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  1. Hurricane

    Official Rugby Thread

    I can see why you put Nepia ahead of Clarke, but only kind of Clarke was phenomenal
  2. Hurricane

    Official Rugby Thread

    I guess its one of those longevity things. Let him earn his stripes a bit more Hendrix.
  3. Hurricane

    Official Rugby Thread

    I would also have Steve Pokere several measures ahead of Joe Stanley in the pantheon of 13s
  4. Hurricane

    Official Rugby Thread

    I concur 100% with your number 9s. That would be the exact sequence I would have them in. Loveridge was simply incredible. Look for Smith to rise up that ranking list with more years of service under his belt. He will overtake marshall soon enough. Your number 13s are suspect. From what I have...
  5. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    <insert jpeg of cat putting paw on posters hand on keyboard here> We are talking at cross purposes and about different things. I am going to pull out of the thread for the night now.
  6. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    Nice rejoinder.
  7. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    I certainly thought so. Deliberately provocative. But it was lucid enough.
  8. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    His propensity to erring towards premeditating defence exceeds other batsman. More so than anyone else I recall seeing even TMac even though TMac was a slower batsman. TMac just had fewer shots in his cupboard.
  9. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    Let's move on mate. No hard feelings? *Shakes hand*
  10. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    And this gives me a chance to use a fantastic quote I heard in Bible study a month ago. "If you take any concept and push it to its extreme limits it will break. Every concept is subject to reasonableness limits". So 95 times out a hundred in a pressure cooked ODI you premeditate defence. Yes...
  11. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    Elaborate on your point. What I am saying is that everyone should block a hat trick ball even in a pressure cooked ODI where every ball counts.
  12. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    I think my example of a batsman who didn't premeditate enough was James Neesham. I remember him getting out to a leg side strangle on a hat trick delivery. Why didn't he premeditate defence? He was facing a hattrick delivery for crying out loud in an ODI, I would have blocked it even if it...
  13. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    OK good post. And thanks for taking in good nature Indian Fans. It is a well known fact by anyone who observed him that he valued his wicket too much. I just was bored so tried to be edgey to create some controversy in the thread to give us something to sink our teeth into. And yes all batsman...
  14. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    I take it you joined this site to troll?
  15. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    Then you don't understand cricket.
  16. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    There is a kernel of truth to it wrapped around a generous layer of hyperbole obviously. For the most part he was an Uber talented player. Possibly with levels of talent rivalling Tendulkar. But he was emotional. And he had immature emotions as a batsman. He irrationally over valued his wicket...
  17. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    Haha. AB was my second pick off the list. Sunil was simply a more accomplished batsman though. Anyone who can open the batting against the West Indies in the West Indies and actually perform is a cricketing God. Ask Ken Rutherford how hard it is to open the batting against the West Indies over...
  18. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    Very good point :)
  19. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    Yeah well AB didn't have to play much against Lillee so that is one sided logic and secondly when he did play against Lillee's protege (Hadlee) he got carved up on 6 occassions.
  20. Hurricane

    Player to bat for your life?

    I think the answer is Bradman but from the list provided then I would go Gavaskar. He averaged 51 opening the batting. Studies show that opening knocks 4-5 runs off your average compared to the cushier spots of 3-5. Therefore he would have averaged 55+ from a middle order spot. Before his final...

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