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Gilchrist Vs Donald

Gilchrist Vs Donald

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Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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kyear2 said:
Oh definitely.

He played in the same era as Punter, who's downgraded by many because of said era. Not to add coming in much lower in the order, often with no pressure and a green light to attack.

He's a little over rated as a batsman, but he's become under rated with the gloves to some extent.

And he still has a healthy gap over Knotty.

But he batted in literally the strongest batting lineup of all time, in a flat era, and was the cheat code coming in at 7 when the attack was already, for the most part beaten down.
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Yeah I do wonder how he'd have gone batting 4 or 5 for a middling team and not keeping, even in the same bat-friendly era. He obviously wasn't just a downhill skiier but even when he came in in a crisis he had a license to play the did with a clear head because he didn't bear the responsibility of a specialist top order batsman, and he never had to face the new ball in a crisis either (only had to face it if a famously quick-scoring side had faced 80 overs and then lost their fifth wicket...)
 
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subshakerz

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kyear2 said:
Oh definitely.

He played in the same era as Punter, who's downgraded by many because of said era. Not to add coming in much lower in the order, often with no pressure and a green light to attack.

He's a little over rated as a batsman, but he's become under rated with the gloves to some extent.

And he still has a healthy gap over Knotty.

But he batted in literally the strongest batting lineup of all time, in a flat era, and was the cheat code coming in at 7 when the attack was already, for the most part beaten down.
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Yeah I would still have him in my ATG XI but I see a decent argument now for Knott or even Flower (need to study his keeping more).
 
kyear2

kyear2

International Coach
subshakerz said:
Yeah I would still have him in my ATG XI but I see a decent argument now for Knott or even Flower (need to study his keeping more).
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He's a slam dunk for the team partially because of Warney, and we know how good he was with him. Anyone else and there's a discussion.

But when I hear stuff like 3rd name in the sheet, I think that's where it's taken a tad bit too far.

Knott has him beat on keeping ability while being a pretty damn good batter in his own regard, and some want the better pure keeper.
 
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