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Graeme Yallop Vs Usman Khawaja

trundler

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Both average low 40s. Yallop, like Khawaja, was one of the less than half a handful test quality bats in his era and behind 1 ATG (Border). Khawaja has Smith. Warner is good too admittedly but there isn't much else. Neither gets much respect nor do they spring to mind when I think of Australian batsmen.
 
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Actually a pretty apt comparison. They're comparable in a lot of ways.
 
Prince EWS

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Yallop pretty comfortably IMO. He didn't play in an era of ridiculous home roads, and even if he actually had, he wasn't a joke away from home like Khawaja.
 
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Red Hill said:
Actually a pretty apt comparison. They're comparable in a lot of ways.
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Red Hill, a man of culture. They're both not memorable with a few incompetencies and would be nowhere near the International setup in the 90s.
 
Prince EWS

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It's a gun comparison in how similar they look at first glance despite one being clearly better than the other after you dig into the weeds a bit.

Given I'm apparently biased against 70s and 80s Australian cricketers and still think this, it's a ringing endorsement for Yallop. ;)
 
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Yeah, Yallop's away record is nothing to scoff at. Only did poorly in England whereas Khawaja only has 1 innings of note away from home and he can't really play spin at all. I was just checking out how public perception of Yallop may have changed since he doesn't get no respect (if you get it you get it).

Anyway, now that I've gathered all the bogans I have another question: would you take Law or Khawaja?
 
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trundler said:
Yeah, Yallop's away record is nothing to scoff at. Only did poorly in England whereas Khawaja only has 1 innings of note away from home and he can't really play spin at all. I was just checking out how public perception of Yallop may have changed since he doesn't get no respect (if you get it you get it).

Anyway, now that I've gathered all the bogans I have another question: would you take Law or Khawaja?
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I mean Khawaja has certainly had the more notable Test career but if you sent Law in a time machine I don't think that would've been the case. I don't think it's necessarily obvious though; it's not like Khawaja hasn't mostly smashed it in Shield cricket in an era with some juicier pitches.

We had the Love v Khawaja debate in some random thread not long ago too and I suspect you'd get the same people on the same sides of this question.
 
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GoodAreasShane

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Yallop gets a lot of criticism for his brief and unsuccessful stint as captain, that seems to unfairly colour opinions of him as a batsman. Shame really
 
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