capt_Luffy
International Coach
In 1983 at home (Marshall, Holding and Roberts), averaged 50+
In 1976 away (Holding and Roberts), averaged 50+
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Am I the only one here who rates Sunil Gavaskar slightly above Viv Richards in Test?
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In 1976 away (Holding and Roberts), averaged 50+
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
lol. The “quartet” only ever played 6 matches together, 4 being in that series. Can’t try and denigrate Gavaskar who actually played them when nobody else but Gooch and Boycott did.
HouHsiaoHsien
International Debutant
I think Gavaskar’s achievements against WI pacers, especially Holding and Roberts, and in the 83 series against Marshall and Co(even tho on home pitches, it was peak Marshall) are commendable. Although my favourite performance against them is Border’s. Only in the first match, it was a weak attack(but Border’s achievements didn’t even come in that match), post that he was the one man standing and surviving against peak Marshall, Garner and Holding
capt_Luffy
International Coach
Defo Amarnath deserves a mention
HouHsiaoHsien
International Debutant
Yeah. His is up there amongst the best, very possibly better than Border’s
sayon basak
Cricketer Of The Year
Viv Richards v Sunil Gavaskar
Richards on the other hand would hit you irrespective of the ball being of a good length or not. Gavaskar treated each ball on merit, Richards treated each ball as he wanted. Richards was Tendulkar with Afridi's attitude towards the cricket ball and the bowlers. I was just about to say...
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capt_Luffy
International Coach
Hey hey calm down..... No one here puts Viv down like they do Lillee (probably because PEWS and Coronis rates Lillee even further down, but still).
Johan
International Captain
Viv's eventual destiny is to go 50-50 with Michael Hussey, it's a given etc
OverratedSanity
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Viv fanboys have a massive victim complex. Viv himself would disown them for being this weak-minded.
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
I just have a negative perception on someone posting the same thing in 5 different threads everyday.
Johan
International Captain
exaggeration, and why does me taking the piss about Hussey being rated above Viv eventually even bother you lol. If you're not socially inept, it's very easy to tell that's just me joking.
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Johan
International Captain
absurdly so, I ran some statistic checks on the wickets and they're borderline otherwordly, like the big three (England, Australia and South Africa) are absolute minefields at a time where West Indies is basically 2000s Australia type pitch, with the pacers averaging 40 on those wickets, spinners fare much much better, I reckon it was the time when Lloyd started building a fast bowling battery to hammer Australia that the windies curators started producing faster more bouncy wickets.
Johan
International Captain
Hutton>Hobbs is the type of stance where you've to tell yourself to get away from the computer.
capt_Luffy
International Coach
It's one of the better ones. He has much worse
sayon basak
Cricketer Of The Year
Lol he rates Barry higher than kyear2.
capt_Luffy
International Coach
He rates him 15th, Kyear 9th