MG Johnson has announced his international retirement at the end of the ongoing Perth test. We at www.hrgcricstats.com bring out a statisitical tribute to this great left arm pace bowler from Australia. Pleas read on….

He made his test debut against Sri Lanka at Brisbane in Nov 2007 and his farewell test was against New Zealand at Perth in Nov 2015,

He is one of the two Australian cricketers who have scored 2000 plus rest runs and capture 300 plus test wickets. He has scored 2034 runs and captured 310 wickets prior to the start of  the Perth test against New Zealand. The other Australian cricketer to perform such feat was SK Warne – 3154 runs and 708 wickets

He is one of three left arm pace bowlers in the world to score score 2000 plus runs and capture 300 plus test wickets. Others are WPUJC Vaas of Sri Lanka and Wasim Akram of Pakistan

Player	Team	Mat	Runs	HS	Bat Av	100	Wkts	BBI	Bowl Av	5
WPUJC Vaas	Srl	111	3089	100*	24.32	1	355	7/71	29.58	12
Wasim Akraam	Pak	104	2898	257*	22.64	3	414	7/119	23.62	25
MG Johnson	Aus	72	2034	123*	22.40	1	311	8/61	28.52	12

MG Johnson has scored a century in his test career – 123 not out against South Africa at Cape Town in Mar 2009. His best innings bowling effort was 8 for 61 against South Africa at Perth in Dec 2008.

Apart from is  only hundred with the willow he has scored eleven half centuries. He has captured five or more wickets on twelve occasions and ten or more wickets in a match on three occasion. His best match effort was 12 for 127 – against South Africa at Centurion in Feb 2014

He has captured fifty plus wickets against three teams – England {87}, South Africa {64} and India {64}. He has captured 50 plus wickets in two consecutive calendar years – 63 wickets in 2008 and 2009. He has captured 169 wickets on home soil, 133 wickets on away soil and nine wickets on neutral soil. He has captured 198 wickets in Australia’s winning tests

On the one day front, he has captured 239 wickets from 153 matches with four wickets hauls on nine occasions and five wickets hauls on three occasions. His best bowling effort in one day games was against Sri Lanka at Pallekele on 10.08.11 when he returned with figures of 6 for 31.  He has captured 25 wickets in World Cup from 15 games.

He played 30 T20Is to capture 38 wickets. His best was 3 for 15 against Sri Lanka at Bridgetown on 09.05.10 in a World Cup T20I. He appeared in 14 T20I World Cup games to captured 20 wickets

His career figures prior to the start of the Perth test between Australia and New Zealand is furnished below

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	72	107	16	2034	123*	22.35	3481	58.43	1	11	242	31	25	0
ODIs	153	91	32	951	73*	16.11	987	96.35	0	2	81	23	35	0
T20Is	30	17	7	109	28*	10.90	95	114.73	0	0	8	3	5	0
First-class	116	168	31	3149	123*	22.98			2	15			37	0
List A	184	108	39	1115	73*	16.15	1223	91.16	0	2			39	0
Twenty20	79	43	20	275	30	11.95	256	107.42	0	0	20	9	17	0
Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	72	138	15797	8714	310	8/61	12/127	28.10	3.30	50.9	16	12	3
ODIs	153	150	7489	6038	239	6/31	6/31	25.26	4.83	31.3	9	3	0
T20Is	30	30	656	797	38	3/15	3/15	20.97	7.28	17.2	0	0	0
First-class	116		23561	13175	462	8/61		28.51	3.35	50.9	24	17	4
List A	184		9227	7387	284	6/31	6/31	26.01	4.80	32.4	11	4	0
Twenty20	79	78	1738	2254	92	3/15	3/15	24.50	7.78	18.8	0	0	0