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Three members of my World’s Best All-Rounders table have been in action since my last post. Here’s how the table stands today (all current players in bold):
Player | Matches | Runs | Bat Av | Wkts | Bowl Av | Ct | X-factor |
GS Sobers (WI) | 93 | 8032 | 57.78 | 235 | 34.03 | 109 | 3370 |
JH Kallis (ICC/SA) | 137 | 10843 | 54.76 | 261 | 31.55 | 155 | 3192 |
AW Greig (Eng) | 58 | 3599 | 40.43 | 141 | 32.20 | 87 | 1985 |
TL Goddard (SA) | 41 | 2516 | 34.46 | 123 | 26.22 | 48 | 1550 |
BM McMillan (SA) | 38 | 1968 | 39.36 | 75 | 33.82 | 49 | 1359 |
KR Miller (Aus) | 55 | 2958 | 36.97 | 170 | 22.97 | 38 | 1313 |
IT Botham (Eng) | 102 | 5200 | 33.54 | 383 | 28.40 | 120 | 1193 |
Mushtaq Mohammad (Pak) | 57 | 3643 | 39.17 | 79 | 29.22 | 42 | 1102 |
Asif Iqbal (Pak) | 58 | 3575 | 38.85 | 53 | 28.33 | 36 | 963 |
SM Pollock (SA) | 108 | 3781 | 32.31 | 421 | 23.11 | 72 | 947 |
ER Dexter (Eng) | 62 | 4502 | 47.89 | 66 | 34.93 | 29 | 840 |
ST Jayasuriya (SL) | 110 | 6973 | 40.07 | 98 | 34.34 | 78 | 761 |
Imran Khan (Pak) | 88 | 3807 | 37.69 | 362 | 22.81 | 28 | 633 |
GE Gomez (WI) | 29 | 1243 | 30.31 | 58 | 27.41 | 18 | 490 |
JDP Oram (NZ) | 33 | 1780 | 36.32 | 60 | 33.05 | 15 | 376 |
JR Reid (NZ) | 58 | 3428 | 33.28 | 85 | 33.35 | 43 | 374 |
Graeme Swann (Eng) | 18 | 563 | 31.27 | 85 | 29.67 | 10 | 367 |
N Kapil Dev (India) | 131 | 5248 | 31.05 | 434 | 29.64 | 64 | 313 |
MH Mankad (India) | 44 | 2109 | 31.47 | 162 | 32.32 | 33 | 311 |
Shakib Al Hasan (Ban) | 19 | 1127 | 33.14 | 67 | 31.82 | 8 | 266 |
A Flintoff (Eng/ICC) | 79 | 3845 | 31.77 | 226 | 32.78 | 52 | 263 |
CL Cairns (NZ) | 62 | 3320 | 33.53 | 218 | 29.40 | 14 | 206 |
IK Pathan (India) | 29 | 1105 | 31.57 | 100 | 32.26 | 8 | 119 |
DL Vettori (ICC/NZ) | 99 | 3925 | 30.90 | 319 | 33.95 | 55 | 108 |
Graeme Swann’s X-factor has plummeted below 400 and he has slipped a couple of places in the table. Shakib’s runs did better justice to his batting skills and he has leap-frogged Andrew Flintoff. The match shows how volatile the X-factor is - perhaps it’s a bit too highly leveraged.