Expensive overs, enough players for three teams and the end of a long season
The final edition of The Numbers Game for 2000/01 looks at New Zealand's performances in Sharjah and wraps up a long season which began at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane on 14 August and ended at the Sharjah Stadium on 17 April
Francis Payne
20-Apr-2001
The final edition of The Numbers Game for 2000/01 looks at New Zealand's performances in Sharjah and wraps up a long season which began at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane on 14 August and ended at the Sharjah Stadium on 17 April. In view of the huge turnover in players during that time, it is perhaps surprising that even as many as four players who appeared in the first game against Queensland were still there at the very end. The durable quartet was Chris Nevin (although, ironically, he was injured in the first game), Craig McMillan, Chris Harris and Daryl Tuffey.
Overall New Zealand used 33 players, ten of whom had not played for New Zealand in any capacity before. Six players made their Test debuts and nine made One-Day International debuts.
A total of 17 appeared in both Tests and one-dayers. They were:
Nathan Astle Matthew Bell Grant Bradburn Chris Cairns Stephen Fleming James Franklin *+ Craig McMillan Chris Martin *+ Dion Nash Shayne O'Connor Adam Parore Mathew Sinclair Craig Spearman Daryl Tuffey + Daniel Vettori Brooke Walker *+ Paul Wiseman
* Test debut
+ ODI debut
+ ODI debut
Five played only in Test matches:
Chris Drum * Matt Horne Mark Richardson * Hamish Marshall * Kerry Walmsley
* Test debut
Eleven players appeared only in One-Day Internationals:
Andre Adams + Geoff Allott Chris Harris Chris Nevin Jacob Oram + Kyle Mills + Andrew Penn Scott Styris Glen Sulzberger + Roger Twose Lou Vincent +
+ ODI debut
The list of most expensive overs in One-Day Internationals had to be rewritten during the tournament in Sharjah - both times at New Zealand's expense. Chris Harris went to number one in the charts when his tenth over in the first match against Sri Lanka went for 30 (his first nine had cost 36) and in the first meeting with Pakistan, Grant Bradburn, playing his first one-dayer for eight years, found himself with figures of 2-0-38-0 on his comeback - his second over costing 27.
The most expensive overs in One-Day Internationals are:
Runs Batsmen Bowler 30 ST Jayasuriya CZ Harris SL v NZ Sharjah 2000/01 30* ST Jayasuriya Aamer Sohail SL v P Singapore 1995/96 28* AD Jadeja/SR Tendulkar CJ Drum I v NZ Hyderabad 1999/00 28 Shahid Afridi ST Jayasuriya P v SL Nairobi 1996/97 27 Asif Mujtaba/Salim Malik M Muralitharan P v SL Colombo 1993/94 27 Ramiz Raja/Moin Khan IR Bishop P v WI Sharjah 1995/96 27 MS Atapattu/ST Jayasuriya Akram Khan SL v B Colombo 1997/98 27* Zaheer Khan HK Olonga I v Z Jodhpur 2000/01 27 Imran Nazir/Shahid Afridi GE Bradburn P v NZ Sharjah 2000/01 26 RW Marsh BL Cairns A v NZ Adelaide 1980/81 26 MW Gatting RJ Shastri E v I Jullundur 1981/82 26 BL Cairns V John NZ v SL Colombo 1983/84 26 MD Crowe/RJ Hadlee GA Gooch NZ v E Manchester 1986 26 IT Botham SP Davis E v A Perth 1986/87 26 AP Kuiper CJ McDermott SA v A Centurion 1994/95 26 Saeed Anwar AR Kumble P v I Madras 1996/97
* includes extras
In the final match of the tournament, against Sri Lanka, Bradburn dismissed Indika de Saram and Mahela Jayawardene. These were his first ODI wickets for over ten years, his last victim being England's Chris Lewis during the World Series in 1990/91.
Waqar Younis further extended his record for most wickets by any bowler against New Zealand with three wickets in the two matches in Sharjah. The highest wicket takers in ODIs against New Zealand are:
Wickets Matches Ave Waqar Younis 72 32 14.77 Wasim Akram 57 34 17.85 Shane Warne 44 22 17.04 Shaun Pollock 34 20 18.41 Anil Kumble 34 26 28.85 Kapil Dev 33 29 27.60 Javagal Srinath 32 22 25.62 Mutiah Muralitharan 31 19 22.61 Steve Waugh 31 56 42.96
With two centuries in six days, Mathew Sinclair came from nowhere to become just the eighth New Zealand batsman to score at least two hundreds in ODIs. The full list of century scorers for New Zealand is:
100s Matches Nathan Astle 9 133 Martin Crowe 4 143 Glenn Turner 3 41 Chris Cairns 3 137 Stephen Fleming 3 152 Mathew Sinclair 2 13 Mark Greatbatch 2 84 Ken Rutherford 2 121 Bevan Congdon 1 11 Ken Wadsworth 1 13 Bruce Edgar 1 64 Roger Twose 1 87 Craig McMillan 1 88 John Wright 1 149 Adam Parore 1 163 Chris Harris 1 182
By the end of the tournament in Sharjah, the table of most matches for New Zealand read as follows:
Matches Chris Harris 182 Adam Parore 163 Stephen Fleming 152 John Wright 149 Martin Crowe 143 Chris Cairns 137 Nathan Astle 133 Ken Rutherford 121 Gavin Larsen 121 Richard Hadlee 115 Ewen Chatfield 114
Of current players, Craig McMillan is nearest the hundred mark with 88 matches.
Most runs for New Zealand in ODIs have been scored by:
Runs Matches Ave Martin Crowe 4704 143 38.55 Nathan Astle 4371 133 34.96 Stephen Fleming 4047 152 30.65 John Wright 3891 149 26.46 Chris Harris 3256 182 31.61 Chris Cairns 3217 137 28.72 Ken Rutherford 3143 121 29.65 Adam Parore 3108 163 26.11 Andrew Jones 2784 87 35.69 Roger Twose 2718 87 38.82 Mark Greatbatch 2206 84 28.28 Craig McMillan 1995 88 26.25
New Zealand's leading wicket takers are:
Wkts Matches Ave Chris Harris 164 182 35.95 Richard Hadlee 158 115 21.56 Ewen Chatfield 140 114 25.84 Chris Cairns 131 137 33.73 Danny Morrison 126 96 27.53 Martin Snedden 114 93 28.39 Gavin Larsen 113 121 35.39 Chris Pringle 103 64 23.87 Lance Cairns 89 78 30.52 Nathan Astle 86 133 35.75
Finally here are the complete averages for the 31 ODIs played by New Zealand in 2000/01.
Mat I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St SR MS Sinclair 10 10 1 447 118* 49.66 2 2 1 - 70 RG Twose 26 24 2 907 103 41.22 1 6 12 - 80 CL Cairns 11 10 2 324 102* 40.50 1 1 4 - 89 CD McMillan 31 29 5 848 104* 35.33 1 6 3 - 84 NJ Astle 26 25 1 728 119 30.33 1 3 14 - 69 CZ Harris 30 26 7 560 56 29.47 - 2 11 - 69 CM Spearman 7 7 0 188 86 26.85 - 2 4 - 74 SP Fleming 27 25 1 582 85 24.25 - 4 12 - 66 CJ Nevin 11 10 0 206 68 20.60 - 2 3 1 90 L Vincent 12 12 2 196 34 19.60 - - 4 - 60 MD Bell 4 4 0 78 66 19.50 - 1 1 - 60 DJ Nash 1 1 0 19 19 19.00 - - 1 - 105 AR Adams 3 3 2 18 13* 18.00 - - - - 105 SB Styris 16 11 2 159 48 17.66 - - 4 - 95 AC Parore 26 22 5 266 49 15.64 - - 18 3 68 JDP Oram 13 12 1 172 59 15.63 - 1 3 - 79 AJ Penn 1 1 0 15 15 15.00 - - - - 65 BGK Walker 7 4 3 13 5* 13.00 - - 3 - 34 DL Vettori 12 8 2 60 17* 10.00 - - 3 - 78 GP Sulzberger 3 2 1 9 6* 9.00 - - - - 60 JEC Franklin 14 8 1 53 25* 7.57 - - 3 - 54 DR Tuffey 13 7 3 18 7* 4.50 - - 4 - 45 KD Mills 2 1 0 4 4 4.00 - - 1 - 26 GI Allott 9 4 2 3 1* 1.50 - - - - 20 CS Martin 7 5 1 6 3 1.50 - - 2 - 27 GE Bradburn 3 2 1 1 1 1.00 - - 1 - 7 SB O'Connor 11 3 1 2 1* 1.00 - - 4 - 20 PJ Wiseman 5 3 3 19 12* - - - 1 - 44
O M R W Ave Best Econ
KD Mills 17.2 2 63 4 15.75 3-30 3.63
DR Tuffey 99 5 487 21 23.19 4-24 4.92
PJ Wiseman 25 0 139 5 27.80 4-45 5.56
CD McMillan 89 4 454 15 30.26 3-20 5.10
SB O'Connor 74.4 4 398 13 30.61 5-46 5.33
JDP Oram 63 1 293 9 32.55 3-40 4.65
GP Sulzberger 22 0 102 3 34.00 1-28 4.64
NJ Astle 137 7 629 18 34.94 3-7 4.59
JEC Franklin 107 5 525 14 37.50 3-44 4.91
DL Vettori 104 6 430 10 43.00 3-21 4.13
GI Allott 70 2 397 9 44.11 3-33 5.67
AR Adams 18 0 89 2 44.50 1-38 4.94
CZ Harris 225.5 6 983 20 49.15 2-31 4.35
SB Styris 129 4 628 12 52.33 3-36 4.87
CS Martin 54 4 270 5 54.00 2-56 5.00
GE Bradburn 23.1 2 111 2 55.50 2-22 4.79
CL Cairns 73.5 5 411 7 58.71 2-62 5.56
BGK Walker 43 3 249 3 83.00 2-43 5.79
AJ Penn 4 1 29 0 - - 7.25
A total of 28 players were involved with only Craig McMillan playing in all 31 games. The results were as follows:
P W L NR v Pakistan 9 4 5 - v South Africa 7 - 6 1 v Zimbabwe 7 3 4 - v Sri Lanka 7 2 5 - v India 1 1 - - Total 31 10 20 1