Richard Hadlee vs Gary Sobers

[DrWolverine]

Hadlee’s batting vs Sobers’ bowling

 

[Johan]

Sobers easily

 

[Prince EWS]

Sobers as a bowler for his batting.

 

[capt_Luffy]

It's not close. Sobers vs Imran is a better comparison on secondary

 

[ankitj]

According to @h_hurricane's famous formula, Sobers' bowling average of 34 is equivalent to a batting average of 1200/34 ~ 35 which is comfortably higher than Hadlee's batting average. So Sobers.

 

[DrWolverine]

According to @h_hurricane's famous formula, Sobers' bowling average of 34 is equivalent to a batting average of 1200/34 ~ 35 which is comfortably higher than Hadlee's batting average. So Sobers.

What about Kallis?

 

[Johan]

Sobers>Kallis at bowling for me

 

[DrWolverine]

Just curious.

It is often said Ponting, Kallis & Sanga played in a batting era but doesn’t that make Kallis’ bowling average better?

 

[Johan]

He did have South Africa as his home pitches, people give his batting points for having spicy home pitches so logically they should also penalize his bowling for having spicy home pitches

 

[DrWolverine]

Fair enough

 

[capt_Luffy]

Just curious.

It is often said Ponting, Kallis & Sanga played in a batting era but doesn’t that make Kallis’ bowling average better?

Just look at their WPM and how many overs they did bowl.

 

[Prince EWS]

Just curious.

It is often said Ponting, Kallis & Sanga played in a batting era but doesn’t that make Kallis’ bowling average better?

His home conditions were quite favourable to him and he averaged 36 away against top-eight teams.

I rate Kallis's batting higher than most based on the former though.

 

[Cricket Bliss]

He did have South Africa as his home pitches, people give his batting points for having spicy home pitches so logically they should also penalize his bowling for having spicy home pitches

Yes. But there is one thing which seldomly people remembers. Bowling down the order is when the bowling becomes hard… not like batting down the order

Also when someone mentions Kallis avg 55 with the bat…barring his home conditions many say that he batted on the roads of 2000s… then the same applies to his bowling on the roads + lower the order

Not overrating his bowling. He is nothing more than mediocre…

 

[sayon basak]

It's not close. Sobers vs Imran is a better comparison on secondary

That'd still be Sobers imo.