Sehwag - Best Batsman In World Cricket Right Now

[wfdu_ben91]

Hahahaha now we are discussing positions. There isn't THAT big of a difference between positions 1 to 4 but there is THAT big of a difference between positions 4-6 I've heard that a drowning man clutches at a snake but this is the first time I am hearing of one clutching at his bottom

Please quantify "THAT" for everyone. Thanks.

You're the one who brought it up and kept trying to throw it in my face because I brought it up in another thread. Now you're trying to mock whatever I say because you've been proven wrong on every account. Nice touch. I mean you can't even comprehend what I was saying. I was discussing the difference between 1-4 and 1-6 and then you start bringing up 4-6. But yeah, whatever...

 

[Avada Kedavra]

You're the one who brought it up and kept trying to throw it in my face because I brought it up in another thread. Now you're trying to mock whatever I say because you've been proven wrong on every account. Nice touch. I mean you can't even comprehend what I was saying. I was discussing the difference between 1-4 and 1-6 and then you start bringing up 4-6. But yeah, whatever...

Good lord! Are you simple? If you are saying there is a difference between 1-4 and 1-6, then there is no difference between 4-6? Keep crapping and live in your delusional world where KP is better than Bradman.

 

[Avada Kedavra]

And you still haven't quantified THAT. Oh you can't? Alright then.

 

[wfdu_ben91]

Because I'm talking about going from position number 4 in the order to Opening and position number 6 in the order to Opening. I was never talking about going from 6 to 4. Obviously.

 

[Avada Kedavra]

Because I'm talking about going from position number 4 in the order to Opening and position number 6 in the order to Opening. I was never talking about going from 6 to 4. Obviously.

I am not talking about going from 6 to 4.You claim that there isn't as much difference between 1 and 4 as there is between 1 and 6. Clearly that means batting at 4 must be different from batting at 6? Or is it just that your not making sense as usual?

 

[wfdu_ben91]

I am not talking about going from 6 to 4.You claim that there isn't as much difference between 1 and 4 as there is between 1 and 6. Clearly that means batting at 4 must be different from batting at 6? Or is it just that your not making sense as usual?

Going from 3 to Open - Not much of a difference
Going from 4 to Open - Slight difference
Going from 5 to Open - Fair difference
Going from 6 to Open - Big difference

 

[Ikki]

I kinda agree with Ben here. Pietersen averaging 50+ (is it?) in 10 tests with Warne and McGrath in the attack is a very impressive feat. It's kinda like doing that against the WIndies pace attack in the 80s. Very rare and hard to do.

 

[R_D]

I kinda agree with Ben here. Pietersen averaging 50+ (is it?) in 10 tests with Warne and McGrath in the attack is a very impressive feat. It's kinda like doing that against the WIndies pace attack in the 80s. Very rare and hard to do.

Good on you for actually reading that dribble..... i stopped few pages ago...

Currently Sehwag is certianly in top 3 if not the number 1 batsman right now. His scores have been amazing... i do hope he scores in South Africa to shut his doubters

 

[Avada Kedavra]

Impressive no doubt. 8 tests not 10 btw...However think Saeed Anwar also averaged 50+ against M-W. That alone doesn't make him great. Overall record is more important AFAIC.

As for the best bat today,it is Sehwag.

 

[Ikki]

Good on you for actually reading that dribble..... i stopped few pages ago...

I wouldn't call it reading...more like skimming .

Currently Sehwag is certianly in top 3 if not the number 1 batsman right now. His scores have been amazing... i do hope he scores in South Africa to shut his doubters

Pretty hard argument to say anyone is better than him at the moment. I'm just glad people have come to appreciate him more.

Impressive no doubt. 8 tests not 10 btw...However think Saeed Anwar also averaged 50+ against M-W. That alone doesn't make him great. Overall record is more important AFAIC.

As for the best bat today,it is Sehwag.

But as Ben has said, it's not like Pietersen did well against them and averages 38 overall. He is averaging almost 50 and has a pretty good all-round record and did something not even all-time greats have done, in doing so well against one of the greatest attacks of all time.

 

[silentstriker]

Oh man, I hate CC so much sometimes.

 

[Avada Kedavra]

But as Ben has said, it's not like Pietersen did well against them and averages 38 overall. He is averaging almost 50 and has a pretty good all-round record and did something not even all-time greats have done, in doing so well against one of the greatest attacks of all time.

He averages 48 overall not all that different from Anwar who averaged 45 overall and averaged 50 against M-W too.If Pietersen manages to improve his subcontinent record and in places like SA, then he can be classified as an all time great. Until then he won't be much better or worse than the likes of Sehwag, Sangakkara, VVS, Jayawardene etc

 

[The Sean]

Oh man, I hate CC so much sometimes.

This.

Someone please, please think of the ****ing children.

 

[silentstriker]

Gilly did the same thing at his peak, why isn't he mentioned in the same breathe as Tendulkar, Ponting and co for his batting alone?

He is universally considered to be the best #7 and the best wicketkeeper-batsman of all time.....what more do you want more from people?

And we're talking about right now, who is the best in form and the best in the world.

Jesus, not every thread is an attack on your pet favorite player. Anyway, hard to argue against average of 70 with an S/R of 101.

 

[Migara]

Yeah, and facing the new ball is the best time to bat in the subcontinent, so that when the spinners come on (which is the challenge), he already has his eye in. Hence why Sehwag's record outside the subcontinent is more realistic.

Facing spin is the best time to bat outside subcontinent, so the challenge from faster men is over. But in SC playing spin needs getting your eye in. Hence why KPs record in SC is more realistic

 

[asty80]

I guess we can term India's rise to no.1 as below:
With advent of Tendulkar, we could salvage some pride..
With Dravid, we became competitive (also Ganguly & Laxman shd share credit)
But with Sehwag, India has become the force it is..
He has the same scary effect on opposition as a tearaway fast bowler has..

 

[Richard]

Oh man, I hate CC so much sometimes.

This.

Someone please, please think of the ****ing children.

Don't blame the forum for the inadequacies of a tiny handful of posters.

As bad as saying "Australia is racist" because of the fact that a shamelss vocal minority of Australians are.

 

[Pothas]

Don't blame the forum for the inadequacies of a tiny handful of posters.

Yeah but that does not stop them destroying a whole number of threads, this one is now a write off.

 

[Pratters]

Good on you for actually reading that dribble..... i stopped few pages ago...

It's absolutely unreadable and furthers claims that Avada Kedavra = Sir Alex = Precam.

 

[popepouri]

IMO, A genius on flat and spinning tracks. Poor to mediocre on green/greenish pitches.