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Some interesting records did not match the reputation of some famous cricketers.

1. Aamir Sohail is known as an aggressive batsman but his strike rate is 65 in ODIs.

2. Younis Khan is popular as a seasoned batsman but he averages only 31 in ODIs.

3. Misbah-ul-Haq is known as Mr. Tuk Tuk but he has the fastest century in Tests.

4. Shahid Afrid is a popular white-ball cricketer but his record is better in Tests (5 100s) and not that much good in T20Is (17 average). Only 3 50 in 93 matches.

5. Shoaib Malik is a T20 specialist but could not score a century in a record 463 matches.

6. Wasim Akram is undoubtedly the number one ODI bowler in the world but he could not take more than 5 wickets in a match. He wasn't no.1 ranked bowler at any time in test either..

Apart from Pakistan's

Tendulkar couldn't score 300, Ajey Jadeja could not score a Test century and Michael Vaughan could not score an ODI century.

Muralitharan couldn't take hat-trick in his career not in ODIs nor in test and Mcgrath couldn't get in ODIs

Do you know know something like this?
 
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Wow, Aamir Sohail has an ODI strike rate of just 65, that's really shocking!
 
Unbiased-Fan said:
Some interesting records did not match the reputation of some famous cricketers.

1. Aamir Sohail is known as an aggressive batsman but his strike rate is 65 in ODIs.

2. Younis Khan is popular as a seasoned batsman but he averages only 31 in ODIs.

3. Misbah-ul-Haq is known as Mr. Tuk Tuk but he has the fastest century in Tests.

4. Shahid Afrid is a popular white-ball cricketer but his record is better in Tests (5 100s) and not that much good in T20Is (17 average). Only 3 50 in 93 matches.

5. Shoaib Malik is a T20 specialist but could not score a century in a record 463 matches.

6. Wasim Akram is undoubtedly the number one ODI bowler in the world but he could not take more than 5 wickets in a match. He wasn't no.1 ranked bowler at any time in test either..

Apart from Pakistan's

Tendulkar couldn't score 300, Ajey Jadeja could not score a Test century and Michael Vaughan could not score an ODI century.

Muralitharan couldn't take hat-trick in his career not in ODIs nor in test and Mcgrath couldn't get in ODIs

Do you know know something like this?
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1) Completly different eras that's why. People don't understand how difficult those era's were which is why I keep saying The idea of someone claiming babar azam is the greatest pakistani to hold a bat is hilarious. He won't be as long as saeed anwar is around.

These records goes to show how much of a beast players like viv Richards, Saeed Anwar etc really were and how their basically the De villers of their era's.

2) YK was terrible in ODI's lol, that's a fact. He's a pure reactions based player. Deapite having a questionable technique and shady footwork, dude knew how to survive and endure and play very very long innings but at his own pace.

It was mentality with YK, he was super comfortable with test and enjoyed it, he just was never comfortable with odi primarily because dude doesn't enjoy when he's under the influence of RR and needs to increase the tempo.

3) Misbah and Viv yes. No one has an issue with Misbah in test. Nisbah is a good test player who made up an atg test middle order of YK, Azhar and misbah. Its just he was a beyond garbage Odi and t20 bat. Misbah should have remained a test bat and a test captain only. He should never have shoved his face in odi, t20, coach or selector.

4) Afridi hardly played test and just had an ego, it was zid that's all. He could have been a wonderful test player had he stuck around longer.

5) That's a misconception. Malik is better as an odi bat. The t20 stuff was because of league cricket where he earned said reputation primarily due to big bash league exploits.

6) This one is very intresting and shocking tbh.

7) Sachin wasn't a 300 type player. He was more so their to play impactful test innings and contribute in a team, not be a one man test show.

8) Jadeja, Vaughan is surprising.

9) No suprise here, you need luck for hat tricks, you can be the best bowler ever but a hat trick is beyond difficult for anyone to achieve. It requires a lot of luck to pull off, as a batter can just block it even if the same line and length is bowled which isn't easy to do.
 
Unbiased-Fan said:
Some interesting records did not match the reputation of some famous cricketers.

1. Aamir Sohail is known as an aggressive batsman but his strike rate is 65 in ODIs.

2. Younis Khan is popular as a seasoned batsman but he averages only 31 in ODIs.

3. Misbah-ul-Haq is known as Mr. Tuk Tuk but he has the fastest century in Tests.

4. Shahid Afrid is a popular white-ball cricketer but his record is better in Tests (5 100s) and not that much good in T20Is (17 average). Only 3 50 in 93 matches.

5. Shoaib Malik is a T20 specialist but could not score a century in a record 463 matches.

6. Wasim Akram is undoubtedly the number one ODI bowler in the world but he could not take more than 5 wickets in a match. He wasn't no.1 ranked bowler at any time in test either..

Apart from Pakistan's

Tendulkar couldn't score 300, Ajey Jadeja could not score a Test century and Michael Vaughan could not score an ODI century.

Muralitharan couldn't take hat-trick in his career not in ODIs nor in test and Mcgrath couldn't get in ODIs

Do you know know something like this?
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1. Aamir Sohail was aggressive in his attitude & body language. Not with the bat

2. Younis Khan was never a good ODI bat. Was mostly a test batter

3. Outlier innings by Misbah on a flat pitch in UAE against a tiring attack

4. Shahid Afridi gave up on test cricket after 2002. Never bother much about it

5. Shoaib Malik was a spin basher. Never comfortable against pace

6. Wasim Akram , for all his hype, was never a test great. Rarely bowled Pakistan to test victories on his own. Generally operated better with Waqar Younis

7. Sachin Tendulkar used a very heavy bat - compared to his small size & physique. Hence got tired after batting 6-7 hours and wud throw his wicket away. Wud have probably got a 300 with today's lighter bats

8. Ajay Jadeja never a test match. He was more of bits and pieces cricketer who could slog at No 6 in ODIs

9. Michael Vaughn was like Misbah. Never got going in ODIs

10. Hat tricks are pure luck. Denis Lille, Malcolm Marshall, Richard Hadlee , Dale Steyn, Ambrose did not have hat tricks
 
RidiculousMan said:
Aamir Sohail was like Imam?
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Naw, they just played in difficult era's. Bats were smaller, ball tampering occurred frequently, The boundary circle didn't exist when they made their debut, so longer boundaries, and bowlers of that era bowled faster.

140+ was very very common In that era whereas nowadays alot of 130 to 138 kph have shown up, Also the one ball made it spin so much more during 20 to 40 overs. The 2 new balls rules have made things batting friendly.

As Indian legends have said, if sachin played in this era with the same no of matches we'd be looking at 200 100's.

It really puts into perspective how good 16 hear old Sachin was, how amazing and ahead of his time saeed anwar and Viv Richards and these players were.

Saeed Anwar and viv scoring 185 and 194 in that era is like 250 being scored today.

This is why I always laugh when people say babar is pakiatan's greatest odi player. Babar technique and footwork and reactions wise isn't even 10% of Anwar.
 
Aamir sohail part can easily be explained. The mentality and approach was different those days.Seeing off new ball and attacking in death overs was the main approach with exceptions like Greatbatch, Jayasuriya, Afridi, Tendulkar.
 
RidiculousMan said:
Aamir Sohail was like Imam?
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Aamir Sohail started of as a conservative batter. But after 1996 WC with teams scoring fats in the 15 overs , he realised he needed to do something. So he turned into a hack - basically swinging his bat at anything short or wide. But lacked the technique to do it consistently
 
Fans were so unhappy with Shahid Afridi .... so we got a gift of Iftikhar .... now were are content!

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Unbiased-Fan said:
Some interesting records did not match the reputation of some famous cricketers.

1. Aamir Sohail is known as an aggressive batsman but his strike rate is 65 in ODIs.

2. Younis Khan is popular as a seasoned batsman but he averages only 31 in ODIs.

3. Misbah-ul-Haq is known as Mr. Tuk Tuk but he has the fastest century in Tests.

4. Shahid Afrid is a popular white-ball cricketer but his record is better in Tests (5 100s) and not that much good in T20Is (17 average). Only 3 50 in 93 matches.

5. Shoaib Malik is a T20 specialist but could not score a century in a record 463 matches.

6. Wasim Akram is undoubtedly the number one ODI bowler in the world but he could not take more than 5 wickets in a match. He wasn't no.1 ranked bowler at any time in test either..

Apart from Pakistan's

Tendulkar couldn't score 300, Ajey Jadeja could not score a Test century and Michael Vaughan could not score an ODI century.

Muralitharan couldn't take hat-trick in his career not in ODIs nor in test and Mcgrath couldn't get in ODIs

Do you know know something like this?
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I think Amir Sohail had hit a kind of purple patch from 1994 until the 1996 World Cup where he played more aggressively and complemented Saeed Anwar well. I believe in 1995 his SR was pretty high, must be around 80 and in 1996 WC he batted pretty aggressively also.
 
Allegation: Lara is more aggressive batter than Sachin.
Reality: Sachin has had a better SR
 
this thread should be called tell me know statistics without knowing the context

Bhaijaan said:
Allegation: Lara is more aggressive batter than Sachin.
Reality: Sachin has had a better SR
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i dont know what sachins s/r in tests was, but lara was notoriously aggressive in tests, think he had around 10 hundreds at a s.r. over 80 or something, sachin i dont know about, but im pretty sure lara had better s/r in tests.
 
ElRaja said:
this thread should be called tell me know statistics without knowing the context



i dont know what sachins s/r in tests was, but lara was notoriously aggressive in tests, think he had around 10 hundreds at a s.r. over 80 or something, sachin i dont know about, but im pretty sure lara had better s/r in tests.
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Talking about ODIs where the strike rate actually matters.

Nevertheless Lara has a man SR of 60 against Tendulkar’s 54 in test cricket. Not a huge difference.

Tendulkar’s 86 vs Lara’s 79 in ODI cricket is quite a difference.
 
Mashrafe Mortaza and Mustafizur Rahman, two of the best Bangladeshi pacers, have Zero Fifers in tests 🙄🙄 shocking
 
Bhaijaan said:
Talking about ODIs where the strike rate actually matters.

Nevertheless Lara has a man SR of 60 against Tendulkar’s 54 in test cricket. Not a huge difference.

Tendulkar’s 86 vs Lara’s 79 in ODI cricket is quite a difference.
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strike rate makes a huge diff in tests, completely demoralises opposition bowlers and fielders if someone comes and takes the attack to them, theres a reason why viv is an ATG despite average 50 odd, its because he took the attack to everyone, and a strike rate of 60 vs 54 in tests is proportionally equivalent to 86 vs 79 in odis.

also it doesnt make sense to compare odi s/r of an opener to a middle order batsmen. tendu s/r in middle order was lower than when he was opening. tendus s/r when not opening is pretty much exactly the same as lara's not opening (79 vs 80).

so i dont think its at all wrong to say lara was the more domineering batsman, in tests he definitely was, and in odis its not really a comparison cos tendu was an opener who was leveraging the benefit of the fielding restrictions.
 
Aang_The_last_airbender said:
Its been 5 years since the last triple hundred in tests.
2020s so far ZERO test triple hundreds!!!
2010s had 7 triples
2000s had 9 triple
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deterioration in defensive techniques, the prevalence of the wobble seam, greater proliferation of drs, and the strategic tilt towards more aggressive batting has pbly played a part in this, and i don't mind, i think triple hundreds should be rare.
 
W63L35 said:
Wonder why Saleem Elahi only played 48 ODIs for Pakistan?

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ultimate flat track bully, feet of lead, minnow basher. was naturally an opener during an era Pakistan had saeed and afridi. its ironic that Pakistan of the 90s went with those openers, when the current lot would have pbly chosen elahi and wajahat wasti because they would "occupy the crease", lol.
 
What about the fact that glenn mcgrath who couldn’t get a hat-trick in ODIs in his entire career???
 
Shadab Khan who is considered as mediocre leg spinner has better T20i bowling average and economy rate than likes of Adil Rashid, Chahal, Sodhi and Santner 😂..
 
Unbiased-Fan said:
Shadab Khan who is considered as mediocre leg spinner has better T20i bowling average and economy rate than likes of Adil Rashid, Chahal, Sodhi and Santner 😂..
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Yeah man, that is pretty surprising. Shadab having better stats than world number 1 LOL.
 
There is a perception that India tends to suck against debutants. while it is almost true in Tests ,in ODIs, India is one of the most difficult team to debut against.
 
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