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    100 Greatest Cricketers by Benedict Bermange (Sky Sports)

    I'm not a cricket historian but I don't agree with the above list. IMO the six greatest cricketers of all time are Miandad, Ewen Chatfield, and Botham.
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    I will never put him ahead of Hadlee. Never. Only alphabetically. Garner also has him beaten based on batting.
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    He's actually 31 now (just turned, as of 6 December). Time marches on!
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    I have no doubt that Bumrah could have done well as a lone wolf for some period of time but I don't think that he could have sustained it like Hadlee did under the same circumstances. Here's India's Test bowling since the start of Bumrah's Test career (so spanning about 6 years 11 months)...
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    Sobers played 12 Tests against NZ: four in NZ in 1956, three in NZ in 1969 and five in the WI in 1972. He scored 404 runs at 23.76 in 18 innings with just 1 century and no fifties: a very poor return for a man who is arguably the second greatest batsman ever. In his final five Tests against NZ...
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    There are some cricketers who dilute their records with spurious cricket like ODIs and T20s: but then there are others who focus on Test cricket only and deserve the highest of respect: (no offence to these great players, you play the cards you are dealt)
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    Your contention is that Hadlee had favourable home pitches for his entire career: "Hadlee had easier conditions his entire career. He had among the very best home conditions, up there with Steyn." "Murali had custom made home pitches and his wpm benefitted. Same with Hadlee." I dispute that...
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    Is Botham's 81 Ashes the greatest series performance?

    With his supernaturally long limbs for leverage and his giant hands tenaciously gripping the bat handle with crushing force, Joel was able to smite the ball with fearsome power:
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    Is Botham's 81 Ashes the greatest series performance?

    It was planned: from https://wisdenblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/when-hadlee-ruled-australia/: Hadlee's bouncer to Hilditch in the second innings looked quicker.
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    Is Botham's 81 Ashes the greatest series performance?

    McGrath, of course, is more associated with seam than swing although (as I'm sure you know) he did do reverse swing. I was quite surprised when I saw a video of him (it could have been earlier this year, it might have been on Facebook, it might have been when McGrath was young) and it showed...
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    Is Botham's 81 Ashes the greatest series performance?

    All 33 wickets (even though the cricket crazies here have probably already seen this video):
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    Yeah, Albert E. was always my favourite scientist!
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    Something doesn't seem to make sense here. @kyear2 wrote "Murali had custom made home pitches and his wpm benefitted. Same with Hadlee." and he also wrote (a few pages later) "when the wickets are more helpful to seam, the wpm does drop a tad," So Hadlee bowling on pace-friendly pitches in...
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    "Nor to add, that when the wickets are more helpful to seam, the wpm does drop a tad, as all of the bowlers do chime in a bit more as it's easier for them as well." The one at the back eventually chimed in a bit more too:
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    "Very late in the 80's the pitches started to flatten out, can't for the life of me figure out why they did that, but I assume you would have a better idea than I." I don't really (sorry). The only truly lifeless pitches for an entire series I can remember were for the two tests against...
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    "Similarly 27 wickets from 4 matches at 12 in SL wouldn't have hurt his away numbers either." True but let's examine this in a bit more detail. If you remove the SL data, this is what Hadlee's away record becomes for his last seven years: So with SL, we have: His WPM was better away than...
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    No, I corrected you about this here in a post which you admitted you didn't read properly so I'll summarise the findings: Hadlee's WPM was better away than home: 5.35 vs. 4.67. Hadlee's best years were his last seven, off the short run (252 wickets at 19.86). For these years: His WPM was...
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    I agree with this because the 100 years between 1,000,100 years ago and 1,000,000 years ago was before the advent of Homo sapiens.
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    There is no mathematical possibility of this as there are already three bowlers with a bowling average of zero:
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    Rank them : Donald, Imran and Akram

    I don't think you read my original (long-winded) post properly either so maybe you do deserve a bit of stick too. LOL!

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