Good article on an often forgotten cricketer.
My own standarised average of Lohmann is 23.94 with is strike-rate also increasing to 55 from 34. However, he still took a standarised 5.39 wickets per match, and most impressive of all was his win record. He contributed to a team win in 18 innings (I define a contribution as usually 3 wickets or more). That's 18 innings in 18 matches, a 100% record, which no one else can match. The next best is Barnes with 81% and then Steyn with 78%.
Crucially, the overall aggregate of runs and wickets in matches in which Lohmann played in is 10650 runs for 630 wickets, an average of 16.90. If we take Lohmann out of it, then the runs per wicket average of those matches increases to 18.23, still a very low average.
Coupled with that, not only did Lohmann play against the minnow South Africans, but he also made merry against the weakest Australian batting lineups in history. Australia were very weak once the nucleus of the 1880-1882 team left the game, and after the famous win at the Oval in 1882, they only beat England in 5 matches until 1892, to go with 16 losses.
Just my two cents.
