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    Matthew Hayden- I mean come on, seriously

    Like who ? Didnt know these so-called half-baked opening bowlers are 'worshipped' here. When England happened to assemble a good fast pace attack. Surprise Surprise. Let me tell you when he was 'hopelessly out of form' too - pretty much throughout the 90s. His form just happened to come...
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    Matthew Hayden- I mean come on, seriously

    :devil2: :starwars: :arabia:
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    who is duckworth lewis?

    Doh! :laugh:
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    who is duckworth lewis?

    I agree that it is the best system out there but it is far from being completely fair. Ask South Africa in 1992 world cup if scoring 22 runs off 1 ball was 'fair' when they were coasting to victory. D/L method is most often unfair to the side batting second- since the variables are stacked...
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    Matthew Hayden- I mean come on, seriously

    He did play briefly when pitches and bowling quality wasnt so abysmal. Utterly bombed and was dropped for years. Fair enough. We don't really know if he'd have died on the pitch trying front-foot nonsense against Marshall-Bishop-Ambrose-Walsh or if he'd have just had a string of single digit...
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    Matthew Hayden- I mean come on, seriously

    where the legs are is irrelevant really. Where the body is at the point of contact and how still it is is what matters. Most people use their legs to bring their body behind line- Sehwag uses his superior hand-eye coordination to reach over and bring his body in line. Sehwag has one of the...
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    Matthew Hayden- I mean come on, seriously

    Feet movement = not the major thing to backfoot play. You just have to get your body in line (Sehwag does this by reaching over and i dont think anyone can dispute that Sehwag's hand-eye coordination is far superior to Hayden's), pick the ball early ( advantage Sehwag) and shift your weight on...
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    Matthew Hayden- I mean come on, seriously

    For an opener, no. Hayden moves his feet decently on the front foot- better than Sehwag. But Sehwag's backfoot play is much stronger than Hayden's. If you are an opener against top notch bowling, your backfoot play *must* be impeccable and whoever has the better backfoot play will eventually win...
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    Matthew Hayden- I mean come on, seriously

    Yes. Dearth of quality opening bowlers. Last time Hayden actually tried his front-foot nonsense against quality opening bowlers like Curtly, he got dumped for years. And thats what would happen if Hayden tried that against any top quality opening bowler unless the surfaces are pancake flat like...
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    Matthew Hayden- I mean come on, seriously

    No, not underrated- heavily, heavily overrated. Hayden doesnt face any good pacer today (save for Bond) who'd make him pay for being the front-foot bully. Against quality opening bowling, openers *MUST* be excellent on the backfoot- not a front-foot bully like Hayden. I mean seriously - does...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Context..context context !! For one,Tendulkar was debuting against Pakistan. A debut average of 35 is good against any opposition even today- unless they happen to be BD or Zim. For two, Tendulkar was sixteen. For a sixteen year old to finish a series with 35 average in TEST cricket on 80s...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Disagree. Malcolm-Fraser-Gough-Caddick-Tufnell are about even-par with Flintoff-Harmison-Jones-Giles-Hoggard. The latter group looks a lot better than they are because the bowling quality today is a lot thinner.
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Clutching straws ? eh ? Okay, lets see how good the attacks back then ( late 80s to mid 90s) were compared to today: Australia : worse back then England : About even-par or very slightly better today South Africa: About the same as today WI : Way better back then Pakistan: Way better back then...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    You obviously have not searched well enough. So ? First off, England were a competetive bowling unit back then. Secondly, South Africa were a lot more than just Donald - a lot of their early 90s bowlers were extremely good players at the tail end of their careers. Shultz was excellent the...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Is so. Should i refer you to a doctor ? To you. Which explains a lot. Didnt say he was injured through the whole world cup, did i ?? False. It is pretty much due to injuries and injuries alone because Tendulkar is not old enough to have fading reflexes/eyesight that commonly afflicts...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    No but 7 tests and a dozen-n-half ODIs a year for 5 years between 16 and 21 is equivalent of a mid 20s guy carrying a 12-13 tests and 20+ ODI load for the same period, if not worse. And that is because the last four years of his career has been severely hit by injuries. Err no he isn't. Lara...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    *sigh* It is the prime for most players- who have started around a normal age ( 20-21 for debut in international cricket and regularly featuring from then on). But when you start really young, you also break down really young because the effects of the physical strain ( continuous fitness...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Err commonly,that is not the case. Prodigies improve slightly as their career keeps developing but just like Tendulkar, Mozart's works didnt improve radically as he aged. He just started producing opera works at age 12 which were of good quality and kept doing so. And i agree that there are two...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Okay. So basically, Ponting himself is a nut because Ponting himself has commented of the incredible ammounts of pressure Tendulkar faces and how amazed he's with the way Tendulkar deals with it. This has been noted by several authors over and over. So all of them, ponting included, are nuts...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Err only McGrath was missing. Warne, as usual, was clobbered by Tendulkar for figures of 10-0-61-0 I think precisely the opposite- you've totally lost it if you can compare the world cup bashfest innings of Ponting on a substandard pitch vs substandard bowling while setting a target to...

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