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Sunil Gavaskar vs Allan Border

Who was the better test batsman?

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M

ma1978

International Debutant
Gavaskar on the merits as a batsman. But I’ve met a few times and he is a royal c@nt. To5slly fackin insufferable. And he was a poor captain.

Border was a leader of men.
 
P

PlayerComparisons

International Vice-Captain
Apparently Border threw money at starving people in India and then dumped buckets of water on them for entertainment. Didn’t realize he was that type of a person tbh.
>Sometime in 1979 in Kanpur, the Australian cricketers had come up with a plan to break their boredom. They would queue up in front of the hotel windows and throw money out on the streets. Even as people below would scramble for the money, the players would empty a bucketful of water on them. They called it “Raining Rupees”. In his 1986 book, Allan Border mentions the shenanigans from the tour: “We took to dropping rupees and watch them scramble .We would fill up all the available receptacles in the hotel room with water, drop the coins and whoosh!”
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Burgey

Burgey

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Coronis said:
Free money and a nice shower in the heat, whats to complain about?
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Precisely. Gifting alms to the poor and cooling the overheated down rather than simply thinking about himself all the time like Gavaskar.
 
N

number11

State Regular
Gavaskar edges it as a bat. Border the much more consequential cricketer. He forged the foundations of that ATG Aussie team of the mid 90s onwards.
 
H

HouHsiaoHsien

International Debutant
Very very close. Border has a more complete record(I mean one of the most complete records for any ATG bar Tendulkar) and dominated so many great bowlers(ATG Botham and Willis in 1981 Ashes, Hadlee during his 33 wicket series, Imran and Sarfaraz during their reverse swing blitzes against Aus in 78, and most of all vs Marshall, Garner and Holding in 83(as a series only behidn Amarnath in 83), and vs Holding, Garner(both in hot form) and Roberts in 81.
 
kyear2

kyear2

International Coach
Yeah, Border is likely highly underrated, and for the obvious reasons.

Think he's very slightly better than Sunny, but with the opener credit, it goes to Sunny.
 
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