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    Brian Lara vs Ricky Ponting (against pace bowling)

    Well, if we are stooping down to the levels of cherry-picking specific instances of batsmen getting hit/injured by fast bowlers just to prove a point, that can be done for any batsman (including the best of the best). Here goes... Wasim Akram to Tendulkar in 1994 Shoaib Akhtar to Ponting...
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    Brian Lara vs Ricky Ponting (against pace bowling)

    The way I look at it, on an average day, Ponting is better. But when both are playing at their best, Lara is in another league from Ponting (against any attack, on any pitch). It is extremely difficult and frustrating to categorize Lara in any which way. You can pick several valid examples to...
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    Imran Khan vs Curtley Ambrose

    I was thinking the same thing. Walsh's performance in India & Pakistan is absolutely insane. Superior to the likes of Donald & McGrath & arguably even Marshall. Especially impressive considering that Walsh played far more Test matches than Donald or Marshall in the subcontinent.
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    Imran Khan vs Curtley Ambrose

    But that 97 India team at least had a young, strong batting lineup and the pitches in that series - other than the one at Barbados - were absolutely dead. Despite having batsmen like Lara, Hooper, Tendulkar, the 97 series mainly reminds me of Sidhu's dreary double century and India 4th innings...
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    Imran Khan vs Curtley Ambrose

    I always felt Ambrose was jinxed against India (a bit like Lara). In the 1989 home series, pitches were extremely fast bowler friendly and Indian batting performance in that series wasn't particularly great. There was no logical reason why Ambrose couldn't have performed well in that series...
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    Imran Khan vs Curtley Ambrose

    Yes, but unlike Lillee, Ambrose did have one great series (of only 2 that he played) in the subcontinent.
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    Imran Khan vs Curtley Ambrose

    Sorry I missed that. Too many posts to read, just skimmed through and posts that Ambrose was unproven in SC like Lillee caught my attention. So addressed that. IMO, Imran has proven himself in most conditions.
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    Imran Khan vs Curtley Ambrose

    Defintely not unproven or bad in India.
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    Imran Khan vs Curtley Ambrose

    Well for me, in an extremely small sample of series, one great series is good enough. Cannot be remotely compared with Lillee who doesn't have a single successful series in the SC.
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    Who is the best since Bradman?

    Didn't Praveen Amre and Kapil Dev both score Test centuries in that series? It was Amre's debut Test match century too if I recall. If Tendulkar is credited for his accomplishments as a teenager (like his Test centuries in Perth & Sydney) then I don't think it is unfair to penalize him for his...
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    Imran Khan vs Curtley Ambrose

    How can it be unproven when he had at least one definitely successful series there? His overall output in Pak is heavily skewed by just those 2 innings in 1997.
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    Imran Khan vs Curtley Ambrose

    Ambrose played 3 series in the subcontinent. In 2 of those 3 series, Ambrose did very well. Agreed he failed miserably in the one series in 1997 but then he bowled in only 2 innings in that series (he was nursing a back injury and bowled significantly lesser than other West Indian bowlers). I...
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    Who is the best since Bradman?

    Of the modern day batsmen (batsmen who played majority of their career after 1970), to me, it is really subjective as to who is the greatest. I don’t think there is any one batsman as “unambiguously the greatest”. They all have their strengths and weaknesses in their CVs. It depends on what...
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    Wasim Akram vs Dennis Lillee

    Maybe I am missing something about WPI or WPM... Isn't a bowler's strike-rate the same as (or a better indicator stat than) WPI or WPM etc.? Steyn, Waqar, Marshall, Donald have exceptional strike rates. Lillee has slightly better strike rate than Wasim.
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    Dennis Lillee vs Sunil Gavaskar

    Although Lillee got Gavaskar numerous times in that Aus vs ROW 'Test' series in 1971/72, Lillee's delivery that got Gavaskar in the Perth 'Test' match still sticks out for me - rearing up off good length, little Gavaskar could do other than fending it off. The series was more famous for Sober's...
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    Wasim Akram vs Dennis Lillee

    Not surprising. He retired practically at the end of 1983. Worldwide boom of ODI cricket (meaning multi-team tournaments involving Australia, like the ones in Sharjah in 90s etc.) hadn't happened at the time. Major ODI cricket was still limited to bilaterals, World Cups (all England) and WSC...
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    Wasim Akram vs Dennis Lillee

    I don't think Lillee is behind anyone as far as peer ratings are concerned. In 1980s and well into 1990s, Lillee was the benchmark of fast bowling. He was, almost by default, considered the greatest fast bowler of the modern era. Many greats of the time including Viv Richards, Barry Richards...
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    Dale Steyn vs Wasim Akram

    BTW, later in that same over shown in your above video, Wasim bowled an inswinging yorker on Viv's leg stump - and Viv smashed it to cover boundary. Typical Viv. Most right hand batsmen, even the great ones, particularly of that era, would have used the inswinging angle to hit the ball to the...
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    Dale Steyn vs Wasim Akram

    As a bowler, Wasim evokes the same sort of reverence from his peers as I have only seen Viv Richards evoke as a batsman. In his book “Time to talk”, Curtly Ambrose unambiguously calls Wasim the greatest fast bowler of his generation. Ambrose writes - "Wasim Akram - Possibly the greatest; he was...
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    Michael Holding vs Waqar Younis

    Waqar's rise was so meteoric. He made his Test debut in the same Test match that Sachin Tendulkar made his debut. Within an year, he was considered one of the most lethal bowlers in the world. I have rarely seen another fast bowler consistently swing the ball that much, and that late, as Waqar...

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