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  1. kyear2

    Don Bradman and Rubel Hossain vs Sachin Tendulkar and Dale Steyn

    What?
  2. kyear2

    Don Bradman and Rubel Hossain vs Sachin Tendulkar and Dale Steyn

    This belief that Bradman is twice as good as everyone else and that this comparison is even worth consideration is just wild to me.
  3. kyear2

    Barry Richards vs George Headley vs Graeme Pollock

    People live to compare Hick to Barry with little to compare. Barry always performed at his best against the very best test playing competition of his day, Hick was very similar to Abbas and filled his boots vs spin and the slower medium stuff. People just like to keep repeating it without basis...
  4. kyear2

    Barry Richards vs George Headley vs Graeme Pollock

    As usual an excellent post. The book by Wilde was one of my first introductions to Barry along with stories of his WSC exploits. And overall he, along with Chappell were the only guys even in Viv's neighborhood as a batsman. (Border came later and was more of a grinder). The book raised...
  5. kyear2

    Barry Richards vs George Headley vs Graeme Pollock

    Don't think anyone has ever called Sunny crap. He's a legitimate top 10 batsman of all time. So if anyone think s that my opinion it's dead wrong. My top two teams for my AT XI are all super elite (and a couple from the 3rd). There are two sections in my AT XI which are relatively...
  6. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    Or read what I said. I said Max or Lewis apart, none of today's drivers can hold a candle to Prost or Sena. Fed in his prime was more skilled than Djoker. He had the better serve, forehand, volley etc etc. Djoker the better defender, mover and backhand. Also adopted better equipment faster and...
  7. kyear2

    Don Bradman and Rubel Hossain vs Sachin Tendulkar and Dale Steyn

    I don't see the argument for the first option.
  8. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    He was a hall of famer well before the roid age.
  9. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    The only sports (that I watch) that have become better are the sports and positions that are impacted by athletes becoming bigger and stronger. But skill wise? There's probably two quarterbacks that comes close to Marino as a passer in this era and one of those is 40 and we'll past his best...
  10. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    West Indies, South Africa, New Zealand. The 30's were well known and accepted as the absolute worst (or best depending on perspective) of pitches. Which is why, as have been discussed times a plenty here, that Bradman's runs were somewhat discounted during his career and many saw Hobbs and...
  11. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    But again, Gilchrist batted in literally one of the two flattest eras in the history of the game, while batting at no. 7 in what is the strongest batting lineup in modern history. Everyone crucifies and downgrades Hayden and Ponting for batting on roads, and they batted at 1 & 3, not 7 when...
  12. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    Yes, the 20's as well Most of the period between the wars.
  13. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    And accordingly the standards have dropped. For some it's objectively poor.
  14. kyear2

    Did Marshall and McGrath have it easier?

    So hence, what's your point. This is your 3rd such thread. Did slip fielding give them an advantage. Did being in a strong attack give them an advantage Now did having a strong batting line up (which we particularly didn't after Lloyd retired) give them an advantage. How about Bumrah, he's...
  15. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    Wicket-keeping skills have objectively declined... Batting discipline has objectively declined. There's one bowler in this era that I would say is even close to Wasim, anyone as accurate and consistent as McGrath?
  16. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    And some of the middle orders objectively shaky.
  17. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    Yes. The 30's and immediate post war period of the '40's were the flattest era of cricket. There was a conscious decision to spice up the pitches in England and Australia from about 1950 or so.
  18. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    People keep saying that we are in a bowling era and point to batting averages to support that. But from watching cricket the last couple years I would suggest that that we are in an era of some of the least skilled, low patience, t20 influenced batsmen in a while. Some of these batting...
  19. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    And cricket was seen to be largely saved by the tied test and by a certain cavalier all rounder from the Caribbean.
  20. kyear2

    Andy Flower vs Alan Knott

    Just stop dude. The two easiest eras to bat were the 30's and the 2000's. By that argument was Gilchrist also a fraud with a soft average?

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