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  1. h_hurricane

    Marshall vs McGrath vs Hadlee

    Just watched highlights of the last day of below test and voting for Hadlee. Incredible bowling. Might watch some highlights of other 2 great pacers some other time and change my vote. Very very close all 3.
  2. h_hurricane

    Mark Waugh vs Cheteshwar Pujara

    Mark Waugh isn't an ATVG. He fluctuated between good and very good. Pujara isn't unarguably one either, though I guess he is better in this comparison.
  3. h_hurricane

    Kapil Dev vs Shahid Afridi (ODI)

    That is silly. The par score in 1980s was somewhere in the range of 200-220. It increased slightly in 1990s. In 2000s, there were many 300+ scores pushing the par score well above 250 for the decade. You already know it.
  4. h_hurricane

    Kapil Dev vs Imran Khan

    Kapil was possibly the best late order hitter in ODI history. If not absolutely the best, he is unarguably in the top 5. Imran on the other hand is neither in the top 10 lower order batsmen in history nor in the top 50 top order batsmen in history. Strange that this is coming from you when you...
  5. h_hurricane

    Kapil Dev vs Imran Khan

    Imo, not outs don't inflate batting averages for a player as long as the run output and the impact on the game isn't diminished when compared to another player with lesser not outs. Certainly needs to be taken on a case to case basis when comparing two players.
  6. h_hurricane

    Kapil Dev vs Imran Khan

    And what about the 23 run difference in SR which gives Kapil arguably the best era adjusted SR of all time. Imran is probably a 6/10 as a top order bat and 7/10 as a lower order one. Kapil was a 9/10 as lower order. Imran was more versatile but Kapil was better at what he was good in. Well, I...
  7. h_hurricane

    Kapil Dev vs Imran Khan

    You are the one who consistently call out impact related performances in literally every thread here. Do you remember any impact Imran had during this period ? Nehru Trophy at the fag end of this period, probably yes. Meh, just 29 matches and less than one wicket per match. And as OS has...
  8. h_hurricane

    Kapil Dev vs Imran Khan

    For 4 years between 1983 and 1986. 66 matches 85 wickets. Averages 22 with the ball at an E.R of 3.5...
  9. h_hurricane

    Kapil Dev vs Imran Khan

    Kapil. For a good period of time in his prime, he was like Sehwag with the bat and Mcgrath with the ball.
  10. h_hurricane

    Kapil Dev vs Shahid Afridi (ODI)

    Kapil was inconsistent as a batsman too, though his hitting ability was wasted down the order. In another era, he would have batted higher and scored a lot more runs. He did have his moments as a batsman though, not just the 175* against Zimbabwe. World Championship 1985 semi and onslaught on...
  11. h_hurricane

    Sir Richard Hadlee vs Sir Garry Sobers

    Just a rough reference. Equivalent batting average = 1200/(Equivalent bowling average)
  12. h_hurricane

    Curtly Ambrose vs Brian Lara

    On the India matches, his first series against India came very early in his career(1989) when he was still settling in the team. The second series came on really placid pitches in 1997 where boring draws and rain affected matches were common, Barbados match where India was bowled out for 81...
  13. h_hurricane

    Curtly Ambrose vs Brian Lara

    Ambrose and Lara are both top tier ATGs for me for the below reason. Without them, WI would have declined as early as the beginning of 90s. A lot of mediocre players came into the set up in early 90s and these two (and to a lesser extent Walsh) held the brittle team together for another decade...
  14. h_hurricane

    Steve Smith vs Sachin Tendulkar

    I would bet against it, if he plays that long. His case will be good if he could maintain his career stats better than Sachin's for the next 1-2 years and then retire like a genius just when his stats could possibly fall off the cliff.
  15. h_hurricane

    Inzamam-ul-Haq vs Ravindra Jadeja

    Wrong. He has a positive difference between batting average and bowling average, away from home as well. He has been involved in a few overseas wins where he has made crucial contributions. Though, you could argue that he is nowhere as good overseas as he is at home.
  16. h_hurricane

    Wasim Akram vs Joel Garner

    If it was batting, Garner would have been the run away winner.
  17. h_hurricane

    Greatest ODI player?

    Viv wins this one by a landslide as he rightly should. This poll would have been more interesting if we are discussing the second greatest ODI player of all time.
  18. h_hurricane

    Afridi vs Jayasuriya (ODI bowling)

    Symonds the fifth bowler wipes the floor with both.
  19. h_hurricane

    What would Ashwin and Jadeja's records look like if they debuted a decade earlier?

    I would rephrase this as ANUS bully.
  20. h_hurricane

    Best ODI opening combination from India

    Went with Sehwag and Sachin. Ganguly played some really good innings but had issues rotating the strike, affecting Sachin's momentum on many occasions. An example would be the iconic desert storm final in 1998.

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