Statistical Analysis: Mitchell Starc's ODI career

Mitchell Starc became the quickest bowler to complete 100 wickets in ODI Cricket, taking just 52 matches for the milestone. He completed the record during the 1st ODI game against the Sri Lankans at Colombo. The left-arm paceman has an impressive numbers in his not so long career. Here we bring you the statistical analysis of Starc’s ODI career.

Fastest to 100 ODI wickets:

Starc’s record by Opposition:

Starc’s happy hunting team has been West Indies, against whom he picked up 16 wickets in 6 games including 2 five-wicket hauls.

Starc’s record by Host country:

Starc has an average of 17 in ODIs in Australia. However, his average outside home is 22.38.

Bowlers with best bowling average in ODIs: (Min: 50 wickets)

Mitchell Starc’s bowling average of 19.52 is the 2nd best for a player who has picked up more than 100 ODI wickets.

Bowlers with best bowling strike rate in ODIs: (Min: 50 wickets)

Mitchell Starc’s bowling strike rate of 24.4 is the 2nd best for a player who has picked up more than 50 ODI wickets. However, his strike rate is best among the bowlers with more than 100 wickets.

Batsmen who scored most runs against Starc:

Faf du Plessis has 80 runs against Starc, most by any other by a fair margin. Dilshan has faced 91 balls against Starc in ODIs and is yet to be dismissed. These are the most balls faced by a batsman against Starc in this format without getting out. The next most balls without getting out to Starc is AB de Villiers, who faced 53 balls.

Farhaan Behardien’s strike rate of 137.04 is the highest for any batsman who faced more than 20 balls against Starc in ODIs. Next best is 133.33 by Joe Root, who scored 32 runs in 24 balls.

Starc’s wickets’ summary:

Most of the Starc’s dismissals have been of right handers. Starc’s 36.67% wickets have come in form of bowled. Out of his 101 ODI wickets, Starc has sent back 24 batsmen who were yet to open their account in the game.

Starc’s record by overs break-up:

Starc averages 14.11 while bowling in last 10 overs. His economy rate of 6.08 is pretty good given the teams these days score scored at an average of 8-9 runs per over in the last 10 overs in ODIs.

(Reduced matches adjusted with respect to 50-over games)

Perfect Yorker:

Mitchell Starc, known for bowling accurate yorkers, has an impressive record whenever he bowled yorker at the stumps. In ODIs, his average while doing it is 1. It goes under 1 against left handers as it reads 0.5. The only batsman to score a boundary whenever Starc bowled a yorker at the stumps was England’s James Taylor at Melbourne in CWC 2015.

(Note: The above stats related to yorker mostly depends upon the graphical data provided by ESPNcricinfo.)

(Stats updated till 21st August, 2016)