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  1. shortpitched713

    Jack Hobbs vs Sachin Tendulkar

    Dang, I didn't realize that Khawaja was a fellow Hayden appreciator. No wonder he's such a gun opener himself.
  2. shortpitched713

    Top 10 of every Sport

    Starcraft Brood War 1) Lee Young-Ho (Flash) 2) Lee Yun-Yeol (Nada) +has a great body 3) Lee Jae-Dong (Jaedong) 4) Choi Yeon-Sung (iloveoov) 5) Kim Taek-Yong (Bisu) 6) Ma Jae-Yoon (savior) 7) Lim Yo-Hwan (Boxer) 8) Kim Min-Chul (Soulkey) 9) Song Byung-Goo (Stork) 10) Park Sung-Jun (JulyZerg)
  3. shortpitched713

    The Biggest Spinner of the ball?

    Sunil Narine :ph34r:
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    Harbhajan vs MacGill

    He's ALL you hate in a cricketer? Damn!
  5. shortpitched713

    Wally Hammond vs Len Hutton

    If Kalis can't make up the difference with Tendulkar with bowling (and slip fielding for kyear), how could Hammond make up the difference with Hutton with bowling, while bowling significantly less frequently and less successfully than Kallis?
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    Fred Trueman vs Michael Holding vs Waqar Younis

    Who's the straw that stirs the drink? I.e. how good was he without one or both of Garner and Marshall. Same goes for Garner and Marshall too, I suppose, but their averages in all conditions are so immaculate that I don't need to nitpick like that. With Holding, against this stiff of...
  7. shortpitched713

    Fred Trueman vs Michael Holding vs Waqar Younis

    Trueman > Waqar > Holding
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    Gillespie to be sacked by Pak

    Good news for Gillespie.
  9. shortpitched713

    Viv Richards vs Sunil Gavaskar

    All I needed to read. :)
  10. shortpitched713

    The Fastest Bowler ever?

    See this thread, for more baseball analogy conversation: http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/threads/fastest-pitcher-ever.93517/ I wonder if anyone's opinion changes, if we change sports. 🤔
  11. shortpitched713

    The Fastest Bowler ever?

    Genuinely curious, why do you think that Thommo's "one rep max" (which I believe is the measure in question in this thread), would be meaningfully higher in his "peak" years than when actually measured? Tait for instance hit his measured max when he was strapped up, had elbow tendonitis, and was...
  12. shortpitched713

    Fastest pitcher ever?

    As far as I see it, this is in effect the exact same thread as the fastest bowlers one. So who do you guys have? I'm going Aroldis Chapman. The one who was verifiably measured as having pitched the fastest.
  13. shortpitched713

    The Fastest Bowler ever?

    Myth that Thommo could bowl much faster than the others is just funny. He was certainly up there, and may have bowled a delivery that was faster, but all we can verify is what we have, so it's stupid to give him The Fastest Ever Title, when we know there's something of a threshold around the 100...
  14. shortpitched713

    The Fastest Bowler ever?

    Main problem is that it simply isn't worth it to try and bowl that fast. Not that younger generation players couldn't if the dedicated their careers to it. If you hear the accounts of Shoaib of how he trained to maximize pace, the injuries of Tait, you know it's not a joke to get that level of...
  15. shortpitched713

    The Fastest Bowler ever?

    Lol, if you think any bowler is "conserving energy" when they're clocking anything close to 160 or even higher in any format of the game. :laugh:
  16. shortpitched713

    Bowler : Imran Khan vs Allan Donald

    Strangely enough, these 2 bowlers are exactly as good as one another.
  17. shortpitched713

    Allan Lamb vs Dekker Curry

    Haven't had good lamb in a while. Will go with that.
  18. shortpitched713

    Herbert Sutcliffe vs Jack Hobbs

    Huh, I could've sworn Sutcliffe went on to play much longer. Those five years I guess have all the old match footage you need in them. Okay, I'm wrong. They were probably both cack by modern standards. Now Bradman. There's an old school batsman to respect.
  19. shortpitched713

    Herbert Sutcliffe vs Jack Hobbs

    Yes, but Hobbs was still earlier than Sutcliffe and Sutcliffe played on after Hobbs retired. The game was developing incredibly rapidly in the first half of the 20th century. To me, all of the context makes a big difference.
  20. shortpitched713

    Herbert Sutcliffe vs Jack Hobbs

    I mean 2 things, in a technical sense, yes I do believe that qualities of the fab 4 will represent improvements on what came before them. But that's not really the point, because the changes in the game itself were more gradual during this time period. The game in the early 20th century is...

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