Cricket’s biggest Flat track bullies and Rescue merchants in history(Part II)

Following from the last post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/1lzulfx/comment/n38wivn/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Here, I’ve only considered the batter’s own team performance (not both teams and the opposition). For example, for Ponting, only other Australian players in the match are considered. Also, the filter has been brought down from 30 to 25, as there’s a much greater proportion of games where one team averages ≤25 than games where both teams average ≤25.

However, as a result of only considering one team, players from weaker teams stand out more than those from strong batting units. Still, there are various interesting finds here:

1. A lot of batters with high ≤25 averages come from weaker teams, but that isn’t the case for Viv Richards. Despite being part of a very strong batting unit with two ATG batters, he has an incredible record in such games. Combined with the way he scored these runs, he has a strong claim for being the greatest counter-attacking batter in history.
2. Herbert Sutcliffe surprised me—like, one of the biggest surprises I’ve had in this project. He managed to do something that’s almost impossible in this kind of analysis: beat Bradman. He averages one point more than the Don himself at 65 in games where the rest of his teammates averaged ≤25. It becomes even more impressive when you consider he batted alongside the likes of Hobbs and Hammond.
3. Most of the flat-track dominant batters retain their position, but Williamson is now far closer to Smith than before.
4. Some of the players with high difficult-pitch averages from the previous post—the likes of Inzi, Graeme Smith, and Amla—get a bit of a downgrade. But in the case of the latter two, I just think that Kallis and AB are very hard to beat.
5. Some players miss out due to the 1000-run cutoff in both categories. Among the most notable is Gilchrist—he averages about 53 in games where his teammates average ≤25, but he has only 867 runs in such matches, so he doesn't make the cut.