Jayasuriya v Ponting in odi as cricketers

[Ramcambrien]

Who is greater odi player?Jayasuriya is better in my paper.

 

[smash84]

Who is greater odi player?Jayasuriya is better in my paper.

Which paper are you reading????

 

[Blaze 18]

 

[akilana]

Lot of posters are in good form today

 

[Kazaholeec]

Asinine thread.SJs average is 32 compared to Ricks 45 odd.Ricky has 3 WCs to his name to SJs 1 and captained in 2 of them.Much better fielder also.No contest tbh.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Which paper are you reading????

News Of The World

 

[TT Boy]

Jaya was the better ODI cricketer. Average wasn’t great but the SR was, particularly when Jaya was going at 90+ in an era where most international openers were struggling to go above 70. Chuck in 300+ wickets also and you have a ODI great. Strange versus thread mind...

 

[Maximus0723]

Yea it's Jayasuriya for me as well.

 

[Burgey]

Jayasuriya as an overall player, Ponting as a batsman.

 

[smash84]

If you include Ponting's captaincy it becomes very close I reckon

 

[Julian87]

Ponting comfortably when you consider the fielding and captaincy. The batting is a no contest.

Yeah Jaya took a lot of wickets but I don't think his bowling was strong enough to tip the scale.

 

[robelinda]

Dont forget Ponting's quite insane fielding, he must have run out more batsmen with direct hits then anyone in the history of cricket, amazing accuracy.

 

[akilana]

Jayasurya was a good fielder too

 

[Mike5181]

Both great players. Personally if i were to choose either Jayasuria or Ponting it would be the latter. You could build a whole team around this guy and he could lead it.

 

[smash84]

Jayasuriya's fielding was good too which is why i only included Ponting's captaincy in the equation.

 

[akilana]

Jayasuriya's fielding was good too which is why i only included Ponting's captaincy in the equation.

Jayasurya was a captain too

 

[smash84]

Jayasurya was a captain too

yeah but his captaincy left a lot to be desired and there is a marked difference in their captaincy and not in their fielding IMO

 

[Burgey]

Jayasurya was a good fielder too

He was good, but you're not comparing him as a fielder to Ponting are you? Seriously?

 

[vcs]

Both great players. Personally if i were to choose either Jayasuria or Ponting it would be the latter. You could build a whole team around this guy and he could lead it.

This.. pretty close, but Ponting for me. Top 5 ODI batsman of all time, and one of the best ODI captains and fielders of all time. Both top 10 ODI cricketers of all time IMO.

 

[ankitj]

Asinine thread.SJs average is 32 compared to Ricks 45 odd.Ricky has 3 WCs to his name to SJs 1 and captained in 2 of them.Much better fielder also.No contest tbh.

How did this bloke get banned after just one post?