smash84
The Tiger King
True. He was much better than Imran and Botham in the ODI format I believe.
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The ICC's All time ODI dream XI
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honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Kaps fielding has gotta play a part in his rating too.. And his fitness.. Hey, if Anderson > Zak coz he can stay fit, what about Kaps, who just about never missed games due to injuries?
Migara
International Coach
Gilly to partner Tendulkar, and get Dhoni or Bevan in there.
Teja.
Global Moderator
Yeah, Speaking for all forms of kallisball, Kapil's awesomeness lies in the fact that he played for a ridiculous amount of years without any significant dip in performance and without missing matches due to injury to a level more effective kallisballers couldn't dream of and also stepping it up and having some beyond-ATG series' with the ball when his team needed it against very strong opposition.
The fitness factor doesn't really come into play, unless in freak cases such as Bond and Asif, while making an ATXI, for me.
The fitness factor doesn't really come into play, unless in freak cases such as Bond and Asif, while making an ATXI, for me.
Cevno
Hall of Fame Member
Cevno
Hall of Fame Member
He did not have any support too .
Had to bowl with ordinary bowlers at the other end,throughout his career on Indian pitches too which favoured the spinners big time.
Once i think he opened the bowling with Gavaskar at the other end.
Was quite a good batsmen too and came up with several crucial innings for India.
Not discounting him being a WC winning captain.
Cevno
Hall of Fame Member
With that batting though i think both pollock and kapil can play at 7 and 8.
He has a very strong case of inclusion over pollock too,tbf in ODI's.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
In a country's ODI team, that'd be fine. I don't think a Kapil-Pollock combination is good enough for #7/8 in an all-time world ODI team though, personally. I also wouldn't ever dream of picking him over Pollock; I think Pollock's arguably the greatest ODI player of all time (I'd probably take Richards over him after careful thought, but that'd be it).
As I said, not a joke pick, but I'm not picking him.
Cevno
Hall of Fame Member
Teja.
Global Moderator
Only UC and me now I think now that PEWS has gone over to the dark side.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
I think he's in contention. I think Richards probably does shade him though. Richards and Pollock are definitely the first two names in my eleven.
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Teja.
Global Moderator
Yeah, AWTA.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Fair call.
Next time you reply to one of my posts I'll remind you that we disagree on almost everything and that you needn't have bothered.
MrIncredible
U19 Cricketer
Perfect Team Maybe a Pollock or Klusener for Imran
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Renegade
Cricket Spectator
I have to agree, he would rather love to play against and try to beat that team.