Posts featuring the Indian batsman Sourav Ganguly including content about his statistics and performances in Tests, ODIs and the IPL.
Average and Strike Rates (SR) of batsmen in ODI cricket has gone up with time. Moreover batsmen who play in the top order usually have a higher average while those playing down have a higher SR. To negate these advantages, we found out the averages and SR of all batsmen in the period a player … Read more
* All stats in the article are till 31/12/2020 To calculate the best batsmen with the ability to score big, we took their top 5 scores in ODI cricket. We then simply rated them on the aggregate of their 5 best scores. The Ave HS or Average High Score is the total of the top … Read more
Desmond Haynes of West Indies was the first batsman to score 8,000 runs in ODI cricket. He ended his career as the highest run-scorer in ODIs with 8648 runs. His record for most runs was broken by Mohammad Azharuddin of India. He pushed the record to 9378 runs by the time he finished his career. … Read more
To find out the best ODI batsmen in World Cup cricket, we considered all the batsmen who had a chance of coming in the top 25 based on our criteria. We then judged the batsmen who qualified on the basis of four criteria to arrive at the final top 25 batsmen in World Cups. It … Read more
To find out the best Asian ODI batsmen outside Asia, we considered all the batsmen who had a chance of coming in the top 15 based on our criteria. We then judged the batsmen who qualified on the basis of four criteria to arrive at the final top 15 Asian ODI batsmen outside Asia (A … Read more
Jack Hobbs of England was the first batsman to cross 5,000 runs in test cricket. He finished his career in 1930 with 5,410 runs. His record was broken by Wally Hammond, also of England, in 1937. Wally Hammond retired in 1947 with 7,249 runs. His record was not broken for another 23 years till Colin … Read more
To find out the best ODI batsmen of all time, we considered all the batsmen who had a chance of coming in the top 25 based on our criteria. We then judged the batsmen who qualified on the basis of 4 Primary criteria, 4 criteria based on Conditions and 6 Secondary criteria to arrive at the … Read more
To find the best ODI batsman of the modern era, or the era of Sachin Tendulkar, we selected the time period of 01 January 1989 to 31 December 2015. The dates were so selected as Sachin made his debut in 1989 while Kumar Sangakkara, a late competitor of Sachin, retired in 2015. We have not … Read more