Comment by IrregularExpression_ on 02/02/2025 at 05:00 UTC

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View submission: Reaching 50 - Reliability in Men's Test Cricket. Along the x-axis, we see the % of innings that a batter reached 50 and along the y-axis, their total number of innings (min. 5,000 test runs/Bradman excluded as he compresses the scatter graph too greatly).

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When people think of the Waugh twins Steve is considered the better batsman given his much better average.

But their median scores (from memory, couldnt see this in the charts) are very similar.

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Comment by Emergency-Twist7136 at 02/02/2025 at 05:09 UTC

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Waugh is considered better because he turned up now when the team needed him. He was the king of the captain's knock.

When he came in with 450 already on the board he was likely to go out very cheaply because he was already thinking about the next innings. If the team needed him to stay you usually couldn't get him out with a chisel.