by VM
Welcome to the cricket’s Razzies, folks! We've seen the ICC Awards for last year, shouldn't we see the Razzies? For those of you who aren’t familiar with Razzy Awards check this out.
Categories for the Razzies this year are for Worst Batsman, Worst Bowler and Emerging Flop-show.
I’ve restricted my nominees to Tests as I have followed mostly only Tests in the past year. I welcome you to present your own for the ODIs in a new thread if it interests you enough.
Since we’re democratic, so I will only nominate. You pick your winners!
My picks for Worst Batsman and Bowler are Hershelle Gibbs and Sreesanth respectively. My Emerging flop-show award goes to Dinesh Karthik.
In case you were wondering, the criterion for nomination for batsmen was:
- batting position between 1 and 7
- only regular dismissals allowed (no hit wicket or other strange mode of dismissal)
- should have featured in more than 5 Tests in the past year
From this list I picked people who have either have a very low (less than 30) average for a high batting position or whose averages have dipped significantly from their overall averages. That is how Vaughn, Gayle, Collingwood, Tendulkar, Dravid, Kallis and Ponting made the list.
For bowlers:
- bowling postion between 1 and 4
- should have played 4 or more matches
From this list I picked folks who either got too little wickets for someone bowling in postions 1-4 or those whose strike rates or averages have dipped significantly.
For Emerging flop-show:
- must be a relatively new player
- shown lot of promise in the past and failed in their comeback, or just failed to click in their early opportunity
I've restricted this to Indian players alone due to lack of knowledge, but feel free to add on to this list.
Worst Batsmen this Year
Here are the nominees. Fyi, it is after a lot of thought and sadness I included Dravid in this list. I didn't have the heart to, but the criterion forces me to. :(
Name | M | Inns | NO | Runs | H | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 0 | ||
Dinesh Karthik | 5 | 10 | 0 | 151 | 52 | 15.10 | 266 | 56.76 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hershelle Gibbs | 5 | 8 | 0 | 152 | 63 | 19 | 267 | 56.92 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
Michael Vaughan | 12 | 21 | 0 | 578 | 106 | 27.52 | 1325 | 43.62 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||
Paul Collingwood | 12 | 18 | 0 | 601 | 135 | 33.38 | 1273 | 47.21 | 1 | 5 | 2 | ||
Sachin Tendulkar | 10 | 16 | 0 | 517 | 153 | 32.31 | 778 | 66.45 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||
Rahul Dravid | 13 | 22 | 0 | 717 | 111 | 32.59 | 1944 | 36.88 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
Ricky Ponting | 9 | 15 | 0 | 678 | 158 | 45.2 | 1111 | 61.02 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
Chris Gayle | 5 | 9 | 0 | 274 | 66 | 30.44 | 296 | 92.56 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mathew Sinclair | 5 | 8 | 0 | 147 | 47 | 18.37 | 311 | 47.26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jacques Kallis | 14 | 22 | 0 | 908 | 186 | 41.27 | 1677 | 54.14 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
The career averages for the established batsmen are as follows:
Hershelle Gibbs - 41.95
Michael Vaughn - 41.44
Paul Collingwood - 42.01
Sachin Tendulkar -54.23
Rahul Dravid - 53.92
Ricky Ponting - 58.37
Chris Gayle - 41.95
Mathew Sinclair - 32.55
Jacques Kallis - 55.46
Off topic, but had to add an interesting tidbit here. Own very own Dada is the second highest run getter in Tests this year, second to South Africa's Greame Smith.
Worst Bowler this Year
Here are the nominees. The good part is that this was a hard category as most bowlers (in my criterion) did rather well.
Name | M | I | Overs | Runs | Wk | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 5s | 10s |
Danish Kaneria | 4 | 6 | 231.4 | 730 | 15 | 4/59 | 5/213 | 48.66 | 3.15 | 92.6 | 0 | 0 |
Sreesanth | 2 | 2 | 49.0 | 191 | 3 | 2/87 | 2/87 | 63.66 | 3.89 | 98 | 0 | 0 |
Jacques Kallis | 5 | 5 | 93.0 | 236 | 4 | 2/50 | 4/90 | 59.0 | 2.53 | 139.5 | 0 | 0 |
Mohammed Sami | 3 | 4 | 102 | 382 | 4 | 2/63 | 4/212 | 95.50 | 3.74 | 153.0 | 0 | 0 |
Irfan Pathan | 4 | 4 | 111.2 | 340 | 6 | 3/112 | 5/117 | 56.66 | 3.05 | 111.3 | 0 | 0 |
Kaneria’s Avg and SR dropped from 33.9 and 68.1
Sreesanth’s Avg and SR dropped from 31.46 3 and 57.4
Kallis’s Avg and SR dropped from 31.22 and 66.6
Mohammed Sami’s Avg and SR dropped from 51.37 and 81.2
Pathan’s Avg and SR dropped from 32.26 and 58.8
Here are the nominees:
RP Singh: showed a lot of promise in England, but fizzled out since then
Yuvraj Singh: promised a lot with ODI and T20 form and even in the Test against Pak but failed to deliver in Australia
Dinesh Karthik: could have seized his position as reserve wicket-keeper in Sri Lanka but failed miserably with gloves and bat
Parthiv Patel: had an opportunity similar to Karthik, but failed to impress.
9 comments:
5 test matches changes things, otherwise players like Xavier Marshall, Suleiman
Benn.
Younis Khan (? maybe he still fits in?)could be in and that young Kiwi bowler...wasssissname...I kinda forget...Tim Southee!...Sarwan..there are some Razzies out there.
Yeah, SB, the 5 Tests does change things. When I was looking for bowlers, everything looked hunky-dory with the 5 Test restriction. When I changed that to 4, statsguru spit the interesting stuff out.
for me i see the impact of player in the team and i give more weightage to this fact...
for example consistent failure of stalwart like dravid, kallis, or srt will heart team more than say dinesh, gibbs...
similarly in bowling too...
so for me
worst batsmen is tie
dravid and sachin
for the simple fact that the drift is more than 20 runs compared to career avg...the drift is far too wide for me...for world class batsmen like them...and their failure costs team more...
for bowler
jack kallis...remember he is considered top all rounder and to be considered that he has to come up with matching bowling figures...
though i am surprised why kumble name is missing from this list...
yuvraj for emerging...
for being forever emerging...
SB - How can you think of Younis Khan for a Razzie? He has a 100 in each test match he played this year and last year. Saved Pakistan 3 times in 3 tests.
As for the Worst Batsman category. I don't think a batsmen who averaged 40+ during a year can be considered for this - even if that is a dip from his career average. He did worse than his previous years but he definitely did not do badly.
Its relative, such an award should be absolute.
I thought it would be apt if we called this the Golden Duckie award or simply the Duckies...
What say?
@SP, I was also surprized with the stats thrown by stats guru on Kumble. Still doesn't look too bad, in fact it's quite good. That was one pleasant surprize.
Q, I think SB might have had in mind some of the recent flop-shows by Younis. If I recall correctly, he did not have a great series in India.
Rajab, it's a nice thought. In fact that could be another category with the contenders being those who got more than 2 ducks in the past year.
i am borrowing these stats from trideep's blog...
kumble's record
M-130
W-616
Av-29.33
SR-65.3
His stats for this year is
M-8o
W-25
Av-45.76
SR-87.4
notice the difference in av as well as strike rate...
do you think its good?
How about starting a ig'laureus' sporting award series(very much in line with the ig'nobel's ... & inaugarate it with Dada as the first awardee!
@SP, I'd be interested in looking at those stats again. What I got didn't look this unimpressive. I'm wondering if the Lanka series had more to do with it that than is obvious, as he did bowl a lot in that series.
@sraghuna, take it away!
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