Top 25 Spin Bowlers Against Top 7 Batsmen In Tests

All Test Ratings on the website are from 01/01/1950 onwards. Our ratings are based on conditions and diverse oppositions. Before the above mentioned date, there were primarily only two teams which dominated cricket. Moreover, matches were of unequal length with some ending in 4 days and some being timeless. Post 1950, West Indies and South Africa grew as test teams. Moreover, Asian teams India and Pakistan started improving after 1950 and became compenent at home at least. Performance in Asia and outside Asia are integral to our overall rating. How the rating works is explained in highlighted sections. So, here are the Top 25 Spin bowlers against the Top 7 batsmen of Top Teams

*Note: All Test Ratings are updated till 2023-01-08

CONTENTS

7. TOP TEAMS OUTSIDE ASIA

TOP 7 VICTIMS Rating

This rating only include stats of Spin bowlers against the Top 7 batsmen of Top Teams. The rating is divided into sections to make it easy to understand how it is calculated. Before each section, its criteria is highlighted in bold. Our ratings are dynamic, and as new matches are played, the rating of earlier bowlers may change if current bowlers set new benchmarks.

The Trend Setter

The Trend Setter (TS) is the player which does the best in a criteria. The rating of all other players are calculated as percentage points of TS. Let’s taken an example to understand it:-

Let’s assume that Glenn McGrath has taken 500 wkts, which is the highest. This makes him the TS.
Another player, say Jason Gillespie, has taken 250 wkts.
If the rating is out of 250, McGrath will get the full points (pts), that is 250.
The points of Gillespie are calculated as His Wkts/McGrath’s Wkts*250. This comes out to be 125.
Thus the formula is (Wkts Taken/Wkts Taken By TS)*Max Points.
All ratings are calculated similarly with Wkts being replaced by the Criteria Stat.
Obviously, for average the formula is reverased as the lower average is better for a bowler.
For Average and Strike Rate, a bowler is eligible to be TS only if he has taken a minimum number of wickets, which are mentioned in the qualificaton.
Lastly, it is to be noted that it is not necessary for a TS to be part of the rating as he might have topped in a criteria but not done well in others.

Top Teams (TT)

The Top 7 Rating considers performances only against the Top 7 batsmen of Top Teams. Here is some infomartion about Top Teams:-

Win/Loss Ratio is used to determine top teams.
The top teams are calculated by decades.
Further, they are divided into In Asia and Outside Asia.
To be a top team, the team should be among the top teams in the specific condition (Asia or outside Asia) or among the top teams of the decade overall.
A bowler’s performace is counted in TT if he palyed against it in the specific condition and in the specific decade.
The Top Teams may be found in the last section of the rating.

QUALIFICATION

Min Innings	50
Min Wickets (TS AVE SR)	75

The Eras

The first criteria Prolific gives points for wkts taken. We have divided cricket from 1950 onwards into 3 broad eras. This has been done to make it fair for players from earlier era, when less cricket was played, and also for current players, who are in the middle of their careers. Let’s take an example:-

Let’s assume Murlidharan has taken 500 wickets, which is the maximum and gives him 250 points.
Now, say Underwood in earlier times took 250 wkts, which was the max for his era.
If there are no eras, he would get 50% of the pts, that is 125.
Instead of that, we reduced 50 pts (according to %age) from the max to arrive at the figure of 200 pts for Underwood.
Now, everyone in his era is compared to Underwood and not Murlidharan.
So a player who has taken 50 Wkts in Underwood’s era will get (50/250)*200 pts or 40pts.
Eras are calculated by MP, which is the mean of the years a player: First Played (FP) and Last Played (LP).

PROLIFIC

Criteria: Points For Wickets Taken

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

RANK	ERA 1	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	T7 WKTS	RAT
TS	LR Gibbs	WI	1958	1976	1967	148	188	210.00
1	LR Gibbs	WI	1958	1976	1967	148	188	210.00
2	DL Underwood	ENG	1966	1982	1974	151	175	195.48
3	BS Bedi	IND	1966	1979	1972.5	118	154	172.02
4	R Benaud	AUS	1952	1964	1958	116	137	153.03
5	BS Chandrasekhar	IND	1964	1979	1971.5	97	120	134.04
6	S Ramadhin	WI	1950	1960	1955	76	110	122.87
7	EAS Prasanna	IND	1962	1978	1970	86	105	117.29
8	Iqbal Qasim	PAK	1976	1988	1982	86	102	113.94
9	AL Valentine	WI	1950	1962	1956	63	101	112.82
10	FJ Titmus	ENG	1955	1975	1965	90	95	106.12
11	Intikhab Alam	PAK	1959	1977	1968	78	89	99.41
12	PH Edmonds	ENG	1975	1987	1981	84	81	90.48
13	DR Doshi	IND	1979	1983	1981	55	78	87.13
14	DA Allen	ENG	1960	1966	1963	65	70	78.19
15	AA Mallett	AUS	1968	1980	1974	71	64	71.49
16	NS Yadav	IND	1979	1987	1983	61	61	68.14
17	HJ Howarth	NZ	1969	1977	1973	50	52	58.09

RANK	ERA 2	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	T7 WKTS	RAT
TS	SK Warne	AUS	1992	2007	1999.5	273	336	250.00
1	SK Warne	AUS	1992	2007	1999.5	273	336	250.00
2	M Muralitharan	SL	1992	2010	2001	230	330	245.54
3	A Kumble	IND	1990	2008	1999	236	252	187.50
4	HMRKB Herath	SL	1999	2018	2008.5	170	204	151.79
5	GP Swann	ENG	2008	2013	2010.5	109	113	84.08
6	Mushtaq Ahmed	PAK	1990	2003	1996.5	89	94	69.94
7	PL Harris	SA	2007	2011	2009	63	66	49.11

RANK	ERA 3	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	T7 WKTS	RAT
TS	NM Lyon	AUS	2011	2023	2017	217	221	220.00
1	NM Lyon	AUS	2011	2023	2017	217	221	220.00

Wkts/Inn

In the T7 Rating, instead of Average, Wickets/Inning (WKTS/INN) is used as a measure of Consistency. Average data against the top 7 batsmen is not available for earlier matches. The WKTS/INN in this criteria is the wickets of top 7 batsmen taking by the bowler per inning. Overall and Away matches are two parts of this criteria.

CONSISTENT

Criteria: Points For Top 7 Wkts/Inn

In All Matches

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	T7 WKTS	WKTS/INN	RAT
TS	AL Valentine	63	101	1.60	300.00
1	AL Valentine	63	101	1.60	300.00
2	S Ramadhin	76	110	1.45	270.84
3	M Muralitharan	230	330	1.43	268.49
4	DR Doshi	55	78	1.42	265.38
5	BS Bedi	118	154	1.31	244.22
6	LR Gibbs	148	188	1.27	237.70
7	BS Chandrasekhar	97	120	1.24	231.50
8	SK Warne	273	336	1.23	230.31
9	EAS Prasanna	86	105	1.22	228.47
10	HMRKB Herath	170	204	1.20	224.55
11	Iqbal Qasim	86	102	1.19	221.94
12	R Benaud	116	137	1.18	221.01
13	DL Underwood	151	175	1.16	216.87
14	Intikhab Alam	78	89	1.14	213.52
15	DA Allen	65	70	1.08	201.52
16	A Kumble	236	252	1.07	199.82
17	Mushtaq Ahmed	89	94	1.06	197.64
18	FJ Titmus	90	95	1.06	197.52
19	PL Harris	63	66	1.05	196.04
20	HJ Howarth	50	52	1.04	194.61
21	GP Swann	109	113	1.04	194.00
22	NM Lyon	217	221	1.02	190.58
23	NS Yadav	61	61	1.00	187.13
24	PH Edmonds	84	81	0.96	180.45
25	AA Mallett	71	64	0.90	168.68

In Away Matches

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	T7 WKTS	WKTS/INN	RAT
TS	NS Yadav	12	19	1.58	300.00
1	AL Valentine	38	68	1.79	300.00
2	S Ramadhin	44	70	1.59	300.00
3	M Muralitharan	96	152	1.58	300.00
3	NS Yadav	12	19	1.58	300.00
5	DL Underwood	78	119	1.53	289.07
6	AA Mallett	32	47	1.47	278.29
7	SK Warne	144	210	1.46	276.32
8	DR Doshi	18	25	1.39	263.16
9	FJ Titmus	52	71	1.37	258.70
10	R Benaud	62	84	1.35	256.71
11	DA Allen	43	58	1.35	255.57
12	Mushtaq Ahmed	52	70	1.35	255.06
13	LR Gibbs	89	116	1.30	246.95
14	Iqbal Qasim	36	44	1.22	231.58
15	Intikhab Alam	41	50	1.22	231.07
16	PL Harris	32	39	1.22	230.92
17	BS Chandrasekhar	42	51	1.21	230.08
18	HJ Howarth	29	35	1.21	228.68
19	GP Swann	52	62	1.19	225.91
20	BS Bedi	64	76	1.19	225.00
21	EAS Prasanna	45	52	1.16	218.95
22	PH Edmonds	33	35	1.06	200.96
23	NM Lyon	101	98	0.97	183.85
24	HMRKB Herath	78	74	0.95	179.76
25	A Kumble	121	106	0.88	165.99

T7 Perc

This criteria gives you the percentage of victims of the bowler which were Top 7 batsmen. Like, if a bowler has 50 Wkts and out of those 40 are top 7 batsmen. Then the T7 PERC is 40/50*100 or 80%.

TOP 7 PERCENTAGE

Criteria: Percentage of Top 7 Victims

RANK	BOWLER	INNS	OV WKTS	T7 WKTS	%AGE	RAT
TS	AL Valentine	63	139	101	72.66	150.00
1	AL Valentine	63	139	101	72.66	150.00
2	Intikhab Alam	78	125	89	71.20	146.98
3	S Ramadhin	76	158	110	69.62	143.72
4	DR Doshi	55	114	78	68.42	141.25
5	PH Edmonds	84	125	81	64.80	133.77
6	PL Harris	63	103	66	64.08	132.28
7	FJ Titmus	90	153	95	62.09	128.18
8	LR Gibbs	148	309	188	60.84	125.60
9	HJ Howarth	50	86	52	60.47	124.82
10	NS Yadav	61	102	61	59.80	123.46
11	Iqbal Qasim	86	171	102	59.65	123.14
12	DL Underwood	151	297	175	58.92	121.64
13	BS Bedi	118	266	154	57.89	119.52
14	DA Allen	65	122	70	57.38	118.45
15	EAS Prasanna	86	189	105	55.56	114.69
16	R Benaud	116	248	137	55.24	114.04
17	Mushtaq Ahmed	89	185	94	50.81	104.89
18	BS Chandrasekhar	97	242	120	49.59	102.36
19	AA Mallett	71	132	64	48.48	100.09
20	NM Lyon	217	460	221	48.04	99.18
21	SK Warne	273	708	336	47.46	97.97
22	HMRKB Herath	170	433	204	47.11	97.26
23	GP Swann	109	255	113	44.31	91.48
24	M Muralitharan	230	800	330	41.25	85.15
25	A Kumble	236	619	252	40.71	84.04

T7 Rating

The TOP 7 VICTIMS (T7) Rating is the addition of the points of all the above criteria. The rating is out of 1,000.

RATING

RANK	BOWLER	PRO	CON	CON AW	PERC 7	T7 RAT
1	M Muralitharan	245.54	268.49	300.00	85.15	899.18
2	AL Valentine	112.82	300.00	300.00	150.00	862.82
3	SK Warne	250.00	230.31	276.32	97.97	854.60
4	S Ramadhin	122.87	270.84	300.00	143.72	837.44
5	DL Underwood	195.48	216.87	289.07	121.64	823.06
6	LR Gibbs	210.00	237.70	246.95	125.60	820.26
7	BS Bedi	172.02	244.22	225.00	119.52	760.76
8	DR Doshi	87.13	265.38	263.16	141.25	756.91
9	R Benaud	153.03	221.01	256.71	114.04	744.78
10	BS Chandrasekhar	134.04	231.50	230.08	102.36	697.98
11	NM Lyon	220.00	190.58	183.85	99.18	693.60
12	Intikhab Alam	99.41	213.52	231.07	146.98	690.98
13	Iqbal Qasim	113.94	221.94	231.58	123.14	690.60
14	FJ Titmus	106.12	197.52	258.70	128.18	690.53
15	EAS Prasanna	117.29	228.47	218.95	114.69	679.39
16	NS Yadav	68.14	187.13	300.00	123.46	678.72
17	DA Allen	78.19	201.52	255.57	118.45	653.73
18	HMRKB Herath	151.79	224.55	179.76	97.26	653.36
19	A Kumble	187.50	199.82	165.99	84.04	637.34
20	Mushtaq Ahmed	69.94	197.64	255.06	104.89	627.53
21	AA Mallett	71.49	168.68	278.29	100.09	618.55
22	PL Harris	49.11	196.04	230.92	132.28	608.35
23	HJ Howarth	58.09	194.61	228.68	124.82	606.20
24	PH Edmonds	90.48	180.45	200.96	133.77	605.65
25	GP Swann	84.08	194.00	225.91	91.48	595.46

TOP TEAMS IN ASIA

DECADE OF MAT	1	2	3	4	5	6
1950s	AUS	WI	PAK	IND	ENG
1960s	WI	AUS	PAK	IND	ENG	SA
1970s	PAK	ENG	IND	WI	SA	AUS
1980s	PAK	WI	ENG	NZ	AUS
1990s	IND	PAK	SA	AUS	WI
2000s	AUS	SL	IND	PAK	SA	ENG
2010s	IND	PAK	SL	ENG	SA	AUS
2020s	IND	AUS	ENG	PAK	NZ

TOP TEAMS OUTSIDE ASIA

DECADE OF MAT	1	2	3	4	5
1950s	AUS	ENG	WI	SA	PAK
1960s	ENG	AUS	WI	SA	NZ
1970s	SA	ENG	WI	AUS	IND
1980s	WI	NZ	AUS	ENG	PAK
1990s	AUS	SA	WI	PAK	ENG
2000s	AUS	SA	ENG	IND	NZ
2010s	SA	AUS	ENG	NZ	IND
2020s	AUS	NZ	ENG	SA	IND