Jardine?? I know he was an ATG captain, but wouldn't be in the top 30 England batsmen. I don't even think he'd be in the top 50.
Bit of an overexaggeration imo.
Averaged 31 against Australia in an easy batting era.
I'm pretty sure he has his top 100 English bats done already.
Should this sound familiar? Why does this sound familiar?
do you start after the second world war.
Something like that.
For all FC and Test games (Test precedence ofcourse):
Nah - doesn’t bat deep. Only real advantage is pace bowling and that’s not huge. Batting for India is a decent amount better and India bats down to 9
The bowling gap is pretty huge, and you can always have someone come in for one of the four pacers (Statham probably), like Dexter for 6 and then you'd have batting down to 8 via Knott.
Nah. England has a very clear advantage there, and clearly ahead, but nothing huge really.
I won't really do the comparision that way, I prefer to do Batsmen comparision pretty much correspondingly to their position, so for me it's like
For me, Gavaskar and Hutton are also around equal and would use >> for SRT and Root, but get the idea. The thing is, the difference between the two teams batting is more than a specialist Great batsman. I think it's a really significant difference, which only becomes around equal (not even England gets the advantage) on doing something like taking Dexter. Now, what I don't agree with is Trueman - Anderson - Botham being much more potent than Bumrah - Dev - Shami. Especially since even the two ATG English pacers were only truly top class at home and relatively struggled away. Among the pacers here, the best in Australia and WI are actually Bumrah and Dev!!!
I don't really think the gap between the two sides is of an ATG specialist bat because I don't think Ashwin and Jadeja would be factors that can contribute hundreds of a 50+ avg combined against an ATG bowling attack, plus if it becomes a flat track I'll always get Dexter in so Jadeja would be against Knott instead of Statham. Trueman > Bumrah was a rating you yourself did, I do think Jimmy is a significant distance ahead of Kapil (I had him ahead of Waqar even if you remember) and I do think Statham is a decent bit better than Shami and Botham is entirely a bonus so the gap would be in the favour of the English side and I personally feel it's by a margin. For Windies, modern windies wickets haven't been flat like 60s ones and measurement of movement shows that Windies has pretty much been a swing bowler's heaven in recent years so I believe the English side would've an advantage in those conditions.
In recent years, WI also makes some pretty good turners, but I suffice. I think you can't just differentiate between spin and seam like that for bowling. If the ball turns, Ashwin will be shambolic. Now, what I believe from country to country, England will win pretty easily in England and NZ, India in India and Sri Lanka, with a big advantage in Pakistan, as you know, ball still turns there more than spins. If we count UAE or Bangladesh then there also, but for now let's don't. Of the remaining, I think India will have the advantage in WI, as spinners also have done great there in recent times, especially Ashwin. In South Africa, I will give the advantage to England, as I think their bowling will be there much more important, but in really bad wickets, India will have the advantage for better batting (ATG or not, Jadeja and Ashwin in comparison to tail enders are a significant boost). In Australia, I catch your meaning, and am not sure either..... But for now, will give India the slight upper hand.