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by **Vicky B. Vigneswar** » Sat, 17 Jan 2004 08:55:39

Test average of Bevan is 29.07, but his ODI average is 54.85.

Ganguly's Test average is 41.75 and his ODI average is 43.44.

I am wondering whether there are many other batsmen (not bowlers and
keepers) with the record of higher ODI average than Test average?

Vicky:

by **Dipak Bas** » Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:18:58

Quote:

> Test average of Bevan is 29.07, but his ODI average is 54.85.

> Ganguly's Test average is 41.75 and his ODI average is 43.44.

> I am wondering whether there are many other batsmen (not bowlers and
> keepers) with the record of higher ODI average than Test average?

This is not unusual. In fact there appears to be a fairly even split among
batsmen who do better in tests and ODIs. A quick investigation of ODI
averages over 40 with 20+ ODI innings, leads to this list:

ODI Test
Bevan 54.85 29.07
Zaheer Abbas 47.62 44.79
Glenn Turner 47.00 44.64
Greenidge 45.03 44.72
Sarwan 44.31 38.60
Dippenar 43.95 41.80
Ganguly 43.44 41.75
Klusener 43.34 33.40
Gayle 40.14 34.13
Broad 40.02 39.54
(10 names)

Batsmen with test average more than ODI from the same list are:
Viv Richards, Tendulkar, Kallis, Dean Jones, Lara, Youhana, Martyn, Ponting,
Miandad, Haynes, Kirsten, Hayden, Nick Knight and Greg Chappell (14 names).

Batsmen with the greatest differential between test and ODI averages:
Bevan: ODI>test = 24.96
Gilchrist: Test>ODI = 20.57

DB.

by **Jan Buxto** » Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:24:53

Quote:

> Test average of Bevan is 29.07, but his ODI average is 54.85.

> Ganguly's Test average is 41.75 and his ODI average is 43.44.

> I am wondering whether there are many other batsmen (not bowlers and
> keepers) with the record of higher ODI average than Test average?

Plenty no doubt. I can think of Hick and Knight straight away,
Collingwood probably qualifies as well (albeit he's only played 2
tests).

--
Jan

by **DiiVolu** » Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:28:03

Quote:

> Test average of Bevan is 29.07, but his ODI average is 54.85.

> Ganguly's Test average is 41.75 and his ODI average is 43.44.

> I am wondering whether there are many other batsmen (not bowlers and
> keepers) with the record of higher ODI average than Test average?

> Vicky:

many many bats...i just remembered the indian openers and out popped a few
Vikram Rathour...tests 13... ODI 27....
Srikkant tooo i think 29 in tests and 30 in ODI...
Lamba 20 in tests, 27 in ODI

regards
Pranshu B Saxena

by **Allan Lazra** » Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:51:17

Quote:

> Test average of Bevan is 29.07, but his ODI average is 54.85.

> Ganguly's Test average is 41.75 and his ODI average is 43.44.

> I am wondering whether there are many other batsmen (not bowlers and
> keepers) with the record of higher ODI average than Test average?

> Vicky:

There is Ken Rutherford of New Zealand whose Test average is 27.08 and
his ODI average is 29.65.

by **Colin Kynoc** » Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:13:51

Quote:

>> Test average of Bevan is 29.07, but his ODI average is 54.85.

>> Ganguly's Test average is 41.75 and his ODI average is 43.44.

>> I am wondering whether there are many other batsmen (not bowlers and
>> keepers) with the record of higher ODI average than Test average?

>> Vicky:

>There is Ken Rutherford of New Zealand whose Test average is 27.08 and
>his ODI average is 29.65.

Does he class as a batsman with averages like that?

Colin Kynoch

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