The Magic of the Waughlock
Bernard McConville
The large majority of cricket fans are obsessed with averages as if it is one of the litmus tests in rating a batsman. In test cricket, batsmen have always had so many opportunities to gorge themselves in soft, low-key situations that the ‘average’ is rendered almost completely devoid of any real, significant meaning. What matters most is that a player performs when it matters most. Find out what made Mark Waugh such a truly superb player, far more special than so many fans realise; these same fans so often blinded by a supposedly ‘not quite great’ average of only 41.8.
Baseball, by comparison did away with raw batting averages decades ago, and now in the third decade of the 21st Century, cricket’s archaic base statistical model is in similar dire need of comprehensive overhaul and reform.
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Format: Perfect Bound
Dimensions: US Trade (152mm x 228mm)
Pages: 566 pgs
The large majority of cricket fans are obsessed with averages as if it is one of the litmus tests in rating a batsman. In test cricket, batsmen have always had so many opportunities to gorge themselves in soft, low-key situations that the ‘average’ is rendered almost completely devoid of any real, significant meaning. What matters most is that a player performs when it matters most. Find out what made Mark Waugh such a truly superb player, far more special than so many fans realise; these same fans so often blinded by a supposedly ‘not quite great’ average of only 41.8.
Baseball, by comparison did away with raw batting averages decades ago, and now in the third decade of the 21st Century, cricket’s archaic base statistical model is in similar dire need of comprehensive overhaul and reform.
Product details
Format: Perfect Bound
Dimensions: US Trade (152mm x 228mm)
Pages: 566 pgs
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I haven't read the book, but was intrigued about the idea of overhauling batting averages. You're not doing away with batting averages! They have always been one of the most important statistical benchmarks, and they still are. This is some new wave thinking. People are always trying to tinker with traditional measures and parameters. That's how we ended up with T20 cricket, which isn't the essence of cricket at all. Test cricket remains the true test of a cricketer's ability.
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