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DoG's Top 100 Test Batsmen Countdown Thread
- Thread starter Days of Grace
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_00_deathscar
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Leaving Warne out of a team facing India is generally a better way to win a test so...
_00_deathscar
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Don’t think Dravid > Waugh at all.
Am I overrating Waugh? Along with Sachin and Lara he was the best bat of the 90s.
Am I overrating Waugh? Along with Sachin and Lara he was the best bat of the 90s.
OverratedSanity
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I'd rate Waugh marginally higher than Dravid but it's definitely not crazy to have dravid a bit higher imo. Best player of the moving ball I've ever seen.
honestbharani
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Was a great catch by Akash Chopra though, if I recall correctly.
Also,, a nice lil personal anecdote... I had just got down the stairs from my house to catch the bus for college when my cousins came running out to tell Ponting was dismiissed. Cue a sick call to college and one of the greatest days of cricket watching in my life.
Ah memories. I was living in New York at the time of the Adelaide test. I ditched a dinner with my girlfriend (now wife) to go to the one bar showing the cricket (an Aussie bar, Eight Mile Creek) and watch the second innings. Until Dravid was there until the end, I was convinced India would collapse, such was my trauma from being a 1990s India fan.
ataraxia
International Coach
Actually, I wouldn't be too surprised if Gavaskar, Richards, or Lara came next as well. Expecting Weekes a top 15 place.
stephen
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No you are not over rating Waugh. He was at his best when bowling was toughest and was a huge part of the reason Australia became Australia in the 00s.
Unpopular opinion : Despite not achieving the individual peaks that Lara achieved, Steve Waugh was as good as Brian Lara in the 1990s. For me, Steve Waugh was better than Rahul Dravid. Toughest batsman I have seen along with Andy Flower in the last 25 years of cricket.
Days of Grace
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No.17
Virat Kohli (India) 832
Quality Points: 780
Career Points: 52
Career/Runs: 2011-present, 7202 (rank 74)
Overall average/Runs per innings/Strike-rate: 52.01 (54.98) 48.32 (51.08) 52.56 (57.81) (rank 14)
50 Innings Peak Average/Runs per innings/Strike-rate (2016-2018): 67.30 61.91 55.84 (rank 9)
Non-Home Average/Runs per innings/Strike-rate: 45.23 44.11 50.49 (rank 44)
Quality Opposition Average/Runs per innings/Strike-rate: 49.97 46.71 52.77 (rank 21)
Virat Kohli finished 2019 as the no.1 ranked test batsman in the world according to the ICC ratings and he is currently placed at no.17 in this analysis. There can be little doubt that Kohli is at or near his peak as a test batsman after having a somewhat checkered beginning, averaging 39.00 (39.89) in his first 50 innings. He has since answered a lot of questions about his ability, having scored a mountain of runs in England in 2018 and being instrumental to India's first series win in Australia. He is confrontational, confident and captivating in a way that none of his great Indian batting predecessors were and that may hinder some people from truly accepting him as the real deal. The next few years will be telling and will dictate where Kohli is finally placed in the reckoning of great test batsmen. He currently is very much in the conversation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4OlMqUi0P4
Virat Kohli (India) 832
Quality Points: 780
Career Points: 52
Career/Runs: 2011-present, 7202 (rank 74)
Overall average/Runs per innings/Strike-rate: 52.01 (54.98) 48.32 (51.08) 52.56 (57.81) (rank 14)
50 Innings Peak Average/Runs per innings/Strike-rate (2016-2018): 67.30 61.91 55.84 (rank 9)
Non-Home Average/Runs per innings/Strike-rate: 45.23 44.11 50.49 (rank 44)
Quality Opposition Average/Runs per innings/Strike-rate: 49.97 46.71 52.77 (rank 21)
Virat Kohli finished 2019 as the no.1 ranked test batsman in the world according to the ICC ratings and he is currently placed at no.17 in this analysis. There can be little doubt that Kohli is at or near his peak as a test batsman after having a somewhat checkered beginning, averaging 39.00 (39.89) in his first 50 innings. He has since answered a lot of questions about his ability, having scored a mountain of runs in England in 2018 and being instrumental to India's first series win in Australia. He is confrontational, confident and captivating in a way that none of his great Indian batting predecessors were and that may hinder some people from truly accepting him as the real deal. The next few years will be telling and will dictate where Kohli is finally placed in the reckoning of great test batsmen. He currently is very much in the conversation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4OlMqUi0P4
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Slifer
International Captain
He was as good as both Lara and Tendulkar afaic. Waugh's performances vs Pakistan, South Africa and West Indies usurp most anything Lara and Sachin did vs the above teams (with their atg attacks).
OverratedSanity
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Tendulkar's performance against peak Steyn in 2010 both home and away are above anything I've seen from almost any batsman.
Prince EWS
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Having a good average in Asia despite a blip against a comparatively weaker side actually makes me think more of him than I did before this post tbh.
Burgey
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You need to take off the rose coloured glasses and watch more
sunilz
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Aus lost that series against weaker side in 99.
Burgey
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What series?
sunilz
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Aus lost to SL in SL in 99