Statistical Round-up for 2010

Thursday, December 30, 2010 cricket, cricket stats 2010, dale steyn, david warner, dirk nannes, graeme swann, hashim amla, rishabh bablani, sachin, shakib al hasan, statistics, umar akmal, virat kohli, virender sehwag, zaheer No Comments

"Sneaky stats are sneaky."

- A close friend of Darren Gough's mailman's brother-in-law

Most Runs

Tests

Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave		SR	100	50
SR Tendulkar (India)	14	23	3	1562	214	78.10		55.90	7	5
V Sehwag (India)	14	25	2	1422	173	61.82		90.80	5	8
IJL Trott (Eng)	14	24	4	1325	226	66.25		49.44	4	4
AN Cook (Eng)	14	24	2	1287	235*	58.50		54.76	5	4
HM Amla (SA)	11	19	3	1249	253*	78.06		53.05	5	4

The next two on the list are Saffas Kallis and Smith. Tamim Iqbal could have been higher up the list, but only played 7 Tests, scoring 837 runs at 59.78, with an almost Sehwagological strike rate of 80.71 and a highest of 151. Sangakarra just played 6 games for 695 runs at the lofty average of 99.28. The highest score this year was Gaylestorm's 333.

ODI's

Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave		SR	100	50
HM Amla (SA)	15	15	1	1058	129	75.57		104.23	5	4
V Kohli (India)	25	24	3	995	118	47.38		85.11	3	7
AB de Villiers (SA)	16	16	4	964	114*	80.33		102.11	5	4
TM Dilshan (SL)	20	20	2	921	110	51.16		98.92	3	4
Imrul Kayes (Ban)	27	27	0	867	101	32.11		67.15	1	6

There's a huge outlier that I noticed as I scrolled down this list. Lurking just outside the top 20, is cricket's official ball-smeller (ha) Shahid Afridi, who scored 601 runs at 33, but at a crack-high strike-rate of 144.12. 

If you play Jeopardy in Pakistan, "what is Shahid Afridi?" is an official answer to "the definition of insane". Really.