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[ataraxia]

Weekes batted 57 times at number 4, and averaged 64.

He batted nine times at number 5, and averaged 26.

batting position stats are generally career phase stats. Weekes'll be a better five than Nourse.

 

[trundler]

Weekes
Verity

 

[morgieb]

Nourse
Verity

Change Nourse to Weekes.

 

[steve132]

Weekes
Grimmett

 

[TheJediBrah]

Weekes batted 57 times at number 4, and averaged 64.

He batted nine times at number 5, and averaged 26.

surely you're not seriously suggesting based on this that he's better batting at no.4 than at no.5

 

[HookShot]

surely you're not seriously suggesting based on this that he's better batting at no.4 than at no.5

Geoff Boycott averaged only 44 when he faced the first ball of the innings (No.1);
but 55 when he started the innings down the non-strikers end (No.2).

So basically Geoff Boycott improved his average by not facing the bowling.

*Stats*

Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com

stats.espncricinfo.com

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

I'm a bit surprised by the level of consensus on the #4. Not that Weekes isn't gun, but I had the impression that he wasn't even CW's clear pick amongst the 3 Ws (Walcott seems to get talked up more than him here).

 

[The Sean]

surely you're not seriously suggesting based on this that he's better batting at no.4 than at no.5

Ha ha, to be fair to Ataraxia in my original comment I too often select players almost interchangeably at 4 and 5, and I have no issue with Nourse getting picked here as he was a great batsman. I just called out that not picking Weekes "because he's better suited to batting at 5" isn't borne out by his career.

 

[The Sean]

I'm a bit surprised by the level of consensus on the #4. Not that Weekes isn't gun, but I had the impression that he wasn't even CW's clear pick amongst the 3 Ws (Walcott seems to get talked up more than him here).

I picked Walcott to bat at 3 in this team - he tended to bat at 3 or 5, either side of Weekes who usually batted at 4.

I've traditionally had Weekes fractionally ahead as the best of the Ws, but there's actually a fair argument for it to be Walcott, especially after he gave up the gloves and became a specialist bat. He has been called a bit of a home-track bully due to his huge home v away average discrepancy, but I've noted before that this could be said to have been as much a factor of the vagaries of Test scheduling at the time as anything else. It just so happens that Walcott's absolute peak years as a batsman coincided with the West Indies playing exclusively at home.

 

[kyear2]

From what I've read, Weekes seemed to be regarded as the best of the three during their playing days. Some saw him as the next if not equal of Headley.
His record against Australia was affected by a bad thigh injury that left his a shell of his former self.

 

[ataraxia]

Weekes is the best of the three Ws for me FWIW.

 

[kyear2]

Been going on for a few days and Weekes and Grimmett both have healthy leads

 

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