Hope that you have seen Part 1.
We now move on to Bowling:
Most wickets (15 and above):
Note Herath’s late surge after Muralitharan retired. Starc heads the current players.
The most 5wis are 6 by Herath and Starc. The most 10wms are 2 by Warne and Starc.
Best innings bowling (6wi and above):
Cummins has the best figures among current players.
Best match bowling (9wm and above):
In this series, Cummins (10-62 at Brisbane) and Starc (10-100 at Canberra) surpassed the previous mark for Australia vs Sri Lanka at home. It was earlier held by Siddle (9-104 at Hobart in 2012).
Best bowling averages (Minimum 2000 balls, all instances):
Herath and Warne have the best bowling averages.
Vaas and Warne have the best economy rates.
Herath and Warne have the best strike rates.
Fielding:
Most dismissals (12 and above):
Gilchrist and Healy have the most catches by a keeper (32) and Gilchrist also has the most stumpings (5). The most catches by a non-keeper are 20 by M Jayawardene. Only Kusal Mendis represents current players here with 12 dismissals.
Most innings dismissals (4 and above):
This time Hayden has the most catches by a fielder with 4.
Most match dismissals (6 and above):
Healy and Gilchrist yet again, while Hayden’s 7 catches as a non-keeper were a share in the world record at that time.
Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings, 0.5):
Sangakkara has the highest dismissal rate, while M Jayawardene has the highest by a non-keeper.
All-round overall performance (see criteria):
Only Vaas meets these criteria.
All-round match performance (50 and 5wi in match):
Only two such performances.
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