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CW Ranks the Batsmen
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biased indian
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compton
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BoyBrumby
Englishman
1) DCS Compton
2) KF Barrington
Constrasting MOs, the dashing, devil-may-care brylcreem boy and the austere accumulator, but would kill for either in our current set up.
The lack of Barrington love surprising, really. Sure, he was primarily defensive, but nearly 7000 test runs at over 58.5 shows the end surely justified the means.
2) KF Barrington
Constrasting MOs, the dashing, devil-may-care brylcreem boy and the austere accumulator, but would kill for either in our current set up.
The lack of Barrington love surprising, really. Sure, he was primarily defensive, but nearly 7000 test runs at over 58.5 shows the end surely justified the means.
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
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Kallis
Kallis
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
Compton is one of those players for whom simply quoting the numbers will never do him any kind of justice.
adharcric
International Coach
Well, that line can be used to describe many cricketers over the years but surely performances (as measured by statistics) mean something and such a glaring disparity between home and away averages says something about his (adapt)ability? What was so special about him that this should be overlooked in his case? Genuine question here, don't know too much about Compton.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Partly the way he played & partly the era he played in, I think. What I've read of him suggests he was a dashing stroke maker and post-war Blighty was a pretty grim place. The Austerity Years are well named; rationing was still in place and the country was almost bankrupt after WW2. Compton played when the mass media was starting to bring cricket into people's homes via the wireless (or the newsreel at the cinema) so people could actually see & hear this handsome, suave, boys-own hero flaying the Australians with no small amount of style and it was, I imagine, a welcome distraction. Cricket in the early 50s was almost as popular as association football and it's hardly an exaggeration to say Denis was in no small way responsible for this. It's the "how" as much as the "how many" sometimes, which is fairly ironic given I also voted for Kenny Barrington who's the antithesis of that ideal.
Plus, of course, he looks rather spiffing in his Arsenal kit:
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
What Brumby is says is all very true, particularly when saying that sometimes the "how" is just as important as the "how many" though it's worth noting that the "how many" for Compton is generally very impressive anyway.
Denis Compton, more than any other English cricketer, was responsible for bringing cricket back into huge public popularity after WWII - he was truly a dasher and an improvisational genius, a man who played cricket as a game and to entertain the public as much as possible. The fact that he also scored vast quantities of runs while doing so just made him the best of both worlds. As great as he was in Test cricket, he is probably most beloved in England for his summer of '47 for Middlesex where he shattered record after record in the County Championship, and with Bill Edrich provided such glorious entertainment (as well as fantastic cricket) that people for the first time started to try to put the war behind them and flocked back to the cricket.
His away record is a bit of a blight it's true, certainly not helped by his series in Australia in 50/51 when he scored 53 runs at an average of 7! That tour was something of an anomaly - he certainly wasn't as successful away as at home, but he averaged nearly 42 in his other away Tests outside of that one series.
Denis Compton, more than any other English cricketer, was responsible for bringing cricket back into huge public popularity after WWII - he was truly a dasher and an improvisational genius, a man who played cricket as a game and to entertain the public as much as possible. The fact that he also scored vast quantities of runs while doing so just made him the best of both worlds. As great as he was in Test cricket, he is probably most beloved in England for his summer of '47 for Middlesex where he shattered record after record in the County Championship, and with Bill Edrich provided such glorious entertainment (as well as fantastic cricket) that people for the first time started to try to put the war behind them and flocked back to the cricket.
His away record is a bit of a blight it's true, certainly not helped by his series in Australia in 50/51 when he scored 53 runs at an average of 7! That tour was something of an anomaly - he certainly wasn't as successful away as at home, but he averaged nearly 42 in his other away Tests outside of that one series.
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
after pinging his troublesome knee and missing most of the English summer, to wit
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