I mean without wanting to actually bring allround performance into a discussion about allrounders but Im sure we all know but choose to ignore that-
Botham
Was the quickest to the doubles (in games played)
- 100 wickets and 1000 runs
- 200 wickets and 2000 runs
- 300 wickets and 3000 runs
A Century and 5 wickets in an innings in the same game
- 5 Times- Botham
- 2 Times- Sobers
- 1 Time- Imran
- 2 Times- Kallis
- 1 Time- Miller
Of the players on the list (you can also add Kapil, Hadlee, Benaud, Kallis) he is the only player with
10 or more Test Centuries and 10 or more 5wi
No doubt Sobers was a far better batsman than Botham but in roughly the same number of Tests Botham took 4.5 times as many 5wi as Sobers. Whereas Sobers scored less than twice as many 100s as Botham.
Apart from Botham, I cant find any player to average at any point after 20 Tests, over 40 with the bat and under 20 with the ball
If we are going to talk allrounders lets talk about allround ability and putting it on the field.