Playing around with numbers out of boredom at late hours of the night.

[a massive zebra]

Oh, and also, does anyone else here play around with stats, or am I just a freak?

Well I have just been doing that and noticed some amazing things about Don Bradman:

............................... M I NO Runs HS Avge 100s 50s
Record in matches won 30 43 6 4813 299* 130.08 23 4
Next best - Inzamam... 40 62 12 3785 329 75.70 14 14

6 200s in 3 consecutive series (1930 vs England, 1930/31 vs West Indies, 1931/32 vs South Africa). No one else has more than 3 200s in 3 consecutive series.

............................... 200s Matches Matches per 200
Bradman.................... 12 52 4.33
Hammond.................. 7 85 12.14
Lara......................... 7 106 15.14
Javed Miandad............. 6 124 20.66
MS Atapattu................ 5 71 14.20
R Dravid...................... 5 78 15.50
Zaheer Abbas.............. 4 78 19.50
L Hutton..................... 4 79 19.75
GS Chappell................ 4 87 21.75
CG Greenidge.............. 4 108 27.00
SM Gavaskar.............. 4 125 31.25

 

[Linda]

4 matches per 200?
Thats just frikken... F*RK!