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Is Ponting closer to Lara or Dravid?

Who is Ricky Ponting closer to in quality as a test batsman?

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capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

Cricketer Of The Year
kyear2 said:
This will go nowhere because we will just disagree on this as well. But his performances in WSC were superb (and carries more weight for me than the tests that were being played concurrently), added to that, in tests he played in much more difficult hone conditions. Sunny's away record, and some of his best performances featured some below average opposition.

Also speaking to players from the era he was more consistent and more comfortable vs pace.

For me he's not in the same tier of the "Gods" as Bradman, Tendulkar, Sobers, Richards, Lara, Smith, (Richards*) who not only had the stats, but the ability to and often turned a match on its head in a session, and in all conditions.

I think he was comparable to Border, who again had rougher home conditions and on average faced tougher completion.

This isn't a slight, at worst I rate him along with Chappell and Hammond and just ahead of Headley and Ponting.
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Yeah, no. Chappell's away record is Verryyyyy underwhelming. Was just alright in England, cashed in pre Hadlee NZ and boosted his pockets in Pakistan by a double ton in a road in Imran's absence. Was great is WSC, but that's basically equivalent of two great series. Honestly don't think it's really admissible.

(Thanks @OverratedSanity )
 
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Arachnodouche

International Captain
Ponting was right up there with Tendulkar and Lara before all these "muh statz" pretenders entered the picture. Way I see it, you have to have had a touch of genius and wunderkind and then reaffirmed that early promise throughout your career to be a real great. None of this sedate, work-hard-and-pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps nonsense. As an opponent if you were staying up all night contemplating the destruction that the likes of Kallis, Dravid, and Sangakkara (lol) were going to visit on you, then you needed better strategy, a better shrink, and preferably an altogether different career.
 
kyear2

kyear2

International Coach
Arachnodouche said:
Ponting was right up there with Tendulkar and Lara before all these "muh statz" pretenders entered the picture. Way I see it, you have to have had a touch of genius and wunderkind and then reaffirmed that early promise throughout your career to be a real great. None of this sedate, work-hard-and-pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps nonsense. As an opponent if you were staying up all night contemplating the destruction that the likes of Kallis, Dravid, and Sangakkara (lol) were going to visit on you, then you needed better strategy, a better shrink, and preferably an altogether different career.
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Exactly.
 
centurymaker

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
Migara

Migara

International Coach
kyear2 said:
There's the tier of the Gods

Bradman, Tendulkar, Sobers, Richards, Hobbs, Smith, Lara, Hutton (Richards)

Then for me

Chappell, Gavaskar, Ponting, Kallis, Hammond, Headley, Border, Pollock

Then there's the tier with

Dravid, Sangakkara, Sutcliffe, Waugh, Root Weekes, Smith etc etc

So the shortest answer is right in the middle 🤷🏽‍♂️

If I had to choose, and going on quality as the poll specifies, closer to BCL and co.
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There is no way Sangakkara and Kallis, Border are in two separate tiers.
 
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