Salamuddin's All Time Test Match X1

[Richard]

is it an ODI XI?
i am sorry i was mking the test side...sachin and wasim are all timers in the limited over game..in test they would crack the top 20 not the 11..IMO

Tendulkar who averaged 60 over a period of about 90 Tests and 12 years?

 

[silentstriker]

Tendulkar who averaged 60 over a period of about 90 Tests and 12 years?

I think Tendulkar's stock is down a bit right now based on his performances post-2002. After he retires and people remember his halcyon days again, it'll come back up.

 

[Richard]

Oh, indeed, that's usually the way, but that was just the point I was making (and re-ramming) when I said "short-term memory is a terrible thing".

 

[rodzilla1010]

Tendulkar who averaged 60 over a period of about 90 Tests and 12 years?

Richards, it think Lara is a better choice than tendulkar. Mostly people agree with that.

 

[Richard]

Err... why?

 

[rodzilla1010]

Err... why?

read this
and know why lara is the greatest of his peers

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/268732.html

 

[Richard]

I've read much of similar stuff and and I'll never, ever agree that Lara's better than Tendulkar.

 

[J.J.B.Lewis]

My alltime XI:

Jack Hobbs
Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman
Brian Lara
+Andy Flower
Vivian Richards
*Imran Khan
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[rodzilla1010]

I've read much of similar stuff and and I'll never, ever agree that Lara's better than Tendulkar.

then its a matter of opinion...and i would rate the opinon of tony greg,ravi shastri and sanjay manjrekar higher than a bloke with 25000 posts to his name

 

[J.J.B.Lewis]

I've read much of similar stuff and and I'll never, ever agree that Lara's better than Tendulkar.

I think Lara is a millimeter ahead of Tendulkar because of his ability to perform consistently in critical situations(which Tendulkar lacks).Otherwise,there's hardly anything which separated these two legends.

 

[J.J.B.Lewis]

then its a matter of opinion...and i would rate the opinon of tony greg,ravi shastri and sanjay manjrekar higher than a bloke with 25000 posts to his name

I've lost respect for Tony Greig because of his constant bashing of great West Indian side without any reason.Sanjay Manjeraker is a nice bloke though.

 

[Barney Rubble]

I've read much of similar stuff and and I'll never, ever agree that Lara's better than Tendulkar.

Ditto.

 

[Richard]

then its a matter of opinion...and i would rate the opinon of tony greg,ravi shastri and sanjay manjrekar higher than a bloke with 25000 posts to his name

Well you wouldn't be in an all-inclusive club, there.

Many will tell you that there are plenty out there who don't have a clue (Ravi Shastri is first-rate, undoubtedly, the other two are more middle-ground) and that CW posters are much more astute observers.

 

[rodzilla1010]

Well you wouldn't be in an all-inclusive club, there.

Many will tell you that there are plenty out there who don't have a clue (Ravi Shastri is first-rate, undoubtedly, the other two are more middle-ground) and that CW posters are much more astute observers.

Yeah, who cares what test cricketers have to say about batting anyway

 

[silentstriker]

I would take Tendulkar for his consistency over Lara's big scores. Lara is very inconsistent (as can be witnessed from a lower average, despite numerous very high scores, as well as an article written by cricinfo which measured their consistency mathematically). Lara has the ability to be more dominating when on song, and can definitely score higher than Tendulkar, but Tendulkar can give you consistency which Lara cannot (and we are speaking of both of them in their primes, of course).

In any case, its one of those things that people will never agree on.

 

[rodzilla1010]

Sachin lacks finishing, he has left the team on the doorstep of victory so many times. On the other hand lara finshes what he starts...matchwinner

 

[PhoenixFire]

1) Hobbs
2) Hutton
3) Bradman
4) Hammond
5) Sobers
6) Miller
7) Flower
8) Marshall
9) Trueman
10) McGrath
11) Muralitharan

 

[open365]

then its a matter of opinion...and i would rate the opinon of tony greg,ravi shastri and sanjay manjrekar higher than a bloke with 25000 posts to his name

Tony Grieg is a complete idiot when it comes to cricket, his column in the wisden cricketer is astoundingly crap.

Just because they've played the game professionaly doesn't mean they have better cricketing knowledge, imo it generaly makes them have worse.

I's take Richard's opinion far more seriously than any of those mentioned, and most other people's on this site for that matter.

 

[open365]

Yeah, who cares what test cricketers have to say about batting anyway

Did any of them acctualy play a lot of cricket with Lara?

And even if they did, what difference would it make? His stats don't change because they've played test cricket, and unless he's scored another 1000 runs that only previous test cricketers know about i don't really count their opinion as being any more valid than most people's on CW.

 

[silentstriker]

1) Hobbs
2) Hutton
3) Bradman
4) Hammond
5) Sobers
6) Miller
7) Flower
8) Marshall
9) Trueman
10) McGrath
11) Muralitharan

I knew you would see it my way regarding McGrath.