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Who is closer in terms of cricketer status, Lara & Tendulkar or Warne & Murali?
- Thread starter subshakerz
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subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
The batsmen are better friends and far more decent to each other, so they will win easily.
Coronis
International Coach
Plus you know, they’re both alive.
Athlai
Not Terrible
It's batsman + bowler vs batsman + bowler ffs
shortpitched713
International Captain
Who pairs with who? ?
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Lara/Murali and Tendulkar/Ashwin
Red
The normal awards that everyone else has
That’s fine. I was just responding to a comment about mastering respective crafts, and imo bowling leg spin as Warne did is the most difficult craft in cricket.
Red
The normal awards that everyone else has
Everything in elite cricket would be ridiculously difficult. I have enough trouble playing local second or third grade. What’s your point?
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
Red
The normal awards that everyone else has
Point is what I was responding to.
Point could also be that people who master more difficult skills at elite level are greater than ones who master less difficult ones.
shortpitched713
International Captain
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
There are several different 'points' here.
Red replied to this from you:
in terms of mastery of their individual batting and bowling crafts, respectively.
So while I agree that his point/reply didn't really matter as to who was better, it was totally relevant to your post. He then got attacked for it not actually mattering when if anything you should've been attacked for bringing up the shithouse metric in the first place, and then you piled on by saying you disagreed with his opinion on the shithouse metric even after everyone had kind of just let the substance of it go already (due to the shithouseness).
Have I said shithouse enough yet?
Shithouse.
Coronis
International Coach
shortpitched713
International Captain
Well it might have been a good idea to at least offer the charity of understanding my opinion before disparaging it as being hardly one.
Ultimately I don't even agree with the harder bit anyway. Sure, leg spin is harder to pick up than off spin at the school grade level, when they're first learning it, because it's more difficult to control, everyone knows that. But it doesn't remain more difficult at the Test level. Honestly it's a bit asinine in my mind to think that such a thing applies to differentiate the greatest player's of all time, as if our perceived challenges with a bowling style are even considerations at the level of the greatest ever masters.
Ultimately I don't even agree with the harder bit anyway. Sure, leg spin is harder to pick up than off spin at the school grade level, when they're first learning it, because it's more difficult to control, everyone knows that. But it doesn't remain more difficult at the Test level. Honestly it's a bit asinine in my mind to think that such a thing applies to differentiate the greatest player's of all time, as if our perceived challenges with a bowling style are even considerations at the level of the greatest ever masters.
GoodAreasShane
Cricketer Of The Year
It is relatively easy to bowl legspin... badly
Actually being vaguely competent a different story entirely
Actually being vaguely competent a different story entirely