Tuesday, 19 April 2005

Ben on ... further more ratings

Stuff has rated the Black Caps again, considering the whole of the summer post-Bangladesh. It is interesting to compare with their earlier ratings of just the home series against Australia.

Chris Martin, following his storming run against Sri Lanka (11 wickets in two tests, compared with 7 against Australia in five), raised his rating from a terrible 2.5 to a poor but not embarrassing 4.

Lou Vincent, not surprisingly, increased his rating by a point following the Sri Lanka series, as did Stephen Fleming.

The biggest loser, however, was Ian O'Brien. Given the benefit of the doubt after the Australian series with a pass mark of 5, after not being needed for the Sri Lanka series, his rating dropped to 3.

1 comment:

Mike said...

Phew! Stuff saved me from working out the season's batting and bowling averages. But I can't quite see how Kyle "bowling average near Don Bradman's batting average" deserved a rating of 4.