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Best ODIs "Finisher"

Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
Precam got worked up when someone was saying Boucher was as good as Dhoni finishing and hence this thread.
 
zaremba

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
Sir Alex said:
Mention the name finisher and Bevan comes to mind automatically. But how deserving he is for that tag. For this I tried to get stats of all ODI batsmen in history who stay not out while guiding their teams to victory. Needless to say I am surprised that out of all batsmen who have scored more than 1000 runs chasing and seeing their team win not out, Bevan ranks last in terms of runs/innings, strike rate as well as the indexed average (SR X runs/innings)

Please find below the list :

Player Matches NO Innings Runs SR 100 50 Runs per match Index Avg
Saeed Anwar (Pak) 16 14 1165 86.48 6 6 83.21 71.96
SC Ganguly (India) 17 15 1163 87.90 5 8 77.53 68.15
SR Tendulkar (India) 27 24 1751 92.20 8 9 72.96 67.27
SP Fleming (NZ) 20 18 1319 85.37 6 8 73.28 62.56
IVA Richards (WI) 37 20 1170 102.90 3 8 58.50 60.20
PA de Silva (SL) 27 20 1288 92.52 3 10 64.40 59.58
Yuvraj Singh (India) 31 18 1023 96.41 1 11 56.83 54.79
DL Haynes (WI) 20 20 1535 71.19 4 14 76.75 54.64
Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak) 52 32 1787 86.91 3 15 55.84 48.53
MS Dhoni (India) 33 22 1075 96.06 1 8 48.86 46.94
BC Lara (WI) 32 27 1363 91.04 3 8 50.48 45.96
A Ranatunga (SL) 33 27 1366 87.78 1 11 50.59 44.41
JH Kallis (SA) 39 29 1648 74.06 2 17 56.83 42.09
M Azharuddin (India) 46 30 1419 87.70 1 12 47.30 41.48
RT Ponting (Aus) 35 28 1341 85.85 4 8 47.89 41.12
MS Atapattu (SL) 27 20 1114 73.77 2 9 55.70 41.09
Mohammad Yousuf (Pak) 31 23 1288 71.83 2 10 56.00 40.22
RB Richardson (WI) 29 24 1154 64.46 2 10 48.08 30.99
MG Bevan (Aus) 55 25 1020 68.91 1 8 40.80 28.12

:-O:blink:

I am surprised to see Anwar and ganguly leading those lists.. and despite popular criticism that tendulkar fails to see his team win he is no.3 with a fantastic runs/innings. Dhoni is in the middle of the pack and i expect him to go further up. but what amazed me was that Bevan's figures are so mediocre despite him having popular acclaim as a great finisher. Hussey is nowhere in that list.
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Interesting.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Xuhaib said:
finishing also includes finishing the first innings well.
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Finishing includes so many things that to term a batsman "a finisher" is a very silly thing indeed to do. Not a term I have the slightest of patience with.
 
zaremba

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
Richard said:
How on Earth long did that take you? And did you decide "I must be able to do that here" before trying or did you just try?
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Simple. I logged in using my Sir Alex multi, then wrote some text with the secret message in mind, in order to throw people off my trail.
 
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