Graphs of Wickets by Batting Order for Good Bowlers

[uvelocity]

terry alderman & swervin mervyn pls

 

[NUFAN]

Just a couple of points raised in the thread. First up I don't think the circumstances that Nufan highlighted occur often enough to question the graphs. Besides its a bowler's job to remove nightwatchmen asap. And nighwatchmen succeed often enough for them to be a legit top order wicket.

Satyanash is right. If you clean up the tail after removing the openers you're penalised by the perception you are a tail order basher. Its the job of fast bowlers to get the openers and come back and quash the tail. Akram did that expertly so I think his high no of tail ender wkts proves he did his job.

Agree that Satyanash's reasoning was better, all I was wanting to say was that there could still be skewed results. If someone takes 200 wickets and just 10 of them are as a result of a changed batting order it skewed the percentages enough.

 

[harsh.ag]

terry alderman & swervin mervyn pls

Here you go:

 

[NUFAN]

At the risk of causing **** in this thread,

Kallis and Sobers please.

 

[uvelocity]

cheers. they played in an era of no outstanding spin options, so the even spread is probably a result of that. merv maybe a higher percentage of tailenders by scaring the **** out of them more than alderman

 

[harsh.ag]

I think the question to ask might be - For two similar bowlers (skill-wise and statistically), what could be the reason(s) to prefer the one with a higher percentage of tail-end wickets?

 

[harsh.ag]

cheers. they played in an era of no outstanding spin options, so the even spread is probably a result of that. merv maybe a higher percentage of tailenders by scaring the **** out of them more than alderman

At the risk of causing **** in this thread,

Kallis and Sobers please.

I am not going there Read the thread title. Good bowlers only

 

[Daemon]

Yet you made one for Lyon

 

[harsh.ag]

Yet you made one for Lyon

That was out of a shared faith that his figures would be s***

Nah, seriously I don't this thread to go the Sobers-Kallis route. Actually, I think I will just post their graphs in the 'Greatest Cricketer' thread. Okay.

 

[kyear2]

Fair enough.