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I wonder what the calculation is of this new system.
Ponting in top five of all time
By Robert Craddock
January 15, 2006
AUSTRALIA captain Ricky Ponting is the fifth best batsman of all time, according to a new ranking system designed to compare champions of all eras.
Only the incomparable Donald Bradman and English legends Herb Sutcliffe, Ken Barrington and Walter Hammond rate in front of Ponting under the system invented by leading Australian statisticians Ric Finlay and David Fitzgerald.
Their system is part of a Cricketworld computer package used by writers and commentators around the world.
The format that compares the players from different eras takes into account factors other than cold statistics, such as whether they were playing at home or away and the performances of players playing with and against them.
It was designed after consultation with several leading commentators.
The next highest Australians after Ponting on Cricketworld's rankings are Matthew Hayden (15), Greg Chappell (16), Steve Waugh (18) and Allan Border (20).
Border's rating is likely to cause the most debate because many fans believe he has the hardest-earned 50-plus average of any Australian given he had to carry an understrength side in an era of outstanding opposition.
Ponting last week became No1 batsman in the world for the first time on the ICC Test rankings following his double centuries against South Africa in Sydney.
With 8253 runs from 100 Tests, Ponting, 31, is well placed to challenge for a stream of major individual records, including most Test runs (Brian Lara holds the record at 11,204).
The Sunday Mail (Qld)
http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,17826868-32462,00.html
Ponting in top five of all time
By Robert Craddock
January 15, 2006
AUSTRALIA captain Ricky Ponting is the fifth best batsman of all time, according to a new ranking system designed to compare champions of all eras.
Only the incomparable Donald Bradman and English legends Herb Sutcliffe, Ken Barrington and Walter Hammond rate in front of Ponting under the system invented by leading Australian statisticians Ric Finlay and David Fitzgerald.
Their system is part of a Cricketworld computer package used by writers and commentators around the world.
The format that compares the players from different eras takes into account factors other than cold statistics, such as whether they were playing at home or away and the performances of players playing with and against them.
It was designed after consultation with several leading commentators.
The next highest Australians after Ponting on Cricketworld's rankings are Matthew Hayden (15), Greg Chappell (16), Steve Waugh (18) and Allan Border (20).
Border's rating is likely to cause the most debate because many fans believe he has the hardest-earned 50-plus average of any Australian given he had to carry an understrength side in an era of outstanding opposition.
Ponting last week became No1 batsman in the world for the first time on the ICC Test rankings following his double centuries against South Africa in Sydney.
With 8253 runs from 100 Tests, Ponting, 31, is well placed to challenge for a stream of major individual records, including most Test runs (Brian Lara holds the record at 11,204).
The Sunday Mail (Qld)
http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,17826868-32462,00.html
