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    Rank these 5 Test openers in order ( Boycott, Greenidge, Hayden, Sehwag, G Smith )

    There is nobody here arguing that. Everyone is saying the opposite. Seeing as Sobers started this off, why do you think points about Bradman having it easy in relation to some modern bats don't apply to Sobers? Both played predominantly in an era of soft pitches/weak bowlers. The averages of...
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    Rank these 5 Test openers in order ( Boycott, Greenidge, Hayden, Sehwag, G Smith )

    Other than assessing lost value through replacement (under which Bradman is obviously far more than twice the bat Sachin is), who suggests Bradman is twice the bat Sachin is? Total strawman. He's just a way better bat, even accounting for stuff like era. Unless you want to ignore all all...
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    Rank these 5 Test openers in order ( Boycott, Greenidge, Hayden, Sehwag, G Smith )

    What number you put a player at in rankings is a pretty arbitrary way to measure quality. The 108th best bat is closer to the 2nd best than the 2nd best is to Bradman. It's the gap that counts, not the number of players in the gap.
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    Rank these ATGs away from home

    Batting only: Waugh Other 4 in just about any order. Ponting
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    Peak Sanga vs Peak Punter

    I think that Murali's peak was comfortably better than Marshall's (or anyone else's). This said, Murali had an easy job of bowling at home. Pitches were not dustbowls, but they were still more spin friendly than most of the world. This is particularly true for spinners who didn't rely on...
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    Peak Sanga vs Peak Punter

    A big part of being a top player is confidence in your abilities. A lot of players will simply have the idea that they are that good.
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    Shivnarine Chanderpaul vs Virender Sehwag

    If they swapped SR, both would improve.
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    Ravichandran Ashwin vs Kapil Dev

    Bats with higher averages also get out for less than ones with lower average. Do you want to ignore the difference between bats when one averages double the other as well? Hitting a bowler off a plan is psychological. Like grinding them off one. A bowler doesn't need to stop setting the fields/...
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    Ravichandran Ashwin vs Kapil Dev

    It's not an hour of Richards/Richards vs an hour of Hutton/Sutcliffe that you need to compare. It's 1 hour vs nearly 2. You have to look at balls per dismissal as well. That's an hour of bowlers tiring, the ball getting older, getting to bowl at worse bat(s), not having a settled partnership...
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    Dravid vs Kallis vs Ponting vs Sanga in Tests

    Ponting was a tier above for the first half (or whatever) of his career. Kallis was a tier above for the second half. Overall they are very close. If Kallis overtook Ponting on career, it would have only been in his last few years. It takes some time to realise a player has overtaken another...
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    Dravid vs Kallis vs Ponting vs Sanga in Tests

    Sreesanth in particular. He went god mode for one tour of RSA. Everyone but Kallis was clueless.
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    Dravid vs Kallis vs Ponting vs Sanga in Tests

    Does he have the best away record? He's definitely in the conversation, but so are Sanga and Kallis. He had some fantastic series, but also some really poor ones. And he's not in the conversation for best home record. I think I rate him last here. But I put all of them on a similar level. There...
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    Jacques Kallis vs Jack Hobbs

    Batting and bowling SRs are essentially mirrors of each other if you aren't taking any nuance into account. A lot of people seem to default to 'faster striking is always better' in both departments, but this logically impossible- you striking faster is making the other team strike faster in the...
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    Jacques Kallis vs Jack Hobbs

    Scoring rate works both ways. Assuming the same amount of runs scored, the ideal scoring rate is extremely situational.
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    Jacques Kallis vs Jack Hobbs

    I trust this means you will stop claiming how a player was viewed at a particular stage in their career should define how they are viewed now?
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    *Official* South Africa Tour of the West Indies, AUGUST 6th to 26th, 2024-- 2 TESTS & 3 T20Is

    Does anyone have a clip of Philander talking about using the seam? I saw it on TNT at either lunch or a drinks break.
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    Was Mark Boucher lucky to play almost 150 tests for a top team like South Africa?

    Until the tail end of his career, Boucher kept very well to pace. Which means he was keeping well de facto for RSA. I wonder how many people's impressions of his performances are based on the world XI game.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Waite is a bit of an odd one out amongst your WKs. You have picked the others for batting. I'd think someone picking Ames and Walcott would give the gloves to AB, or pick someone like De Kock.
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    *Official* South Africa Tour of the West Indies, AUGUST 6th to 26th, 2024-- 2 TESTS & 3 T20Is

    I'm not sure that there are runs to be made by these batting units against these bowlers. We will need to see the ball moving a lot less or the bowlers breaking down. Pitch and outfield are both fair. There were a couple of give it away wickets, but not anything unusual. And I think the RSA bats...
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    Jacques Kallis vs Ben Stokes

    I think this is true of every bowler who has ever played the enforcer role, including both guys in this poll.

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