Best South African Batsmen In Tests In New Zealand Featured

Top 10 South African Batsmen In Tests In New Zealand

by

Kindly switch to Landscape Mode for better viewing experience

All Test Ratings on the website are from 01/01/1950 onwards (Know Why). Most of our ratings are dynamic, and as new matches are played, the rating of earlier batsmen may change if current batsmen set new benchmarks. Brief explanation of the ratings is given before each section (Detailed Explanation). Here are the Top 10 batsmen from South Africa in New Zealand in Test cricket.

*Note: All Test Ratings are updated till 2025-02-15

CONTENTS
1. THE CRITERIA
2. QUALIFICATION
3. PROLIFIC
4. CONSISTENT
5. BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL
6. ATTACKING
7. TEAM VEN OPP RATING
TVO RATING

This rating considers performances of players from specific teams in particular nations or against particular oppositions.

Team (T) SA
Venue (V) NZ
Oposition (O) ALL

THE CRITERIA

The TVO Rating is divided into 4 main sections:-

CRITERIA STAT POINTS
Prolific Runs Scored 300.00
Consistent Average 300.00
Big Innings Potential Top Scores 250.00
Attacking Strike Rate 150.00
The Trend Setter (TS)

TS is the player who does the best in a criteria. The rating of all other players are calculated taking the TS as the benchmark. Know All About TS. Here is a simple example:-

  • TS Runs: 2,000; Player X Runs: 1,000; Section Points: 250.00
  • TS Points: 250.00(Max); Player X Points: Runs/TS Runs X 250 = 1,000/2,000 X 250 = 125.00
  • Ratings of all sections are calculated similarly with Runs being replaced by the Criteria Stat.

QUALIFICATION

Min Innings 7

PROLIFIC

The Eras

The time period from 1950 to present is divided into eras for this section. This is because less cricket was played earlier. To make it fair for earlier players they are compared with players of the same period with a slight reduction in points. Know More About Eras.

Era 1 MP before 1991
Era 2 MP between 1990 And 2016
Era 3 MP greater than 2015

CRITERIA: Points For Runs Scored

RANK ERA 1 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS JHB Waite SA 1953 1964 1958.5 7 236 230.00
1 JHB Waite SA 1953 1964 1958.5 7 236 230.00
RANK ERA 2 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS HH Gibbs SA 1999 2004 2001.5 10 686 300.00
1 HH Gibbs SA 1999 2004 2001.5 10 686 300.00
2 JH Kallis SA 1999 2012 2005.5 13 649 283.82
3 G Kirsten SA 1995 2004 1999.5 12 587 256.71
4 GC Smith SA 2004 2012 2008 12 572 250.15
5 JA Rudolph SA 2004 2012 2008 10 505 220.85
6 HM Amla SA 2012 2017 2014.5 11 342 149.56
7 J-P Duminy SA 2012 2017 2014.5 8 240 104.96
RANK ERA 3 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS D Elgar SA 2017 2022 2019.5 10 320 250.00
1 D Elgar SA 2017 2022 2019.5 10 320 250.00
2 T Bavuma SA 2017 2022 2019.5 9 289 225.78

CONSISTENT

R Ave

Relative Average (R Ave) is a more accurate type of average. Know How It Is Calculated. Briefly, it takes into account:-

  • Strength of Opposition.
  • Positions at which a batsman has played.
  • Venues at which he has played.
  • Time Period in which he has been active

Criteria: Points For Relative Average

Min Qualification For TS
Min Runs 250

RANK BATSMAN INNS NO RUNS 100s AVE R AVE RAT
TS HH Gibbs 10 1 686 2 76.22 79.30 300.00
1 HH Gibbs 10 1 686 2 76.22 79.30 300.00
2 JA Rudolph 10 3 505 2 72.14 75.00 283.73
3 JH Kallis 13 2 649 3 59.00 60.75 229.83
4 G Kirsten 12 2 587 2 58.70 60.62 229.34
5 GC Smith 12 2 572 2 57.20 59.20 223.96
6 J-P Duminy 8 2 240 1 40.00 39.95 151.15
7 HM Amla 11 2 342 0 38.00 38.05 143.96
8 JHB Waite 7 0 236 0 33.71 37.47 141.77
9 T Bavuma 9 0 289 0 32.11 33.74 127.64
10 D Elgar 10 0 320 1 32.00 33.43 126.46

BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL

Ave HS

In this criteria, the top 5 scores of the batsman have been taken. Average High Score (Ave HS) is simply the total runs in the 5 innings divided by 5.

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored In The Top 5 Inns

RANK BATSMAN 1 2 3 4 5 AVE HS RAT
TS JH Kallis 150* 148* 113 92 71 114.80 250.00
1 JH Kallis 150* 148* 113 92 71 114.80 250.00
2 HH Gibbs 211* 120 80 77 61 109.80 239.11
3 G Kirsten 137 128 76 76 65 96.40 209.93
4 JA Rudolph 154* 105* 93* 72 52 95.20 207.32
5 GC Smith 125* 115 88 55* 53 87.20 189.90
6 D Elgar 140 89 41 17 13 60.00 130.66
7 HM Amla 63 62 50 46* 38* 51.80 112.80
8 T Bavuma 89 64 41 29 29 50.40 109.76
9 J-P Duminy 103 39 33* 20 16 42.20 91.90
10 JHB Waite 72 41 35 30 28 41.20 89.72

ATTACKING

R SR

Relative Strike Rate (R SR) is calculated using the same method as R Ave with average being replaced with SR. Batsman who were active in earlier times benefit from this as SR was generally low earlier.

R4BF

Balls played by batsmen for many inns is not available for earlier times. When such is the case, we have used Runs For Balls Faced (R4BF) to determine the Strike Rate. This is the runs scored by the batsman for the available data of balls.

CRITERIA: Points For R SR

Min Qualification For TS
Min Runs 250
Min Average 25
RANK BATSMAN R4BF BF SR R SR RAT
TS GC Smith 572 974 58.73 57.68 150.00
1 GC Smith 572 974 58.73 57.68 150.00
2 J-P Duminy 240 436 55.05 53.60 139.39
3 HM Amla 342 664 51.51 50.23 130.63
4 JHB Waite 0 0 NA NA 130.03
5 HH Gibbs 686 1433 47.87 48.42 125.91
6 G Kirsten 587 1237 47.45 48.14 125.19
7 JH Kallis 649 1439 45.10 45.29 117.78
8 JA Rudolph 505 1107 45.62 44.93 116.86
9 T Bavuma 289 643 44.95 42.95 111.69
10 D Elgar 320 798 40.10 38.38 99.80

TEAM VEN OPP RATING

The TEAM VEN OPP (TVO) Rating is the addition of the points of all the above criteria. The rating is out of 1,000.

RANK BATSMAN PRO CON BIP ATT TVO RAT
1 HH Gibbs 300.00 300.00 239.11 125.91 965.02
2 JH Kallis 283.82 229.83 250.00 117.78 881.42
3 JA Rudolph 220.85 283.73 207.32 116.86 828.75
4 G Kirsten 256.71 229.34 209.93 125.19 821.17
5 GC Smith 250.15 223.96 189.90 150.00 814.00
6 D Elgar 250.00 126.46 130.66 99.80 606.93
7 JHB Waite 230.00 141.77 89.72 130.03 591.52
8 T Bavuma 225.78 127.64 109.76 111.69 574.87
9 HM Amla 149.56 143.96 112.80 130.63 536.96
10 J-P Duminy 104.96 151.15 91.90 139.39 487.39

Leave a Comment