Bowlers and their BUNNIES in Test Cricket

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Feel sorry for Micahel Atherton that he had to face tough bowlers in the 90's

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Ricky Ponting the Australian cricket legend was also a bunny of Indian pace bowler Ishant Sharma.Mohammed Azharuddin was a bunny of Alan Donald the Proteas pace bowler legend.Pakistani batting legend Ijaz Ahmed was a bunny of Venkatesh Prasad in both test and ODI formats of cricket.

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Glenn McGrath vs Atherton always ended in one way and it wasn’t the latter’s way

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No Shane Warne v Daryl's Cullinan? Basically destroyed his career. Some class bowlers and batsman mentioned. The bunny's who are bowlers/keepers can feel hard done by as they are actually bunnies. Great video tho.😊

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Exactly. Bunnies aren't just the number of times the bowler got rid of the batsman, but the impact he had on psychic of the batsman's scoring capabilities. And Warne fits the profile for not just Cullinan, but several specialist batsmen he bowled to.

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Imho, a bunny should be a term used in case of specialist batsmen being regularly dismissed by a particular bowler, not for tailenders. Also, the statistical criteria should be conceding less than 25-30 odd runs to dismiss the respective batsman to tag him a bunny coz its but obvious even THE most aggressive of all batsmen can be defensive against the opposition's star bowlers and therefore chalking out over 30 runs from their score from the star bowler alone displays the temperament and capability of the batsman. In this regard, Michael Atherton, Graham Gooch, Mark Boucher, Ricky Ponting, Allan Lamb and Mark Waugh very much fall in the mould of a "bunny", but the rest to some extent dont. It also brings an interesting observation. Graham Gooch was at his absolute best(even before his peak period) against the West Indies pace quartet for almost his entire career, averaging almost 45 with 5 centuries. But Kapil Dev negotiated with him quite well, conceding less than 18 runs for the 11 dismissals he effected of Gooch. Infact, going by batsman-bowler combinations, Kapil through his career had an excellent one-on-one record against the star batsman of his time, the others apart from Gooch being David Gower(10 times@23.5), Gordon Greenidge(8 times@28.75), Desmond Haynes(7 times@14.57), Dean Jones(only twice, but on both occasions for a duck). Other honourable mentions in his resume are Allan Border(10 times@33) and Sir Vivian Richards(7 times@33.71). The scoring rate might be above the criteria but the fact that both Border and Richards averaged in excess of 50 against India shows Kapil discounted them by a-third of their actual scoring capacity speaks for itself. The crux is, irrespective of his mediocre stats, Kapil was a pacer of the highest class in his own right.

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Bowler: Malcolm Marshall Bunny: Sunil Gavaskar Wickets: 10 Average: 16.80