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S Waugh Vs Wasim
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sayon basak
International Debutant
Wasim because of his batting.
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PlayerComparisons
International Vice-Captain
Wasim on bowling alone
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State Vice-Captain
Akram. Best left handed bowler ever.
sayon basak
International Debutant
kyear2
International Coach
Close enough, and you're forgetting about Kallis's bowling and the fact that he's a elite tier ATG slip fielder.
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
People are deluding themselves if they think that Kallis is a better bat.
Steve Waugh has arguably the greatest batting peak ever outside of Viv.
Bradman, Smith, Ponting, Kohli to name a few with better peaks than Waugh
Fine batsman Waugh and lot of good arguments why he’s better than Kallis but peak isn’t the argument
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
Nope.
Steve Waugh averaged nearly 75 between 94 to 97. During that time, he faced Wasim, Waqar, Ambrose, Walsh, Donald and Pollock, all near their peak, in multiple series home and away. Nobody in history averaged so much while facing such quality pace likely.
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Coronis
International Coach
Nah Kallis is a better bat. Waugh was a better captain though.
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
Waugh should have binged on minnows more to get a couple more points to his average and be considered in your eyes.
Like, I literally don't know what in Waugh's record gets him behind, except for batting at no.5/6 which is a fair point.
kyear2
International Coach
What?
It was quite a peak but I’m sure there are others comparable or better like Ponting or Smith,Nope.
Steve Waugh averaged nearly 75 between 94 to 97. During that time, he faced Wasim, Waqar, Ambrose, Walsh, Donald and Pollock, all near their peak, in multiple series home and away. Nobody in history averaged so much while facing such quality pace likely.
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@kyear2
I was pretty young at the time, but I still remember in the mid 90s S.Waugh was always mentioned alongside or just after Lara and Tendulkar whenever a discussion around current number 1 bat came up.Nope.
Steve Waugh averaged nearly 75 between 94 to 97. During that time, he faced Wasim, Waqar, Ambrose, Walsh, Donald and Pollock, all near their peak, in multiple series home and away. Nobody in history averaged so much while facing such quality pace likely.
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@kyear2
Those stats are wild though. Not just the 75 batting average, but he averaged 103 batting in the 1st innings of a game and only 17 in the 4th. His part time bowling averaged under 20 too!
kyear2
International Coach
There was a time, when he was the clear no 3 to those guys and had real buzz around him that he may have merited being in that tier.
Think that was around the same time he switched to MRF bats if I recall correctly. Think all 3 of them had them.
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
What do you think of those peak numbers?
kyear2
International Coach
Not a fan of Waugh, just have never been. Call me biased, but any cricketer that has to eliminate shots to succeed, it's just a slight down grade for me.
This will get me skewered, but that's my opinion.