Thursday, January 31, 2008

Falls of wicket

This is a follow-up to my post on the "fow-average" of openers. Soulberry wanted to see what the average fall of wicket was for non-openers. To make things easier for me, I've split it up by position.

Note that I found a bug in my earlier code, so the list of the top openers has shuffled around a little, though Russel Arnold remains on top. In the tables below I give the number of innings (less any not-outs which didn't see a wicket fall) and the fow-average. Note that for the non-openers, I've subtracted off the wicket that the batsman came in at. Qualification: 15 innings. (Edit: Richie Richardson's figures below are wrong, and Michael Clarke's might be as well. My lazy code got them mixed up with Viv Richards and Stuart Clark.)

opener number 3
Russel Arnold 15 3,22 George Headley 32 3,71
Raman Subba Row 16 2,97 George Gunn 16 2,94
Ravi Shastri 26 2,95 Allan Border 37 2,92
Bill Woodfull 43 2,90 Wally Hammond 50 2,91
Glenn Turner 66 2,87 Richie Richardson 174 2,89
Bruce Mitchell 48 2,78 Alvin Kallicharran 25 2,84
Arthur Shrewsbury 18 2,78 Rahul Dravid 143 2,84
Jackie McGlew 58 2,74 Ken Barrington 40 2,78
Dennis Amiss 69 2,66 Eric Rowan 20 2,71
Chris Tavaré 33 2,63 Lindsay Hassett 19 2,68

number 4 number 5
Dean Jones 18 3,20 Michael Clarke 31 3,12
Rahul Dravid 18 3,11 Jimmy Adams 29 3,04
Rajin Saleh 23 2,91 Shivnarine Chanderpaul 80 2,97
Jacques Kallis 96 2,84 Kevin Pietersen 25 2,84
Geoff Howarth 17 2,76 Dilip Vengsarkar 30 2,77
Vijay Hazare 35 2,69 Yashpal Sharma 29 2,70
Brian Hastings 29 2,58 Steve Waugh 138 2,69
Monty Noble 23 2,57 Andy Flower 80 2,69
Herbie Taylor 23 2,57 Ken Viljoen 16 2,69
Richie Richardson 19 2,53 John Crawley 15 2,62

number 6
Joe Solomon 16 3,41
Trevor Bailey 38 3,37
Imran Khan 22 3,23
Nawab of Pataudi 21 2,86
Hashan Tillakaratne 72 2,86
Jimmy Adams 31 2,81
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 39 2,75
Allan Border 58 2,74
Les Ames 17 2,68
Dattu Phadkar 20 2,68


There's a rather conspicuous absentee amongst the number threes. I went through Bradman's innings, and when he made a big score he was often part of a large partnership, so that he actually didn't see too many wickets fall. His fow-average at number three is 2,45.

Samir also wanted to see average team runs scored while the batsman is at the crease. I did mean to calculate this, but I forgot until after I'd made my spreadsheets. I think the above tables are interesting enough as it is though. There are several players that you would expect to have "held the innings together" often.

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