Random little stat about Misbah/Younis and successful chases

[Big Mac]

We all saw Misbah finish the match in familiar style a few days ago and after I woke up this morning I decided to alleviate my boredom by going back and checking how often he had done that in his test career.

So I went to statsguru and had a look and it turns out that Misbah has been unbeaten six times in a successful 4th innings chase and on all six occasions he has hit the winning runs:

Vs Zimbabwe in 2011 (http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabw...e/match/523731.html?innings=1;view=commentary)

21.4
Price to Misbah-ul-Haq, FOUR, Misbah does it for Pakistan with a graceful straight loft to the long off boundary, just goes through with the shot, big followthrough, the ball trickles in to the boundary

Vs Bangladesh in 2011 (http://www.espncricinfo.com/banglad...e/match/538073.html?innings=1;view=commentary)

20.5
Elias Sunny to Misbah-ul-Haq, SIX, sealed with a six! Final flourish left for the captain himself, steps down the track to a flighted delivery and that swirls over long-off

Vs South Africa in 2013 (http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakista...e/match/649087.html?innings=1;view=commentary)

13.5
Peterson to Misbah-ul-Haq, SIX, fuller length, he launches into that and sends it to the sight screen to bring up the big win for Pakistan

Vs Sri Lanka in 2014 (http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakista...e/match/657651.html?innings=1;view=commentary)

57.3
Eranga to Misbah-ul-Haq, 1 run, Misbah, you absolute beauty! Pakistan win! He curls an imaginary moustache at his dressing room and punches the air in triumph! It was short of a length and he guides it to point and just rushes through for the single. The fielder misses the direct hit and Pakistan pull off an incredible, improbable victory to square the series

Vs Sri Lanka in 2015 (http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lan...e/match/860267.html?innings=1;view=commentary)

103.1
Mubarak to Misbah-ul-Haq, SIX, Pakistan win the series with a record chase and they jump to No.3 in the ICC rankings. There comes the topping on the victory pizza. Slid through outside off, Misbah steps out, loads it up, blows it up, and launches it over long-on for a six. Misbah has his hands aloft in delight

Vs Windies in 2017 (http://www.espncricinfo.com/west-in.../match/1077953.html?innings=1;view=commentary)

10.4
Bishoo to Misbah-ul-Haq, SIX, sees the flight, brings out the big broad shoulders, gets to the pitch of the ball and muscles it back over the bowler's head. Glorious

10.5
Bishoo to Misbah-ul-Haq, SIX, swung across to the leg side to complete the formalities! No time wasted. Consecutive sixes to finish this off. Tossed up again, Misbah down on one knee as he fetches the slog sweep from outside off. Handshakes all around. Pakistan up 1-0 in the three-match series

Now, when you look at the list of Pakistanis who have been unbeaten in successful 4th innings chases there is one man ahead of Misbah and it will come as no surprise to [MENTION=46929]shaz619[/MENTION] when I tell you that man is Younis Khan who has been unbeaten 8 times in a successful chase. 4 of those also featured Misbah unbeaten at the other end.

(Inzi, Miandad and Hafeez are tied for third place with 5 such innings. Haynes, Ponting and Kallis lead the overall list with 18, 13 and 12 respectively. Dravid and Sachin have 10 each)

I checked the 8 Younis Khan innings and he scored the winning runs against South Africa in 2007 (http://www.espncricinfo.com/rsavpak/engine/match/250666.html?innings=1;view=commentary)

57.3
Harris to Younis Khan, 2 runs, there it is! worked away off the pads to the midwicket fence and Pakistan have leveled the series.

Additionally, he may or may not have hit the winning runs against Sri Lanka in 2000 (http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63885.html) as there is no ball by ball commentary that I can find but let's go ahead and give him the winning runs to take him to two.








So yeah, just a tiny little nugget that might interest some people and then, halfway through typing up this post, it suddenly dawned on me. If only Younis has been unbeaten in more successful chases than Misbah, but hasn't hit the winning runs as often...

No Pakistani batsman has ever finished more 4th innings chases or hit the winning runs as often as Misbah-ul-Haq.

 

[shaz619]

Bow! people Bow to your KING! KING KHAN!

Oh Misbah what a man!

 

[shaz619]

I love this gif so much:

The shot is like a backhand slap on all the Misbah haters:

 

[Big Mac]

I love this gif so much:

http://i.imgur.com/MAgW2ox.gif

The shot is like a backhand slap on all the Misbah haters:
https://media.giphy.com/media/frNZmtLwVVhrG/giphy.gif

Thanks

No prizes for guessing who scored the winning runs when Islamabad won the first edition of the PSL...

 

[waleed88]

Thanks

No prizes for guessing who scored the winning runs when Islamabad won the first edition of the PSL...

I liked this song more than Autotune Mustehsan's cricket Joray Pakistan

 

[Big Mac]

[MENTION=46929]shaz619[/MENTION]

Seeing as this thead has sent the haters running for cover deciding when to bring up Mohali and his ODI record I decided to launch a pre-emptive strike.

I looked at the players who had been unbeaten at the end of successful ODI chases most often for Pakistan i.e. the people you can claim to have been the finisher in one day chases and these were the top 15:

Looks fairly predictable, Inzi, Yousuf, Miandad, Popeye. All guys you'd probably name in an all-time Pakistan one day squad, if not XI.

Next, I looked at how often they were required to bat in a chase. Note that this is not the number of matches they played where Pakistan batted second, but only the number of innings in which they were required to bat. It's unfair to penalise a player for not finishing a chase if the batsmen ahead of him have already won the game.

So then I ordered those players in order of Finishing percentage i.e. If that player walked out to the middle, what was the likelihood that they would be there at the end of a successful chase?

The results are as follows:

Bad day for the haters, it appears that even reality itself is biased towards Misbah.

P.S. Always good to remind people that Popeye was Rahat's true predecessor as the beast. Afridi who?

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

u people posting gifs left right and center and im still like how .........

so ill just clap to the thread and appreciate something happy

 

[shaz619]

[MENTION=46929]shaz619[/MENTION]

Seeing as this thead has sent the haters running for cover deciding when to bring up Mohali and his ODI record I decided to launch a pre-emptive strike.

I looked at the players who had been unbeaten at the end of successful ODI chases most often for Pakistan i.e. the people you can claim to have been the finisher in one day chases and these were the top 15:

Looks fairly predictable, Inzi, Yousuf, Miandad, Popeye. All guys you'd probably name in an all-time Pakistan one day squad, if not XI.

Next, I looked at how often they were required to bat in a chase. Note that this is not the number of matches they played where Pakistan batted second, but only the number of innings in which they were required to bat. It's unfair to penalise a player for not finishing a chase if the batsmen ahead of him have already won the game.

So then I ordered those players in order of Finishing percentage i.e. If that player walked out to the middle, what was the likelihood that they would be there at the end of a successful chase?

The results are as follows:

Bad day for the haters, it appears that even reality itself is biased towards Misbah.

P.S. Always good to remind people that Popeye was Rahat's true predecessor as the beast. Afridi who?

Exceptional batting statistics which have shamed the haters once again, what a champion Razzaq was I actually expected him to be number 1 but wow BOW to your KING!

 

[Big Mac]

Oh and before the Afridi fans come in and cry about how his finishing percentage will obviously be low because he opened so many times, I made an exception and checked how his stats looked if I removed all the times he batted in the top three batting slots.

His Finishing percentage went up to 13.04%, still below Saeed Anwar who opened in every game except for one game where he batted at 3.

If you only count the games where Afridi batted at 5 or lower, that percentage increases slightly to 13.79%.

Whatta match-winner

 

[Big Mac]

Exceptional batting statistics which have shamed the haters once again, what a champion Razzaq was I actually expected him to be number 1 but wow BOW to your KING!

This thread is a ghost town isn't it? )

People must be too busy crying into their aggressive attitude pillows and hugging their strike-rate teddy bears while mumbling something about "rubbish technique and slow reflexes". )

To provide a bit of context to Misbah's 26.09% Finishing Percentage I just went and had a look at Bevan and Dhoni, the two undisputed greatest finishers in ODI history.

Bevan's finishing percentage is 30.86%, Dhoni is a hair's breadth in front with a Finishing percentage of 30.89%. Kohli is 20.62% (Pretty good considering he comes in early at #3), Klusener is 23.33% so this seems like a pretty decent yardstick on the face of things. Guys you would expect to be at the top, are at the top and those players you associate with throwing their wicket away are at the bottom.

And at the end of the day, when all is said and done, you all know who is at the top for Pakistan

 

[Mamoon]

Good to know that Hafeez has been as much a match-winner in 4th innings (supposedly the toughest time to bat both technically and mentally) as Miandad and Inzamam.

 

[Big Mac]

Did a bit more number crunching and Mike Hussey is the new king of Finishing Percentage with a whopping 37.78%, albeit from a much smaller sample size than Dhoni and Bevan.

Good to know that Hafeez has been as much a match-winner in 4th innings (supposedly the toughest time to bat both technically and mentally) as Miandad and Inzamam.

Wait till you get to the ODI stats

Our former stats guru will throw his laptop out of the window when he sees the table.

 

[pakistani pride]

Hahaha Big Mac on a roll here...

 

[shariqnoor]

There will never be another Misbah. Imran Khan and Misbah ul Haq are the two greatest cricketers of our history. Only fools would discredit what Misbah has achieved with a relatively mediocre team. The calmness that Misbah has brought in our team is unparalleled. Removed the plague of politics altogether. I'm just afraid groupings and politicking might rear its ugly head once he retires.

 

[last_knight]

These things are more circumstantial than skills.

Nevertheless, Misbah and YK are two Pakiatani Greats.

 

[Khan12]

There will never be another Misbah. Imran Khan and Misbah ul Haq are the two greatest cricketers of our history. Only fools would discredit what Misbah has achieved with a relatively mediocre team. The calmness that Misbah has brought in our team is unparalleled. Removed the plague of politics altogether. I'm just afraid groupings and politicking might rear its ugly head once he retires.

And only fools will call the greatest. Lol taking about grouping he used to play his friends so no chance of grouping there. Thanks god its his last series.