capt_Luffy
International Captain
You pretty much loose me here. I definitely think you being 'sure' that a batsman who played in the top level for like 10 years and that included 4 Test matches, and you even haven't seen bat, to be 'definitely' better than the 4th highest run scorer ever, you are tripping. Zaheer was also a world class player of swing, actually better than spin.I'm saying that Zaheer was world class batsman against spin, he wasn't near that vs real pace, that's not a secret.
And no one brought up Sunny, just saying.
And no doubt in my mind he was a better batsman than Dravid, some though may argue for Sanga.
All I know is if I had access to a time machine and was collecting the avengers for a must win test series there's no one I'm choosing ahead of him as an opener.
And on the last para, it's really great you don't, or we will lose that series by your taking him ahead of Hobbs, Hutton, Sunny and Grace.
Overall, still no reason to be rated ahead of Victor Trumper.