POTW: LordEddardStark

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So who did the best between Babar Azam, Imam-ul-Haq and Fakhar Zaman when it comes to 100s?

An excellent analytical post by [MENTION=142839]LordEddardStark[/MENTION] is POTW!

Congratulations to [MENTION=142839]LordEddardStark[/MENTION]


http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/s...mp-Fakhar-s-centuries&p=10259467#post10259467

The century from Babar in 4th ODI was quite different to the centuries made by Fakhar and Imam in previous 2 ODIs and had therefore people talking about it while terming Babar someone as selfish, who only plays for his average.

I just thought to statistically compare all centuries of these 3 players to find out if their individual strike rates remained the same when they passed 75 runs benchmark or they indeed got slower. I could have done the same with other Pakistani batsmen as well but just one or two centuries in last 4 years wouldn't have given a true picture of their actual performance. So here it goes.



But as everyone knows the statistics of all players were severely distorted by that Zimbabwe series, this is the picture when you remove statistics of centuries made by all three in that series.



Following deductions can be made from this table.

1. Fakhar is the real MVP of this team. I had thought his figures would be heavily affected by that double century in Zimbabwe but his figures remain almost the same even if we exclude 2 centuries of that series.
2. Imam and Babar both are inherently slow and cautious and their strike rates exhibit the same.
3. Babar's pace does not slow down from the scores of 75 to 100, yet Imam does slow down considerably for his century.
4. Both Babar and Imam can maintain a good pace if they want, which is shown by their strike rates after their centuries.

Another interesting set of statistics regarding their individual centuries is whether these centuries were made on the same pace as the other team or they were slower. So for all these centuries, I compiled both the individual's strike rate and other team's strike rate minus the individual's score and then calculates the difference between both. Here is that calculation.



And this is the same calculation excluding Zimbabwe series.



I would leave it to you gentlemen the debate if Babar and Imam are providing stability to this lineup of the others are carrying their weight. But I don't think anyone still needs convincing that Fakhar's batting in each innings defines the batting of entire team in every innings. What do you guys think?

 

[Chokli]

Well deserved.

 

[Green Patriot]

Insightful post with quite a bit of effort.
Congratulations!

 

[The_Odd_One]

Good effort but I do not agree the conclusion.

1. Babar taking his SR from 100 to 106 and Imam lowering his from 104 to 103 is not a big difference and the term considerably is not justified.
2. You are not considering consistency when you compare Fakhar with Babar and Imam.

 

[Kaka4pope]

Nice post

Is Zaman better at hammering the old ball too? I sometimes think he struggles early on against good bowling when others, if attack minded, would find the gaps more conventionally.

Agree, likes of Imam and Babar could be more attacking, both have a good modern ODI game and have shown they can go over the top. Both can nail full deliveries outside off - Abid Ali can too.

Zaman lower down, could make for some bigger hitting along side Asif Ali.

Imam, Abid, Babar, Sarfraz, Zaman, Asif

 

[LordEddardStark]

This to be honest is quite unexpected. Thank you for the honor @MIG. Definitely going to induce a lurker like me to post more on this forum.

 

[LordEddardStark]

Good effort but I do not agree the conclusion.

1. Babar taking his SR from 100 to 106 and Imam lowering his from 104 to 103 is not a big difference and the term considerably is not justified.
2. You are not considering consistency when you compare Fakhar with Babar and Imam.

You are right. Considerably is tad strong a word for comparison between Babar and Imam. The difference is marginal, though the latest century of Imam has gone a long way in bridging this gap between the two. Babar's latest century in comparison was ordinary.