Gary Sobers vs Steven Smith

[sayon basak]

And in quora platform, majority of the answers about cricket are emotional.

Exactly.

 

[DrWolverine]

That’s natural.

To someone who has never watched a player play, it will be hard cold stats.

To someone who has watched a certain player play, there is always an emotion attached.

I watched Jayasuriya go berserk in mid 1990s so I will always have a soft corner for him.

I saw Sachin Tendulkar at his peak in the 1990s play knocks like Desert Storm or his performance in 1996 WC so it will be extra special for me.

Someone who has only heard or read about it will never understand how instead of going for a draw, Sachin trying for a win was special.

 

[capt_Luffy]

And in quora platform, majority of the answers about cricket are emotional.

Yes. The emotion is Pure unadulterated Cringe.

Just looking at some results in Quora for the greatest cricketer ever, and well, will just leave the results from the Top 20 or so replies......

Jacques Kallis (6)
A B de Villiers (2)
Virat Kohli (2)
Sachin Tendulkar (2)
Don Bradman (2 lol....)
Kumar Sangakkara (1)
Rahul Dravid (1)
Virendra Sehwag (1)
Garry Sobers (1)
Kapil Dev (1)
Sourav Ganguly (1)

Lol. And I forgot to add that Jhulan Goswami also got a vote.....

 

[Johan]

Kallis is not even better than Miller

 

[sayon basak]

Kallis is not even better than Miller

He is.

 

[Johan]

He is.

well, In my humble opinion, Miller was better.

 

[sayon basak]

well, In my humble opinion, Miller was better.

Where does Miller rank in your bowler's list?

 

[Johan]

Where does Miller rank in your bowler's list?

not too far off of Lindwall

 

[subshakerz]

Where does Miller rank in your bowler's list?

Miller is better than Kallis.

 

[DrWolverine]

Yes. The emotion is Pure unadulterated Cringe.

Not surprising

As I sad earlier future generations numbers play an important role in perception and no one has better raw numbers than Jacques Kallis

 

[sayon basak]

not too far off of Lindwall

Wut? Miller makes your top 20???

 

[capt_Luffy]

Not surprising

As I sad earlier future generations numbers play an important role in perception and no one has better raw numbers than Jacques Kallis

I mean, Don does.....

 

[sayon basak]

Not surprising

As I sad earlier future generations numbers play an important role in perception and no one has better raw numbers than Jacques Kallis

Bradman maybe?

 

[Johan]

Wut? Miller makes your top 20???

Yeah

 

[Coronis]

Yeah

Talk about blindly looking at averages.

 

[DrWolverine]

O

Bradman maybe?

Obviously he does not count

 

[Johan]

Talk about blindly looking at averages.

I've Davo high too dw

 

[shortpitched713]

That’s natural.

To someone who has never watched a player play, it will be hard cold stats.

To someone who has watched a certain player play, there is always an emotion attached.

I watched Jayasuriya go berserk in mid 1990s so I will always have a soft corner for him.

I saw Sachin Tendulkar at his peak in the 1990s play knocks like Desert Storm or his performance in 1996 WC so it will be extra special for me.

Someone who has only heard or read about it will never understand how instead of going for a draw, Sachin trying for a win was special.

Difference is the copious footage of these players, of almost every match they played. Unlike, unfortunately Bradman, or even a prime Sobers or Pele there's a limited amount of it.

 

[kyear2]

well, In my humble opinion, Miller was better.

Kallis the batsman was better than Miller was at either discipline. Like tiers better.

And he filled a completely different and more difficult(?) role as a bowler.

And Kallis was just absolutely superb at 2nd slip. Like top tier elite great.

 

[DrWolverine]

Kallis the batsman > Miller the batsman or bowler