Swashbuckler
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The test cricket world can be roughly divided into 2 halves based on conditions, Asia and SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia). These 2 conditions are more or less polar opposites and demand radically different skills for batsmen, bowlers and keepers to succeed. Let us focus on a few batsmen here, I won't name them, just present their stats, SENA ones for Asian players (eg Sachin's record in SENA countries) and Asian ones for SENA players (eg Ponting's SC+UAE record). Try to guess who is who. Many cricket experts on PP, shouldn't be a problem 
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We can then expand on that and draw some conclusions about how players are rated and whether there is any bias while judging them.
Hints: 4 Asian players and 4 SENA players here, no country specific quota, as in all 4 can be from the same country. They are all recent players, not involving old timers like
or even the generation of 
. While some are categorized as HTBs/national shame others are either flawless or in a couple of cases hailed as masters of the other type of conditions.
Including Bangladesh in Asian conditions even though they were easy pickings till as recent as 4-5 years back. If I remove them from the filter things will get really ugly for some SENA 'greats' and 'ATGs'. In contrast all 4 SENA teams always had challenging bowling attacks in their conditions, no easy prey for our desi boys
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A: 12 matches
avg 17.3 (-20)
0 100, 1 50
HS 95
* indicated in brackets is approx diff from overall avg
B: 12 matches
avg 22.4 (-21)
0 100, 1 50
HS 80
C: 22 matches
avg 36.7 (-12)
4 100s, 6 50s
HS 151
D: 30 matches
avg 43.9 (-8)
5 100s, 10 50s
HS 218
E: 25 matches
avg 36 (-14)
5 100s, 6 50s
HS 193
F: 30 matches
avg 46 (-11)
7 100s, 13 50s
HS 203
G: 23 matches
avg 41.5 (-10)
3 100s, 5 50s
HS 157
H: 20 matches
avg 33.3 (-12)
2 100s, 6 50s
HS 166
Guess the names, hopefully without using cricinfo, cricbuzz or some other tool
. I'll wait for maybe a day and then post the answers. Perhaps we will get some food for thought.
. We can then expand on that and draw some conclusions about how players are rated and whether there is any bias while judging them.
Hints: 4 Asian players and 4 SENA players here, no country specific quota, as in all 4 can be from the same country. They are all recent players, not involving old timers like
or even the generation of . While some are categorized as HTBs/national shame others are either flawless or in a couple of cases hailed as masters of the other type of conditions. Including Bangladesh in Asian conditions even though they were easy pickings till as recent as 4-5 years back. If I remove them from the filter things will get really ugly for some SENA 'greats' and 'ATGs'. In contrast all 4 SENA teams always had challenging bowling attacks in their conditions, no easy prey for our desi boys
. A: 12 matches
avg 17.3 (-20)
0 100, 1 50
HS 95
* indicated in brackets is approx diff from overall avg
B: 12 matches
avg 22.4 (-21)
0 100, 1 50
HS 80
C: 22 matches
avg 36.7 (-12)
4 100s, 6 50s
HS 151
D: 30 matches
avg 43.9 (-8)
5 100s, 10 50s
HS 218
E: 25 matches
avg 36 (-14)
5 100s, 6 50s
HS 193
F: 30 matches
avg 46 (-11)
7 100s, 13 50s
HS 203
G: 23 matches
avg 41.5 (-10)
3 100s, 5 50s
HS 157
H: 20 matches
avg 33.3 (-12)
2 100s, 6 50s
HS 166
Guess the names, hopefully without using cricinfo, cricbuzz or some other tool
. I'll wait for maybe a day and then post the answers. Perhaps we will get some food for thought.
