From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Richard Hadlee : Career Record..... 
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:18:47 GMT

Muqtada Husain of Ohio State University posted this, well once upon a 
time, with the title, Hadlee: The Great. He acknowledged to AJ Gorman, 
the original poster.

For the benefit of Hadlee fans, I post this here....

Vicky:
UMass, Sep 03
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                  *********************************************
                  * Sir Richard Hadlee - A Statistical Review *
                  *********************************************
      (Source 'The Sports Post', Wellington, NZ, Friday, July 20th, 1990)

Statistics tabulated under; Matches played, innings, not outs, runs, batting
average, highest score (* denotes not out), hundreds, fifties, catches, balls
bowled, runs conceded, wickets taken, bowling average, best bowling, five
wickets in an innings, and ten wickets in a match.

                                Test Career Record
                                ==================
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              M  I  NO Runs  Ave   HS  C 50 Ct Balls Runs Wkt  Ave  Best 5I 10
             86 134 19 3124 27.16 151* 2 15 39 21918 9611 431 22.29 9-52 36  9
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                               Against Each Country
                               ====================
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              M  I  NO Runs  Ave   HS  C 50 Ct Balls Runs Wkt  Ave  Best 5I 10
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England      21 34   4  798 26.60  99  -  6  9  5853 2399  97 24.73 6-26  8  2
Australia    23 38   5  783 23.72  81  -  4 12  6099 2674 130 20.56 9-52 14  3
West Indies  10 15   3  389 32.41 103  1  1  4  2506 1124  51 22.03 6-50  4  1
India        14 20   1  310 16.31  87  -  1  4  3106 1493  65 22.96 7-23  4  2
Pakistan     12 19   4  559 37.26  89  -  3  5  2949 1448  51 28.39 6-51  4  -
Sri Lanka     6  8   2  285 47.50 151* 1  -  5  1405  473  37 12.78 5-29  2  1

TOTAL        86 134 19 3124 27.16 151* 2 15 39 21918 9611 431 22.29 9-52 36  9
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                                   Home and Away
                                   =============
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              M  I  NO Runs  Ave   HS  C 50 Ct Balls Runs Wkt  Ave  Best 5I 10
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Home         43  59  8 1501 29.43 103  1  7 19 10663 4615 201 22.96 7-23 15  3
Away         43  75 11 1623 25.35 151* 1  8 20 11255 4996 230 21.72 9-52 21  6

TOTAL        86 134 19 3124 27.16 151* 2 15 39 21918 9611 431 22.29 9-52 36  9
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                              First-Class Career Record
                              =========================
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         M  I  NO  Runs  Ave   HS   C 50  Ct Balls  Runs  Wkt  Ave  Best  5I 10
       342 473 93 12052 31.71 210* 14 59 198 67517 26998 1490 18.11 9-52 102 18
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                             How Test Wickets were Taken
                             ===========================
                                            Wkts    %
                               Caught       246   57.08
                               Bowled        92   21.34
                               LBW           83   19.26
                               Ct & Bowled   10    2.32

******************************************************************************

	Statistics say it all about the greatness of Hadlee (though these 
are not always the true reflection of one's real class). But in this case
these are.  Imagine 5 wickets/match average that too after 86 matches. It
is very difficult to maintain this  average even in the initial stages of
one's career.  Only Waqar has this average  (though he has played only 10
tests so far).  I don't remember any one having 5+ average (after playing
50+ matches). Correct me if I am wrong.

	Hats off to "one" of the greatest bowlers of modern time.

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	Waqar captured 5 or more wickets in an innings for 10 times in 19
test matches.

Vicky:
UMass, Sep 03
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