5 biggest home-track bullies in world cricket in recent years

Cricket is a sport where the conditions in which the game is played has a big impact on the outcome of the game. There are a certain set of conditions that are better suited to certain teams and their players. However, the hallmark of a champion team and a champion player is to excel in whatever conditions the game is being played in.There are certain players, however, who enjoy a terrific run in home conditions but relatively struggle when they are playing in alien conditions. Let’s take a look at 5 such players whose record away from home suggests that they are home-track bullies:NOTE: The likes of R Ashwin and Rohit Sharma haven’t been included as their sample size is too small.

#5 Michael Clarke

An away average of 41.51 is not bad by any means. However, when it is compared to a staggering home average of 62.05, the rift is there to see. Clarke is absolutely ruthless back in Australia where he has amassed 4654 runs including 17 centuries, 3 of which are double centuries and one an unbeaten triple hundred. To sum it up, one can say that if Pup gets going in Australia, he is absolutely unstoppable.

On foreign soil, however, the Aussie skipper is not his usual belligerent self. He is yet to register a double hundred away from the comfort of home. What is also worth noting from his away numbers is that spare a few innings where he has gone on to play a real big knock, he has been guilty of giving his wicket away a bit too easily at times, that too after getting his eye in.

Though he has played just a single series in the UAE vs Pakistan, it was pretty visible that he wasn’t having a good time. In 3 out of the 4 innings played, he was undone by a spinner. Two of these dismissals were affected by Zulfiqar Babar, a slow left-arm bowler, the kind of bowler against whom the New South Wales batsman has often struggled.

Clarke has often struggled in the Caribbean too. He started off with a bang when he scored a ton in his very first innings there. However, things have gone all downhill ever since as he has been able to muster just a single fifty since. The 33-year-old has played just a single series in Sri Lanka. Right through that series, he was troubled by Rangana Herath, another left-arm spinner, who dismissed him thrice.