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A. Players whose first-class batting average was at least 25 percentage
points higher than their Test average (qualification - 5 Tests):
Test   1st-class
Diff     Ms    Avrge    Avrge
39.01     5     8.90    47.91    G Kishenchand (Ind)
39.00     5    13.33    52.33    Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak)
38.92     6    11.00    49.92    Shafiq Ahmed (Pak)
37.00     7    14.54    51.54    CL Badcock (Aus)
36.56     6    13.10    49.66    V Rathour (Ind)
30.09     7    12.00    42.09    SH Curnow (SAf)
31.09     7    20.07    51.16    Wasim Jaffar (Ind)
29.68     5    12.10    41.78    JD Dewes (Eng)
28.71     6    19.90    48.61    Nawab of Pataudi, sr (Eng/Ind)
28.23     7    11.25    39.48    K Azad (Ind)
27.93     5     9.14    37.07    AP Binns (WI)
27.85    15    26.18    54.01    AD Jadeja (Ind)
27.74    18    29.07    56.81    MG Bevan (Aus)
25.95    23    20.44    46.39    CZ Harris (NZ)
25.84     7    25.11    50.95    AO Malhotra (Ind)
25.58    10    15.64    41.22    NH Fairbrother (Eng)
25.49    22    25.41    50.90    AV Mankad (Ind)
25.39    25    24.42    49.81    Asif Mujtaba (Pak)
25.13     5    15.55    40.68    TS Curtis (Eng)
25.05     5    13.00    38.05    CJ Adams (Eng)

Other players with a difference of 20 percentage points (5 Tests):

Australia - H Donnan, AF Kippax, PI Philpott, MRJ Veletta and GD Watson

England - BJT Bosanquet, JR Gunn, EG Hayes, FC Hayes, GA Hick,
D Kenyon, NV Knight, JR Mason, F Mitchell (Eng/SAf) and MR Ramprakash

South Africa - GF Liebenberg, AG Prince and WW Wade

West Indies - CS Baugh

New Zealand - LSM Miller, VJ Scott, EWT Tindill and WM Wallace

India - Arun Lal, A Chopra, SS Dihge, CD Gopinath, RB Kenny, Madan Lal,
VM Merchant, CS Pandit, PH Punjabi, WV Raman, P Sharma and S Wazir Ali

Pakistan - Gul Mahomed (Ind/Pak), W Mathais, Naushad Ali,
Rizwan-uz-Zaman and Salahuddin

Sri Lanka - DP Samaraweera

B. Players whose Test batting average was at least 15 percentage points
higher than the first-class average (qualification - at least 5 Tests):

Test   1st-class
Diff    Ms    Avrge    Avrge
34.70    7    64.85    30.15    BH Valentine (Eng)
28.99    6    62.62    33.63    Taslim Arif (Pak)
24.94    5    49.83    24.89    GB Legge (Eng)
22.32   10    51.25    28.93    AG Fairfax (Aus)
21.52   11    52.26    30.74    CF Walters (Eng)
20.74   10    65.72    44.98    CS Dempster (NZ)
19.05    6    38.00    18.95    Antao D'Souza (Pak)
18.52    5    38.00    19.48    AE Trott (Aus/Eng)
16.62    8    44.69    28.07    PA Gibb (Eng)
16.97   20    59.23    42.26    E Paynter (Eng)
15.50   12    46.23    30.73    PJ Sharpe (Eng)
15.30   10    56.87    41.57    CAG Russell (Eng)
15.12    5    42.00    26.88    HG Owen-Smith (SAf)
15.02    5    36.50    21.48    RA Hutton (Eng)

Note: R Dravid (Ind) has been a model of consistency over a long run.
His Test and First-class batting data are given below.

M   Inn  NO   Runs  HS    Ave
86  146  18   7363  270  57.52
198  322  46  15880  270  57.53

aslam
GO PACERS!!!

While this is spectacularly coincident,
the Don won't be left far behind!

DG Bradman   M   Inn   NO   Runs   HS    Ave
Test        52    80   10   6996  334   99.94
FC         234   338   43  28967  452*  95.14

Another interesting study in consistent coincidence:

Andy Flower  M   Inn   NO   Runs   HS    Ave
Test        63   112   19   4794  232*  51.54
FC         190   320   57  13494  232*  51.30

DB.

Is there a list of players who've had significantly lower FC averages
than Test averages?

Higgs

Eh? This is precisely what list B. was in the post you are replying to.
Aslam defined "significantly" as a difference of 15.

Or am I missing something?

-Samarth [ Barrington narrowly missed the list: difference of 13 ].

Higgsy's news server only downloads the first ten lines of each post.  It's
a safeguard designed to stop him from reading too much of his own dribble.

Andrew

I would gladly pay for such a service.

cheers,
Calvin

I think Aslam has missed the mark somewhat here. Should have really set a
minimum of say 25 matches to eliminate all the less interesting cases. As
you say Barrington is the prime example of a player who grew an extra leg in
the test arena. Although his FC record is more than respectable, his test
record puts him as one of the all time greats of the game. Another player
who stepped up his game when playing for his country was Tony Grieg, who's
rather modest FC average of 31.19 jumps to 40.43 in tests. As a comparison
I. Harvey has a FC average of about 32.4.