From: hafeez@vxcrna.cern.ch (Syed Mohammad Ali)
Subject: Re: Imran's career statistics (Test)
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:37:00 GMT

In article <00963E3C.A86A5860@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 9063iyerm@vms.csd.mu.edu writes...
>Hi folks:
> 
>Here are the career figures for Imran Khan, who recently announced his
>"irrevocable" retirement.
> 
>       Batting Test career:
> 
>_______________________________________________________________________
>     vs        Capt.  T    I   NO   R     HS    Avg.  100   50  0's  Ct.
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>India           15    23   29  8   1091   135*  51.95  3     3   -    7
>            
>Australia        8    18   28  5    862   136   37.47  1     5   2    5
>            
>West Indies      9    18   33  5    775   123   27.67  1     3   2    4
>            
>England          8    12   17  3    500   118   35.71  1     2   2    6
>            
>New Zealand      2     7    9  3    308    71   51.33  -     3   -    1
>            
>Sri Lanka        6    10   10  1    271    93*  30.11  -     2   2    5
> 
>_______________________________________________________________________
>                48    88  126  25  3,807  136   37.69  6    18   8   28
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>Bowling Test Career
> 
>_______________________________________________________________________
>               Balls    Mdns    Runs    Wkts    Av.   5WI  10WM   Best
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>India          5072     216     2261     94    24.04   6     2    8-60
>            
>Australia      3494     112     1695     80    21.18   6     1    7-80
>            
>West Indies    3994     140     1598     64    24.96   3     1    6-63
>            
>England        2919     116     1158     47    24.63   4     1    7-40
>            
>New Zealand    1788      73      672     46    14.60   3     1    8-58
>            
>Sri Lanka      2191      68      874     31    28.19   1     -   5-106
> 
>_______________________________________________________________________
>              19,458    725     8,258   362    22.81  23     6    8-58   
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>Statistics do say a lot for this wonderful allround cricketer, though the
>chronological breakup would say more about his gradual recession into the
>background as a bowler, and emergence as a frontline batsman. 
> 
>-Murali

       You are correct in this observation. What I would like to 
       know is that from which date would you like to place Imran
       better as a batsman than a bowler. In my opinion after his
       recovery from the shin injury Imran continued towards the
       amelioration of his batting abilities. Though he became a
       frontline batsman for the Pakistani team eversince he 
       assumed the responsibility of the captaincy, he still was 
       the ace pakistani fast bowler and undeniably world class
       till the 1988 series that he played against the West Indies
       after the Reliance World Cup in 1987. In that series he bowled
       as fast as any one else, but after that series he started 
       balling slowly all of a sudden, persumably because of the 
       growing maturity of Wasim Akram and especially the emergence
       of Waqar Younus. 

       It's my guess that if Waqar hadn't come up, Imran would have
       still bowled fast atleast for a couple of years more.

       regards,


       Syed