Rob Eastaway
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207 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard 3 Jun
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First of all, they give no sense of how inconsistent a batsman is.
You get 0-100, 0-100.
That's the same average as if you get 50 every time.
They also take no account of who you've made those runs against or whether it was a low-scoring match and they were more significant runs.
And they don't really reflect form either, so they will tend to deaden over your career or average moves less and less the more matches that you've played.
Rob, you've been thinking about Peter's question.
Well, that's a really interesting point, and cricketers would argue that either way.
So a consistent batsman, it's nice to have someone you know you can rely on, a good solid base for the team to build their innings around, someone who scores 50 every time.
And someone like Andrew Strauss, who's now retired, was a good consistent batsman.
But then, yes, they're unlikely to be the ones who do the spectacular match-winning performance, as Kevin Peterson did with his 186.
OK, so you're ducking this question of betting your life on a century.
Well, yes.
If you're playing against a really strong side like Australia, then it's going to be harder to score runs than if you're playing against one of the weaker sides like Bangladesh.
So what you'd really want to do is adjust the runs for the context of the game to say who's it against and what proportion of the team's runs are you actually scoring against.
Yeah, there is some truth in that.
If you look at just proportion of teams runs scored, for example, Kevin Peterson's close to 15% of, you know, when he plays, he scores about that, whereas Ian Bell is 12.5%.
So there's quite a gap there.
One way you'd look at this would be looking at a player's scores and looking at what's called the standard deviation of those scores, how much they tend to fluctuate from the average.
And Peterson is actually fairly middling in terms of that.
Let's just step back from this for a second.
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