This is a rather convoluted record, I know.
Umesh Yadav is the only batsman to make two scores of 25+ with a strike rate of 250.00 and above:
Above 200.00, there is only DA Warner to accompany Yadav with two such innings. For India, there are also PS Kumar (40 at 222) and Harbhajan (37 at 205).
As we have seen here https://abn397.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/umesh-yadavs-batting-record/
The fastest score of 25+ was 31/10 balls, with a strike rate of 310.00
For 50+, it is 54/25 balls and 216.00
For 100+, it is 110*/58 balls and 189.65
Now let use see about the highest strike rates for innings lasting for one to six balls.
There is no record of anyone scoring more than a zero off zero balls, though it may be theoretically possible under some obscure rule.
Here you have only 0* and 0, the latter being diamond ducks.
Now for 1-ball innings:
There is only one such innings involving a six, and it is fittingly by Jayasuriya with an SR of 600. Next is Ishant Sharma with 5 (a single plus 4 overthrows) and 500. Then there are those who scored a 4 or 3 off one ball. Ishant Sharma appears again. At least half of the batsmen here are tailenders. Even the famous batsman CS Martin has scored 4 off one ball! So has NM Lyon.
2-ball innings:
There are four batsmen (all tailenders) who have made 7 off two balls. They would have made a 6 and a single, apart from Muralitharan who made a 4 and a 3. Then there are 6s and 5s. Here we do not meet a recognized batsman until Sir Richard Hadlee (?) and AL Logie. The only current players are Wafadar of Afghanistan and India’s Mohammed Shami.
3-ball innings:
The highest off 3 balls is 12* by Misbah, including two sixes and a dot. Murali has 6,4 and dot while Shami has two fours and a two. Others have made 6 runs with one four. Muralitharan appears three times here. The proportion of recognized batsmen is more here, including current players Mushfiqur and Malan along with Shami.
4-ball innings:
The maximum here is 12, either by 3 fours (de Villiers and Warner) or 2 sixes (Henry). Warner, Henry and M Marsh represent the current players.
5-ball innings:
The best here is by Southee (another expert tailend slogger) with 3 sixes in his 20. He has also made 13 to be in second place with Pietersen.
6-ball innings:
The highest here is 17* which is less than the 20 in 5 balls. Ntini made his 16* with 4 fours. KMA Paul’s 12 included 3 fours.
Having come so far, we can also see
Most successive sixes:
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/284014.html
Kapil’s 4 successive sixes came when averting the follow-on with No 11 at the other end. The No 11 (Hirwani) was out just after the follow-on was averted. There are numerous current players here (such as Southee) besides old-timers such as Hammond.
And finally,
Most successive fours:
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/284011.html
All 6 balls by Jayasuriya, Sarwan and Gayle (although Sarwan had a no-ball interspersed after 4 sixes. DW Hookes hit 5 fours on his debut, which came in the Centenary Test of 1977. So did RE Redmond, a staple of quiz questions.
We have already had a look at ABD’s Test figures. He did not do too well in T20Is. But he really came into his own in fast scoring in ODIs. His highest score there was 176. First we look at his career strike rate.
(In all the tables in this post, matches involving multi-national teams such as ICC XI, Africa XI and Asia XI have been disregarded.)
ODI career strike rate (minimum 20 innings):
Here ABD is relatively lower down, as many batsmen with less matches have scored faster. But his batting average of 54.17 is much higher than that of the likes of Maxwell and Russell.
A better comparison will be with those with longer careers:
ODI career strike rate (minimum 200 innings):
Here he is third, after Afridi and Sehwag. Here, too, his career batting average of 54.17 is considerably higher than that of those with higher strike rates. Kohli with a batting average of 58.10 has a somewhat lower strike rate.
We now go on to innings strike rates in ODIs. While ABD’s top score was 176, we start with the 200+ scores as a comparison.
Strike rates for scores above 200 in ODIs:
There have been only 7 instances of ODI double centuries so far, with 5 by Indian batsmen including 3 by RG Sharma. Gayle and Guptill made their scores in the 2015 World Cup. Sharma and Sehwag have the highest strike rates here.
Next we look at
Strike rates for scores above 150 in ODIs:
Here ABD has by far the highest strike rate in his 162*, which against the West Indies in the 2015 World Cup.
Next we have
Strike rates for scores above 100 in ODIs:
Here, ABD is the clear leader with his 149 against the West Indies, in the runup to the 2015 World Cup. His 162* mentioned above is also here, as are a few other centuries.
Next there is
Strike rates for scores above 50 in ODIs:
ABD still leads with the 149 mentioned above. For scores between 50 and 99, the best strike rates are by the NZ pair of Guptill and McCullum.
But it is an unique distinction that ABD has the best strike rates for 50+, 100+ and 150+ in ODIs.
Finally, we look at
Strike rates for scores above 25 in ODIs:
Here, the top two positions are held by two New Zealand players (including BB McCullum’s lesser known brother) with scores in the 30s. But ABD is still there at the third spot.
A little more wrapping up of high strike rates in ODIs will be done in another post.
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