Steve Waugh's second-innings drought

Steve Waugh has scored only two of his 32 Test hundreds in the second innings of a Test match. He scored 134 against Sri Lanka in 1989 and 116 against England at Old Trafford in 1997, which incidentally was his second century of the match. He has 12 other half-centuries and averages 32.45 in 94 second innings, which is significantly lesser than his first-innings average of 60.70 and an overall career figure of 51. This week we compare the performances of batsmen in first and second innings in Tests and one-day internationals.

New Zealand's John Reid has a prolific average in the first innings and the stats of a tailender in the second. He played 19 Tests between 1979 and 1986 and had an outstanding conversion-rate, scoring six hundreds and two fifties, all of which contributed to his first-innings average of 69. In the second innings, Reid could muster only 133 runs at an average of 12. His best was 30 against Sri Lanka at Kandy in 1984.

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Virender Sehwag is another batsman who has sparkled in the first innings and fizzled out in the second. All of his 12 Test hundreds have come first up, giving him an average of nearly 65. But he has only four fifties to show for in 35 second innings, in which he averages only 24.40.

Don Bradman's average of 104.50 in the second innings - compared to 98 in the first - is the highest second-innings average among all batsmen. Michael Hussey is second with 80.50 in the second innings.

Brett Lee has scored all three of his fifties in the first innings but still averages a handy 41 in the second. Lee has had to bat only 13 times in the second innings out of 44 Tests - a sign of Australia's dominance - and his five most recent scores are 26 not out, 3, 32, 24 not out and 29.

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An average of 41 is respectable while batting second in one-day internationals. However, given Hussey's incredible one-day record, his average while batting first - 1491 runs at nearly 65 - is a whopping 23 runs more than his second-innings average, making him second in our table below.

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Netherlands' Ryan ten Doeschate has the highest average among batsmen who've batted at least ten times in ODI run-chases. He averages nearly 83 batting second with four fifties and a century in ten innings, including 57 and 70 not out against South Africa and Scotland during the 2007 World Cup.

Sunil Gavaskar's Test average was close to 51 in both the first and second innings but, in one-day internationals, he was more successful while chasing a target. His only ODI century came while chasing 221 against New Zealand in the 1987 World Cup, and he averaged a shade under 49 in the second innings - nearly 25 runs more than his first-innings average of 24.22.

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