Biggest difference in an individual's performance in 2 consecutive series

[OverratedSanity]

Man of the series Pujara.

MotS for averaging 33 in a high scoring series wouldve been an odd choice

 

[Coronis]

Not really his fault the English weather was... typical. Still counts as non-consecutive series in his records.

Yasir 19 vs NZ to 123 vs SA last year another big contrast.

Most of the biggest are by rubbish bowlers who only played one test in a series. Rawl Lewis reducing his series average from infinity against NZ to 23 against SA while taking a whole three wickets a definite highlight.

Rightio.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Steve Smith won’t be batting again in the current series, so is the opposite of Warner.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Shamar Brooks
Rahkeem Cornwall

 

[ishqiya]

Oh right I'm getting my years mixed up.

Kohli was immense in that series. Less so in 2018, where he was merely very good.

his england series this year was pretty good.

 

[Howe_zat]

Ally Cook vs Pakistan in 2010, fluked a ton in the lost match at the Oval but a lot of people wanted him dropped because he spent most of the summer looking a complete plum against Asif and Amir. Then 766 runs in the Ashes a few months later.

 

[Pothas]

Not a single series but Moeen in the summer of 2017 which was followed by his horrible away ashes. Like Warner it was all very predictable as well.

 

[Pothas]

Ally Cook vs Pakistan in 2010, fluked a ton in the lost match at the Oval but a lot of people wanted him dropped because he spent most of the summer looking a complete plum against Asif and Amir. Then 766 runs in the Ashes a few months later.

I watched that 100 live. In my mind it consisted entirely of edges and then I think he got to the ton with overthrows or something.

 

[AndrewB]

Vinoo Mankad in consecutive series (batting):
51@10.20 in Pakistan in 1955
526@105.20 v NZ in 1955-6 (including 2 double hundreds)
82@13.67 v Aus in 1956

(His bowling was fairly consistent across the 3 series).

Similarly, Bert Sutcliffe scored 81@13.50 in Pakistan in 1955, and then 611@87.29 in India in that same 1955-6 series.

Pietersen and Bell both scored 500+ against India in 2011 and then averaged about 10 against Pakistan in the UAE.

 

[AndrewB]

Another pair whose performance dropped off at the same time:

2001 Ashes:
McGrath 32@16.93, Warne 31@18.70 (Gillespie 19@34, Lee 9@55)
2001-2 v NZ:
McGrath 5@65.40, Warne 6@71.66 (Gillespie 11@28, Lee 14@25)

 

[morgieb]

What did Kohli do after England ‘14 and Australia ‘17?

First one was that Australia series, so that's a very good shout.

Kohli's tour to Sri Lanka was fairly quiet though.

 

[mr_mister]

Fairly interesting example imo:

v Aus in 10/11, Aubrey Faulkner hit 732 runs @ 73 in 5 tests. 2 tons and 5 fifties

v Eng and Aus in the 1912 triangular series, he hit 194 @ 19 from 6 tests - and got 122* in his first innings of that series.

For his next 10 innings in that series he hit 72 @ 7.2 with a best of 15

 

[Starfighter]

Bill Lockwood's series averages: 16.71, 68.00, 14.86, 12.12.

No prizes for guessing which series was in Australia.

 

[Coronis]

Fairly interesting example imo:

v Aus in 10/11, Aubrey Faulkner hit 732 runs @ 73 in 5 tests. 2 tons and 5 fifties

v Eng and Aus in the 1912 triangular series, he hit 194 @ 19 from 6 tests - and got 122* in his first innings of that series.

For his next 10 innings in that series he hit 72 @ 7.2 with a best of 15

Still managed to be 2nd in both runs and wickets for his team.

 

[NUFAN]

Jacques Kallis from memory had some poor series and then completely dominated against weak bowling lineups like a Zimbabwe and I think West Indies. Not trying to suggest he only made runs in easy situations, its more that he was very hungry after a non typical poor series with the bat.

 

[AndrewB]

Bill Lockwood's series averages: 16.71, 68.00, 14.86, 12.12.

No prizes for guessing which series was in Australia.

Only the first two series (1893, 1894-5) were consecutive, though (the others being 1899 and 1902); his form dropped right off after the 1894-5 series and he didn't play in 1896 (and was even dropped by Surrey for a bit).

 

[Hicheal Michael]

Small sample size, though Jayawardene in 2006 - 510 runs vs South Africa in 3 innings, then 39 runs vs New Zealand in 4 innings.

 

[Spark]

Jacques Kallis from memory had some poor series and then completely dominated against weak bowling lineups like a Zimbabwe and I think West Indies. Not trying to suggest he only made runs in easy situations, its more that he was very hungry after a non typical poor series with the bat.

Aren't most truly top-tier great batsmen?

 

[Bolo.]

Most of the highest averaging bats were just run hungry. I highly doubt Kallis was extra motivated to bully the mighty Zim after failing against one of the top attacks. He was just more capable of focusing in lesser series thsn bats who averaged less, and hence more likely to do it, than stroke of genius/motivated by occasion bats, whatever series preceded it. Form notwithstanding, his consistency supports this, as runs scored does for other monster averages from his era like Sanga.

Basically, when they bullied, it wasnt due to some weird psych-pop analysis, but because attacks were there to be bullied

 

[wpdavid]

David Gower made batting look ridiculously easy against Australia in 1985 and barely made a score in the Caribbean six months later. Different calibre of attack of course.