 | 1.72 |
Here, the list is topped by one of England’s greatest spin pairs in Jim Laker and Tony Lock while Derek Underwood has taken the most wickets. Monty and Swann have very similar stats at home which actually surprised me since I consider Swann to be the better spinner.
England (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
M Muralitharan (SL) | 48 | 19.2 | 4.80 |
SK Warne (AUS) | 129 | 21.9 | 2.93 |
AL Valentine (WI) | 33 | 23.1 | 3.30 |
LR Gibbs (WI) | 62 | 26.1 | 2.07 |
HJ Tayfield (SA) | 38 | 26.9 | 2.71 |
TBA May (AUS) | 21 | 28.2 | 2.10 |
S Ramadhin (WI) | 40 | 28.8 | 2.86 |
Mushtaq Ahmed (PAK) | 32 | 28.8 | 2.46 |
DL Vettori (NZ) | 26 | 29.9 | 2.00 |
NM Lyon (AUS) | 45 | 31.6 | 1.80 |
Interestingly enough, England is the only country where both Murali and Warne occupy the first two spots which I find to be extremely fitting given how cricket originated in England and English media’s propensity to hype up performances in England.
India (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
ND Hirwani | 45 | 16.6 | 3.46 |
RA Jadeja | 157 | 21.1 | 2.42 |
R Ashwin | 254 | 22.8 | 3.06 |
BS Bedi | 137 | 24.0 | 2.54 |
SLV Raju | 71 | 24.0 | 2.37 |
A Kumble | 350 | 24.9 | 3.04 |
DR Doshi | 77 | 25.4 | 2.08 |
MH Mankad | 103 | 26.5 | 2.71 |
EAS Prasanna | 95 | 26.9 | 2.32 |
PP Ojha | 101 | 27.5 | 2.53 |
I found the results here to be slightly surprising with both Ashwin and Jadeja boasting phenomenal averages compared to their past contemporaries. Bishen Bedi of the fabled Indian spin quartet has the next best bowling figures while Kumble has taken the most wickets.
India (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
R Benaud (AUS) | 52 | 18.4 | 3.25 |
AA Mallett (AUS) | 28 | 19.1 | 2.80 |
Saqlain Mushtaq (PAK) | 24 | 20.9 | 4.00 |
LR Gibbs (WI) | 39 | 23.4 | 2.17 |
DL Underwood (ENG) | 54 | 26.5 | 1.86 |
FJ Titmus (ENG) | 27 | 27.7 | 2.70 |
DA Allen (ENG) | 21 | 27.8 | 2.63 |
R Tattersall (ENG) | 21 | 28 | 2.63 |
GAR Lock (ENG) | 22 | 28.5 | 2.75 |
GP Swann (ENG) | 28 | 29 | 2.55 |
Richie Benaud leads the overseas list which contains an unusually high number of Englishmen. What’s interesting is that only two modern spinners, Saqlain and Swann, appear in this list and it shows why their teams were so successful in their tours to India.
New Zealand (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
JG Bracewell | 38 | 29.4 | 1.90 |
SL Boock | 35 | 35.6 | 1.52 |
DL Vettori | 159 | 37.1 | 1.62 |
DN Patel | 49 | 40.2 | 1.48 |
Once again, due to the lack of players fulfilling the minimum cut-off criteria, I had to reduce the wickets cut-off for the local bowlers to 30.
Vettori is the most successful spinner by far in terms of wickets with no other spinner having taken more than 50 wickets.
New Zealand (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
DL Underwood (ENG) | 24 | 13.5 | 3.43 |
S Ramadhin (WI) | 32 | 15.1 | 2.91 |
AL Valentine (WI) | 23 | 18.9 | 2.09 |
EAS Prasanna (INDIA) | 35 | 19.3 | 2.92 |
M Muralitharan (SL) | 30 | 20.0 | 3.33 |
SK Warne (AUS) | 49 | 21.3 | 2.72 |
Harbhajan Singh (INDIA) | 21 | 24.2 | 1.91 |
BS Bedi (INDIA) | 20 | 24.7 | 2.00 |
Intikhab Alam (PAK) | 20 | 25.6 | 1.82 |
PCR Tufnell (ENG) | 23 | 26.5 | 2.09 |
Overseas spinners have found way more success in NZ than the local spinners, with players from various countries and different eras having excellent figures. This confirms the huge gulf in quality between the NZ spinners and rest of the world.
Pakistan (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
Pervez Sajjad | 40 | 20.3 | 2.11 |
Iqbal Qasim | 111 | 25.2 | 2.22 |
Abdul Qadir | 168 | 26.8 | 2.47 |
Saqlain Mushtaq | 77 | 29.2 | 2.26 |
Tauseef Ahmed | 57 | 29.5 | 1.50 |
Intikhab Alam | 71 | 31.0 | 1.92 |
Danish Kaneria | 109 | 32.8 | 2.48 |
Mushtaq Ahmed | 67 | 34.7 | 1.81 |
Pervez Sajjad leads the list here in terms of average while Qadir leads the list in terms of wickets. I’ve always felt Iqbal Qasim to be extremely underrated who got overshadowed by Qadir despite having better stats.
It is interesting to note that Mushtaq Ahmed has the worst figures among the Pakistani spinners. He’s one of those rare Asian spinners who has been more successful away on unhelpful wickets than at home.
Pakistan (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
SP Gupte (INDIA) | 21 | 22.7 | 2.33 |
M Muralitharan (SL) | 50 | 25.0 | 3.33 |
NGB Cook (ENG) | 21 | 30.4 | 2.10 |
TBA May (AUS) | 20 | 32.2 | 2.22 |
AF Giles (ENG) | 20 | 32.9 | 2.22 |
A Kumble (INDIA) | 24 | 42.4 | 2.40 |
A relative lack of wickets for overseas spinners compared to other countries really surprised me. Only one spinner, Murali, has more than 25 wickets in Pakistan. However, it is important to note that the likes of Warne, MacGill and Herath did not play much in Pakistan despite having been very successful against the team.
South Africa (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
HJ Tayfield | 92 | 25.8 | 2.71 |
PR Adams | 57 | 33.5 | 1.78 |
KA Maharaj | 52 | 34.0 | 1.63 |
PL Harris | 48 | 34.1 | 1.55 |
Just like NZ, there is a serious dearth of good quality South African spinners. The only one who could be considered world class is the off-spinner, Hugh Tayfield from the 50s. He has impressive stats in both Australia and England along with a good record at home.
South Africa (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
JH Wardle (ENG) | 26 | 13.8 | 3.25 |
R Benaud (AUS) | 30 | 21.9 | 3.33 |
SK Warne (AUS) | 61 | 24.3 | 2.77 |
M Muralitharan (SL) | 35 | 26.0 | 3.50 |
JC Alabaster (NZ) | 22 | 28.0 | 2.75 |
GP Swann (ENG) | 21 | 31.4 | 3.00 |
A Kumble (INDIA) | 45 | 32.0 | 1.88 |
NM Lyon (AUS) | 28 | 39.8 | 1.65 |
It's interesting to see the list dominated by non-Asian spinners which sort of indicates that spinners from SENA countries have a better idea on how to bowl on bouncier, non-spinning pitches compared to Asian spinners. But it also needs to be pointed out the SA were banned from international cricket from 1970 to 1991 which meant that Asian spinners from that period never got to play in SA.
Sri Lanka (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
M Muralitharan | 493 | 19.6 | 3.68 |
HMRKB Herath | 278 | 23.7 | 3.02 |
MDK Perera | 103 | 28.8 | 2.64 |
ST Jayasuriya | 66 | 31.8 | 0.80 |
BAW Mendis | 53 | 32.8 | 2.30 |
S Randiv | 41 | 37.0 | 2.16 |
HDPK Dharmasena | 43 | 39.9 | 1.39 |
Murali tops the list here with a whopping 490+ wickets followed by Herath with 270+ wickets. Sri Lanka have been blessed with two great spinners whose careers have encompassed the majority of their short test history. However, I can’t help but feel that SL have relied too much on them to carry the whole bowling attack. With Dilruwan Perera also nearing retirement, it will be interesting to see where SL go from here.
Sri Lanka (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
Yasir Shah (PAK) | 24 | 19.3 | 4.00 |
SK Warne (AUS) | 37 | 21.5 | 2.64 |
R Ashwin (INDIA) | 38 | 21.6 | 3.17 |
DL Vettori (NZ) | 30 | 26.4 | 2.73 |
Saeed Ajmal (PAK) | 38 | 32.4 | 2.38 |
NM Lyon (AUS) | 24 | 33.6 | 2.00 |
AF Giles (ENG) | 25 | 33.9 | 2.50 |
N Boje (SA) | 25 | 43.8 | 2.08 |
A Kumble (INDIA) | 30 | 44.6 | 2.31 |
Harbhajan Singh (INDIA) | 26 | 48.6 | 1.63 |
Various overseas spinners have found success in Sri Lanka, especially in the past decade with Yasir topping the list with a phenomenal WPI ratio.
UAE (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
Yasir Shah | 116 | 24.6 | 3.52 |
Saeed Ajmal | 67 | 26.5 | 2.91 |
Abdur Rehman | 38 | 30.5 | 2.38 |
Zulfiqar Babar | 45 | 37.5 | 2.05 |
Once again, due to the lack of players fulfilling the minimum cut-off criteria, I had to reduce the wickets cut-off for the local bowlers to 30 and the overseas bowlers to 15.
As can be seen from the figures, there has been an over-reliance on the premier spinner by Pakistan in the past decade.
UAE (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
SK Warne (AUS) | 16 | 9.6 | 4.00 |
D Bishoo (WI) | 18 | 27.0 | 3.00 |
HMRKB Herath (SL) | 40 | 28.7 | 2.50 |
NM Lyon (AUS) | 15 | 53.8 | 1.88 |
West Indies (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
LR Gibbs | 126 | 29.7 | 2.14 |
S Shillingford | 47 | 29.9 | 2.76 |
S Ramadhin | 58 | 32.8 | 1.81 |
SJ Benn | 64 | 34.5 | 2.37 |
AL Valentine | 45 | 39.8 | 1.80 |
CL Hooper | 62 | 39.9 | 0.93 |
D Bishoo | 49 | 40.7 | 1.69 |
The list is topped by Lance Gibbs who’s known as the first spinner to have taken 300 test wickets. It is interesting to note that the West Indian spin pair of Alf Valentine and Sonny Ramadhin were more successful away than at home, especially in England. The rest of the West Indian spinners, with the exception of Shillingford, have been pretty underwhelming.
West Indies (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
Shakib Al Hasan (BDESH) | 21 | 19.4 | 3.00 |
Yasir Shah (PAK) | 25 | 22.0 | 4.17 |
M Muralitharan (SL) | 37 | 23.0 | 3.36 |
NM Lyon (AUS) | 21 | 23.4 | 2.33 |
Harbhajan Singh (INDIA) | 36 | 25.9 | 2.25 |
MM Ali (ENG) | 20 | 27.1 | 2.22 |
SP Gupte (INDIA) | 27 | 29.2 | 3.00 |
BS Chandrasekhar (INDIA) | 21 | 31.2 | 3.50 |
A Kumble (INDIA) | 45 | 31.3 | 2.65 |
JC Laker (ENG) | 32 | 31.8 | 2.29 |
The overseas list is dominated by modern day spinners which I believe is due to pitches having become more conductive to spin over the past couple of decades. A weak West Indian batting lineup must have played a role in this, too.
Zimbabwe (Home Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
RW Price | 61 | 32.9 | 2.35 |
PA Strang | 37 | 34.8 | 1.76 |
AG Cremer | 30 | 52.5 | 1.88 |
Again, due to the lack of players fulfilling the minimum cut-off criteria, I had to reduce the wickets cut-off for the local bowlers to 30 and the overseas bowlers to 15.
There is not a lot for me to say here besides the fact that Zimbabwe haven’t had many good spinners besides Ray Price and Paul Strang.
Zimbabwe (Away Spinners) Player | Wickets | Average | WPI |
HMRKB Herath (SL) | 19 | 15.1 | 4.75 |
DN Patel (NZ) | 15 | 20.3 | 3.75 |
Saeed Ajmal (PAK) | 20 | 23.1 | 3.33 |
DL Vettori (NZ) | 26 | 25.3 | 2.36 |
M Muralitharan (SL) | 26 | 27.5 | 2.17 |
Harbhajan Singh (INDIA) | 19 | 27.6 | 1.90 |
Saqlain Mushtaq (PAK) | 15 | 29.7 | 2.50 |
So, there you have it. I've tried to make a detailed list, comparing the success of spinners (both home and away) in each country and I hope you found it informative.
edit: fixed table formatting. Ugh, reddit's table formatting is a pain in the ass.
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