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Unpopular Cricket Opinions
- Thread starter Coronis
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sayon basak
International 12th Man
And at present the greatest test spinners are off spinners.
(Like really, I could argue that some off spinners have more variations than typical leggies)
sayon basak
International 12th Man
Us man, us.
Kenneth Viljoen
International Regular
Keepers who can bat at a high level are more valuable than specialist keepers.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not an unpopular opinion at all, especially when it comes actual team selections.
CodeOfWisden
U19 Cricketer
The teams agree with you, this a popular opinion for every one apart from a few Alan Knott fans.
capt_Luffy
International Captain
Nah, Gilchrist is the perfect #7
Johan
First Class Debutant
Maybe Knott can be number 2 then? Knott averages 41 at 7 in horrible home conditions, that's more than fine for a keeper bat to me.
CodeOfWisden
U19 Cricketer
Jadeja is the perfect number 7.
CodeOfWisden
U19 Cricketer
That's not how it works, can you post links of cricket matches here which he won for his team with his batting.
Let's see how many impactful knocks he has.
capt_Luffy
International Captain
His overall record just isn't there for me (don't think only looking at his numbers at 7 makes sense). Watling, Dhoni, de Kock, Lindsay, Prior all better at 7.
Kenneth Viljoen
International Regular
I believe keeper batsmen who score runs are stereotyped into being bad keepers , in the England vs Pakistan thread there was a poster questioning Rizwan's place in the Pak team which is crazy to me.
CodeOfWisden
U19 Cricketer
Agreed, just like how ugly movie stars are by default considered as good actors.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Or the smear campaign on Andy Flower.
You would think he was Kakmal levels bad as a keeper based on a couple of posters here in CW and yet I have seen so much of his career and hardly recall anything about his keeping, which is usually a good thing.
Jadeja and Ashwin both have too patchy a record away from Asia to be considered ATGs.
I don't know if that's too controversial because he was insanely good in his peak, although Tendulkar's greatest days were probably a bit early for me.
TheJediBrah
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I don't see this at all. Never seen Gilchrist, Dhoni or Sangakkara called bad keepers just because they could bat exceptionally well
CricAddict
Cricketer Of The Year
Ravindra Jadeja is an ATG all-rounder belonging in the same category to the likes of Imran, Hadlee, Botham and Kallis.