Hurricane
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Your overall implication is that his contemporaries are better than him.And yet Ravi Shastri and co are talking about sending Indian players to county to improve their technique with one (Pujara) already there? Williamson was averaging around low to mid 30s in tests before he started playing regularly in county and now low and behold it's gone up. How anyone can argue that it didn't help improve him is beyond me.
Well I think Smith in particular is in a purple patch and will come back down to earth. Especially when people figure out to deal with him walking across his stumps. That said take what I say about him with a grain of salt as I am biased against him based on how ungainly he looks.
I do however think Kane is as talented as Darren and Steve, Virat I would have to think about. He has certain qualities such as being dashing and daring that the others don't have.