Best Clutch batsman amongst these

[Flem274*]

KW has a ton everywhere bar SA where Wagner's slogging ****blocked him. Bit of a very strong bowling era, bit of samplesizelol due to 2 test series and a bit of him becoming a lot more inconsistent as he gets older.

His away average wasn't up for discussion until 2019 or so, which is when the injuries began.

He also bats in the same era as Smith, who might just be #2 of all time. KW ain't no Smith, Sachin, Hobbs or Sobers but he and the other Fab 4 blokes are well in with the other ATGs and once they're all retired and everyone calms down/doesn't need to pursue their agendas I think history will be pretty kind to anyone who averages 45+ in the current era.

If Kane has one "technical" issue, it's that he allows people to just bowl at him if they bowl corridor early on. Australia realised this in the 2019/20 series and just bowled dry to him and other sides cottoned on. Even KWs own team mates are better at making runs from good balls than him (Daryl Mitchell, Brendon McCullum spring to mind). A pinch of Bazball would actually help him imo.

 

[Daemon]

If there’s such a thing as ability to clutch ratio I think Stokes should be up there

 

[thierry henry]

KW has a ton everywhere bar SA where Wagner's slogging ****blocked him. Bit of a very strong bowling era, bit of samplesizelol due to 2 test series and a bit of him becoming a lot more inconsistent as he gets older.

His away average wasn't up for discussion until 2019 or so, which is when the injuries began.

He also bats in the same era as Smith, who might just be #2 of all time. KW ain't no Smith, Sachin, Hobbs or Sobers but he and the other Fab 4 blokes are well in with the other ATGs and once they're all retired and everyone calms down/doesn't need to pursue their agendas I think history will be pretty kind to anyone who averages 45+ in the current era.

If Kane has one "technical" issue, it's that he allows people to just bowl at him if they bowl corridor early on. Australia realised this in the 2019/20 series and just bowled dry to him and other sides cottoned on. Even KWs own team mates are better at making runs from good balls than him (Daryl Mitchell, Brendon McCullum spring to mind). A pinch of Bazball would actually help him imo.

Yeah and I’m not bagging Kane of course, but I think his away record and particularly away record against good fast bowling is not a strong point and at a level where it’s valid to point out

Kane is pretty much my platonic ideal of a batsman because his approach to good fast bowling/seaming conditions is to try to defend as immaculately as possible. There’s no doubt though that this can manifest as basically waiting until he’s good enough to nick one. He’s unusually prone for an elite batsman to getting 5(40) in tricky conditions.

 

[thierry henry]

I’m not sure it’s actually specifically an away thing, more a ‘favourable seam bowling conditions’ thing. But yeah, what a shocker that he does worse against good bowling in good bowling conditions + sorry for derailing