SJS
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Here is an excercise for all you cricket lists buffs.
Select a touring squad of sixteen from the players who played in this Test series for both India and Australia. Then out of the sixteen choose a twelve for the playing squad (the twelfth man to depend on conditions)
You have to justify at least the more contentious selections (or all of them if you widh). Stats can be used to support the argument but as someone I read recently said, stats are good to support an argument but never a proof of anything by themselves
Here are the series stats
Batting :-
Bowling :-
Select a touring squad of sixteen from the players who played in this Test series for both India and Australia. Then out of the sixteen choose a twelve for the playing squad (the twelfth man to depend on conditions)
You have to justify at least the more contentious selections (or all of them if you widh). Stats can be used to support the argument but as someone I read recently said, stats are good to support an argument but never a proof of anything by themselves
Here are the series stats
Batting :-
Code:
[B]Player Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 0 4s 6s[/B]
G Gambhir (India) 3 6 0 463 206 77.16 907 51.04 2 1 0 54 2
SR Tendulkar (India) 4 8 1 396 109 56.57 756 52.38 1 2 0 46 0
MEK Hussey (Aus) 4 7 0 394 146 56.28 876 44.97 1 3 0 42 1
VVS Laxman (India) 4 7 3 381 200* 95.25 779 48.90 1 2 1 40 0
V Sehwag (India) 4 8 0 351 92 43.87 426 82.39 0 3 0 43 2
SM Katich (Aus) 4 8 1 349 102 49.85 720 48.47 1 2 0 44 0
SC Ganguly (India) 4 8 2 324 102 54.00 660 49.09 1 1 1 27 2
MS Dhoni (India) 4 6 1 307 92 61.40 466 65.87 0 4 0 23 6
RT Ponting (Aus) 4 7 0 266 123 38.00 523 50.86 1 1 0 35 0
MJ Clarke (Aus) 4 7 0 251 112 35.85 576 43.57 1 1 0 25 1
ML Hayden (Aus) 4 8 1 234 83 33.42 368 63.58 0 2 2 33 2
SR Watson (Aus) 4 7 0 170 78 24.28 382 44.50 0 1 0 24 1
BJ Haddin (Aus) 4 7 1 163 37 27.16 430 37.90 0 0 0 18 1
CL White (Aus) 4 7 2 146 46 29.20 330 44.24 0 0 0 15 1
Harbhajan Singh (India) 3 4 1 125 54 41.66 237 52.74 0 2 0 14 0
R Dravid (India) 4 7 0 120 51 17.14 274 43.79 0 1 1 18 0
Z Khan (India) 4 5 2 94 57* 31.33 179 52.51 0 1 0 13 0
M Vijay (India) 1 2 0 74 41 37.00 134 55.22 0 0 0 7 0
B Lee (Aus) 4 6 1 71 35 14.20 212 33.49 0 0 2 10 0
MG Johnson (Aus) 4 6 1 67 26 13.40 133 50.37 0 0 0 7 1
A Kumble (India) 2 2 0 50 45 25.00 106 47.16 0 0 0 7 0
I Sharma (India) 4 5 1 17 9 4.25 82 20.73 0 0 1 2 0
JJ Krejza (Aus) 1 2 0 9 5 4.50 38 23.68 0 0 0 0 0
A Mishra (India) 3 3 1 7 7 3.50 9 77.77 0 0 1 1 0
SR Clark (Aus) 2 2 2 1 1* - 3 33.33 0 0 0 0 0
PM Siddle (Aus) 1 2 1 0 0* 0.00 12 0.00 0 0 1 0 0
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[B]Player Mat Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 5 10[/B]
I Sharma (India) 4 138.0 31 406 15 4/77 7/117 27.06 2.94 55.2 0 0
Harbhajan Singh (India) 3 172.2 34 433 15 4/64 7/158 28.86 2.51 68.9 0 0
A Mishra (India) 3 122.0 29 337 14 5/71 7/106 24.07 2.76 52.2 1 0
MG Johnson (Aus) 4 166.0 30 521 13 4/70 5/93 40.07 3.13 76.6 0 0
JJ Krejza (Aus) 1 74.5 4 358 12 8/215 12/358 29.83 4.78 37.4 1 1
Z Khan (India) 4 145.5 31 475 11 5/91 6/137 43.18 3.25 79.5 1 0
SR Watson (Aus) 4 115.4 20 321 10 4/42 5/84 32.10 2.77 69.4 0 0
B Lee (Aus) 4 148.0 24 493 8 2/48 3/167 61.62 3.33 111.0 0 0
V Sehwag (India) 4 82.0 14 217 5 5/104 5/118 43.40 2.64 98.4 1 0
CL White (Aus) 4 93.0 8 342 5 2/71 3/119 68.40 3.67 111.6 0 0
PM Siddle (Aus) 1 43.0 6 176 4 3/114 4/176 44.00 4.09 64.5 0 0
A Kumble (India) 2 98.3 15 286 3 3/112 3/126 95.33 2.90 197.0 0 0
SR Clark (Aus) 2 73.0 24 161 2 1/12 1/70 80.50 2.20 219.0 0 0
MJ Clarke (Aus) 4 85.3 18 256 2 2/38 2/78 128.00 2.99 256.5 0 0
SM Katich (Aus) 4 19.0 3 73 1 1/60 1/65 73.00 3.84 114.0 0 0
RT Ponting (Aus) 4 2.0 0 11 0 - - - 5.50 - 0 0
SR Tendulkar (India) 4 3.0 0 15 0 - - - 5.00 - 0 0
MEK Hussey (Aus) 4 12.0 2 41 0 - - - 3.41 - 0 0