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Have average cricket innings scores gone up or down over the years?
People keep going on about how the rules increasingly favour the batsmen, especially with the Pietersen switch-slog being discussed at the moment. But i'd got the impression that whilst scoring rates are up, overall test innings scores had reduced. Does anyone know where i could find out, for example, the average innings scores for test matches in the 40's, 50's, 60's, etc.
I can get individual results from cricinfo.com, but i was after overall stats over time. Would take me a long long time to add them up individually!!
8 Answers
- Barry KLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
I would say that they have gone up overall.
Cricket 100 years ago saw teams being bowled out for under 100 with bowlers returning amazing figures.
Nowadays, the state of the pitch, plus improved techniques amongst batsmen have improved innings scores.
Also there is a lot less spin bowling these days.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
before 100 overs per day around 260 runs scored.Now 90 overs and around 300/330 runs scored.The last innings now have much higher scores than before as the pitches don't break up and take as much spin anymore.West indies last innings 376.England got trent bridges highest ever first day score recently.England scored 414 on first day against aussies in england.Pitches used to remain uncovered if it rained and so strongly favoured the bowlers.Now the pitches are kept very dry,which favoured the batters.
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- ♥SMARNY♥Lv 61 decade ago
1 think the pitches are made more competitive nowadays
and its favoured for home team lol
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- 1 decade ago
i think the pitches are made more competitive nowadays. there not as flat and the ball will do more for the bower now
- modratedLv 41 decade ago
i think it's gone bit down as player of this age n day turning this beautifull game into si-fi thing. try google for old records
- ?Lv 45 years ago
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