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Search results for query: namesake

  1. Coronis

    Jacques Kallis vs Kumar Sangakkara ( as Test batsmen )

    lol nah more like fast isn’t inherently better than slow for me, but yeah lets not go down that road again here. mb, I thought you were saying in that post you had Smith at 12th or so which is why I commented what I did.
  2. kyear2

    Jacques Kallis vs Kumar Sangakkara ( as Test batsmen )

    ...are tiers to this and Viv is in multiple above. Guys like @peterhrt who actually saw him and some before him only rates Sachin and his namesake in the same breath as him. But yes, fast is bad, and we've had this conversation too many times. Viv, Smith, Lara all in that same tier and for me...
  3. F

    ***Official***Match #21- India vs New Zealand- October 22nd-Dharamsala (D/N)

    Shame. It was a costly earlier drop by his inferior namesake.
  4. Howe_zat

    The Forumers' Ashes 2023

    ...of 162 Starfighter found the breakthrough for the visitors, pinning Daemon in front for a huge wicket. In the next over David dismissed his namesake for 78 and the chase was stalled. Mole and Herregonaes chosen to consolidate and regroup at tea, and steadily got them there at 238/4. England...
  5. Coronis

    Rank in order as batsmen: Chappell vs Gavaskar vs Richards vs Kallis vs Lara

    No doubt. He had some quality competition to be fair, Tendulkar, Lara and Waugh initially followed by Pontings insane peak and then Sanga’s.
  6. P

    Rank in order as batsmen: Chappell vs Gavaskar vs Richards vs Kallis vs Lara

    ...Packer, averaged 53 with 14 three-figure scores. Richards and Chappell both enhanced their reputations in World Series Cricket. Like his namesake, Viv could make the best bowling look rubbish. Lara was also the undisputed world's leading batsman for a time. Kallis, fine player though he was...
  7. F

    *Official* Third Test (Headingley, Leeds) 6–10 July

    Brandon McMullen already looks to be a better ODI bat than his almost namesake Baz.
  8. _Ed_

    *Official* England v Ireland Test

    Disappointing - McCollum had played pretty well until then, and I liked the idea of a near-namesake defying Bazball with a slow and steady century.
  9. H

    *Official* Australia in India 2023

    ...red ball. He couldnt make the red ball do anything in the test last week. They should simply debut Morris and/or S. Johnson(another fast left arm pacer like his namesake) for red ball, and rotate with Boland depending on conditions. I assume hazlewood will become like jhye- constantly injured.
  10. ataraxia

    Stumped!

    Snared international New Zealander Nick Smith (the unfortunate namesake of a politician) for $1.5 million. 23yo 13-12-19 bat - on paper, the best player I've ever had by far. He'll debut against ZCC in a few hours, where his 17 touch might be more than handy! It's an age of change for AXI after...
  11. Chrish

    Viv Richards vs Sachin Tendulkar

    Any opinion on Pollock? I am assuming you didn’t see much of him since he didn’t play county cricket.
  12. Lillian Thomson

    Viv Richards vs Sachin Tendulkar

    Viv is still the best batsman I've ever seen, followed by his namesake Barry. I’m prepared to accept Lara, Tendulkar and Smith. The rest are gobblers.
  13. Himannv

    Statues are never appropriate. The perfect statue doesn't exis....

    Completely agree! Sangakkara isn't even fit to lace up AB's namesake's boots let alone the great man himself.
  14. Migara

    Players who would suck now

    Larsen is way more skillful than people realize or give him the credit. This is a bowler who cut his pace down and changed the pace to provide no pace for the batsmen, and he was way ahead of his peers. He bowled in one or two tests and was proper fast medium hitting high 130s. Today's world he'...
  15. Chubb

    Players who would suck now

    I think Underwood would still have been an effective spinner but averaging in the low 30s rather than mid 20s. He was famously deadly on wet wickets but not exactly cannon fodder when it wasn't wet, he was a fine bowler in all conditions and the DRS would help him, as it did for Swann. He would...
  16. S

    Players who would suck now

    This is true. Gavin Larsen would go for 12 an over in both the 50 over and T20 formats, and his middle namesake Rolf Harris would be closer to the national side than him. I don't have an answer to this, given I didn't see these sort of guys back in the day. But would someone like Derek...
  17. ataraxia

    Most Underrated Cricketers in Cricket Chat

    Fuller Pilch: I see the source of the confusion as your namesake was born in 1803, but you aren't Burgey I'm afraid.
  18. ataraxia

    2021/22 New Zealand First-Class Season Draft

    I hope you're meaning to pick Dane and not his reporting namesake. :)
  19. J

    Famous Batsmen You Didn't Like to Watch

    OK man.
  20. BoyBrumby

    Famous Batsmen You Didn't Like to Watch

    ...of the names checked in the thread so far, but Dom Sibley is terrible to watch. Nigh on shotless, really. Of those with higher test averages I never much cared for Graeme Smith's bottom handed shoveling technique or his Australian namesake Steve's "android that skipped a couple of upgrades" MO.

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