Did you know there is an allrounder called “RN ten Doeschate” who plays for Netherlands? Well if you check out his performance, he was the Most Valuable Player of 2006!! His record was much above that of Jacques Kallis!!! In the 6 matches that he played, he scored 259 runs at a phenomenal average of 51.80 at a strike rate of 103.6. And he topped this with a bowling figures of 7 wickets in 6 matches at a strike rate of 39.4 balls and took 2 catches. He was also the No. 2 One Day Batsman of 2006.
Shaun Pollock at No.2 was no surprise as 2006 saw him contribute a lot with the bat to even overshadow Jacques Kallis. He scored 279 runs at an average of 29.15 at a strike rate of 98.95 and bowled to take 32 wickets in 21 matches with an economy rate of 2.98! He also took 7 catches. And No. 3 saw Steve Tikolo of Kenya emerging. He scored 111 runs at an average of 45 and a strike rate of 88.9, and took 11 wickets in 15 matches he played at an economy rate of 3.9. Sri Lanka has Jayasuriya and newbie Lokuarachchi coming in a No. 4 and No. 5. Jayasuriya scored 1153 runs at an average of 48.04 and a strike rate of 107.45!! He also took 16 wickets in 26 matches at a economy rate or 4.61 (this brought down his rating). New find Lokuarachchi scored 108 runs at an average of 27 and a strike rate of 108 and took 14 wickets in 6 matches at an economy rate of 4.61!!!
Australia and Bangladesh both have 3 players in Top 3.S.No. Name Country1 RN ten Doeschate NL2 SM Pollock RSA3 SO Tikolo KENYA4 ST Jayasuriya SL5 KS Lokuarachchi SL6 CH Gayle WI7 Saqibul Hasan BDESH8 AC Gilchrist AUS9 BJ Haddin AUS10 Mashrafe MortazaBDESH11 KD Mills NZ12 JM Davison CAN13 Abdur Razzak BDESH14 A Symonds AUS15 DL Vettori NZ16 HA Varaiya KENYA17 NJ Astle NZ18 S Dhaniram CAN19 Yuvraj Singh IND20 TM Odoyo KENYA21 DM Leverock BMDA22 SR Watson AUS23 ID Blackwell ENG24 WF Stelling NL25 SE Bond NZ26 MV Boucher RSA27 MS Dhoni IND28 KC Sangakkara SL29 PJ Ongondo KENYA30 Mohammad RafiqueBDESH*These rankings are based on Players who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms.
ODI Bowler Rankings 2007 (all teams)
The ODI Bowler's Ranking 2007 is out! in the second edition of Vineet’s Cricket Rankings (Check out the ODI Bowler Rankings 2006 here)! And there are lots of surprises here, but then there are some faces we discovered last year and they still maintain their ranking, proving that they were no flukes, and that includes Varaiya of Kenya! The biggest setback was that the bangladesh bowlers who did exceedingly well in 2006 are now languishing with only Syed Rasel remaining near his last year ranking. Instead Sri Lanka has 5 bowlers in Top 30 this time.
Indian cricket players to earn more under the new (proposed) contract
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Sri Lanka is slated to Win the World Cup 2007!
Sri Lanka has been playing cricket like chess. They have been playing upto potential on the field like some other field, but you'd notice a scheming strategist behind their World Cup campaign. We've discussed their strategy earlier too and had always backed them to be the finalists.
