> 'Tis a tad boring with the 0s, so here's the stats if they all take a wicket with their very next Test delivery (seems fair-ish to me);
> Wickets Ave SR
>===========================================
>Bird 4 10.25 28.5
>Johnson 2 12.50 24
>Hilfenhaus 11 16.00 42.54
>Pattinson 5 22.80 34.8
>Harris 1 50.00 132
>Siddle 1 58.00 114
>Starc 0 0 0
Mad Hamish
Hamish Laws
> [snip]
>> It's possible to look up the opening spells from the commentaries on
>> Cricinfo or Cricketarchive, and also to look at who took new balls later
>> in the various innings (and what their spells were), but I doubt
>> that I'm going to volunteer to do that.
> Never say never. I loaded the Starc data into a db, and this included his
> opening partner's numbers too. That was near enough half of Oz's innings
> in that period, so I couldn't resist logging the rest (I logged the
> opposition's opening bowlers too).
> Anyroad, Aussie openers since 01 Jan 2012:
> Ins Ovs M Rns Wk
> =======================================
> Hilfenhaus 17 78.0 22 176 11
> Pattinson 8 29.0 6 114 5
> Bird 4 19.0 5 41 4
> Johnson 2 8.0 1 25 2
> Beer 2 10.0 4 27 1
> Lyon 1 5.3 0 29 1
> Harris 5 22.0 5 50 1
> Siddle 5 19.0 4 58 1
> Starc 11 42.0 7 150 0
> Watson 2 7.0 3 8 0
> Hastings 1 3.0 0 6 0
Note: Ben Hilf has been back bowing for Tassie in their last couple of
Shield matches, and doing nicely too. Strangely, I haven't seen any mention
of him as an Arses tourist.
alvey
> Apologies in advance to Alvey - I don't want to get into a fight over
> imagining that Starc could take a wicket.
alvey