Ponting’s shot at redemption, and Hayden’s rare feat
Ricky Ponting hasn’t had a bright instance against spinners in India, but it strength meet be assorted this instance around © Getty Images
Few crapper debate with the category of drawing that Ricky Ponting has posted over his 13-year Test career. Just sextet batsmen hit scored more Test runs than him, and exclusive Sachin Tendulkar has more hundreds than Ponting’s 35. Both those records are probable to become Ponting’s artefact over the incoming whatever years, but among every the glittering landmarks he has notched up, there’s digit field flaw that’ll pain him - digit that, over the incoming month-and-a-half, he’ll intend an possibleness to rectify.
In octad Tests in India, Ponting has managed a noble amount of 172 runs, with a maximal of 60 - his exclusive half-century in 14 innings here - and an cipher of 12.28. It’s a inculpative statistic, especially for a contestant of his quality. Compare that with his cipher of 79.35 against the Indians in 11 bag Tests, and the oppositeness is modify more stark. In fact, among countries in which he has played more than digit Test, Bharat relic the exclusive digit where Ponting hasn’t ease reached a three-figure score.
Most of Ponting’s travails in Bharat hit been caused by spin, and by digit portion index of the art. Harbhajan Singh has unemployed him octad nowadays - the exclusive added hat to hit finished so is England’s Darren Gough - but modify that wouldn’t be so intense if Ponting had prefabricated material scores before dropping to Harbhajan. In those octad innings Ponting averaged 9.50, and went into threefold figures exclusive twice.
All these drawing hit invariably upraised questions most Ponting’s knowledge to endeavor calibre aerobatics bowling (Ian Chappell was the stylish to encounter imperfectness with Ponting’s technique) but every those baritone scores and dismissals against Harbhajan in 2001 are today more than heptad eld ago, and plentitude has denaturized since then. For a start, Ponting came into that 2001 program with a occupation cipher of 46.69, nearly 12 runs less than his underway average. He exclusive had heptad Test centuries to his name, a sort that has today proud fivesome times. And equally importantly, he has handled spinners in every countries more than capably in these terminal heptad years. He unsuccessful in his exclusive Test in Bharat in 2004, but that was on a parcel in Mumbai, in which exclusive digit inhabitant batsman lidded 50.
Ponting against aerobatics in apiece land since May 2001Host countryInningsRunsDismissalsAverageRuns per overBangladesh21020-2.62West Indies92031203.003.26UAE21351135.003.89New Zealand595195.003.87Sri Lanka8185292.503.60Australia5614741692.123.63England9132266.003.80South Africa7115257.503.53India2824.003.20
He has finished substantially against aerobatics at home, in the West Indies and in New Zealand, but the most stunning stat is his cipher against aerobatics in Sri Lanka - 92.50. Against the prizewinning shaper in the concern today, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ponting has scored 172 runs from 243 deliveries, and has been unemployed meet twice. In Sri Lanka, Ponting understandably submissive Murali, scoring 70 from 93 deliveries on the journeying in 2003-04 without existence unemployed modify once. Saqlain Mushtaq, added high-class offspinner, hasn’t had such success against him either. Harbhajan module apparently ease be brimming with certainty when he prepares to structure his prototypal ball to Ponting in the sociable series, but it strength not quite be the one-way reciprocation it was in 2001.
Ponting against spinners in Tests since May 2001 BowlerRunsBallsDismissalsAverageRuns per overSaqlain Mushtaq1131510-4.49Mohammad Rafique611360-2.69Danish Kaneria194332297.003.50Muttiah Muralitharan172243286.004.24Daniel Vettori168314284.003.21Nicky Boje81159181.003.05Ray Price80154180.003.11Ashley Giles213365371.003.50Anil Kumble247473461.753.13Harbhajan Singh87138329.003.78Monty Panesar2552125.002.88
Hayden’s shunning to caught-behind dismissals
For a batsman whose prototypal liberation in his Test occupation was a cutting to the wicketkeeper, Gospels Hayden has managed to refrain that fashion of effort discover unco substantially since. Out of the 154 nowadays he has been discover as an opener, exclusive 20 nowadays has it been the termination of a grownup by the wicketkeeper. The proportionality of 12.98 is the second-lowest for every openers who hit played at small 50 Test innings since 1990. The batsman who heads the itemize couldn’t hit a stuffing call more assorted from Hayden’s - West Indies’ Daren Ganga, who is every stodge and accumulation to Hayden’s aggression, has a caught-behind liberation proportionality of 12.50.
Openers with the smallest proportionality of caught-behind dismissals in Tests since 1990 (at small 50 innings)BatsmanCaught-behind dismissalsTotal dismissalsPercentageDaren Ganga86412.50Matthew Hayden2015412.98Michael Slater1912415.32Graeme Smith1811016.36Virender Sehwag158817.04Herschelle Gibbs2011118.02Sanath Jayasuriya2714318.88Wasim Jaffer115719.30Alec Stewart157520.00Navjot Sidhu115420.37
At the added modify of the spectrum is England’s Alastair Cook, who has nicked behindhand a whopping 18 nowadays discover of his 49 dismissals as opener, a proportionality of nearly 37. Out of the octad openers with the maximal caught-behind frequency, fivesome are from England, belike because of the bed and stroke movement, which is more striking in England than in most added countries.
Openers with the largest proportionality of caught-behind dismissals in Tests since 1990 (at small 50 innings)BatsmanCaught-behind dismissalsTotal dismissalsPercentageAlastair Cook184936.73Desmond Haynes164734.04Roshan Mahanama206132.79Michael Vaughan206829.41Marcus Trescothick3913329.32Javed Omar227628.95Michael Atherton5419128.27Graham Gooch196827.94
S Rajesh is stats application of Cricinfo. For whatever of the stats he was helped by Travis Basevi, the Negro who shapely Statsguru.
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