Wrote this on the eve of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2013 which happened in India. Within a few days after I wrote this piece, he went on to score his highest ever test score. #Replug #ThankYouMSD #FarewellDhoni Among the wicket keepers from modern era, only Andy Flower (53.7) and Adam Gilchrist (47.6) showcase outstanding test batting averages. Flower was a proper middle-order batsman who can walk in any team of the late 90s and early 2000s as a batsman. Gilchrist was phenomenally remarkable and comparisons with Gilchrist is only going to be farcical to say the least, for he is arguably the best wicket keeper batsman ever. One of England’s best, Alec Stewart averages 34.92 in tests in games where he has kept wickets while Boucher averaged 30 throughout his career. Among contemporaries, Ramdin averages 25. Kamran Akmal averages 30. Haddin averages 35.82. Only Prior (43), AB de Villiers (47 in 13 games) and Matthew Wade (42.5 in 9 games) average better than MS Dhoni. While Dhoni’s overall test batting average (batting at #6 and #7) is 38.06, his batting average as captain is 41.71. Can these numbers, of a test wicket-keeper batsman, be deemed as misfit? Put it under this perspective and with contemporary relevance attached, Dhoni’s numbers match and in many cases, better than the averages of the usual. https://ananthasubramanian.wordpress/2013/02/18/is-dhoni-a-misfit-in-test-cricket/
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:34:13 +0000
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