Meet the ICC Hall of Famers: Sunil Gavaskar

[Slifer]

its always been big 3 bro

No way should Sutcliffe be left out of that exalted group. For goodness sake the man's average never dipped below 60. I don't care what his approach was. He's one of the big 4 openers.

 

[ataraxia]

The Big 3 openers are Hobbs, Hutton, Grace.

Gavaskar, Richards, Sutcliffe come shortly afterwards.

 

[Burgey]

Bob Simpson is very, very unlucky not be considered in that company. Averaging 55 or so as an opener is tidy tstl.

 

[ataraxia]

Bob Simpson is very, very unlucky not be considered in that company. Averaging 55 or so as an opener is tidy tstl.

He's first pick opener for my Aus AT side, if that's any consolation.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Bob Simpson is very, very unlucky not be considered in that company. Averaging 55 or so as an opener is tidy tstl.

Simon Katich averaging 50+ as opener too, which was most of his career.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Greatest Asian Test Cricketer
Greatest Batsman After Bradman

Bradman

Gap

Gavaskar
Sobers
Sachin
Lara
Viv
Hutton
Hobbs
Pollock
Headley
Hammond

( excluding Grace, Ranji, Trumper and Barry Richards )

 

[Burgey]

This is a pretty poor take

 

[Starfighter]

By the way, did anyone mention Gavaskar's racism?

 

[h_hurricane]

Gavaskar is unarguably the greatest opening batsman in the last 6-7 decades, since Hutton retired. That is an enormous reputation to hold.

DIfficult to compare opening batsmen with middle order, btw.

 

[harsh.ag]

Sunny and Imran batting against Marshall and Hadlee

Edit: Scorecard from the game - https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...vs-rest-of-the-world-xi-399159/full-scorecard

 

[srbhkshk]

Sunny and Imran batting against Marshall and Hadlee

Edit: Scorecard from the game - https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...vs-rest-of-the-world-xi-399159/full-scorecard

Fake.

By the powers of cricinfo filters we all know Sunny's average drops to 12 when he is batting against more than 1 ATG pacemen .

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Fake.

By the powers of cricinfo filters we all know Sunny's average drops to 12 when he is batting against more than 1 ATG pacemen .

Not fake.

Marshall and Hadlee let him score because it was his last FC match. Still failed to reach 200. What a shame.

 

[Burgey]

Gavaskar is unarguably the greatest opening batsman in the last 6-7 decades, since Hutton retired. That is an enormous reputation to hold.

DIfficult to compare opening batsmen with middle order, btw.

He's not unquestionably that though. Boycott, Greenidge, Simpson to name three belong in that discussion with him. All four seem like different degrees of arsehole with it too.

 

[Daemon]

Greenidge is nowhere close, come on

 

[TheJediBrah]

If you open it up to Greenidge you open it up to a bunch of others on his level. Cook, Smith, Hayden, Langer, Kirsten, Sehwag just from recent years.

 

[Burgey]

Nah you don't, not given the era he played in etc. Those blokes aren't fit to carry his jockstrap.

 

[Burgey]

Greenidge is nowhere close, come on

Yeah I think he is. He tailed off but he was a great player.

 

[Daemon]

Yeah I think he is. He tailed off but he was a great player.

So did nearly all the other names there.

Not close, behave yourself.

 

[Burgey]

Shut up, ****head.

 

[Burgey]

BTW, that was f***head, not d***head or s***head.

An important distinction, and one I wanted you to be aware of.