Performance of Our Bowlers in dismissing Top-Rated Batsman

[babubangla]

I was looking at the current ICC Rating for top test batsman and thought it might be an interesting study to see which Bangladeshi bowler grabbed most of the wickets of these top ranked batsmen.

For this study, we examined the records for the top 40 batsman in the current ICC Test Batsman rating. Among these 40 top-class batsman, 34 of them batted against Bangladesh. These 34 players are:

Ponting, Lara, Inzamam, Hayden, Kallis, Dravid, Sehwag, Trescothick, Tendulkar, Youhana, Younis Khan, Chanderpaul, Langer, Jayawardene, G. Smith, Strauss, Gibbs, Sangakkara, Gilchrist, Fleming, Laxman, T. Dilshan, Astle, Jayasuriya, Gayle, Sarwan, Samaraweera, Vaughan, Atapattu, Oram, Vincent, Taufiq Umar, Ganguly, Salman Butt

These 34 batsmen played total 123 innings against Bangladesh. Here is the breakdown of these 123 innings:

Total Innings: 123
Not-Out: 18
Run-out: 5
Retired: 2
Wicket Taken by BD Bowlers: 98

80% innings of the top rated batsmen were terminated by Bangladeshi bowlers. On 2 occasions, 2 batsmen (Jayawardene and Atapattu) just gave up batting to give their team mates a chance to bat and these 2 were declared “Retired Out”. Among these 34 top batsmen, Jack Kallis is the only test batsman who never lost his wicket to any Bangladeshi bowler.

21 bowlers shared the 98 top ranked wickets. Mohammad Rafiq is the best Bangladeshi bowler in taking top-class wicket. He took 18 wickets and is followed by Mashrafi Mortaza (15 Wickets), Tapash Baisya (12 Wickets) and Monjurul Islam (8 wickets). These 4 bowlers collectively took 54% of the wickets of top ranked batsman.

Here is the detail list of 21 Bangladeshi bowlers and their hunted wickets:

Mohammad Rafiq
18 Wickets: Lara, Inzamam, Dravid, Trescothick (2), Chanderpaul, Jayawardene, Gibbs, Sangakkara, Laxman (2), Astle (2), Vaughan, Oram, Taufiq Umar (2), Ganguly
Mashrafee Mortaza
15 Wickets: Hayden, Dravid (2), Sehwag, Tendulkar, Langer, Strauss (2), Gibbs, Fleming, Vaughan (3), Vincent (2)
Tapash Baisya
12 Wickets: Ponting, Inzamam, Sehwag, G. Smith (2), Gibbs, Gayle (3), Sarwan, Taufiq Umar, Ganguly
Monjurul Islam
8 Wickets: Gilchrist, Fleming, Astle, Jayasuriya, Sarwan (2), Samaraweera, Salman Butt
Enamul Haq Moni
5 Wickets: Inzamam, Younis Khan, Chanderpaul (2), Jayasuriya
Khaled Mahmud
5 Wickets: Inzamam, Trescothick, Younis Khan, Taufiq Umar, Salman Butt
Syed Rasel
5 Wickets: Sangakkara, T. Dilshan, Jayasuriya, Samaraweera, Atapattu
Sanwar Hossain
4 Wickets: Ponting, Hayden, G. Smith (2)
Talha Jubair
4 Wickets: Jayawardene, Gayle, Sarwan, Atapattu
Sahadat Hossain Rajib
4 Wickets: Jayawardene, Jayasuriya, Samaraweera, Atapattu
Naimur Rahman
3 Wickets: Tendukler, Jayasuriya, Ganguly
Hasibul Hossain Shanto
2 Wickets: Sangakkara, Taufiq Umar
Mohammad Sharif
2 Wickets: Taufiq Umar (2)
Fahim Muntasir
2 Wickets: Inzamam, Younis Khan,
Rajin Saleh
2 Wickets: Youhana, Fleming
Aftab Ahmed
2 Wickets: Trescothick, T. Dilshan
Enamul Haq Jr.
1 Wicket: Trescothick
Alok Kapali
1 Wicket: Langer
Manjarul Islam Rana
1 Wicket: Fleming
Tareq Aziz
1 Wicket: Gayle
Mushfiqur Rahman
1 Wicket: Lara

We can see from above list that 2 top-rated batsman lost their wicket to a specific Bangladeshi bowler maximum 3 times. Chris Gayle lost his wicket to Tapash Baisya 3 times and Mashrafee Mortaza dismissed Michael Vaughn on 3 occasions.

In the 123 innings played by these 34 top-players, 7350 runs were scored at an average of 70 runs per innings. They scored 6 double century, 20 century and 27 half century. It might be important to see at what stage of the innings our bowlers dismissed the top batsman.
In general, due to tiredness factor, many batsmen lose their wicket after batting a long innings.
Also, many batsmen lose wicket very early in their innings due to adjustment factor to the batting condition. It is harder to get a wicket in the mid-way of the innings when the batsman has settled down and batting with full stamina. Here is a more detailed breakdown of these 123 innings

Total Innings: 123
50+ Runs Innings: 53
100+ Runs Innings: 26
200+ Runs Innings: 6
Not-out/Run-out/Retired: 25
Non-out Below 100 Innings: 10
Wicket Taken by Bowlers: 98
Wicket Taken by Bowlers below 20 runs: 33
Wicket Taken by Bowlers before century scored: 83
Wicket Taken by Bowlers before half-century scored: 62

It is evident from the above data is that 50% of the time our bowlers were able to dismiss the top-rated batsman before reaching half-century and the rest 50% these top-rated batsman ended up scoring a 50+ innings. Also, 23% of the time our bowlers failed to restrict these top-rated batsman from scoring a century. 33 innings (27%) ended at early stage before scoring 20 runs. 50 Innings (41%) was terminated by our bowlers in the mid-way when the batsman’s score was between 20 to 100 runs. This instance of dismissing top-rated batsman in mid-way of their innings in 41% of the time might be considered as an impressive performance by our bowlers.

Now we will get into some more detail analysis of the top 4 Bangladeshi bowlers. Here is the current career standing of these 4 bowlers:

Mohammad Rafiq:
Match: 22, Over: 1009, Runs: 2659, Wicket: 73

Mashrafee Mortaza
Match: 18, Over: 523, Runs: 1650, Wicket: 47

Tapash Baisya
Match: 21, Over: 563, Runs: 2137, Wicket: 36

Monjurul Islam
Match: 17, Over: 495, Runs: 1605, Wicket: 28

It is interesting to see that 33% of all wickets taken by Tapash Baisya are top-rated batsman. Among the 47 wickets taken by Mashrafee, 32% wickets are of top-rated batsman. This percentage number for Rafiq and Monjurul is 25% and 29% respectively. Number of over bowled by Tapash, Mashrafee or Monjurul is all most half of that bowled by Rafiq. Still our pacers were most effective in dismissing top-rated batsman.

These 4 bowlers took 53 wickets of 29 top-rated players. For further analysis, we will look at the career dismissal record of these 29 top-class batsman. Most of these top-rated batsmen lost their wicket to right-arm pace bowlers. This further signifies Rafiq’s achievement as a left-arm spinner.
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Let’s look at some more details on Rafiq’s wickets. His 18 top-rated wickets consist of 14 players. He took the 18 wickets in the following manner: Caught-keeper: 5, Caught-fielder: 7, Caught-bowler: 1, Bowled: 2, LBW: 2 and Stumped: 1. Rafiq terminated 4 innings when they were below 20 and he dismissed 2 batsmen after they scored century. One of his centurion victims is Brian Lara who is famous for playing big innings. The other centurion was Michael Vaughn who was dismissed by Rafiq at 194, just 6 short of double century. 67% of Rafiq’s dismissal was done at mid-stage innings (20-99 Runs).

Here is the list of innings dismissed by Rafiq:
Lara (CW-120), Inzamam (B-43), Dravid (C-28), Trescothick (ST-32, CW-194), Chanderpaul (CW-7), Jayawardene (CW-63), Gibbs (C-21), Sangakkara (C-30), Laxman (LB-32, CB-9), Astle (C-11, LB-39), Vaughan (B-48), Oram (C-23), Taufiq Umar (C-38, CW-75), Ganguly (C-88)
[CW:Caught-Keeper, C: Caught-Fielded, CB: Caught-Bowler, B: Bowled, LB: LBW, ST: Stumped]

Masrafee’s 15 dismissals consist of 2 Bowled, 3 LBW, 7 Caught behind, and 3 on field catches. Mashrafee terminated 8 innings during early stage (below 20) and 2 of his victims were centurions. So, Mashfaree effectively dismissed most of his victims without giving any chance to settle down. Here is the list of innings dismissed by Mashrafee:

Hayden (B-11), Dravid (B-0, CW-160), Sehwag (C-10), Tendulkar (LB-36), Langer (C-1), Strauss (LB-69, LB-8), Gibbs (CW-17), Fleming (CW-4), Vaughan (CW-54, CW-120, CW-44), Vincent (CB-0, CW-23)
[CW:Caught-Keeper, C: Caught-Fielded, CB: Caught-Bowler, B: Bowled, LB: LBW, ST: Stumped]

Tapash Baisya’s dismissed 6 early stage innings (below 20) and just one batsman gave wicket to Tapash after scoring a big ton. Here is the list of innings dismissed by Tapash:
Ponting (C-10), Inzamam (C-0), Sehwag (LB-13), G. Smith (CW-16, C-15), Gibbs (C-41), Gayle (CW-51, B-37, C-141), Sarwan (C-40), Taufiq Umar (C-4), Ganguly (B-71)
[CW:Caught-Keeper, C: Caught-Fielded, CB: Caught-Bowler, B: Bowled, LB: LBW, ST: Stumped]

Manjurul terminated all innings either in early or mid-stage. His dismissals consist of 1 Bowled, 3 Caught behind and 4 on field catches. Here is the list of innings dismissed by Manjurul:
Gilchrist (B-43), Fleming (CW-61), Astle (C-5), Jayasuriya (CW-85), Sarwan (CW-17, C-13), Samaraweera (C-58), Salman Butt (C-37)
[CW:Caught-Keeper, C: Caught-Fielded, CB: Caught-Bowler, B: Bowled, LB: LBW, ST: Stumped]

A wicket of top-rated batsman does not always mean a significant wicket. Performance of a batsman on a given day determines the significance of the wicket. A consistent solid performance brings a batsman on the top level of ICC rating. So, dismissal of these solid batting stars still confers great credit on the bowler. It was evident in this study that our best bowlers, in general, grabbed the best wickets.



Edited on, January 4, 2006, 5:58 AM GMT, by babubangla.
Reason: Figure Correction

[pagol-chagol]

Holy Macoroni! We need to start paying your for your research and analysis.

[sadi]

Thanks bb. Nice analysis.

[Fazal]

Front page material

[Hatebreed]

Excellent stats and analysis BabuBangla, it's what you are renowned for

Ditto to front-page material

[pagol-chagol]

Definitely front page material.

[Faceoff]

vaijan ki roadtrip e boshe boshe research korechilen naki !!

[Tigers_eye]

Great analysis!! Votavoti'r agey diye post korley Fazal'r khobor silo.

Originally posted by babubangla
Tapash Baisya
12 Wickets: Ponting, Inzamam, Sehwag, G. Smith (2), Gibbs, Gayle (3), Sarwan, Taufiq Umar, Ganguly
...
We can see from above list that 2 top-rated batsman lost their wicket to a specific Bangladeshi bowler maximum 3 times. Chris Gayle lost his wicket to Mohammad Rafiq 3 times and Mashrafee Mortaza dismissed Michael Vaughn on 3 occasions.

eita bodhoi Taposh.

Anyways, keep up the great work. Thanks for the deep analysis.

[pagol-chagol]

Originally posted by Cats_eye
Great analysis!! Votavoti'r agey diye post korley Fazal'r khobor silo.

:P

You know, the hostages were released on the day Regan became President. Too late for Carter.

[Mahir]

Mesmerizing stuff from babubangla! Absolutely fascinating... tremendous job done throughout that entire statistical breakdown!

[Pundit]

You and I do not see eye to eye on most issues, but let me applaud you BabuBangla on this outstanding research and analysis work.

May your company keep on giving you vacations and holidays and may your social life thin out just to enliven our visits to BC.

[mshakir56]

Excellent analysis, this critical analysis will help our bowlers somewhat.

[pagol-chagol]

Originally posted by Pundit

May your company keep on giving you vacations and holidays and may your social life thin out just to enliven our visits to BC.

:P Ditto.

[newbie]

Awesome stuff. An interesting question I have is whether bowling order has a role here.

[al Furqaan]

front page it should be

[babubangla]

Originally posted by Cats_eye
eita bodhoi Taposh.

Right you are.
Thanks for the correction.

[babubangla]

Originally posted by faceoff
vaijan ki roadtrip e boshe boshe research korechilen naki !!

Na rey Bhai...so many things to enjoy in a road trip...stat niye bosar somoy koi.

[babubangla]

Thank you all for all those words of appreciation.
I appreciate you guys for taking your time to read the whole thing or part of it.

[mshakir56]

You deserve our appreciation, because you worked hard for you analysis.

[CricTiger]

Pretty good stuff and should be send to BD team.Man! you must took couple of days off from your regular activities to do this research,Thanks for this .We really appreciate it

[sabbir ahmad]

thanks

[Tintin]

Babubangla,

>> Also, 33% of the time our bowlers failed to restrict these top-rated batsman from scoring a century.

Where does the 33% come from ?

[battye]

Wow, great work!

One question though:

On 2 occasions, 2 batsmen (Jayawardene and Atapattu) just gave up batting to give their team mates a chance to bat and these 2 were declared “Retired Out”.

Which game was that, does anyone have a link to the scorecard? Thanks

[Niceman70]

Awesome!

[babubangla]

Originally posted by Tintin
Babubangla,

>> Also, 33% of the time our bowlers failed to restrict these top-rated batsman from scoring a century.

Where does the 33% come from ?

Sorry...typo..it should be 23%.
The calculation is as follows:

Total Innings: 123
Non-Out Below 100 Run Innings: 10
Total Innings Under Consideraion = 113
100+ Run Innings: 26
26/113 = 23%

Thanks