There's hardly a batsman out there who has no ability to accelerate though. Many defensive batsmen have made big double tons and more in winning sides, and defensive players are extremely valuable as anchors - Dravid, Kallis, Barrington, Border, Waugh etc. all in that mould.
Then we will sim games? Sounds good either way.
Marshall played 81 tests and lost 9, 5 of which were after 1990 when he was past his best ans no longer opening the bowling. In his prime from 1981 - 1988 he lost 3 matches, thats not him and Holding and Garner, thats just him. In 52 matches Bradman, with an equally giod or better surrounding cast, lost 10 and this was facing only one "great" fast bowler in Larwood. Marshall hardly played with Holding if at all at his absolute best, and definately not Ambrose. Yes give them a good track and they would run through anyone.
Thats the plan if we can get some one to do it after the A.T 11 sims are finished.
the problem is his record in countries. in india, in saf, in england, in the windies, his record is poor.
Yeah loves bashing people around in his own backyard but is a little less deadly away from home.
There's a guy who scored four and a half thousand test runs, average of 60, 150 first class centuries, once put on an opening stand of 555 for Yorkshire. Quite handy with the bat was H Sutcliffe. And yet he doesn't make the above list of 20 top batsmen, and wasn't picked in the "consensus" England side. I don't know what it is with this forum. If picking an all-time England side I put down Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hutton, Hammond at 1-4, and then start wondering who the other seven players should be....
I think that not including Sutcliffe in that 'next level' list is a genuine oversight, not deliberate.
