How do they work out a bowlers average in cricket?

Question

Is a high or low average better?

Answer 1

Bowling average= Runs conceded divided by the wickets taken.

So a lesser average means a better performance.

So if a bowler has conceded 1000 runs and taken 20 wickets, his bowling average is 50.

A strike rate for a bowler is the average number of balls he takes to get a wicket. If a bowler has bowled 1000 balls and taken 10 wickets, his trike rate is 100. Or in other words, he picks up a wicket every 100 balls. Again here, the lesser the strike rate, the better the performance.

Answer 2

Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.

A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowler divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. For fast bowlers in Test cricket, most need to maintain an average of below about 30 to hold a place in the team. Bowlers who maintain an average of below about 25 over a long career are exceptional. The very best in the modern game have averages just over 20. Acceptable averages for spin bowlers tend to be a little higher ranging between 25 and 40.

Career records for bowling average are usually subject to a qualification of a minimum number of balls bowled or wickets taken, to avoid including artificially high or low averages resulting from a career spanning only a few matches. Under the usual qualification of at least 2,000 balls bowled, George Lohmann has the lowest Test bowling average, with 112 wickets taken at an average of 10.75. It should be noted that Lohmann played in the late 19th century, when pitch conditions were far more favourable to bowlers than is currently the case. Only 11 other bowlers have averages below 20 on this basis.

In terms of assessing the effectiveness of a bowler, the average gives a useful but not a complete picture. Another useful statistic is the bowling strike rate - the mean number of balls bowled between wickets.

Bowling averages in One-day Internationals are generally somewhat lower than in Test cricket because the batsmen need to score runs more quickly which makes it easier to get them out. In one-day cricket, the bowler's economy rate is another informative statistic.

Answer 3

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How do they work out a bowlers average in cricket?
Is a high or low average better?

Answer 4

Even though I haven't seen bowlers from the 1980s and before, I can say from certain that the bowlers today are as good as they have ever been. There may be so many other factors like the quality of bats, video analysis to crack the code of every bowler, the coaching facilities are better. I am now going to pull out something funny from nowhere. I think the then batsmen lacked the motivation to play better because they didn't get huge sums of money to carry home. Also, perhaps they weren't sacked as often for their batting failures. To be fair to the current batsmen though, the fielding has massively improved and it is difficult to score easy runs.

Answer 5

average= the runs divided by the numbers of over bowled depending if the bowler has bowled 8 over and conceded 24 runs his average would be 3 runs per over

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Answer 7

average = wickets by runs given
a low average is a better one

Answer 8

bowling strike rate theory

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Bowling strike rate video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYNSOebQ9Ao

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