How good was Kris Srikanth?

[diga]

Average of 29 and SR of 72. During the same time period Aravinda' date=' in his Mad Max mode, av eraged 28.4 with a SR of 79. I don't see what is the big deal regarding him as a quick scorer.[/quote'] Did Aravinda open the batting? comparing one at the beginning of his career and other at the end ..:hatsoff: to you

[thongale]

No, he played at #7, opened once in a while. Srikkanth played from 1981 to 1992. Aravinda played 1984 to 2003. These are his stats from 1984 to 1992, overlapping with Srikkanth's career.

[kosingh]

In 20 years we'll be talking about Rohit Sharma as a legend. Even if he doesn't play another game after today. We'll be posting videos of his ODI 200s. Videos will include those sublime sixes. Forgotten will be the other games. Forgotten will be the frustration he caused for fans!

[Marut]

Average of 29 and SR of 72. During the same time period Aravinda' date=' in his Mad Max mode, av eraged 28.4 with a SR of 79. I don't see what is the big deal regarding him as a quick scorer.[/quote'] Compare KS with openers of his era. Not with Aravinda who mostly played at #4. Aravinda at #1-#3 slots averaged 20 at a s/r of 65.

[vvvslaxman]

Average of 29 and SR of 72. During the same time period Aravinda' date=' in his Mad Max mode, av eraged 28.4 with a SR of 79. I don't see what is the big deal regarding him as a quick scorer.[/quote'] Aravinda is my favorite SL cricketer alongwith Roy Dias. But Cheeka is a different max max in the sense he would go for four, six in first over of test match against shiny new ball. He was more a conventional batsman with adventurous instinct. Cheeka didn't really have any solid technique. All he had was very fast reflex. The mindset of Cheeka was matched only later by Jayasuriya, Sehwag.

[Marut]

Srikkanth's test match batting strike rate during the 80s was 67. He was far ahead of his peers in this department. Only two batsmen in the 80s scored faster than Cheeka - Kapil Dev with a S/R of 85 and Richards with 70. But Cheeka was an opener and no opener of that day matched him in scoring rates. Aravinda had a test S/R of 48 in the 80s - he was no where comparable to Cheeka in scoring rates. Srikkanth was very much like our own Sehwag - he would start hitting big shots from over number one, whether it was tests or ODIs didn't matter. He played nearly the same way in both tests and ODIs. There was an air of expectancy every time Srikkanth went out to bat - the score board would keep ticking till he got out.

[Gollum]

Srikanth loved Chatfield, Imran and Qadir. Also took apart Wasim in his debut but later Wasim destroyed the Madrasi.

[fineleg]

In 20 years we'll be talking about Rohit Sharma as a legend.

we will always remember him as the POS.

[kirkutfan]

Srikanth was whacko. Would play a big shot or two and then throw his wicket away. Was fun to watch when he came through. Sehwag was miles ahead of this guy.

[fineleg]

Srikanth was whacko. Would play a big shot or two and then throw his wicket away. Was fun to watch when he came through. Sehwag was miles ahead of this guy.

Sehwag was upgrade version of KS. Sehwag had far superior hand eye coordination but came in-built with brainfarts similar to KS. #1 opener Sunil Gavaskar #2 VS

[kosingh]

Shahid Afridi of the 80s

[zen]

In ODIs, Srikant was one of the pioneering master blaster openers. His avg of 29 is respectable esp. considering that many top Ind batsmen of his time averaged in low 30s .... At one point, Srikant held the record of most 100s in ODIs (4, Shastri equaled that too if i m not wrong), which was later broken by Sidhu

[Marut]

Shahid Afridi of the 80s

:hysterical: Don't bring Afridi in here. KS was an opener during the era of hostile bowling and was way ahead of Afridi.

[Marut]

Srikanth was whacko. Would play a big shot or two and then throw his wicket away. Was fun to watch when he came through. Sehwag was miles ahead of this guy.

Had a decent ODI average of 30 (check with other Indian batsmen), surely not a hit and miss guy for his era. India won tough matches in the 80s usually when KS or Kapil fired.

[kosingh]

For matches played prior to Srikanth's retirement, here's a list of players who had averages more than Srikanth and SR > 65. (Min 20 matches)

[Vijy]

For matches played prior to Srikanth's retirement, here's a list of players who had averages more than Srikanth and SR > 65. (Min 20 matches)

Srikanth had a very good SR in Tests, but his SR was fairly ordinary in ODIs, even if one takes into account that he was an opener.

[Marut]

Srikanth had a very good SR in Tests' date=' [b']but his SR was fairly ordinary in ODIs, even if one takes into account that he was an opener.

The average S/R of openers of that era was around 57 in ODIs. Note that there were no field restrictions and the first 25 overs of ODIs were played like test matches in that era. Typical scores for the first 25 overs then was like 80/2. Acceleration started only by the 30th over and only middle order batsmen used to bat with S/R exceeding 70. See the top openers of the 80s in the chart below.

[Vijy]

The average S/R of openers of that era was around 57 in ODIs. Note that there were no field restrictions and the first 25 overs of ODIs were played like test matches in that era. Typical scores for the first 25 overs then was like 80/2. Acceleration started only by the 30th over and only middle order batsmen used to bat with S/R exceeding 70. See the top openers of the 80s in the chart below.

Thanks for the file - his SR is indeed somewhat higher than contemporaries. Greenidge and Gooch's avgs for that time are sipmly astonishing.

[vvvslaxman]

There are some intangible factors we omit. In Srikkanth's era typical first 10 over score would be 20 for 1, or 24 for 0.. They would crawl to 75 or 80 by 25th over.. All the acceleration would come right at the death.

[zen]

For matches played prior to Srikanth's retirement, here's a list of players who had averages more than Srikanth and SR > 65. (Min 20 matches)

That's an example of "how not to do stats and how to misuse cricinfo" :P