Before 1987
Not counting 1987 is stupid and pointless. Take out 1976 and Viv's average plummets، might as well take out 1982 for Kapil because he only did well with the bat that year. Imran was clearly better than Hadlee with bat and let's have his bowling stats for the same period, shall we?
Kapil's batting quality remained same throughout his career except for normal decline or form outs.
Yeah so you dropped a proper batsman in the top 6 to make space for Kapil and Botham which was my point.
In other words, let us just check a period that makes Imran look worse while arbitrarily excluding the couple of years when he was still an all-rounder.
Precisely.
His bowling declined 1989 onwards. Until that point he still had better numbers than Kapil and Hadlee.
I don't mind anyone thinking Kapil was better than Imran as a batsman. Fair enough given Kapil played more explosive knocks but hey, Imran was never dropped for being reckless either. In either case, Imran and Kapil are comparable batsmen but one completely blows away the other with the ball.
Yeah, it was in response to a poster suggesting Kapil was a better allrounder than Imran by virtue of such a batting advantage. I think Imran is comfortably better with the bat, but at the very least they are near the same level, and bowling wise Imran >>> Kapil.
Only proper batsman who can replace Kapil or Botham is Sobers.. And he is far inferior in bowling.
This part of the post is flat out wrong. The rest is fine.
Not sure what you mean by "comfortably" better but the gap between the two's batting was not that big. They were different type of batters too with Imran being more defensive and Kapil more aggressive.
Jeremy Coney was no where the all rounder Imran was.
Kapil and Botham was no where impactful with the ball like Imran or Hadlee. Imran and Hadlee as bowlers alone are better players than Kapil or Botham as all rounders.
No. They were good bowlers and good batsman. Imran and Hadlee are ATG bowlers + useful bats.
