The Indian and SL sides will be nowhere near New Zealand.
BS. You only match us on one of those match-ups.
Lol, even twisting things that way, they're still ahead and strangely you've ignored Lillee.
Not even close. Most of those matchups are clear Aus victories.
See, I'd question this. If you look at the last 5 years of McCullum's career, after he stopped floating around the order and became an opener for real, he averages 34 at a strike rate of 110. That's not clearly worse than Gilchrist's 36 at 97. Many batsmen would trade their average going down by 2 runs for their strike rate to go up by 13.
"Not as good as" != "stand up well to"
A 1996-2007 career vs. 2002-2015 is not apples.
Yes, comparing Mccullum's best period with Gilchrist's entire career is very fair.
Lel, barely averages 30 even without the gloves, also Gilly never memed us out of a WC win.
Yup, the temptation of the tweak.
Fair to use that period as McCullum had never settled into one place in the batting order until then. He'd batted all over the place.
Fair point, just don't think it makes a huge difference. Zaheer Abbas averaged 47 well before either of those two guys.
Not a huge difference, but not to be ignored. McCullum's era, a batting SR of 5.04 to Gilly's 4.79 (about 5%)
Cairns and Vettori are a spot too high surely? Bevan, Symonds and/or Jones in please.
Bwahaha, wtf?!
Heh, I think it's because of Vettori's batting, but yeah
