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Fast bowling in India on flat wickets. Bowlers with the best averages there
Donald 4 Tests 17 wickets at 16.11 econ 2.25 s/r 42.80 Walsh 7 Tests 43 wickets at 18.55 econ 2.87 s/r 38.70 Roberts 7 Tests 37 wickets at 19.81 econ 2.77 s/r 42.80 Steyn 3 Tests 15 wickets at 20.20 econ 3.56 s/r 34.00 McGrath 8 Tests 33 wickets at 21.30 econ 2.24 s/r 56.90 Gillespie 7 Tests 33 wickets at 21.72 econ 2.76 s/r 47.10 Holding 6 Tests 30 wickets at 22.10 econ 2.96 s/r 44.70 Hadlee 6 Tests 31 wickets at 22.22 econ 3.02 s/r 44.00 Willis 10 Tests 32 wickets at 22.37 econ 2.71 s/r 49.50 Hoggard 6 Tests 22 wickets at 23.31 econ 2.45 s/r 56.90 and the ones who didn't do so well Younis 2 Tests 2 wickets at 76.50 econ 3.12 s/r 147.00 Vaas 5 Tests 11 wickets at 41.27 econ 2.78 s/r 88.80 Lee 2 Tests 4 wickets at 59.25 econ 3.16 s/r 112.50 Sami 6 Tests 14 wickets at 69.14 econ 3.65 s/r 113.50 Tanvir 2 Tests 5 wickets at 63.20 econ 3.76 s/r 100.80 |
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- the wicket and pick the bowler most likely to get wickets - the bowler most likely to get runs as well - most first class bowling experience - who performed better in the warm up games They could have already decided on which player was the reserve and give the chosen bowler a series especially if they have decided to blood a new young bowler if one of the fast bowlers were coming to the end of their career. Take Johnson, he has another 10 years of bowling and they need to stick with him. If they had dropped him for a more experienced bowler after a poor match or two then where do they go when his replacement doesn't do well either. That has been England's problem, to find the third bowler for Gough and Caddick and then Hoggard and Harmison. There has been so much chopping and changing. Giddins, Silverwood, Cork, Tudor, Ormond, Johnson, Kirtley, Ali, Bicknell, Saggers, Plunkett, Mahmood, Lewis, Tremlett, Pattinson, a mixed bunch. In Gillespie's first three Tests he had taken 4 wickets at 46.00. McGrath in his first 5 Tests 12 wickets at 40.33. Many of the bowlers like Ormond, Tremlett, Johnson, Ali, Saggers, Lewis never got to more than 3 Tests. If a bowler is going to play as an injury replacement for one Test then it is the bowler most likely to take the most wickets in the match. If it is for a series then I would go for the younger bowler but more important would be variety. Every bowler offering something different. |
Yes, I'd agree with that.
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Our bowlers and the way they take their Test wickets and their dismissals by batting order - top order (1-3) middle (4-7) lower (8-11)
Bowled caught c/behind lbw 18.4% - 39.5% - 18.4% - 23.7% - Sidebottom 18.5% - 44.4% - 26.4% - 10.6% - Harmison 15.0% - 47.1% - 23.8% - 13.1% - Flintoff 18.2% - 50.0% - 27.3% - 04.5% - Broad 29.8% - 39.4% - 22.1% - 08.7% - Anderson 14.5% - 40.3% - 19.0% - 26.2% - Hoggard 18.4% - 43.9% - 07.9% - 29.0% - Panesar - stumped 3.5% - h/w - 0.9% Top order - Middle - Lower 34.2% - 36.8% - 28.9% - Sidebottom 31.0% - 37.5% - 31.5% - Harmison 30.6% - 46.6% - 22.8% - Flintoff 27.3% - 31.8% - 40.9% - Broad 35.6% - 38.5% - 26.0% - Anderson 39.1% - 35.9% - 25.0% - Hoggard 23.7% - 43.0% - 33.3% - Panesar |
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Anderson does get some pretty spectacular bowled wickets though. Ganguly at Lords, Tendulkar at the Oval and McCullum at NZ stick long in the memory.
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He took 37 wickets at 19.75 apiece with an economy rate of 2.74 and strike rate 43.1, putting him right near the top of your list. |
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Donald 4 Tests 17 wickets at 16.11 econ 2.25 s/r 42.80 Walsh 7 Tests 43 wickets at 18.55 econ 2.87 s/r 38.70 Lever 8 Tests 37 wickets at 19.75 econ 2.74 s/r 43.10 Roberts 7 Tests 37 wickets at 19.81 econ 2.77 s/r 42.80 Steyn 3 Tests 15 wickets at 20.20 econ 3.56 s/r 34.00 McGrath 8 Tests 33 wickets at 21.30 econ 2.24 s/r 56.90 Gillespie 7 Tests 33 wickets at 21.72 econ 2.76 s/r 47.10 Holding 6 Tests 30 wickets at 22.10 econ 2.96 s/r 44.70 Hadlee 6 Tests 31 wickets at 22.22 econ 3.02 s/r 44.00 Willis 10 Tests 32 wickets at 22.37 econ 2.71 s/r 49.50 Hoggard 6 Tests 22 wickets at 23.31 econ 2.45 s/r 56.90 |
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![]() Well it's definite, even if New Zealand selected Bond he has said he will never play for them again. As the ICL is not recognised and never likely to be I think we can say Bond (33) has retired from international cricket. I don't blame him as New Zealand have really treated him badly. A wonderful bowler who had injury problems. 17 Tests 79 wickets at 22.39 econ 3.44 s/r 38.90 67 ODIs 125 wickets at 19.32 econ 4.20 s/r 27.50 9 20/20s 12 wickets at 20.33 econ 7.07 s/r 17.20 Best strike rate in ODIs by any bowler (1000 balls) ODI hat-trick - White, Symonds, Bracken Fastest bowler to 100 wickets in deliveries bowled 6 ODI and 3 Test MOMs 3rd best average in WCs - 30 wickets at 17.27 ODI / Test wickets Top order 42.4% / 38% Middle 35.2% / 44.3% Tail 22.4% / 17.7% Method ODIs/Tests Bowled 24.8% / 19.0% Caught 49.6% / 54.4% Caught behind 17.6% / 15.2% Lbw 8% / 11.4% Fastest ball v Canada 95.3mph (anyone know of a faster one he has bowled) |
It's a shame we won't see him on the international scene again. NZ missed a trick with letting him go to the ICL.
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No, NZ missed a trick not selecting him despite him going to the ICL.
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Time for a 6 monthly update on young bowlers 27 and under
(Johnson turned 27 four days ago and just gets in) Last figure is the ICC rankings 25 Tests - 128 wickets at 22.51 econ 3.61 s/r 37.40 - Steyn (25) .....2 29 Tests - 104 wickets at 34.51 econ 3.64 s/r 56.70 - Anderson (26)....14 29 Tests - 100 wickets at 32.26 econ 3.28 s/r 58.80 - Pathan (24).....24 28 Tests - 91 wickets at 33.80 econ 3.86 s/r 52.40 - Malinga (25).....35 31 Tests - 69 wickets at 41.05 econ 3.26 s/r 75.40 - Mortaza (25).....41 16 Tests - 67 wickets at 31.55 econ 3.51 s/r 53.90 - Gul (24)......22 20 Tests - 63 wickets at 34.69 econ 3.60 s/r 57.80 - Taylor (24).....13 11 Tests - 51 wickets at 23.13 econ 3.03 s/r 45.70 - Asif (25).....15 14 Tests - 50 wickets at 31.46 econ 3.28 s/r 57.40 - Sreesanth (25).....33 12 Tests - 46 wickets at 33.32 econ 3.22 s/r 61.90 - Johnson (27).....28 13 Tests - 40 wickets at 39.10 econ 4.02 s/r 58.20 - RP Singh (22).....43 12 Tests - 34 wickets at 33.64 econ 3.26 s/r 61.70 - Sharma (20).....36 10 Tests - 32 wickets at 32.87 econ 3.71 s/r 53.00 - Morkel (24).....45 9 Tests - 28 wickets at 33.57 econ 2.98 s/r 67.50 - Patel (25).....51 9 Tests - 24 wickets at 43.41 econ 3.24 s/r 80.30 - Broad (22).....57 9 Tests - 23 wickets at 39.82 econ 3.57 s/r 66.80 - Plunkett (23) - 5 Tests - 16 wickets at 27.37 econ 3.79 s/r 43.20 - Zondeki (26) - 3 Tests - 5 wickets at 60.40 econ 4.37 s/r 82.80 - Tait (25).....88 2 Tests - 5 wickets at 39.60 econ 3.13 s/r 75.80 - Southee (19).....75 2 Tests - 5 wickets at 63.20 econ 3.76 s/r 100.80 - Tanvir (23).....83 Fast bowlers start reaching their peak at about 29 so some of the above have a few years to go yet (especially Sharma, Southee and Broad) and need to stay fit. Only 7 of them have played in Tests in the last 6 months. 104 ODIs -148 wickets at 29.57 econ 5.21 s/r 34.00 - Pathan (24).....56 97 ODIs - 127 wickets at 30.38 econ 4.90 s/r 37.20 - Anderson (26).....31 95 ODIs - 119 wickets at 31.64 econ 4.67 s/r 40.60 - Mortaza (25).....29 79 ODIs - 104 wickets at 24.39 econ 4.65 s/r 31.40 - Maharoof (24).....20 53 ODIs - 79 wickets at 25.58 econ 4.80 s/r 31.90 - Malinga (25).....28 50 ODIs - 75 wickets at 27.04 econ 4.67 s/r 34.60 - Taylor (24).....11 42 ODIs - 65 wickets at 23.46 econ 4.72 s/r 29.80 - Johnson (27).....3 48 ODIs - 64 wickets at 28.45 econ 4.91 s/r 34.70 - Gul (24).....26 41 ODIs - 59 wickets at 31.45 econ 5.78 s/r 32.60 - Sreesanth (25).....57 45 ODIs - 59 wickets at 31.54 econ 5.29 s/r 35.70 - RP Singh (22).....54 37 ODIs - 55 wickets at 26.21 econ 4.77 s/r 32.90 - Broad (22).....5 33 ODIs - 41 wickets at 30.00 econ 4.62 s/r 38.90 - Patel (25).....43 27 ODIs - 37 wickets at 34.05 econ 5.85 s/r 34.80 - Plunkett (23) 24 ODIs - 36 wickets at 28.11 econ 4.92 s/r 34.20 - Tanvir (23).....19 31 ODIs - 36 wickets at 33.27 econ 4.67 s/r 42.70 - Asif (25).....32 18 ODIs - 33 wickets at 23.45 econ 5.46 s/r 25.70 - Tait (25).....46 30 ODIs - 25 wickets at 36.76 econ 4.97 s/r 44.30 - Rampaul (24).....79 17 ODIs - 22 wickets at 31.59 econ 5.14 s/r 36.80 - Sharma (20).....50 14 ODIs - 21 wickets at 27.33 econ 4.85 s/r 33.80 - Morkel (24).....69 10 ODIs - 18 wickets at 21.38 econ 4.69 s/r 27.30 - Southee (19).....90 18 ODIs - 18 wickets at 39.88 econ 5.74 s/r 41.60 - Steyn (25) .....93 13 ODIs - 11 wickets at 45.81 econ 5.41 s/r 50.70 - Zondeki (26) 1 ODI - 1 wicket at 26.00 econ 3.71 s/r 42.00 - Hilfenhaus (25) |
Asif - what a waste.
Broads strike rate is concerning. |
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