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  1. Richard

    Andrew J. Cameron. You are a golfer.

    Andrew J. Cameron. You are a golfer.
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    Golf

    Be playin' or don't be playin'?
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    Good/Great bowlers that owned good/great batsman...

    Yeah, Dilhara Fernando had his number good-and-proper, didn't he? And that Franklyn Rose, he didn't have a clue against him. No, actually - in reality Atherton had no difficulty with seriously quick bowling in itself. Like any batsman top-quality bowling would dismiss him, but he was not one to...
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    Vaas vs Srinath vs Lee vs Zaheer vs Sobers

    It's also a conclusion someone who watched Zimbabwe play cricket until 2002/03 could come to. The notion that Zimbabwe were substandard before the end of the 2002/03 season is ludicrous - they were as deserving of Test status as any of the weaker sides in history ever were. Only from the 2003...
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    Good/Great bowlers that owned good/great batsman...

    Not really, an average of 31 (which was considerably higher if you consider only series' from '94 to '00) against some of the best bowlers history has known is not a shabby effort. Atherton was a pretty decent Test batsman and nothing more or less.
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    Oh God Almighty...

    True to my word, I'm going to use this thread to quote the below posts into rather than continuing to disrupt the thread in CC... You don't decide what constitutes ridiculous - you can merely adjudge what you think is ridiculous. You also don't know why I say such things - I do. I say the...
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    Waqar Younis

    Given that since I've taken my location out quite a few people have struggled to work-out which team I support (and that I've been accused of bias in favour of and against almost every Test side going around down the years) then I think it's a fairly safe thing to say that I have as little...
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    Vaas vs Srinath vs Lee vs Zaheer vs Sobers

    The Zimbabwean wickets of 1994/95-2001 were no more cheap than, for instance, the WIndian wickets Lee took in 2008.
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    Vaas vs Srinath vs Lee vs Zaheer vs Sobers

    As I've said before - well done Amateur Psychologist Par Excellence. I know I was told-off for saying it before, but let's put this bluntly: you don't have the foggiest idea what goes on in my mind and never will. I know better than you what the roots of my thoughts are, and any comment by you...
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    Vaas vs Srinath vs Lee vs Zaheer vs Sobers

    The ball can swing quite a bit anywhere, if it's in the right condition, and the bowler has the requisite skill. Anyone seeing the ball swing and doing anything other than paying tribute to the bowler (and the ball manufacturer) is doing a disservice, IMO.
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    Vaas vs Srinath vs Lee vs Zaheer vs Sobers

    There were actually wild fluctuations from both - Lee averaged 40+ for most of his career, with a couple of periods of averaging 20 or less. Vaas regularly went from averaging under 20 in one series to averaging 100+ in the next.
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    Vaas vs Srinath vs Lee vs Zaheer vs Sobers

    It was a reply to your post - appreciate, if you will, that that is slightly different to "directed at you".
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    was cricket more fun in the 90's?

    Just a bit funny how often dass\deira\dubai194\vastu shastra\Mard\Goocheslamb\SaeedAnwar\I've-forgotten-some-more has bumped threads by one of the other accounts. :ph34r: AND TO REITERATE ONCE AGAIN - THIS IS NOT AN ACCUSATION, MERELY AN OBSERVATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Who Is The Second Greatest Batsman Ever?

    Thought it was interesting that you'd posted it when I looked at it - why did you decide to do so, out of interest?
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    Who Is The Second Greatest Batsman Ever?

    And I said you can't. Either way, I don't see us reaching agreement on the matter so I'll leave it at I think you can and you think you can't. There are plenty of others who share both views, so neither are ridiculous.
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    Who Is The Second Greatest Batsman Ever?

    Not as unreliable as whatever evidence you have about how good a batsman Hobbs was, clearly.
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    Who Is The Second Greatest Batsman Ever?

    Although that statement has only rarely been untrue in the last ~40 years, the difference has not been significant enough for most of cricket history to rule that any batsman must have played Test cricket to have his case for being among the best ever taken seriously.
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    Career Averages that dont do justice

    I've not studied him in intimate detail, as I say, but there's long been some amount of similarity between him and Glenn McGrath in my mind - in having plentiful snarling aggression but being little more than a fast-medium-at-best bowler.
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    Good/Great bowlers that owned good/great batsman...

    So not only are you wrong about Atherton being mediocre (in a negative sense) but you're also wrong about Ambrose and Walsh "owning" him. By any yardstick Atherton enjoyed plenty of success against West Indies sides including not merely those two but Ian Bishop (and sometimes others) as well...
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    Good/Great bowlers that owned good/great batsman...

    Dwayne Smith's utter uselessness was what killed it, really.

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