Cricket Tragic Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 Barry Richards reckons that 35 is roughly the age when batsmen decline and he has spoken about what happened to his game when he crossed that age. Interesting to look at the records of players once they hit that mark. I started with a minimum of 2000 runs but that excludes several players like Bradman and the 4 great English batsmen - Hobbs, Hutton, Sutcliffe and Hammond. So I reduced it to 1500 runs. Even then, only a handful of batsmen average over 50 after the age of 35. Special mention for Gooch - he didn't quite manage an average of 50 but he did average 48 over more than 50 tests with 12 hundreds after the age of 35. :hatsoff: Indian fans won't forget the summer of 1990. (
Raghav_12 Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 In this list too, top two batsmen of all time coming out at top.
Cricket Tragic Posted October 12, 2011 Author Posted October 12, 2011 In ODIs, with a minimum of 1000 runs and an average of more than 30. Sunny's name stands out there and Uncle Jaya scored more than 4000 runs after the age of 35 with 12 hundreds. :hatsoff:
thongale Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 Zaheer Abbas in unbelievable. SR of 92 of his era is like 105 now.
Cricket Tragic Posted October 13, 2011 Author Posted October 13, 2011 Hayden's after 30 form was amazing too. Yep, 26-27 hundreds.
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