Here's an interesting stat;

[DynamoUltra]

The best bowling figures for a current Australian test player (in the side vs West Indies):

G. McGrath: 8/24
S. Warner: 8/71
M. Clarke: 6/9
S. Katich: 6/65
B. Lee: 5/47
N. Bracken: 2/12
R. Ponting: 1/0
S. Watson: 1/32

Interesting to note that our middle order batsmen have decent best for bowling figures. Maybe that's what's keeping them in the side. Still, it doesn't say much about Lee.

 

[w00dy]

surprised to see brett lee has never taken more than 5 wickets...

actually, no i'm not...

 

[DynamoUltra]

surprised to see brett lee has never taken more than 5 wickets...

actually, no i'm not...

And wasn't it on debut? If that's the case, expect to see Michael Clarke around for a long time...

 

[usalion]

And wasn't it on debut? If that's the case, expect to see Michael Clarke around for a long time...

It was indeed his first match...not come close to it in the last five years.

Clarke- the shocking pitch in India- Katich- don't remember his.

The stats mean little for those last two

 

[eddiesmith]

It was indeed his first match...not come close to it in the last five years.

Clarke- the shocking pitch in India- Katich- don't remember his.

The stats mean little for those last two

Katich was on a raging SCG turner against Zimbabwe, says alot for Hogg when Katich overtook him as main spinner in that game

And I remember atleast a couple were deep on the midwicket fence

 

[usalion]

Katich was on a raging SCG turner against Zimbabwe, says alot for Hogg when Katich overtook him as main spinner in that game

And I remember atleast a couple were deep on the midwicket fence

The other key is Zimbabwe....the reason Hayden's 380 rates so low on the charts for batting performances....might as well have been playing a minor county....

 

[Crooked Rain]

How many other players have scored 300 against the zimbos?

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Good to see Katich and Clarke have their names in record books as bowlers, because I doubt they ever will as batsmen. Their dismissals in the 1st Innings were two of the softest outs I can recall in 40 years of watching Test Cricket.

 

[Jaymin]

Good to see Katich and Clarke have their names in record books as bowlers, because I doubt they ever will as batsmen. Their dismissals in the 1st Innings were two of the softest outs I can recall in 40 years of watching Test Cricket.

Yeah Clarkes 150 on debut wouldn't be in any sort of record book?

 

[pete_hawker]

How many other players have scored 300 against the zimbos?

in the top fifty scores in test cricket, only one is against zimbabwe!!!

 

[frankrizzo]

People don’t seem to remember that katich was considered a huge gamble, he replaced love as something of a second spinner/batsman for the scg test against Zimbabwe, he really hasn’t bowled since then and hasn’t held his spot as a top 6 batter either.

 

[sting]

The other key is Zimbabwe....the reason Hayden's 380 rates so low on the charts for batting performances....might as well have been playing a minor county....

Doesn't matter who against , you still have to make them .

 

[Glenno23]

Good to see Katich and Clarke have their names in record books as bowlers, because I doubt they ever will as batsmen. Their dismissals in the 1st Innings were two of the softest outs I can recall in 40 years of watching Test Cricket.

i will agree that Katich's dismissal was soft, but Clarke got a ripper. a few off cutters to soften him up, then a leg cutter pitched perfectly..... very hard to play.....

 

[kaysee]

...the reason Hayden's 380 rates so low on the charts for batting performances....might as well have been playing a minor county....

and Brian Lara's 500 runs in a 1st Class game also rates low because it was against a County team