100/innings ratio - Is there anyone (apart from Bradman) who tops Tendulkar?

[Bublu Bhuyan]

I was really wondering, is there any batsman from the past (apart from Bradman) who tops Tendulkar in this department? I have looked at the 100/innings ratio of lots of great players from Sobers to Richards, Gavaskar, Chappell, Border, Ponting, Lara, Dravid, Hayden, Kallis, etc but all of them falls short. Please note that I'm including Hayden because he did score quite a lot of centuries in his career, not because I consider him in the same league as Sobers or Richards. However, I haven't looked for players beyond Sobers's time like Barrington, Hobbs, Hutton, George Headley, etc. There have been plenty of great players and it's just not easy to look at each one of their's performance in this regard. This is an area where StatsGuru doesn't help either. To your knowledge, is there anyone apart from Bradman who tops Tendulkar's ratio of a century per 5.70 innings? P.S. A point by the way, I don't think it would be fair to include Graeme Pollock and Barry Richards in the competition (although you still might). Both were tremendous batsman. Bradman included Barry Richards in his dream team, and he considered Graeme Pollock to be the finest left hander along with Sobers that he ever saw. But Pollock played barely 20 odd Test matches, while Richards ended up playing about 4 odd Test matches. Their careers were cut short by apartheid.

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[Bublu Bhuyan]

list with cutoff : >10 career hundreds. The last col = Inns/100

DG Bradman          	52	80	10	6996	99.94	58.61	29	2.755
CL Walcott          	44	74	7	3798	56.69	0.00	15	4.926
H Sutcliffe         	54	84	9	4555	60.73	34.60	16	5.263
ED Weekes           	48	81	5	4455	58.62	0.00	15	5.405
SR Tendulkar        	166	271	29	13647	55.93	54.35	48	5.708
GS Sobers           	93	160	21	8032	57.78	53.92	26	6.135
ML Hayden           	103	184	14	8625	50.74	60.11	30	6.135
SM Gavaskar         	125	214	16	10122	51.12	44.42	34	6.289
GS Chappell         	87	151	19	7110	53.86	51.53	24	6.289
RT Ponting            	145	245	27	11954	54.83	59.53	39	6.289
Mohammad Yousuf     	29	152	12	7431	53.08	52.39	24	6.329
WR Hammond          	85	140	16	7249	58.46	38.07	22	6.369
KC Sangakkara       	88	149	10	7549	55.10	55.53	23	6.478
KF Barrington       	82	131	15	6806	58.67	42.44	20	6.536
RN Harvey           	79	137	10	6149	48.42	43.51	21	6.536
DPMD Jayawardene    	110	184	14	9120	54.29	52.63	28	6.571
AR Morris           	46	79	3	3533	46.49	45.42	12	6.579
V Sehwag            	76	133	5	6691	53.53	80.88	20	6.650
M Azharuddin        	99	147	9	6215	45.04	57.85	22	6.667
JH Kallis             	140	237	35	11126	55.08	44.52	35	6.757
BC Lara             	131	232	6	11953	52.89	60.51	34	6.803
JB Hobbs            	61	102	7	5410	56.95	46.54	15	6.803
KP Pietersen        	62	111	6	5166	49.20	62.85	16	6.944
Younis Khan         	63	112	7	5260	50.10	53.73	16	6.993
MJ Clarke             	61	99	12	4434	50.97	53.62	14	7.092

Thanks a lot for the list, bro. You're awesome.

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[Spider]

Tendulkar matches Bradman if you just use minnows. Against Bangers and Zim Tendulkar scores a hundred every 2.8 innings. Take out the minnows though and Things change.

[Robin Hood]

If you look at the list, Sangakkara is at exact halfway mark of tendulkar in tests and has exactly almost half the runs. Considering sangakkaras age is 33, wondering whether he will overtake ponting when he retires. Also jayawardane.

[Tapioca]

What is the column between average and centuries (58.61 for Bradman etc) ?

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[kabira]

Tendulkar matches Bradman if you just use minnows. Against Bangers and Zim Tendulkar scores a hundred every 2.8 innings. Take out the minnows though and Things change.

so you are trying to say Bradman scorred against Minnows. :winky::winky::winky:

[bhanu]

Bradman 2.755 wow just wow man :hatsoff::hatsoff::hatsoff:

[Lord]

Raina:hatsoff:

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Bradman 2.755 wow just wow man :hatsoff::hatsoff::hatsoff:

His average is the greatest statistical achievement in any damn sport in the world. Till this day I haven't understood how he managed to average more than 99. It would be like a bowler averaging a wicket for every run he concedes.

[bhanu]

His average is the greatest statistical achievement in any damn sport in the world. Till this day I haven't understood how he managed to average more than 99. It would be like a bowler averaging a wicket for every run he concedes.

Yea dats y he is such a amazing cricketar and yea its dat truth dat if he had hit a four in his last game then he woulda reached 7000 runs and 100 average? :hatsoff:

[Lord]

yes

[imran666]

theres only one player who tops sachin in that department ..IMRAN LARA FAHRAT :winky:

[Chalks]

Stats Buzz: Sachin Tendulkar now joins Steve Waugh as the only player to score 150 against every test playing nation.

Suck it, haters. :finger:

[Mamu]

Azhar is better than Lara ? Wonderful

[nballa]

like the wiseman once said - the only ratio i care about in the whole world of cricket is the W/L ratio. nothing else matters, not petty averages or strikerates. and i am that wiseman.

[The Outsider]

Kaneria easily beats Tendulkar and is running Bradman real close. A few good innings and he'll be there : http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/40043.html?class=1;concededmin1=100;concededval1=conceded;filter=advanced;orderby=default;template=results;type=bowling 111/39 = 2.84