Bopara

Bopara is accumulating some very unusual test stats.

He has a total of 509 runs in 16 innings at a tick oner 31 ... and that includes 3 centuries!

This got me thinking about other players who may have made a very high proportion of their runs in a very small percentage of their Test innings.

I can't think of any others off the top of my head who have scored so many bulls-eyes whilst otherwise missing the board totally. Stats nerds?

Ollie?

Similar pattern, not quite as concentrated, I suspect ... happy to be proved wrong.

One of Bopara's centuries was 143 ... I assume some 350 of his 509 runs came in 3 of his 16 innings. That doesn't leave much in his other 13 ...

It is quite unusual. 3 centuries in 11 tests is a pretty good return usually.

Ollie's career being similar is a good call.

Skulls made the same point about Woody (I) the other day.

Century or bust. Usually bust. With a run-out of his partner to boot.

this could be stratified:

highest single score out of lowest total runs, as a percentage, 10 innings qual
highest two scores out of lowest total runs, as a percentage, 10 innings qual
highest three scores out of lowest total runs, as a percentage, 10 innings qual

etc

Skully, embee, Wally, Allan - where are you??

Jack Badcock had a funny test career.

12 innings, 1 century, next highest score 9

... and he was a specialist batsman.


http://www.howstat.com.au/cricket/Statistics/Players/PlayerProgressBat.asp?PlayerID=0112

A couple more tons and he would have been Goodcock?

Five Tons: Greatcock?

Sandham 23 innings 879 runs HSs 325 150 58 51 50

Made 375 runs in his last test lifting his average from 24 to 38.21

Foster 287 in one innings out of 602 in fourteen innings

Bacchus (not RWM) 250 in one innings out 782 in 30 innings (96 61 61 next 3 best scores )

Bumble 214* in one innings out of 552 in 15

Slow day in Perth?

TAYPODGE

Dizzy

Jesse Ryder 29 innings 1211 runs HSs 201 103 102 91 89 70 59* 59 57

Jack Ryder 32 innings 1394 runs HSs 201* 142 112 88 87 79 78* 63 58 57* 56 52*

Mo Wasim 192 109* 91 82 (28 innings 783 runs)

Kuruppu only managed 119 in 6 more innings after his first was 201*

Chavi Flops' centuries have all been against the West Indies. He barely averages double figures against other teams. A bit like Anthony McGrath looking like a quality player against Zimbabwe...

2 of those were in pretty easy conditions too.

I was there at Lords to witness his 143, which was a decent innings as it held our innings together.

Bill Edrich, in his first 11 Test innings in 9 Tests (although he did not bat in his 7th Test) against Australia and South Africa from 1938-9 (all of which were consecutive - the England selectors displaying great faith and patience in him), occupying various positions in the batting order from opener to No.7, made scores of 5, 0, 10, 12, 28, 12, 4, 10, 0, 6 & 1 giving him an aggregate of just 88 runs@8.00.

However in his 12th innings, the fourth innings of the "Timeless" Test at Durban in March 1939, he went in at No.3 (having batted at 6, below Les Ames, in England's 1st innings), England having been set the small matter of 696 to win, and scored 219, falling to a catch by the recent centenarian, Norman Gordon, departing when the England score was 447-3. A further stand of 164 between Wally Hammond and Eddie Paynter took the score to 611-4.

Although they were both subsequently dismissed, with Ames, who had topscored in the 1st innings with 84 and the Kent all-rounder, Bryan Valentine, still at the crease there appeared to be every likelihood that England would secure what had appeared to be an impossible target.

Sadly, the shipping schedules intervened and the game had to be abandoned as a draw with England 42 runs short of the winning post. Nevertheless, despite WWII and service in Bomber Command (in which he won the DFC) intervening, Edrich's place as England's regular No.3 was secure for almost the rest of his career, apart from his last series in 1953 when he opened with Hutton.