All Rounder

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Re: All Rounder

@GoldenAsif

Most of Botham’s 14 test hundreds were against Packer-depleted sides. He was more of a hitter whereas Imran could both defend and attack esp. in the latter part of his career. He improved his batting later on so much that he averaged 50+ with the bat (and 19 with the ball) in 48 tests as captain during his many captaincy stints between 1982 and 1992. He could also hit big sixes.

Imran: Test 37.69 and ODI 33.41
Botham: 33.54 and 23.21
Shaun Pollock: 32.31 and 26.45
Kapil: 31.05 and 23.79

Kapil played a lot more Tests & ODIs than either Imran or Botham, which explains the lower average.