Viv Richards & Allan Donald vs Brian Lara & Curtly Ambrose

[Fuller Pilch]

Viv > Lara but I like having a lefthander in the middle order, so overall very close
Ambrose > Donald. Ambrose is better than Steyn who was clearly better than Donald.

 

[DrWolverine]

I literally can't name anyone but me who rates Sunny top tier (not even top 10, as most people either rate him or Hammond 10th, like I do, it's a ****ing stupid tier thing). PFK, that's pretty much it.

Chronologically listed
Tier 1 : Sobers. Viv. Sachin. Smith.
Tier 2 : Hutton. Sunny. Lara.

 

[sayon basak]

Chronologically listed
Tier 1 : Sobers. Viv. Sachin. Smith.
Tier 2 : Hutton. Sunny. Lara.

Hutton being in a different tier as Sobers is wrong imo.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Chronologically listed
Tier 1 : Sobers. Viv. Sachin. Smith.
Tier 2 : Hutton. Sunny. Lara.

And that's thing, I don't think this tier exists between them.

 

[DrWolverine]

Sometimes I have Hutton in Tier 1 and sometimes I have him in Tier 2

 

[Johan]

Lara I got below Smith now, he has too many holes in his game.

 

[subshakerz]

Sometimes I have Hutton in Tier 1 and sometimes I have him in Tier 2

If you have to think about it, he is tier 2.

 

[subshakerz]

Lara I got below Smith now, he has too many holes in his game.

Same here. Hutton also above Lara.

Smith vs Hutton is interesting.

 

[Johan]

If you have to think about it, he is tier 2.

he objectively is tier 1, look at his achievements

 

[sayon basak]

he objectively is tier 1, look at his achievements

Only Don is tier 1.

 

[Johan]

Only Don is tier 1.

Don is beyond the concept of tiering

 

[subshakerz]

He needs unassailable peer rep too.

 

[Johan]

Same here.

You can really find more holes in his game than any elite ATG really, like short pitched pace for Hutton, Viv struggled against bad bowlers and Sobers had his issues with Trueman in England.

Lara has 4-5 of these

 

[Johan]

He needs unassailable peer rep too.

one can just undermine Sobers by saying he wasn't even the undisputed best of his era then.

 

[DrWolverine]

Only Don is tier 1.

God Tier

 

[sayon basak]

You can really find more holes in his game than any elite ATG really, like short pitched pace for Hutton, Viv struggled against bad bowlers and Sobers had his issues with Trueman in England.

Lara has 4-5 of these

Could you provide all the holes of Lara?

 

[capt_Luffy]

one can just undermine Sobers by saying he wasn't even the undisputed best of his era then.

He wasn't even of his own team for a majority of his career.

 

[DrWolverine]

one can just undermine Sobers by saying he wasn't even the undisputed best of his era then.

Sobers wasn’t?

 

[Johan]

Could you provide all the holes of Lara?

why would you say it like that

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Guys with tier 1 peer rating are generally the high strike rate guys

Hutton with his 38 strike rate was always going to struggle a bit on that metric