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DoG's Top 100 Test Bowlers Countdown Thread 100-1

Days of Grace

Days of Grace

International Captain
No.97

Bruce Reid (Australia) 655

Quality Points: 619
Career Points: 35

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Career: 1985-1992
Wickets: 113
Gold Performances: 2
7/51 vs. England at Melbourne 1990 (17.20)
6/66 vs. India at Melbourne 1991 (15.43)
Silver Performances: 2
Bronze Performances: 2

Overall Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 23.71 (24.64) 53.03 (55.26) 5.44
50 Innings Peak Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings (1985-1992): 23.71 53.03 5.44
Non-Home Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 35.38 69.03 3.54
Quality Opposition Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 25.88 55.19 4.83

Poor old Bruce Reid. If he stayed on the park more often, he'd probably be in the top 50. It is at this point that I should say that bowlers lose points if they have less than 50 innings overall, or less than 25 innings non-home or vs. quality opposition.
 
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Days of Grace

Days of Grace

International Captain
The first of the current bowlers. Nice Garry!

No.96

Nathan Lyon (Australia) 655

Quality Points: 579
Career Points: 77



Career: 2011-
Wickets: 306
Gold Performances: 3
7/152 vs. India at Adelaide 2014 (16.86)
8/50 vs. India at Bengaluru 2017 (16.51)
7/94 vs. Bangladesh at Chittagong 2017 (15.46)
Silver Performances: 5
Bronze Performances: 3

Overall Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 29.45 (32.22) 64.98 (62.73) 3.94
50 Innings Peak Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings (2015-2018): 26.33 60.40 4.88
Non-Home Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 28.51 62.01 4.03
Quality Opposition Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 31.33 68.31 3.72

How do I make the photos bigger? Is it just a case of finding 1000x1000 pics?
 

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Howe_zat

Howe_zat

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Hmm, yeah it could be complicated. But it makes more sense to consider quality of bowling attack when judging batsmen and quality of batting lineup when judging bowlers. A team with a great bowling lineup may in theory be a mediocre team if the batting is terrible but that shouldn't mean performances against that attack should be rated lower.

You did have a "current rating" for bowling attacks which you use in the top rated batting performances list don't you?
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It makes more sense than you think at first glance, because if your batting lineup has just piled on the runs, then when you come on to bowl you've got a massive advantage compared to if you got bowled out for double figures.

Playing well against strong overall teams means your performance was more likely to count for more in terms of match and series situation, as well as things like available strategies, confidence, pressure, etc.
 
Days of Grace

Days of Grace

International Captain
No.95

Danish Kaneria (Pakistan) 655

Quality Points: 579
Career Points: 76



Career: 2000-2010
Wickets: 261
Gold Performances: 1
7/118 vs. Sri Lanka at Karachi 2004 (16.67)
Silver Performances: 12
Bronze Performances: 4

Overall Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 31.01 (34.80) 69.35 (67.80) 4.56
50 Innings Peak Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings (2000-2005): 27.42 61.36 5.16
Non-Home Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 32.17 69.26 4.24
Quality Opposition Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 33.41 73.98 4.32
 

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Days of Grace

Days of Grace

International Captain
No.94

Shane Bond (New Zealand) 661

Quality Points: 631
Career Points: 30



Career: 2001-2009
Wickets: 87
Gold Performances: 0
Best Performance: 6/51 vs. Zimbabwe at Bulawayo 2005 (14.93)
Silver Performances: 3
Bronze Performances: 3

Overall Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 21.30 (22.09) 42.84 (38.76) 5.68
50 Innings Peak Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings (2001-2009): 21.30 42.84 5.68
Non-Home Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 22.76 44.45 5.17
Quality Opposition Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 27.88 50.15 4.28
 
Days of Grace

Days of Grace

International Captain
No.93

Chaminda Vass (Sri Lanka) 663

Quality Points: 565
Career Points: 98



Career: 1994-2009
Wickets: 355
Gold Performances: 3
7/120 vs. West Indies at Colombo (SSC) 2001 (15.22)
6/29 vs. South Africa at Colombo (SSC) 2004 (17.58)
6/22 vs. West Indies at Kandy 2005 (16.36)
Silver Performances: 3
Bronze Performances: 12

Overall Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 27.93 (29.58) 67.58 (66.02) 3.48
50 Innings Peak Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings (2002-2005): 23.31 58.79 3.92
Non-Home Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 30.84 72.34 3.48
Quality Opposition Average/Strike-Rate/Points Per Innings: 30.24 71.22 3.25
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

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Interesting start. Im loving the gold performances feature.

The overall/peak/away averages dont interest me so much but the quality opposition average does.
 
Days of Grace

Days of Grace

International Captain
I was debating beforehand whether to keep the quality opposition stat or change it out to the top 50% oppostion.

For one thing, more 19th century bowlers from England would be on the list. If you refer to the TEST TEAM RATINGS excel doc on the second post you will see that Australia didn’t become a quality oppostion until 1899.

Conversely, there are many more teams rated 100.00 or above in the 21st century.

However, if a bowler played all his matches against minnows then half of them would still count.

Interesting dilemma.
 
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