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Michael Atherton vs Navjot Sidhu

Better test opener – Sidhu or Atherton

  • Atherton (not close)

    Votes: 11 64.7%

  • Atherton (close)

    Votes: 6 35.3%

  • Sidhu (close)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sidhu (not close)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    17
Johan

Johan

State Vice-Captain
kyear2 said:
He had the toughest job and experience of any test player I can think of.

Opening in England is tough enough, in the 90's just added infinite layers of difficulty.
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if you talk about Luck, not only did God give him the job of opening against classical Dukes in England in 1990s against Ambrose and McGrath, he also gave him ankylosing spondylitis so man couldn't even duck against bounces
 
Johan

Johan

State Vice-Captain
BazBall21 said:
Averaged above 40 v SA overall&overseas. Some titan efforts against them. He did well v some good Australian attacks before McGrath really got going. He had a very good tour of WI when Ambrose was in his peak and also scored heavily v an in-form Saqlain Mushtaq on the subcontinent.

He was no great player of quality bowling (too defensive v fuller lengths) and he had some very lean series towards the end but he didn't exclusively fail against it by any means. Generally clinical against relatively modest attacks on the rare occasions he got to face them too.
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Personally rate the 94 Windies and 95-96 South African tours as ATG tours, and yeah he had some good Ashes as well, 1993 and 1994 if memory holds.
 
BazBall21

BazBall21

International Captain
Johan said:
Personally rate the 94 Windies and 95-96 South African tours as ATG tours, and yeah he had some good Ashes as well, 1993 and 1994 if memory holds.
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Dunno if I'd say they were ATG tours but yeah mid 90s was his peak and the 185 in Johannesburg is easily an ATG innings.
 
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Slifer

Slifer

International Captain
Yeah Atherton really had it rough. Faced arguably the greatest collection of great fast and spin bowlers over the course of his career. And if that weren't bad enough, the next tier of bowlers weren't particularly bad either: Reifel, Gillespie, Bishop, Patterson, DeVilliers, Kumble, Vaas, McDermott etc I'd hate to have been a English opener in the 90s. Good grief!!
 
Johan

Johan

State Vice-Captain
Sidhu in West Indies

46* (104)
9 (55)
0 (9)
11 (50)
1 (40)
116 (237)
0 (4)
10 (32)
0 (7)
201 (491)
26 (31)
3 (10)
36 (104)

Decent, nothing to overrate tho
 
Migara

Migara

International Coach
Johan said:
Sidhu in West Indies

46* (104)
9 (55)
0 (9)
11 (50)
1 (40)
116 (237)
0 (4)
10 (32)
0 (7)
201 (491)
26 (31)
3 (10)
36 (104)

Decent, nothing to overrate tho
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Averages 38. How many openers managed to average north of 35 in 80s and early 90s against WI?
 
Coronis

Coronis

International Coach
capt_Luffy said:
The Gavaskar stat is wrong..... That's surprising. They counted both the '83 WI series, but only the runs for the home one; but HS is not the 236 but the 147 in Bourda!
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That’s because he batted at #4 that innings, Migara asked about openers so I restricted it to them.
 
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