The Jamaican left arm spinner Nikita Miller took 52 wickets at an average of just 8.05 during the West Indian first-class season that has just finished. Only three previous instances of a bowler taking 50 first-class season at an average of less than 10 since the end of the 19th century (the unique feat was relatively common before that). The first instance of those was the New South Wales fast bowler Sydney Callaway, who played three Tests against England in the 1890s, he later moved to New Zealand, and took 54 wickets at 8.77 in the 1903-04 season there, mainly for Canterbury. Furthermore; another fringe Australian player, Ron Oxenham who played seven Test caps between 1928 and 1931 - took 75 wickets at 7.40 for a privately raised Australian touring side in India in 1935-36. And coming up to date a fair bit, the gangling South African fast bowler Vintcent van der Bijl claimed 54 wickets at 9.50 for Natal in 1980-81.
photo: Cricinfo
No comments:
Post a Comment