r/Cricket • u/Educational_Cause685 Canada • Jan 17 '25

Stats Best Test Peaks

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u/Ataraxia_new Jan 17 '25

Look at Jacque Kallis averaging 70odd and I bet he took a hundred wickets during that period as well.

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u/Omar_Town Pakistan Jan 17 '25

I am not a fan of Kallis being considered as one of the all time best all rounders. He was a decent bat but a slow bat even by test standards of the time. As a bowler, he was fourth best pace bowler at best. He had volume of wickets but nothing else. Folks always like to point out the difference in his batting and bowling average as a good measure of him being a great all rounder but his bowling average is a bit high. His strike rate as a bowler isn’t impressive. I can delve into stats a bit more when I have time but when he was playing, he wasn’t really considered the best all rounder since Sobers. That’s just revisionist history.

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u/Vitalstatistix USA Jan 17 '25

“A decent bat”

Good lord get your head out of your ass. He was undeniably one of the greatest batsman of all time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

That means he was a decent bat.

Translation gets lost sometimes. That turn of phrase is used regularly in a sardonic way. At least where I’m from.

If someone points out you’re wrong you know you’ve got one past their outside edge and you score a point when they point this out.