Hobbs or Hutton?

[Chrish]

Greg Chappell is at least as good as Gavaskar imo

I am never a fan of comparing openers with other batting positions. It’s a highly specialized position and shouldn’t be compared with anyone down the order.

 

[Johan]

Don't understand why People are Discussing Gavaskar in a Hutton vs Hobbs thread , as Sunil Gavaskar is pretty clearly inferior to either Hobbs or Hutton , but between Hutton and Hobbs , I feel like Hutton faced superior bowling ( only 2 players from 1910 to 1930s have more then 100 wickets , both English ) while Hutton faced Miller/Davidson/Lindwall/Benaud/Tayfield/Fazal/Gupte e.t.c. , there avarages are almost equal but hutton was more likely to have reached the 10,000 run barrier if not for world war II. I feel like Hutton is the Greatest Test opener of all time , Hobbs the most revolutionary batsmen in post WG Grace era. as a pure batsmen , Hutton makes my team more times but if its a bad tricky pitch or a wet one , Hobbs is the one I'll go with , its close but Hutton 6/10.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Don't understand why People are Discussing Gavaskar in a Hutton vs Hobbs thread , as Gavaskar is pretty clearly inferior to either Hobbs or Hutton , but between Hutton and Hobbs , I feel like Hutton faced superior bowling ( only 2 players from 1910 to 1930s have more then 100 wickets , both English ) while Hutton faced Miller/Davidson/Lindwall/Benaud/Tayfield/Fazal/Gupte e.t.c. , there avarages are almost equal but hutton was more likely to have reached the 10,000 run barrier if not for world war II. I feel like Hutton is the Greatest Test opener of all time , Hobbs the most revolutionary batsmen in post WG Grace era. as a pure batsmen , Hutton makes my team more times but if its a bad tricky pitch or a wet one , Hobbs is the one I'll go with , its close but Hutton 6/10.

You are mistaken... Its Sunil Gavaskar.. Not Rohan.

 

[Johan]

You are mistaken... Its Sunil Gavaskar.. Not Rohan.

No friend , you are mistaken , read again

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

No friend , you are mistaken , read again

No thanks..Its pretty clear.

 

[Johan]

No thanks..Its pretty clear.

yes , its pretty clear you're mistakened.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

yes , its pretty clear you're mistakened.

Its not my mistake, Because you used " pretty clear " where it is not pretty clear.

 

[Johan]

Its not my mistake, Because you used " pretty clear " where it is not pretty clear.

I said pretty clearly tho

 

[Line and Length]

@Johan Thanks for putting the thread back on topic. It's frustrating when someone continually takes the thread off topic by airing their views on another player. I made the mistake of engaging them in a debate of sorts but now realise it is best to ignore them.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Don't understand why People are Discussing Gavaskar in a Hutton vs Hobbs thread

Welcome to CricketWeb

 

[_00_deathscar]

As Sunil Gavaskar is pretty clearly inferior to either Hobbs or Hutton

No

 

[h_hurricane]

@Johan Thanks for putting the thread back on topic. It's frustrating when someone continually takes the thread off topic by airing their views on another player. I made the mistake of engaging them in a debate of sorts but now realise it is best to ignore them.

With due respect, you would have realized Danza Hyatt is in the thread as well. Yet made no attempt to acknowledge this great player.

 

[Line and Length]

With due respect, you would have realized Danza Hyatt is in the thread as well. Yet made no attempt to acknowledge this great player.

I was awaiting his much deserved Test debut before passing comment.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Danza Hyatt would have to pass the yo-yo test first.

He's a heavy boy.

I was expecting Tamar Lambert to make his Test debut before Danza.

 

[Johan]

Hutton still better ofc

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

Hobbs because of his dominance pre war and domination across some of the greatest extremities across conditions. Amazing longevity(in terms of years too)

 

[Pant Kameez]

Very similar batsmen, English openers and prolific run-scorers in fairly tough conditions. Who's the better/greater/whatever you wanna call it?

Is this meant to be sarcastic?

 

[ataraxia]

Is this meant to be sarcastic?

Presumably I meant their similarity is in their place in cricket history (i.e. the rest of the sentence).

 

[Pant Kameez]

Presumably I meant their similarity is in their place in cricket history (i.e. the rest of the sentence).

Debatable. Hobbs is closer to Bradman than he is to Hutton

 

[Coronis]

Debatable. Hobbs is closer to Bradman than he is to Hutton

My ass. Hobbs is about as close to Bradman as he is to Steyn.