Top 50 Australian Test Runscorers

[Lunchtime]

Players highlighted - current players.

Table to be updated as time passes.

 

[ioppolo]

Didn't realise Hussey had such a home/away average discrepancy

 

[cricketnut14]

great work with those stats.

annnnnd warnie is in the top 50 - wow !

 

[PhatBoy]

Didn't realise Hussey had such a home/away average discrepancy

Hussey was a classy cricketer but he was a good time cricketer. Arrived at a good period to join the side, was experienced, still more or less at the peak of his powers albeit on the older side and the one team who boasted a really good attack throughout his career - SA - he didn’t QUITE manage to nail (averaged 38) albeit he still hit 3 centuries against them. Also had a curiously poor record in the handful of games he played against the kiwis.

 

[Lunchtime]

Hussey was a classy cricketer but he was a good time cricketer. Arrived at a good period to join the side, was experienced, still more or less at the peak of his powers albeit on the older side and the one team who boasted a really good attack throughout his career - SA - he didn’t QUITE manage to nail (averaged 38) albeit he still hit 3 centuries against them. Also had a curiously poor record in the handful of games he played against the kiwis.

Hussey probably batted in the period when Ambrose, Akram, Younis, Donald, Pollock, Mushtaq Ahmed, Saqlain Mushtaq all retired or who were close to retiring.

 

[Lunchtime]

great work with those stats.

annnnnd warnie is in the top 50 - wow !

On his day - a handy lower order batsman.

12 Test 50s.....should of scored a Test hundred if Vettori's ball was called a No-Ball. In this era he would of been No-Balled and Warnie gets that hundred.

He did however score two First-Class hundreds.

 

[Lunchtime]

Didn't realise Hussey had such a home/away average discrepancy

Warner was the same. Thats why when it comes to Test cricket....I only ever rated Warner (despite his stats) as a good Test batsman...nothing more.....why?....because he wasn't effective enough away from the comforts of home country outside Australia.

 

[PhatBoy]

It’s a curious thing that it took Australian fans as long to look at Australian batsmen with the same lens as it did for generic fans to take the same approach.

I remember when Cricinfo first appeared and started profiling players and doing a blurb about each player and I looked up Rahul Dravid and in the first sentence it mentioned - and this may have changed on his profile since but the statistic itself is still a fact - that ‘Rahul Dravid carved his name into history by becoming that rarest of Indian creatures - a batsman who’s away average has crept above his home one.’

As a teenager and into my 20s when I became a true cricket nerd who devoured cricket numbers and literature it always stood out how many Asian players and periodically English or SA players who were denigrated for doing their best work when the going was at its most comfortable but it has only been in the last decade or so that Australians have started to catch onto this.
Maybe the ‘Big Dos’ was the player who started to get noticed a bit.

In fairness most of the golden era players didn’t have much to worry about. Steve Waugh averaged more away from home, Ponting averaged less but still 46, Gilchrist more away than home, Martyn’s was almost identical.

 

[apollo_creed]

On his day - a handy lower order batsman.

12 Test 50s.....should of scored a Test hundred if Vettori's ball was called a No-Ball. In this era he would of been No-Balled and Warnie gets that hundred.

He did however score two First-Class hundreds.

There’s also DRS now. Many things have changed.

 

[PhatBoy]

I think Warne would have a better record now if nothing else because more would be expected of a player of his undoubted natural talent with the bat. He was a rebel sure and did things his own way and he did know when to truly dig in but he would have known deep down that he didn’t get the most out of himself. I still remember his 27(?) on debut where he looked every inch the capable number 8-9 even then.

 

[revo333]

Didn't realise Hussey had such a home/away average discrepancy

While I agree with Phat about Hussey, an away test record average of 40 and over is still good and shouldn't be a cross against his career or anyone else's.

I was more concerned when there was talk of him being equal or even better than Bevan while he was in the ODI team but thankful common sense prevailed in the end.

 

[Lunchtime]

I think Warne would have a better record now if nothing else because more would be expected of a player of his undoubted natural talent with the bat. He was a rebel sure and did things his own way and he did know when to truly dig in but he would have known deep down that he didn’t get the most out of himself. I still remember his 27(?) on debut where he looked every inch the capable number 8-9 even then.

That 2005 Ashes series - he took 40 wickets but also with the bat scored 249 runs, highest score of 90....fell ten runs short. He scored two Test 90s in his career (99 & 90), and two Test 80s (86 & 86)

 

[craffles]

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Gees how good was Border when you look at the stats this way and think about all the bowlers he faced overseas.