I have seen articles written by people who have no cricketing knowledge but this seems to have been written by someone who has no common sense. How can you judge the performance of a batsman with the difference between his overall career average and against one team ? I mean Sachin has an overall career average of 55 and against Australia it's 56. So the difference in average is 2. Does this mean he has performed poorly than Nayan Mongia who has a better difference in average of 20 just because his overall career average is 24. And since when did an average of 47 become poor ? Dont write rubbish articles like these and make yourself look like fools.
Re: Unbelievably poor
by Karunakar Patil on Oct 04, 2008 01:03 PM
This Rajaneesh Gupta always writes worst articles from irrelevant statistics forget India Today against australia Sachin has the best records against Ausies 2350 runs at 56 avg nine 100's plus nine 50's. No other present batman from any country played better than him against this truly world champion team.
You have to accept Sewag at 55 avg , Laman at 50 & Dravid at 46 played really good. This is gross misuse of stats by non-cricketing brain.
Even though Dravid's overall average is above 50 and against Aussies it is about 47. Thats also a good record. An average of above 45 in tests is a good one. So we cant say that Dravid has a poor record against Aussies.
The test team for first 2 tests is declared and it does not really matter now what stats say. Also, if the board has asked the Fab 4 for their retirement plans, I look at it as an opportunity for us to see some great batting by these guys as they will play to salvage their pride. Also, FAB4 as they are called, it is not because of any other reason but the calibre which they have held and displayed earlier.
Fine they are aging, but they are truly great. Now that we suddenly have a good bench knocking the dorrs, we have started finding glitches with them.
The test team for first 2 tests is declared and it does not really matter now what stats say. Also, if the board has asked the Fab 4 for their retirement plans, I look at it as an opportunity for us to see some great batting by these guys as they will play to salvage their pride. Also, FAB4 as they are called, it is not because of any other reason but the calibre which they have held and displayed earlier.
Fine they are aging, but they are truly great. Now that we suddenly have a good bench knocking the dorrs, we have started finding glitches with them.
this Rajneesh Gupta is a stupid statistical analyst. Why is dravid record poor? the guy averages 47.69! His heroic innings of 180, 233, 91 are they forgotten?
