Wasim Akram vs Joel Garner

[PlayerComparisons]

Akram the better bowler
Garner the better batsman

 

[shortpitched713]

Has there ever been a more underrated bowler than Joel Garner?

In the spring of 1982, BTV introduced a new show called Cricket on TV. It was mostly highlights of the ODI matches played in…

www.theroar.com.au

This man knows what's up. Even has a section for Garner the batsman.

 

[kyear2]

Has there ever been a more underrated bowler than Joel Garner?

In the spring of 1982, BTV introduced a new show called Cricket on TV. It was mostly highlights of the ODI matches played in…

www.theroar.com.au

This man knows what's up. Even has a section for Garner the batsman.

Nice article, can't imagine what it would have been like to have to face that pace attack.

 

[BazBall21]

Nice article, can't imagine what it would have been like to have to face that pace attack.

Nightmare

 

[Migara]

If you think Ambrose is unproven in Asia then Lillee is even more unproven.

And if you consider performance against the best team of the era, Imran pips all of them..

 

[kyear2]

And if you consider performance against the best team of the era, Imran pips all of them..

Trying to figure out how that's relevant to the discussion tbh.

 

[Migara]

Trying to figure out how that's relevant to the discussion tbh.

That is the whole issue. You add filters of your own, but not accept others.

Steyn and Ambrose regarded higher because they did well against best sides of their times. Imran did the same, but suddenly it does not count.

Secondly if number of wickets and WPM are applied as filters, so should be the conditions they have been achieved in. If Garner is marked down for <300 wickets and low WPM, Lillee should be for appalling / absent record ion sub continent / best side of the era.

 

[kyear2]

That is the whole issue. You add filters of your own, but not accept others.

Steyn and Ambrose regarded higher because they did well against best sides of their times. Imran did the same, but suddenly it does not count.

Secondly if number of wickets and WPM are applied as filters, so should be the conditions they have been achieved in. If Garner is marked down for <300 wickets and low WPM, Lillee should be for appalling / absent record ion sub continent / best side of the era.

I mean that no one was even discussing him, like at all.

 

[ataraxia]

It's Imran imo.