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Search results for query: Kallis

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    Would you play Keith Miller in your Australia ATG XI?

    Not sure if I select Faulkner or Proctor. Would we drop Shaun Pollock though? But yeah quantity in these scenarios rarely makes up for quality.
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    Would you play Keith Miller in your Australia ATG XI?

    Kallis is likely to be a 6th bowler and hardly have the same impact.
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    Would you play Keith Miller in your Australia ATG XI?

    The batting of SA can compete thanks to depth. But the bowling won't compete. Donald had a mental block against Australia. Steyn maybe is going to have one or two impactful spells the entire series and then be collared the rest. Proctor is not a given and Pollock in Australia also faltered. Not...
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    Would you play Keith Miller in your Australia ATG XI?

    ...you can find in any average side in world cricket. So basically you are willing to lower your threshold now from a specialist 5th bowler like Kallis or potentially Miller to part timer level because you know the role isn't really that important. Whereas batting at no.8 is needed regardless...
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    Would you play Keith Miller in your Australia ATG XI?

    Proctor or Faulkner?
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    Would you play Keith Miller in your Australia ATG XI?

    Maybe in SA. SA bat pretty deep. Richards, Smith, G Pollock, Kallis, Nourse, ABD, DeCock, Proctor/Faulkner, S Pollock, Steyn, Donald, Tayfield. They just lack a bit of the lethal edge I think.
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    Would you play Keith Miller in your Australia ATG XI?

    No it's not. You say the opposite about Kallis and make his role to be indispensable.
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    Would you play Keith Miller in your Australia ATG XI?

    ...ATG scenarios, you are winning or losing games based on the standard of your four main bowlers. Yes it's a nice value add to have a Sobers/Kallis 5th bowler but it's not a requisite. You literally need a 5th bowler to bowl rest overs and take the occasional wicket which Simpson is perfectly...
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    Rahul Dravid vs AB De Villiers

    Sure he stuck with no. 5 too long but I think until Kallis and Amla were there it made sense.
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    Rahul Dravid vs AB De Villiers

    That's the main issue with his record. It's not his fault he had Kallis and peak Amla ahead of him though but he definitely had a cushion.
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    Sunil Gavaskar vs Wally Hammond

    He didn't have a full international cricket career. FC doesn't count. WSC and a single home series aren't enough. Peer rating doesn't trump an actual record. I have always been clear on this. Otherwise why not vote Lillee over Marshall? Barry's peer rating based on getting tested in county...
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    Rank these 5 Test openers in order (Boycott, Greenidge, Hayden, Sehwag, G Smith)

    The answer is we should downgrade both Kallis and Boycott.
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    Steve Smith vs Brian Lara

    Would you admit there are better bats on Lara on certain metrics but not those that you value highly?
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    Imran Khan vs Barry Richards

    I am as big a champion of peer rating as any on the forum, but I never accepted that it can replace an entire international career. Not to state the obvious, but achieving ATG success is up to talent and temperament but also luck and many factors. You cant even pretend Barry would have 100...
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    Ponting. Sanga. Kallis.

    Sure. He was below par there in short tours, like Kallis in England (though Kallis played 15 tests). You are asking how he would do over half a career as a home bat, obviously he adapts and succeeds. It's such a silly question to ask based such a limited touring sample on. Reminder all it...
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    Ponting. Sanga. Kallis.

    Sanga averages a few points less obviously because SL helped him batting wise but he already averages more than Kallis, so we know this stuff. The guy loved pace and bounce, personally I think he would have preserved over an entire career. But don't inflate Kallis' home average achievement...
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    Ponting. Sanga. Kallis.

    ...to have more mega tours. WI is a low sample. Also let's not forget how keeping suppressed the early stage of batting as he admitted. And Kallis was worse in England and not great in SL against Murali either. Like I said, neither of their records has some significant advantage except Sanga...
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    Ponting. Sanga. Kallis.

    Sanga ain't the rear at all. He and Kallis have overall matching records. But Sanga, unlike Kallis, could actually stamp his presence on a game. Sanga has 11 double tons. He has a much better SR. He has a matchwinning double ton against peak Shoaib in Pakistan. He has two back to back near...
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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    Seems like we are at absolute zenith of Bumrah and should enjoy the show as long as it lasts.
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    Ponting. Sanga. Kallis.

    Why did he suck in England of all places?

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