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Date: 03/20/2000

 Which brings up an interesting project...

 Which was the most effecting pair of tandem bowlers of all time?  A way
to judge their effectiveness would be to take the number of wickets they
have taken while bowling together and divide by the number of games in
which they have bowled together. This could well include spinners. It
would be interesting if Bedi/Chandra or Laker/Lock, over their careers,
were more effective than Walsh/Ambrose or Miller/Lindwall.

 Aslam, care to try this one?  Feel free to modify the metric to make it
more representative.

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A. Most wickets per Test by two bowlers from the same side appearing
together (qualification - the bowlers appeared together in at least 15
Test matches; only similar type of bowlers are paired, for example,
Warne with May but not with McGrath):

 W/M    Wkt   Ms
11.27   169   15   CV Grimmett & WJ O'Reilly (Aus)
 9.67   145   15   TM Alderman & DK Lillee (Aus)
 9.37   534   57   Waqar Younis & Wasim Akram (Pak)
 9.27   204   22   MA Noble & H Trumble (Aus)
 9.25   185   20   DK Lillee & MHN Walker (Aus)
 9.12   155   17   TBA May & SK Warne (Aus)
 9.07   263   29   CEL Ambrose & MD Marshall (WI)
 9.00   144   16   CEH Croft & MA Holding (WI)
 8.94   322   36   J Garner & MD Marshall (WI)
 8.92   232   26   CEH Croft & J Garner (WI)
 8.82   150   17   TM Alderman & MG Hughes (Aus)
 8.82   291   33   MA Holding & MD Marshall (WI)
 8.76   368   42   BS Bedi & BS Chandrasekhar (Ind)
 8.74   332   38   AA Donald & SM Pollock (RSA)
 8.70   174   20   A Kumble & SLV Raju (Ind)
 8.58   206   24   JC Laker & GAR Lock (Eng)

Best for other countries:
 8.40   126   15   RJ Hadlee & GB Troup (NZ)
 7.79   148   19   HDPK Dharmasena & M Muralitharan (SL)
 5.84   146   25   HH Streak & GJ Whittall (Zim)

B. Most wickets per Test by two bowlers from the same side appearing
together only as OPENING bowlers (qualification - at least 15 Test
together):

10.04   231   23   J Garner & MD Marshall (WI)
 9.63   472   49   Waqar Younis & Wasim Akram (Pak)
 9.25   148   16   DK Lillee & JR Thomson (Aus)
 8.79   299   34   AA Donald & SM Pollock (RSA)
 8.74   201   23   CEL Ambrose & IA Bishop (WI)
 8.59   421   49   CEL Ambrose & CA Walsh (WI)
 8.53   145   17   BKV Prasad & J Srinath (Ind)
 8.47   127   15   AK Davidson & I Meckiff (Aus)
 8.47   127   15   DW Fleming & GD McGrath (Aus)
 8.44   228   27   Imran Khan & Sarfraz Nawaz (Pak)
 8.39   151   18   NJN Hawke & GD McKenzie (Aus)
 8.11   284   35   JB Statham & FS Trueman (Eng)

Worst:
 2.16    41   17   S Abid Ali & ED Solkar (Ind)

aslam
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More interesting...And I see a lot of ammunition here for lots more wars
With better catching support would Srinath-Prasad have been more
effective than Ambrose-Walsh? TIC.

Go Javagal!

Vijay

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Far more unique is for a single Test Match:
No Test Match have ever produced two blowers on the same side to take
ten wickets apiece(4X5), and only five instance of 3 bowlers on
the 'SAME SIDE' to take 5w in an Test match as follows:

1894-95:For Australia, Giffen (5-76)and Callaway(5-37)1st inning,
Trott (8-43)in 2nd inning, and for England Richardson 5-75 in Australia
1st inning, hence making it four Bowlers(Aus 3 Eng 1) taking 5W in an
inning in a single Test Match, making it very unique.

1909 4th Test: SF Barnes 5-56 & C Blythe 5-56 1st inning, W Rhodes 5-83
2nd inning

1975 Eng vs Aus,1st Test: Lillee 5-15 & Walker 5-48 ist inning,
 Thompson 5-38 2nd inning

1981-82 1St Test: Doshi(5-39)1st inning, Kapil Dev(5-70)Madan Lal(5-23)
in England 2nd inning and Ian Botham 5-61 in India's 2nd inning,
equaling the 1894 instance, a span of 90 years

1993 5th Test: Reiffel 6-71 1st inning,  May 5-89 and Warne 5-82 2 nd
inning

It came pretty close earlier this year with England trio of
Caddick,Cough,and White, plus Walsh and Ambrose, but it didn't happen
perhaps in the near future when two bowlers can achieve 4x5, not so
far, prime example: Arthur Fagg's two double hundred in a match.
Has anyone even got closer. I'm rooting for Sachin on this one.

*note 4 bowlers have taken 5w in a single test match with ratio of 2:2
what I'm posting is a ratio of 3:1
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Pervez
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