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> It just seemed to me that Ganguly was breaking an awful lot of top-
> order partnerships, so I decided to look it up, and sure enough, he
> has 8 tail-ender wickets to 24 top-order wickets, with some pretty
> decent batsmen in there - Kallis, Sangakkara, Jayawardene, Yousuf,
> just to name the 50+ averagers, and De Silva, MWaugh, Taylor, Slater,
> Thorpe, Misbah-ul-Haq, and Cook (twice) among those averaging 40+.

> Only 32 test wickets, and most definitely a change bowler. But over a
> third of his scalps average 40+ in tests!

> -Samarth.

>It just seemed to me that Ganguly was breaking an awful lot of top-
>order partnerships, so I decided to look it up, and sure enough, he
>has 8 tail-ender wickets to 24 top-order wickets, with some pretty
>decent batsmen in there - Kallis, Sangakkara, Jayawardene, Yousuf,
>just to name the 50+ averagers, and De Silva, MWaugh, Taylor, Slater,
>Thorpe, Misbah-ul-Haq, and Cook (twice) among those averaging 40+.

>Only 32 test wickets, and most definitely a change bowler. But over a
>third of his scalps average 40+ in tests!

> It just seemed to me that Ganguly was breaking an awful lot of top-
> order partnerships, so I decided to look it up, and sure enough, he
> has 8 tail-ender wickets to 24 top-order wickets, with some pretty
> decent batsmen in there - Kallis, Sangakkara, Jayawardene, Yousuf,
> just to name the 50+ averagers, and De Silva, MWaugh, Taylor, Slater,
> Thorpe, Misbah-ul-Haq, and Cook (twice) among those averaging 40+.

> Only 32 test wickets, and most definitely a change bowler. But over a
> third of his scalps average 40+ in tests!

> It just seemed to me that Ganguly was breaking an awful lot of top-
> order partnerships, so I decided to look it up, and sure enough, he
> has 8 tail-ender wickets to 24 top-order wickets, with some pretty
> decent batsmen in there - Kallis, Sangakkara, Jayawardene, Yousuf,
> just to name the 50+ averagers, and De Silva, MWaugh, Taylor, Slater,
> Thorpe, Misbah-ul-Haq, and Cook (twice) among those averaging 40+.

> Only 32 test wickets, and most definitely a change bowler. But over a
> third of his scalps average 40+ in tests!

> It just seemed to me that Ganguly was breaking an awful lot of top-
> order partnerships, so I decided to look it up, and sure enough, he
> has 8 tail-ender wickets to 24 top-order wickets, with some pretty
> decent batsmen in there - Kallis, Sangakkara, Jayawardene, Yousuf,
> just to name the 50+ averagers, and De Silva, MWaugh, Taylor, Slater,
> Thorpe, Misbah-ul-Haq, and Cook (twice) among those averaging 40+.

> Only 32 test wickets, and most definitely a change bowler. But over a
> third of his scalps average 40+ in tests!

> -Samarth.

> com...
>> Which bowler has the highest average-average of victims?

>> It just seemed to me that Ganguly was breaking an awful lot of
>> top- order partnerships, so I decided to look it up, and sure
>> enough, he has 8 tail-ender wickets to 24 top-order wickets, with
>> some pretty decent batsmen in there - Kallis, Sangakkara,
>> Jayawardene, Yousuf, just to name the 50+ averagers, and De
>> Silva, MWaugh, Taylor, Slater, Thorpe, Misbah-ul-Haq, and Cook
>> (twice) among those averaging 40+.

>> Only 32 test wickets, and most definitely a change bowler. But
>> over a third of his scalps average 40+ in tests!

>> -Samarth.

> > How do you do a "look it up"
> > Is there a database where all cricket statistics are readily
> > available? Appreciate.

> statsguru in cricinfo is one such database.

> Takeiteasy.