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U19 Vice-Captain
I think many would agree that there's plenty of that going around on this forum
Let's collect a few favourites here.
I'll throw in a few to start with
1) India is a terrible away ODI team.
2) The subcontinent teams are poor tourists in ODIs.
3) The above tend to struggle to bat well outside their own countries.
With regard to the above, here's a few facts that certain people here can shove wherever they want
I chose to collect all matches played under Saurav Ganguly's captaincy for India. That turned out to be a 'nice' number- 20. So chose the last 20 away matches for ALL teams to compare.
arranged in order of decreasing away win percentage; column headers are Team name, No. of away matches considered, no. of these won, no. lost, no. tied, win percentage, highest score, lowest score:
Australia: 20 14 5 1 0 72% 338 162
Pakistan: 20 13 7 0 0 65% 302 135
India: 20 10 7 0 3 59% 326 123
Sri Lanka: 20 11 9 0 0 55% 274 191
S. Africa: 20 10 9 1 0 52% 363 106
England: 20 10 10 0 0 50% 280 89
W.Indies: 20 9 11 0 0 45% 324 119
Zimbabwe: 20 8 12 0 0 40% 309 38
and .... last but not the least....
N.Zealand: 20 4 15 0 1 21% 291 122
[Edited on 23/11/2002 by full_length]
Let's collect a few favourites here.
I'll throw in a few to start with
1) India is a terrible away ODI team.
2) The subcontinent teams are poor tourists in ODIs.
3) The above tend to struggle to bat well outside their own countries.
With regard to the above, here's a few facts that certain people here can shove wherever they want
I chose to collect all matches played under Saurav Ganguly's captaincy for India. That turned out to be a 'nice' number- 20. So chose the last 20 away matches for ALL teams to compare.
arranged in order of decreasing away win percentage; column headers are Team name, No. of away matches considered, no. of these won, no. lost, no. tied, win percentage, highest score, lowest score:
Australia: 20 14 5 1 0 72% 338 162
Pakistan: 20 13 7 0 0 65% 302 135
India: 20 10 7 0 3 59% 326 123
Sri Lanka: 20 11 9 0 0 55% 274 191
S. Africa: 20 10 9 1 0 52% 363 106
England: 20 10 10 0 0 50% 280 89
W.Indies: 20 9 11 0 0 45% 324 119
Zimbabwe: 20 8 12 0 0 40% 309 38
and .... last but not the least....
N.Zealand: 20 4 15 0 1 21% 291 122
[Edited on 23/11/2002 by full_length]