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Botham v Broad - Records

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Ridiculously close like, thought I'd misread

Botham - 383 wickets at 28.40 at a economy of 2.99 with a strike rate of 56.9

Broad - 384 wickets at 28.47 at an economy of 2.99 with a strike rate of 56.9

Talk about similar :lol::eek:
 

DaveAngel said:
Ridiculously close like, thought I'd misread

Botham - 383 wickets at 28.40 at a economy of 2.99 with a strike rate of 56.9

Broad - 384 wickets at 28.47 at an economy of 2.99 with a strike rate of 56.9

Talk about similar :lol::eek:
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Ian Botham 102 Tests, Broad 107 Tests, with more to come.

Oddly Botham bowled in 168 innings while it is 196 for Broad.
 
I'm surprised at the economy stats being so close.
Botham didn't open the bowling and he was generally thought to be an attacking bowler who could go for a few.
 
vinegar hill said:
I'm surprised at the economy stats being so close.
Botham didn't open the bowling and he was generally thought to be an attacking bowler who could go for a few.
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true, he didn't seem to care about going for a few, unlike Broad. But even more than Broad my recollection is that he would have lots of spells where he took clumps of wickets for a few low number of runs.
 
Bri said:
true, he didn't seem to care about going for a few, unlike Broad. But even more than Broad my recollection is that he would have lots of spells where he took clumps of wickets for a few low number of runs.
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True. But run rates are higher these days. The invention of t20 has made 3 runs an over almost pedestrian
 
Broads brilliant

I've never seen a bowler produce as many match winning spells

He wins series

Will go down as an all time world great
 
vinegar hill said:
I'm surprised at the economy stats being so close.
Botham didn't open the bowling and he was generally thought to be an attacking bowler who could go for a few.
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When you look back to highlights such as the 1981 Ashes and other home series around that time you will notice how many shots go for twos and threes that would go for boundaries now. Botham's two centuries of course the exception! Run rates in test cricket in general were much slower then than now with much faster outfields nowadays and maybe shorter boundaries also. Also third man was also employed regularly as a run saving position.
 
3rd test Headingly 1981.

No English cricketer in living memory did what he did that day.

Broad's a good bowler mind.
 
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