Rise of the Southpaw : A column from Cricinfo where Bangladesh is everywhere

[Miraz]

From Cricnfo,

Left-handers in ODIs and Tests
The rise of the southpaw
Travis Basevi and George Binoy
April 18, 2007

How much of the world's population is left-handed? There's no exact answer and figures have varied over the years but recent studies have estimated that left-handers account for 10 to 13% of the adult population. That's not much at all, around one in ten. Therefore for a team of 11 players to have among them more than one left-hander is already over the average. Today's list is about teams with the most left-handers and matches in which they've dominated the proceedings.
The Bangladesh team that beat India during the group stage of the World Cup had six left-handers; four bowlers and the two opening batsmen. The XI that upset South Africa in the Super Eights had one less, with Shahriar Nafees making way for Javed Omar at the top of the order. The three left-arm spinners, Mohammad Rafique, Abdur Razzak and Saqibul Hasan, along with Syed Rasel, the medium-pacer, accounted for eight of South Africa's wickets while the other two were run out.

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Now, it has a number of supporting tables

Here's two and the other's are hyperlinked. Bangladesh is all over the place

Most wickets by left handed bowlers in an innings - ODIs

Team	LHB	RHB	Inns		Opposition	Ground	Season	Scorecard
Australia	9	1	2		v India	Mumbai	2003/04	ODI 2054
Sri Lanka	8	2	1		v Zimbabwe	Colombo (SSC)	2001/02	ODI 1776
India	8	2	2		v Namibia	Pietermaritzburg	2002/03	ODI 1964
India	8	1	2		v England	Durban	2002/03	ODI 1969
Bangladesh	8	1	2		v Zimbabwe	Dhaka	2004/05	ODI 2214
India	8	1	2		v Pakistan	Visakhapatnam	2004/05	ODI 2236
Bangladesh	8	1	1		v Zimbabwe	Khulna	2006/07	ODI 2453
Bangladesh	8	0	2		v South Africa	Providence	2006/07	ODI 2564
Australia	7	3	1		v India	Thiruvananthapuram	1984/85	ODI 268
Sri Lanka	7	1	2		v Pakistan	Colombo (RPS)	1997	ODI 1216
Sri Lanka	7	2	1		v Pakistan	Lahore	1997/98	ODI 1251
India	7	0	1		v New Zealand	Colombo (SSC)	2001	ODI 1743
India	7	1	1		v Sri Lanka	Rajkot	2005/06	ODI 2295
India	7	2	1		v Sri Lanka	Vadodara	2005/06	ODI 2296
Sri Lanka	7	2	2		v New Zealand	Napier	2005/06	ODI 2312
India	7	3	1		v Pakistan	Multan	2005/06	ODI 2331
Australia	7	3	2		v Bangladesh	Fatullah	2005/06	ODI 2366
Bangladesh	7	3	1		v Kenya	Nairobi (Gym)	2006	ODI 2402
Bangladesh	7	3	1		v Kenya	Nairobi (Gym)	2006	ODI 2403
Bangladesh	7	1	2		v Zimbabwe	Jaipur	2006/07	ODI 2427
Bangladesh	7	3	2		v Scotland	Dhaka	2006/07	ODI 2467
New Zealand	7	3	2		v England	Adelaide	2006/07	ODI 2482
Bangladesh	7	2	1		v Bermuda	Port of Spain	2006/07	ODI 2554

Highest percentage of balls bowled by left handers - ODIs (qualification: 120 balls in the innings)

Team	LHB	RHB	%	Inns		Opposition	Ground	Season	Scorecard
Bangladesh	238	54	81.5	2		v South Africa	Providence	2006/07	ODI 2564
Bangladesh	240	57	80.8	1		v Zimbabwe	Harare	2006	ODI 2398
Bangladesh	240	57	80.8	1		v India	Port of Spain	2006/07	ODI 2538
Bangladesh	216	53	80.3	2		v England	Bridgetown	2006/07	ODI 2568
Bangladesh	240	60	80.0	1		v Sri Lanka	Port of Spain	2006/07	ODI 2546
Bangladesh	138	38	78.4	2		v New Zealand	North Sound	2006/07	ODI 2561
Bangladesh	229	66	77.6	1		v Kenya	Nairobi (Gym)	2006	ODI 2402
Bangladesh	96	30	76.2	1		v Bermuda	Port of Spain	2006/07	ODI 2554
Bangladesh	166	54	75.5	2		v West Indies	Jaipur	2006/07	ODI 2426
Bangladesh	222	78	74.0	1		v Bermuda	St John's	2006/07	ODI 2528
India	204	84	70.8	2		v Pakistan	Ahmedabad	2004/05	ODI 2238
Bangladesh	195	84	69.9	1		v Kenya	Nairobi (Gym)	2006	ODI 2403
Bangladesh	170	78	68.5	1		v Kenya	Nairobi (Gym)	2006	ODI 2404
India	204	96	68.0	1		v Australia	Bangalore	2003/04	ODI 2061
Bangladesh	204	96	68.0	1		v Kenya	Fatullah	2005/06	ODI 2356
Bangladesh	204	96	68.0	1		v Zimbabwe	Dhaka	2006/07	ODI 2462
Bangladesh	178	90	66.4	2		v Zimbabwe	Jaipur	2006/07	ODI 2427
Bangladesh	140	72	66.0	2		v Zimbabwe	Harare	2006/07	ODI 2511
Bangladesh	186	98	65.5	1		v Zimbabwe	Dhaka	2006/07	ODI 2461

And here's the rest

• Most runs by left handers in an innings - ODIs
• Most left handers batting in an innings - ODIs
• Most wickets by left handed bowlers in an innings - Tests
• Highest percentage of balls bowled by left handers - Tests
• Most runs by left handers in an innings - Tests
• Most left handers batting in an innings - Tests

[BangladeshCricket]

Great...if our SN,Tamim, Saqib could have scored few more runs...they would have been also included. But great to see some highlights on our players.

[Rabz]

Be careful of those stats..
here comes S Rajesh..

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by Sydney
Be careful of those stats..
here comes S Rajesh..

...uni dol bodol korechen...after WC round 2...!!!

[Hatebreed]

Finally some stat where Bangladesh fits in.

[Zeeshan]

south paws tend to be more intuitive and right brained and thus creative .... i honestly think our players should pick up juggling: it activates corpus callosum the nerve fibers connecting the two hemispheres which in turn results in better communication and thus better brain processin and better overall performance in game....

[al Furqaan]

the actual list doesn't make any qualitative remarks on bangladeshi cricket. its just a comparison of right hand to left hand bowlers. and also most of our exploits are against rank minnows at home.

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by Hatebreed
Finally some stat where Bangladesh fits in.

then this should knock your socks off:

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/maga...ry/334407.html

Teams	No. of pairs	Innings	Inng per pair	Average stand
Australia	8	128	16.00	51.26
South Africa	10	107	10.70	47.64
England	9	139	15.44	44.66
West Indies	12	61	5.08	34.71
India	10	44	4.40	31.25
New Zealand	21	85	4.05	29.62
Pakistan	12	36	3.00	29.08
Bangladesh	6	20	3.33	28.65
Sri Lanka	10	39	3.90	20.94
Zimbabwe	6	18	3.00	13.16

apparently our openers are better than sri lanka's by a wide margin in test match batting in countries were seam bowling is most conducive. we have less than 1 run average than pakistan, not even 3 runs behind india, and rate fairly competiviely against new zealand as well.

"lies, damn lies, and statistics"

[betaar]

Man, no wonder we suck big time.....what good teams do with their right hand we try to do that with our left....how are we gonna compete.
"Daan haat thakte baa haat heno????"

[BANFAN]

We actually have too many left handers. We should balance a bit (Left ight combination) to make some trouble for the fielding side.

[auntu]

great thinking man once upon a time we had no lefti in the team...

BD national team used to hire left hander for net practice in past

[irteja]

Batting style Right-hand bat

1. Mohammad Ashraful
2. Mashrafe Bin Mortaza
3. Dhiman Ghosh
4. Raqibul Hasan
5. Farhad Reza
6. Shahadat Hossain
7. Nazimuddin

Batting style Left-hand bat

1. Tamim Iqbal
2. Junaid Siddique
3. Shahriar Nafees
4. Shakib Al Hasan
5. Abdur Razzak
6. Mosharraf Hossain
7. Syed Rusel

[Spitfire_x86]

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
then this should knock your socks off:

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/maga...ry/334407.html

apparently our openers are better than sri lanka's by a wide margin in test match batting in countries were seam bowling is most conducive. we have less than 1 run average than pakistan, not even 3 runs behind india, and rate fairly competiviely against new zealand as well.

"lies, damn lies, and statistics"

This stat is more than 1 month old. Our average was boosted mainly by that Tamim / Zunaed record partnership. In you include the SA series, then we may end up at the usual position.

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by Spitfire_x86
This stat is more than 1 month old. Our average was boosted mainly by that Tamim / Zunaed record partnership. In you include the SA series, then we may end up at the usual position.

month old or not, if u take out all record partnerships everyone will suffer a drop. might not be as big a drop but oh well.

btw, spitty, SA series is not included because Rajesh's articles were concerning subcontinent openers in aus, sa, nz, and eng only. SA series is home series.

and if u factor out our 161-0, we are still above the lankans. but barely.