Strike Rates

[Blaze]

Who has the best strike rates in test match cricket?

Could someone give me a top 10 or something?

 

[superkingdave]

http://www.howstat.com.au/cricket/Statistics/Bowling/BowlingStrikerate.asp

Lohmann 34.12
Bond 37.34
Ferris 37.74
SF Barnes 41.66
Vogler 43.19
Younis 43.50
Akhtar 44.35
Blythe 44.38
Spoforth 44.52
W Barne 44.88
=JC Lawson 44.88

 

[Blaze]

Sorry meant batting.

 

[superkingdave]

http://www.howstat.com.au/cricket/Statistics/Batting/BattingAverages.asp?Stat=3

 

[The Baconator]

This was here a while ago, it's not too exact or up to date though.

 

[Blaze]

Thanks. I wanted to see where McCullum was on that list. He doesn't appear to be there but on his cricinfo profile it says his strike rate is 60 which would place him in the top 10. You probably have to play 20 tests or score a certain amount of runs to get on that list.

 

[thierry henry]

Funnily enough McCullum's ODI strike rate is quite poor, I believe it may have just recently nudged up to 70.

 

[Blaze]

Funnily enough McCullum's ODI strike rate is quite poor, I believe it may have just recently nudged up to 70.

Because he comes in when we collapse and has to rebuild I guess. He certainly has a dash when required to do so.

 

[thierry henry]

Actually, I can remember a number of occasions where we have been dashing, but McCullum has been playing the role of nudger.

 

[superkingdave]

1000 runs minimum i believe, he has only score 893 with a SR of 60.83

 

[BoyBrumby]

Jeez, Gilly's good, isn't he? When you see his career stats it makes our efforts in subduing him in The Ashes seem all the greater.

Looking at some of the older players on Howstat & cricinfo they don't actually have SRs listed, presuambly because of incomplete records. I don't many would be up there at 65+ tho.

 

[Blaze]

Actually, I can remember a number of occasions where we have been dashing, but McCullum has been playing the role of nudger.

Yeah he compliments the hitters nicely. But when required to do so he can hit the ball a fair way. NZ vs. SA ODI at Wellington him and Oram hit something like 70 off the last 5 overs.

 

[Retox]

Yeah he compliments the hitters nicely. But when required to do so he can hit the ball a fair way. NZ vs. SA ODI at Wellington him and Oram hit something like 70 off the last 5 overs.

McCullum is good. he can either go out and have a slog or have a nudge around.

 

[Prince EWS]

Actually, I can remember a number of occasions where we have been dashing, but McCullum has been playing the role of nudger.

Yeah, he does that when there is an established batsman at the crease, because hes lightning between the wickets. He just gives the strike back.

 

[shaka]

http://www.howstat.com.au/cricket/Statistics/Bowling/BowlingStrikerate.asp

Lohmann 34.12
Bond 37.34
Ferris 37.74
SF Barnes 41.66
Vogler 43.19
Younis 43.50
Akhtar 44.35
Blythe 44.38
Spoforth 44.52
W Barne 44.88
=JC Lawson 44.88

JEC Franklin (NZ) also has a strike rate of 44.8. According to cricinfo, which has the top ten as:
Lohman 34.1
Bond 37.3
Ferris 37.7
Barnes 41.6
Vogler 43.1
Younis 43.4
Akhtar 44.3
Spofforth 44.5
Lawson 44.8
Barnes 44.8
Franklin 44.8

 

[Prince EWS]

Well you got your rounding all wrong, and Franklin would actually be ahead of Lawson and Barnes.

But anyway, thats a great achievement for someone who is known as a pretty average bowler in general. I know he's played a big against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, but on the other side of the coin, hes also played a lot against Australia and also some tests against England, so I think hes an under-rated bowler.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Jeez, Gilly's good, isn't he? When you see his career stats it makes our efforts in subduing him in The Ashes seem all the greater.

Looking at some of the older players on Howstat & cricinfo they don't actually have SRs listed, presuambly because of incomplete records. I don't many would be up there at 65+ tho.

Yeah, well that's there the Hurricane list thing that was linked on the forum comes in, where they took over rates and time at the crease to work out rough strike rates for batsmen from the past. Victor Trumper's scoring rate is one of the more remarkable, given the pitches he played on.

 

[southern man]

Funnily enough McCullum's ODI strike rate is quite poor, I believe it may have just recently nudged up to 70.

Im his career he has been stuffed around the batting order, never really knowing his role, always have to adapt. But with Barces keeping him at 7/8 recently he has gotten to know how to play that role, and is gaining confidence by scoring a good amount of runs there. The mail I have is that after the world cup when flem and Astle might be packing the pads for the last time, that after that Ryder and McCullum might be walking out together at the start of our innings.

 

[shaka]

lawson has 2244 balls and taken 50 wickets (44.88), Barnes has 2289 and taken 51 wickets (48.882), and Franklin has 2110 and taken 47 wickets, so in fact his is 48.89
Hence everyone's should be rounded to 44.9

 

[Prince EWS]

lawson has 2244 balls and taken 50 wickets (44.88), Barnes has 2289 and taken 51 wickets (48.882), and Franklin has 2110 and taken 47 wickets, so in fact his is 48.89
Hence everyone's should be rounded to 44.9

Indeed, but you rounded them all to 44.8.