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Cricket > Columns > Ananth Narayanan August 17, 2000 |
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Test players' performances - an analytical review
Ananth Narayanan
This negates the not out factor and is a true indication of the batsman's contribution. Again, Bradman leads the pack by 35 runs. The surprising factor is that the next two batsmen have scored nearly 100 runs per test. Lara leads the current batsmen with 84.7 runs per test followed by Tendulkar, with 79.4 runs per test. 80 seems to be an acceptable figure for evaluating a batsman's greatness.
A very rarely done analysis is the ability of batsmen to play "big innings". Not content to stop at pre-conceived landmarks, but go ahead and play on for longer innings. The value to the teams will be enormous since this allows building of multiple big partnerships and big scores. In this case, I have taken the 100+ innings (just a cut-off point, could as well be 99) of batsmen who have scored at least 10 100s and averaged the same. No surprise that Bradman is still the top batsman (Surprise comes in the next para). Zaheer Abbas was great and comparable to Bradman, in converting 100s to 200s. Of the modern players Lara is leading with a high Index of 169.3. Tendulkar is out of the top 20 with 142.9. The surprise is Jayasuriya, who is out of the list because of the selection criteria. In the seven 100s he has scored, he has a BII of 187.7, ahead of Bradman.
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