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Shahid Afridi, usually enough said when talking about hit and miss batsmen. That was until Marcus North strolled out to Johannesburg to make his test debut. He has taken the meaning of hit and miss to a whole new level which I never thought would be possible.
Hit and miss has been defined to be a batsmen that either makes big scores or none at all. For this article the judgment will be based on the percentage of scores under 20. For good measure scores of under 10 have also been calculated. Not out scores below 20 have been ignored.
Two other batsmen in Andrew Symonds and Yuvrag Singh who are also known as hit and miss players have been added for comparison. It is clear that North leaves all his competitors in his wake on both fronts. North has played the least amount of innings of the four with 32 but he has already racked up 20 scores which are under 20. In comparison Afridi and Yuvraj have 23 and 24 respectively but with at least 10 more innings.
So as expected before North arrived to the test scene, Afridi was the king of hit and miss closely followed by Yuvraj. Despite his reputation, Symonds was far more consistent with his starts compared to the other two. When scores under 10 are taken into consideration, North is the outlier as a Statistician would say. The other three players are around the 25% mark for scores under 10 while North is almost double this.
Not only is North an outlier in terms of the stats but hes also the odd one out when you take into account the style of player of each player. Three are naturally aggressive players while North is a cautious to steady batsmen. That makes his claim to fame even more surprising as you would expect the aggressive players to be more hit and miss.
It should be no surprise where the core of the collapse problem has come from. Between the 26th December 2006 to January 2009, Australia only had two scores under 200 from 20 matches. Compare this to February 2009 (North?s debut) to present, Australia have five scores under 200 from 20 matches including one total under 100. Clearly the hit and miss North is one of the main reasons for these collapses, his partner in crime Michael Hussey hasn?t fared much better in this period.
Back to the topic at hand, North clearly is the king of the hit and miss batsmen that I know of. Now I don?t know if North is the most hit and miss batsmen in the history of the game, if not I?d certainly like to know the player that tops him. As a final note, North's current Sheffield Shield scores for this season reads 10, 101, 19 and 1 i.e. 75% of his scores being 20 or under, enough said.
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Shahid Afridi, usually enough said when talking about hit and miss batsmen. That was until Marcus North strolled out to Johannesburg to make his test debut. He has taken the meaning of hit and miss to a whole new level which I never thought would be possible.
Hit and miss has been defined to be a batsmen that either makes big scores or none at all. For this article the judgment will be based on the percentage of scores under 20. For good measure scores of under 10 have also been calculated. Not out scores below 20 have been ignored.
Two other batsmen in Andrew Symonds and Yuvrag Singh who are also known as hit and miss players have been added for comparison. It is clear that North leaves all his competitors in his wake on both fronts. North has played the least amount of innings of the four with 32 but he has already racked up 20 scores which are under 20. In comparison Afridi and Yuvraj have 23 and 24 respectively but with at least 10 more innings.
So as expected before North arrived to the test scene, Afridi was the king of hit and miss closely followed by Yuvraj. Despite his reputation, Symonds was far more consistent with his starts compared to the other two. When scores under 10 are taken into consideration, North is the outlier as a Statistician would say. The other three players are around the 25% mark for scores under 10 while North is almost double this.
Not only is North an outlier in terms of the stats but hes also the odd one out when you take into account the style of player of each player. Three are naturally aggressive players while North is a cautious to steady batsmen. That makes his claim to fame even more surprising as you would expect the aggressive players to be more hit and miss.
It should be no surprise where the core of the collapse problem has come from. Between the 26th December 2006 to January 2009, Australia only had two scores under 200 from 20 matches. Compare this to February 2009 (North?s debut) to present, Australia have five scores under 200 from 20 matches including one total under 100. Clearly the hit and miss North is one of the main reasons for these collapses, his partner in crime Michael Hussey hasn?t fared much better in this period.
Back to the topic at hand, North clearly is the king of the hit and miss batsmen that I know of. Now I don?t know if North is the most hit and miss batsmen in the history of the game, if not I?d certainly like to know the player that tops him. As a final note, North's current Sheffield Shield scores for this season reads 10, 101, 19 and 1 i.e. 75% of his scores being 20 or under, enough said.
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