Brian Lara vs Ricky Ponting (against pace bowling)

[BazBall21]

When was that? Because Ponting played Shoaib more comfortably than any other batter I saw.

Lara...

Ponting struggled a few times v genuine pace in his decline.

 

[Johan]

10 + drop

Was he totally inconsistent after mid 90s ?
Else his average wouldn't have dropped 10+.

He developed some eye issues and had a drop from form, also seemed to have lost passion and people were calling him finished but he had that huge series against McGrath and Warne in 1999 but then got some injuries and couldn't do much in 2000, he then went to Sri Lanka in 2001 and found his form and consistency again, iirc his average before Sri Lanka series had fallen to...47

 

[govinda indian fan]

One thing many don't says, Lara was once averaging 60+ in 90s but by the end of 90s his career average drops to 50 (even lower)
He maintained marnus lebuschagne level consistency.

Man seriously marnus is htb and minnow basher. Plz dont disgrace barin lara by compering him with frauds like labuschagne

 

[capt_Luffy]

Lmao Ponting btfo. Although both Sachin and Ponting walked those off pretty well tbh. Badass.

Him getting struck on the face by Umesh and then kicking away the ball rolling towards the wicket was COLD.

But the one from Shami looked tail enderesque tbh

 

[Johan]

also

Please stop overrating Shoaib ffs

 

[Narayana]

Man seriously marnus is htb and minnow basher. Plz dont disgrace barin lara by compering him with frauds like labuschagne

Which minnows he bashed though?

 

[pardus]

Ponting struggled a few times v genuine pace in his decline.

You can find examples of Ponting struggling v genuine pace even at his peak
And btw, same can be done for any batsman if you resort to cherry-picking

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Man seriously marnus is htb and minnow basher. Plz dont disgrace barin lara by compering him with frauds like labuschagne

He was also comparing Lara with with Root and Sachin with Kohli lol

clearly a troll (unlike me obviously)

 

[Johan]

clearly a troll (unlike me obviously)

Ironic

 

[Thala_0710]

Ironic

PC looks like the most sane person in front of the guy

 

[Johan]

PC looks like the most sane person in front of the guy

idk if he's just a troll or new to Cricket tbh, PC is a professional baiter

 

[subshakerz]

You can find examples of Ponting struggling v genuine pace even at his peak
And btw, same can be done for any batsman if you resort to cherry-picking

Ponting scored 197 this innings.

 

[Sliferxxxx]

tbh the Lara lone wolf narrative is stupid, in the 2000s he had Gayle/Hooper/Chanders, all top class batters, agreed on other two.

I'll sit this one out except to say this, Lara statistically was a lone wolf. He scored a higher proportion of his teams runs over his career than any batsman with the exception of Headley and Bradman. That's a statistical fact.

 

[Sliferxxxx]

Lara isn't a home bully he just has an unusually padded away record with some middling returns.

Fair.

 

[honestbharani]

tbh the Lara lone wolf narrative is stupid, in the 2000s he had Gayle/Hooper/Chanders, all top class batters, agreed on other two.

The same Hooper who played like 2 years in the 00s? And still averaged mid 30s? Gayle never got going at his best till Lara retired. Just a laughably stupid post.

 

[OverratedSanity]

The same Hooper who played like 2 years in the 00s? And still averaged mid 30s? Gayle never got going at his best till Lara retired. Just a laughably stupid post.

Gayle was solid towards the end of Lara's career and outperformed him in some big series (against the really good England attack in 04/05). Sarwan was a decent player too. WI bowling was worse than their batting at the time.

Lara really carried west indes heavily in 1996-2002 or so imo. Even though that was his own slump he had some epic one man shows where he singlehandedly defied the other team.

 

[DrWolverine]

1996-2002

 

[DrWolverine]

Being a fan of the WI team in early 2000s was hard.

 

[Coronis]

1996-2002
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Chanders always underrated

 

[Johan]

The same Hooper who played like 2 years in the 00s? And still averaged mid 30s? Gayle never got going at his best till Lara retired. Just a laughably stupid post.

Gayle was making huge runs in Lara's big South Africa Series in 2003 iirc, he made like 400 runs too that series No? yhe narrative makes sense pre Gayle.