Cricket All-Stars 2015 in numbers
Jacques Kallis’ all-round performance secured a 3-0 win for Warne’s Warriors over Sachin’s Blasters in the third T20 at the Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. After a tight spell of fast bowling, the South African all-rounder scored 47 off just 23 balls to secure an unlikely victory for the Warriors.
The first T20 in New York was comfortably won by the Warriors after they restricted the Blasters to just 140, even after Virender Sehwag smashed 55 off 22 balls. Ricky Ponting and Kumar Sangakkara anchored the chase perfectly as Warne’s side won by six wickets.
The second T20 in Houston was even more one-sided as the Warriors smashed 262 in their 20 overs thanks to Sangakkara’s 70 and forties from Kallis and Ponting. Sachin’s side were never really in the game, but only lost by 57 runs thanks to Shaun Pollock’s fifty, which included three-consecutive sixes off Wasim Akram.
While the series brought back plenty of nostalgic memories, it was also full of some amazing cricket from both sides. Huge scores were racked up and chased as well and the quality of batting was simply sublime.
Here is a look at some of the best stats from the series.
1 – No batsman managed more than a single fifty. Kumar Sangakkara, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Shaun Pollock and Sourav Ganguly all scored a fifty each.
2 – Only two maidens were bowled across the three matches and both were by off-spinners. Muttiah Muralitharan and Saqlain Mushtaq.
4 – That was Saqlain Mushtaq’s economy rate, which was the best of any bowler. Vettori was second with 5.75
5 – Kallis has the most catches in the series with 5. Sehwag is second with 3 catches, which was also incidentally the number of dismissals by Sangakkara.
6 – Saqlain Mushtaq’s average of 6, was the best of any bowler in the series.
8 – Andrew Symonds was the highest wicket-taker in the All-Stars series with 8 scalps. No other bowler managed more than 5.
12 – That was the number of fours and sixes hit by Sangakkara, which was the most of any batsman.
16.9 – Sehwag had a mixed bag with the ball. His economy rate of 16.9 was the worst of all bowlers (with at least one over), but his strike rate of 5.5 was the best.
70 – Symonds had the best and worst bowling figures in the same game. His spell of 4-0-70-4 in the second T20 was the most wickets taken in an innings by a bowler and also the most runs conceded by any bowler.
73.67 – That was the % of the total runs from the bat that was scored in boundaries. Of the boundaries, 88 were sixes and 73 were fours.
80 – Nobody faced more balls than Sangakkara, second-most balls faced was 79 by Ponting.
99 – Despite bowling a maiden, Muralitharan’s average of 99 was the worst amongst all bowlers with at least a single wicket.
132 – Ponting’s average was the best of any batsman in the series. He was also one of only three batsmen whose average was above 50, all of whom were Warriors’ batsmen.
153 – Sangakkara has the most runs of any batsman across the three matches, second is Ponting with 132.
600 – Although Shane Warne faced only one ball, his six sealed a 3-0 series win but also ensured his strike rate was the highest of any batsman. Of batsmen who faced at least 10 balls, Sehwag’s strike rate of 217.77 was the best.