Stuart Matsikenyeri
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 8:38 pm
So lately I have been reading some disparaging remarks about the great Stuart Matsikenyeri fromsome know-nothing forumites. The fact that you guys rejoice in people's failures is despicable. Anyway, Stuart Matsikenyeri is a Zimbabwean great and only deserves praise, he was an immense talent who was screwed around with by selectors and the white cartel that runs ZC.
Let's compare Matsikenyeri to a forum favourite, Malcolm Waller. In ODIs Matsi averages 22.01 compared to Waller's lowly 18.08, Malcolm's runs coming against arguably weaker opposition. But this stat alone doesn't begin to tell Matsi's superiority. The nature of dismissals is telling, Matsi has been out bowled/lbw 40 times in 110 ODI innings (only 36%), whereas Waller has been out bowled/lbw 21 times in 53 innings (39%), it is important to note that Waller has played many more matches on slower wickets with weaker bowling so this method of dismissal percentage should be much lower than Matsi's. These stats show Waller is extremely poor technically, particularly against pace and tries to exist solely as a back-foot player, when does he ever drive a boundary through cover? Matsi has all the strokes in the cricketing arsenal and isn't afraid to use them. Matsi is also a more useful bowler and by far a superior fielder, not that that is setting the bar very high in Malcolm's case.
The hapless Waller has spent most of his career batting down the order to protect his poor technique against pace but still failing. If you filter Matsi's average to just batting at 6/7 he now comes out with a very respectable 28.84, whereas Waller with the same filter has a depressing average of 21.17. Matsi also has a superior strike rate, again achieved against superior bowling for the most part.
Enough wisdom for now, more later.
-watermelon.
Let's compare Matsikenyeri to a forum favourite, Malcolm Waller. In ODIs Matsi averages 22.01 compared to Waller's lowly 18.08, Malcolm's runs coming against arguably weaker opposition. But this stat alone doesn't begin to tell Matsi's superiority. The nature of dismissals is telling, Matsi has been out bowled/lbw 40 times in 110 ODI innings (only 36%), whereas Waller has been out bowled/lbw 21 times in 53 innings (39%), it is important to note that Waller has played many more matches on slower wickets with weaker bowling so this method of dismissal percentage should be much lower than Matsi's. These stats show Waller is extremely poor technically, particularly against pace and tries to exist solely as a back-foot player, when does he ever drive a boundary through cover? Matsi has all the strokes in the cricketing arsenal and isn't afraid to use them. Matsi is also a more useful bowler and by far a superior fielder, not that that is setting the bar very high in Malcolm's case.
The hapless Waller has spent most of his career batting down the order to protect his poor technique against pace but still failing. If you filter Matsi's average to just batting at 6/7 he now comes out with a very respectable 28.84, whereas Waller with the same filter has a depressing average of 21.17. Matsi also has a superior strike rate, again achieved against superior bowling for the most part.
Enough wisdom for now, more later.
-watermelon.
