It happened and no one realized - Salute to the Master of ......

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An unwanted 50 for Sami :dhimpak:

It finally happened off the fourth ball of Mohammad Sami’s ninth over in India’s first innings of the Kolkata Test - the delivery was full and outside off, Dravid eased it past point to the boundary, and four more runs were added to Sami’s bowling analysis, which increased his career runs-conceded tally to 3851. Divide that by 77 - the number of wickets he has in his 32-Test career - and the result is fractionally over 50, **making him the only bowler today to have the rather unwanted double of 50-plus wickets and bowling average in Tests. **



**Highest averages for bowlers with at least 50 Test wickets**
 
Bowler        Tests  Wickets  Average  Strike rate  5WI/ 10WM 
 
Mohammad Sami    32    77      51.28    86.3          2/ 0 
 
Carl Hooper      102   114     49.42    121.0         4/ 0 
 
Greg Matthews    33     61     48.22    102.8         2/ 1 
 
Paul Wiseman     25     61     47.59    92.7          2/ 0 
 
Ajit Agarkar     26     58     47.32    83.7          1/ 0 
 
Chandu Borde     55     52     46.48    109.5         1/ 0 
 
Pat Pocock       25     67     44.41    99.2          3/ 0 
 
Daren Powell     22     56     43.62    77.5          1/ 0 
 
Fidel Edwards    27     72     43.01    63.7          5/ 0 
 
Nicky Boje       43     100    42.65    86.2          3/ 0

In the current series in India, Sami has bowled 66 overs and conceded 263 runs without taking a wicket, which increases his count of wicketless Tests to five. Admittedly, with some luck the numbers would have read slightly better - Rahul Dravid escaped a plumb lbw shout in the first Test, while Sachin Tendulkar was dropped by Kamran Akmal in Kolkata - but Sami hasn’t helped his cause with some rather listless spells through both matches.

For a bowler who started off with an eight-wicket haul and a Man-of-the-Match award in his debut Test, the rest of his career has gone horribly wrong. The stats were reasonably respectable till his eighth match, but in the ninth his bowling average touched 40, and it hasn’t gone below that mark since. It’s hardly a surprise that he hasn’t added to his Man-of-the-Match tally since that debut performance. (Click here for Sami’s cumulative bowling average.)



**A break-up of Sami's career**  
 
                   Wickets    Average    Strke rate   5WI/ 10WM 
 
First 8 Tests       24          36.79       71.6          1/ 0 
 
Last 24 Tests       53          57.84       93.0          1/ 0

SOURCE: http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/columns/content/current/story/324109.html

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Re: It happened and no one realized - Salute to the Master of …

All I can say is :salute: to Sami and :jhanda: to PCB for letting him create this magnificent record :k:

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Re: It happened and no one realized - Salute to the Master of ......

Time and again we have seen that PCB usually have no idea about a players performance since they are a bunch of blind dopeheads. Usually they read paper to get some information about a player's performance OR ask the data guy to get them some recent stats. Really hoping that someone from PCB will read this on cricinfo.

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Re: It happened and no one realized - Salute to the Master of …

:naraz:

First test, first innings - Defied a grueling over sixteen overs of rigorous attack with a match-saving partnership. Scored higher than Salman Butt, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf and Shoaib Malik. The player of this class and quality, pure merit, most fitted athlete in the game of cricket, never injured, hardly gets the recognition he deserves. Survived seventy men around his bat against the deadly Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh.

Second test, first innings - Bowled with pin-point accuracy with a return figures of an average a mile below than our premier front-line bowlers, Sohail Tanvir and Danish Kaneria. Was marginally above Shoaib Akhtar. Mohammad Sami was unplayable.

Second test - second innings - Survived over 20 over straight in the toughest human conditions with a ‘face-saving’ 38. Scored high and mighty than the star batsman Younis Khan, Yasir Hameed and Faisal Iqbal. Stood tall against the modern-day adversity of LBW and caught appeals of every delivery. One of the greatest stance in International cricket. Mohammad Sami defied all odds and came out to rescue Pakistan.

In conclusion, Mohammad Sami should be promoted up the order where his batting skills and the finest talent should be more exposed to a greater audience. One of the stories I was reading today in the paper had an excerpt of a West Indian legend and it was said that the ripple effect that Mohammad Sami has created with his bat has begun to create unsettling atmospheres in the opponent’s dressing rooms, to a point where the players are dropping out citing personal injuries but in reality want to keep their averages in check against someone who has mastered a great art in the name of cricket. Mohammad Sami should be a part of the setup of every domestic and International setup that includes Pakistan. The greatness of this man and his services will never be tarnished, regardless of the dirty posters known under the table known as stats.

:naraz:

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Re: It happened and no one realized - Salute to the Master of ......

uska jigri dost bhi hain list mein.. Ajit Agarkar