Bettor.com top bowling all-round players in Test cricket (Part 2)
(…Continuation of Part 1)
Imran http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 has an extra-ordinary Test record in the international cricket fraternity, as he played 88 Test matches, scoring a massive of 3807 runs, at an impressive average of 37.69. For a bowling all-round Test player to maintain such batting figures is
something beyond outstanding.
Not to forget, his 362 wickets at an average of 22.81. The veteran also has 23 five-wicket hauls and 6 ten wickets hauls in a match to his name. Plus, a highest of 136 runs, and 6 centuries and 18 half centuries in his Test career.
Khan surely is worthy of the top position among the Test world’s top Test all-round bowlers, as he was able to maintain an outstanding difference in averages between batting and bowling of 14.88 in the 88 Test matches he appeared in.
Besides his amazing Test credentials, the veteran also has contributed a lot to his country, in terms of the biggest cancer hospital is Pakistan, named after his mother, Shaukat Khanum, Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in 1996.
In the same year he founded and became chairperson of a political party known as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice). In 2008, he also established Namal College in Mianwali, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755.
The veteran Pakistani star cricketer has contributed a lot to Pakistani cricket and society and even at 57 years of age he still strives to serve his country in any way possible.
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Shaun Maclean Pollock was born on 16th of July, 1973 in Port Elizabeth in South African. The veteran South African is considered to be one of the finest bowling all-round cricketers in the longer format of the game. He was also chosen for the
2003 Wisden Cricketer of the Year. Pollock has the lowest economy rate for any bowler, who has taken over 300 ODI wickets.
He took over captaincy in 2000, after the former skipper Hansie Cronje was banned from cricket for life because of his match fixing scandal. Pollock had some success as he captained the team for 3 years, but by the 2003 ICC World cup he was removed from
captaincy because of poor form of play. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 were the favourites to win the 2003 edition of the 50-over tournament.
Nevertheless, he continued his Test career, until the Australian tour of 2005/06, when he was highly criticised for his poor performances in both batting and bowling departments.
Pollock has the honour of being ranked as the number 1 Test bowler and all-rounder in the ICC World Test ranking. Not to forget, he also retained the position of being the number 1 bowler and batsman in the limited over game by the international council.
Pollock played 108 Test matches, from which he scored an impressive of 3781 runs at an average of 32.31. The veteran also had 2 centuries and 16 half centuries, with a highest of 111 runs.
He also has an outstanding Test bowling career in Test cricket, as he has taken 421 wickets, at an average of 23.11. He has 16 five wickets hauls and one ten wicket haul in a match, and a best of 7 for 87 to his name.
Shaun Pollock is surely worthy of a position in the top bowling all-round Test cricketers based on his Test credentials. Not to forget, that the veteran maintained a difference of 9.20 between his batting and bowling averages, throughout his career. He is
by far one of the greats in the bowling all-round Test players of the cricketing fraternity.
Ian Botham
Sir Ian Terrence Botham is the finest bowling all-rounder among Test cricketers in the history of international English cricket. He was born on 24th of November 1955 in England. The veteran played international cricket for his national team of
England for 15 years, in which he also took up captaincy. His involvement in international cricket didn’t end with his retirement, as at 57 years of age the English cricketing legend is a successful cricket commentator.
(To be continued...Part 3)
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