Rating bowling.

Most teams have four or five bowlers, right? In a test team they will all have pretty good averages except if they're Bangladesh or Zimbabwe, right? Well I've discovered a way to rate sides on how good they are at bowling. You take a bowler, and then divide his number of wickets by the number of matches he has played, you then do this with every bowler and add up all the answers. The team with the highest number is the best bowling side. I havn't tried this out but I'm sure it will tell me Australia are the best. What does everyone think of this idea?

Not a great idea. Every bowler is different, and some teams might just have one good bowler. His average is so good that inspite of the others being bad, the overall is excellent.



These Legendators can't even come up with good threads. Just joking. Don't take it seriously

Originally posted by spin wizard You on the other hand.....

You can't think of anything bad I have done right.

I think, now that the Indianators and L******ators have become good friends, we should make a group consisting of all of us.

Originally posted by spin wizard Did you automatically put in the asterix or did the softwate automaticaly do it? And we aint joining forces at all!

I deliberately put in the asterix.

I've discovered an even better way to rate sides on their bowling...you watch them in a few different matches in different parts of the world and in different conditions, you make some judgements based on what you've seen but also leave yourself open to the views of others who have seen more of them than you have or whose knowledge of cricket is better than yours

McGrath = 4.6 per match
Lee = 3.9 per match
Johnson (first class) = 3.2 per match
Warne = 4.9 per match
Watson (first class) = 1.9 per match

Overall = 18.5 wickets per match.

Hoggard = 3.8 per match
Harmison = 4.0 per match
Flintoff = 3.0 per match
Anderson = 3.2 per match
Panesar = 3.2 per match

Overall = 17.2 wickets per match

I dont know about you but those resuls are exactly what I expected, I have written a letter to Wisden about it.

Originally posted by 70_degree_spin Is that supposed to be an attempt at an insult?

Don't start !! CM is dead right - your idea screams of naivity.

It wasn't a personal attack, I just don't think much of your idea

Originally posted by spin wizard It Won't work mate! Conditions are different all over the world. There may be more bowling track for EG in NZ than in the Sub Continent so there will be a difference.

Bingo.

I thought we'd covered that point of contention in the Best XI thread?!

Edited by Clobber

A spinner who plays in India will have greater chance of playing more often on wickets that suits him. A spinner for England will have less favourable conditions (headingly for example). Therefore, theoretcially will take less wickets at home.

Spot on Bobbi , wicket takers are gold dust in the test arena. Fred Trueman was never economical , but when England needcd a wicket , the ball was always thrown to Fred. If they wanted an end bottled up by a seamer ,they had Brian Statham , who was a real miser.

Statistics are an integral part of cricket and give some indication of a players ability , but can be hugely misleading.

Great cricketers won matches , Botham's stats aren't dazzling , but many of his performances were!!

As someone who doesn't care about stats , maybe one of the youngsters could research current Aussie 1st class stats and draw up the XI with the best batting and bowling averages. That'd be 5 batters , best allrounder , 4 bowlers and Gilchrist.

It won't be close to the current test side!!

Phillip Jacques - 58.62,

Peter Pascoe - 60.00

Ricky Ponting - 59.66

Darren Lehmann - 58.18

Michael Bevan - 57.71

Shane Watson - 49.50         30.94

Adam Gilchrist - 44.62

Martin Love -           ;           ; 11.00

Daniel Payne -                      6.00

Ben Oliver -           ;           ;    19.80

Travis Birt -           ;           ;    17.00

Great stuff BOb !! Now where are those ardent stataticians !!

Clobs , you'd make your maiden 1st class century against that mob!!

Oh! I get it now , that's their batting average and not their IQ !!