OK... I had a huge posts of stats on the Adelaide Oval... but this covers the ground far more comprehensively...
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Even in Australia, though, some venues have been more hospitable to overseas batsmen than others. Adelaide, for instance, has almost always produced a flat pitch - thanks to Les Burdett, their curator - with little assistance to the bowlers. Sydney, meanwhile, has often helped spinners more than the fast bowlers. At both these venues, the bounce and seam movement has been less pronounced, allowing batsmen from outside Australia to feel more at home with conditions and get among the runs.
At the other three regular Test venues, though, the story has been entirely different. Brisbane has mostly helped the fast bowlers, and often hosts the first Test of a series, leaving overseas batsmen with little time to adjust to the Australian conditions. Melbourne has been quite bowler-friendly as well, while the trampoline-like bounce in Perth has often been far too much for the batsmen to get on top of. The best bet for most batsmen has been to make extra runs in Sydney and Adelaide, so that the overall numbers still look good after the damage from the other three venues.
The table below checks out the numbers for overseas top-order batsmen (Nos. 1-7) since 1990, and the difference in numbers between the two sets of numbers is stark: batsmen score 26% more runs per dismissal in Sydney and Adelaide than in the other three grounds.
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The Upshot is set out in a table that doesn't easily reproduce here... but the gist is as follows....
At Adelaide & Sydney, 40 Tests have produced 17,660 at an average of 35.67 with 34 x 100 and 81 x 50
Brisbane, Melbourne & Perth, 55 Tests have produced 19,958 runs at a significantly lower 28.30 with just 28 x 100 but 108 x 50.
See
Cricinfo - A soft corner for Adelaide and Sydney ps. I was particularly cheered by the following 
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Not too many batsmen fall into the next category, but there have been a few overseas players who have flourished in conditions that most have found too difficult to conquer. The list is headed by an unlikely candidate: Mark Ramprakash managed an average of just 36.50 in Adelaide and Sydney, but he was consistency personified in the three tougher venues
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Yup... 4 Tests and 3 epic, 4 hour+ innings (two unbeaten) as all around him struggled plus a quickfire 63 (fastest scoring of any batsman in the innings) contributed to a total of 347 runs at an average of 57.83.. and that's stacks better than (amongst others) Tendulkar, Lara, Laxman, Gooch, Kirsten, Dravid and Kallis!
25-01-2008, 02:47 PM
in reply to batoutofhell's post starting "interesting points rachael
so adelaide..." 
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