Everyone accepts Lillee is an all time great who proved himself against numerous opponents.The issue is he did not prove himself in various conditions.
Gavaskar proved himself against the best fast bowlers of his generation.
Gavaskar having one bad series against Lillie is not the same as Lillee not playing enough outside Aus/Eng/NZ. Maybe they are from Australia and can’t accept it.
No he didn’t
You are not slick bro
He failed when playing for ROW against Australia in a 5 match series earlier too. Averaged 28, I think. Same series where Sobers scored that 254 that everyone talks about.
He played only two Test Series before that IIRC. Ofcourse had that WI tour, but was far from developed.
Lol. I never said he "succeeded". I said it wasn't a failure worth hyping up, unlike Lillee's Pakistan tour. Ponting's last two India tours were actually quite decent.
Sure but had big tours in 78 and 85 (Reid, McDrermott and Hughes is a pretty great attack on paper) when Australia had some reasonably good bowlers (and some terrible ones tbf). Don't think anyone bigs up Sunny's Australia record as something amazing but you'd have to be a dummy or an Australian or more likely both to equate that with Lillee's body of work overseas.
So Gavaskar failed in the ROW series because "He played only two Test Series before that"
Lillee simply did much better in that series. I just gave some context that Gavaskar wasn't a polished veteran back then.
Didn't he have a few against Marshall in 78 as well?
4 against Sylvester Clarke(2 of them had Marshall)
So like, you rate Garner>Warne, Gavaskar>Garner and Warne>Gavaskar???