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Search results for query: namesake

  1. P

    Which players would be locks in every OTHER country’s ATG XI?

    ...Simon Wilde claimed that Viv Richards was generally considered the world's leading batsman between 1976 and 1990, after taking over from his namesake. That seems generous. Others were certainly in contention during that long period, including Gavaskar, but perhaps not for long enough to...
  2. kyear2

    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

    Appreciated and accepted.
  3. Coronis

    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

    Happy to admit when I’m wrong @kyear2 I’m sorry, I was wrong re: your use of namesake. My other points re: Barry still stand.
  4. R

    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

    Lol what
  5. ataraxia

    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

    If you don't trust dictionaries, pretty much every use of the word on CW.
  6. kyear2

    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

  7. Coronis

    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

    Very convenient place to crop that mate. If you’ve ever seen the word namesake used purely as “the same name as someone else” please share.
  8. kyear2

    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

  9. Coronis

    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

    Please look up what namesake means 8-) Andy Ganteaume also is eligible. Why not pick him? Mark Waugh and Michael Bevan both had head to head FC careers with Steve Waugh and smashed him. Which of the three will you pick first?
  10. kyear2

    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

    How? Lillee and others from the era directly compared him to Viv, how is that conceited? You're reading way too much into this. He played test cricket and hence he's eligible. He also had a head to head career with Sir Gordon, my first cricketing hero and, and out performed him. Why would this...
  11. Coronis

    Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

    The namesake comment reeks of it mate. No. This is about test cricket. What we have to go on are tests, unlike Barry. This is exactly what I mean when I say bias. You ignore all these other cricketers who have similar cases - and aren’t “niche” players who you wouldn’t know, especially after...
  12. 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.
  13. 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...
  14. F

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

    Shame. It was a costly earlier drop by his inferior namesake.
  15. 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...
  16. 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.
  17. 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...
  18. F

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

    Brandon McMullen already looks to be a better ODI bat than his almost namesake Baz.
  19. _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.
  20. 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.

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