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    Jasprit Bumrah vs Malcolm Marshall

    Roberts was gloriously discusting in the SC.
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    Which test team is currently the best in 2024?

    A few months from now, we may be getting seriously different answers to the (already diverse) answers being posted now. And that is really cool. When were tests last this competitive?
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    Both Tests and ODI cricket : Donald vs Pollock

    Bowling alone, Pollock is ahead in ODIs by about the same degree Donald is in tests.
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    Kapil Dev vs Ricky Ponting

    You said this: I gave you the examples of their teams. Not sure what you are trying to say in your most recent post.
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    Kapil Dev vs Ricky Ponting

    I'm suggesting that if forced to pick between the two, Kapil's team would have taken Kapil. I doubt you find this contentious? Pontings team may have picked Kapil too. He's a notably better bowler than Lee. And a much better bat.
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    Brian Lara vs Jacques Kallis

    Yes, these 4. I rate their role behind the wicket higher than Lara, who I thought was just pretty good. Maybe I'm underrating him a bit- not really sure. I rate Lara closer to these 4 than Sachin. Even being closer to Sachin would not imply a big gap though.
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    Kapil Dev vs Ricky Ponting

    Kapil comes close to getting selected ahead of Ponting in the team Kapil played for without factoring his batting in. He also might make Pontings team ahead of Ponting. He's a better bowler than Lee and a pretty big bump in batting. The team may have been better off taking a downgrade from...
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    Brian Lara vs Jacques Kallis

    I don't rate catching as highly in player assessments as you. But catching might be enough for the 4 top 2000s bats to pull ahead of Lara as a player. He's better as a bat, but not by a big margin.
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    Kapil Dev vs Ricky Ponting

    Primary skill is clearly the wrong way to compare a player to Kapil, whose value is clearly as an AR.
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    Brian Lara vs Jacques Kallis

    In actual real games, this meant losing Kallis plus another bat as the team brought more bowling in. Only Bradman is worth this kind of sacrifice.
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    Dale Steyn vs Brian Lara

    There's quite a bit of value in the extra batting from a bowler. I do find it hard to quantify exactly how much though. Not sure if I should be rating Akram above Mcgrath. Simpson is even trickier. Most teams will have a part timer or two who can average 40 or 50. He's a level above that, but...
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    Dale Steyn vs Brian Lara

    The balanced ARs im relation to specialists are the trickiest for me.
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    Cummins vs Rabada

    Cummins, but there isn't much of a gap between them anymore. Rabada has caught up a bunch in the last few years.
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    The Fastest Bowler ever?

    I don't know about the decimal points. I always round everything to the nearest whole number*. Likely was 156.7. It rings a bell. Edit: If you mean reliable in terms of trusting what the gun was saying, I reckon it was, at least as far as IPL speeds can be. They normally feel inflated by a...
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    The Fastest Bowler ever?

    My impression of IPL speedguns is that they are inflated by a couple of kms. Most of the RSA bowlers whose speeds I have watched in RSA are gunning quicker in IPL. This list is not complete though. I forget decimal points, but I 100% watched Steyn clocked at 157 in the early 2010s. And I'm not...
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    Viv Richards vs Sunil Gavaskar

    Let's not forget his stellar record of exercising good judgement.
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    Is there a difference between a greater cricketer and a better cricketer?

    Nope. He is the highest wicket taker by a big margin, and it didn't come from spamming tests. Highest WPM by a huge margin, and best average of any bowler remotely in his wicket class. Best peak. Best at consistently destroying opposition. Whatever advantages he had over other bowlers, that is...
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    Is there a difference between a greater cricketer and a better cricketer?

    Murali is the GOAT bowler by an appreciable margin, but there's an argument for other bowlers being as good as him.
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    Graham Gooch vs Vernon Philander

    Root is as close to 100% the same era as you can hope for in a comparison. AB is a big amount of overlap too.
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    Garry Sobers vs Imran Khan

    Bingo. If you want to make an exception and sneak 800 wickets@23 in there too, I will allow it.

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