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In the early years of international oneday cricket (1970s-late 80s) a batting strike of 65/100 balls was considered very good...(Gordon Greenidge for example was 64.92 for his career) and a economy rate for a bowler at that time was expensive if it was above 4.2 per over.
Things have certainly changed these days...
So what is considered Par these days??
IMO the following (given things even out with different pitches over time) apply these days....
BATTING STRIKE RATES
100 + Almost Freakish, (only Afridi of batsmen scoring over 1000 runs is above 100)
85-100 Extremely High (Gilchrist, Flintoff etc)
80- 85 Very good (Cairns, Gibbs etc)
70-80 Good (Fleming, Ponting etc)
65-70 Average/reasonable (Harris, Vaughan etc)
60-65 - Slowish(Sinclair, etc)
60> Poor/Can't hit the ball off the square (M.Richardson, Vincent etc)
BOWLING STRIKE RATES
4<- Absolute top bracket (Mcgrath, Murali, Larson etc)
4-4.25 Extremely Good (Warne, Bond, Gillespie etc)
4.25- 4.40 Very good (Vettori, Oram etc)
4.40-4.60 Good ( Mills, Tuffey etc)
4.60-4.80 Reasonable Average (Cairns, Lee etc)
4.80-5.00 Below Average ( Styris, Nel)
5-6 Poor/ Expensive ( Butler, Tendulkar)
6< Awful....(Drum etc)
Any thoughts on these guidelines??
Things have certainly changed these days...
So what is considered Par these days??
IMO the following (given things even out with different pitches over time) apply these days....
BATTING STRIKE RATES
100 + Almost Freakish, (only Afridi of batsmen scoring over 1000 runs is above 100)
85-100 Extremely High (Gilchrist, Flintoff etc)
80- 85 Very good (Cairns, Gibbs etc)
70-80 Good (Fleming, Ponting etc)
65-70 Average/reasonable (Harris, Vaughan etc)
60-65 - Slowish(Sinclair, etc)
60> Poor/Can't hit the ball off the square (M.Richardson, Vincent etc)
BOWLING STRIKE RATES
4<- Absolute top bracket (Mcgrath, Murali, Larson etc)
4-4.25 Extremely Good (Warne, Bond, Gillespie etc)
4.25- 4.40 Very good (Vettori, Oram etc)
4.40-4.60 Good ( Mills, Tuffey etc)
4.60-4.80 Reasonable Average (Cairns, Lee etc)
4.80-5.00 Below Average ( Styris, Nel)
5-6 Poor/ Expensive ( Butler, Tendulkar)
6< Awful....(Drum etc)
Any thoughts on these guidelines??