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Am I the only one here who rates Sunil Gavaskar slightly above Viv Richards in Test?

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Rob Wesley

School Boy/Girl Captain
capt_Luffy said:
Also said Kohli>Tendulkar
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Not going into debate of who is better but just a point here.

When Imran would have said anything about Viv and Gavaskar, that would be in reference to his playing time. He would have bowled to both and was very much into cricket to know who was the best player of his generation.

40-50 years later, he is now not much into the scheme of things in terms of following cricket especially that of outside Pakistan. He is a politician and a former PM of Pakistan. His views on modern cricket would be very generic and based on 1-2 memory of playing them rather than following their whole careers. So, his opinion means nothing when it comes to Tendulkar/ Kohli but it might be worth understanding what his view were on players of his era whom he played against.
 
Coronis

Coronis

International Coach
Rob Wesley said:
Not going into debate of who is better but just a point here.

When Imran would have said anything about Viv and Gavaskar, that would be in reference to his playing time. He would have bowled to both and was very much into cricket to know who was the best player of his generation.

40-50 years later, he is now not much into the scheme of things in terms of following cricket especially that of outside Pakistan. He is a politician and a former PM of Pakistan. His views on modern cricket would be very generic and based on 1-2 memory of playing them rather than following their whole careers. So, his opinion means nothing when it comes to Tendulkar/ Kohli but it might be worth understanding what his view were on players of his era whom he played against.
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Meh. Peer rating always needs to be taken with lots of grains of salt. Its been shown time and time again to be incredibly biased and illogical.

For example if someone says x was best bowler I played against, I’d be more inclined to believe they had a memorable spell/innings/match involving them which stuck, rather than any sort of valid statement about quality.

Even for example with Ponting’s recent statements about Kallis (@subshakerz), it could simply be seen as Ponting saying oh he’s the greatest allrounder ever - he was always the target when we played SA in our mind, always the wicket we wanted. Plus he kept getting me out on top of that!
 
Johan

Johan

International Captain
sayon basak said:
Opening has something to do with batting, Keeping has nothing to do with batting.
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in the context of batting imo opening should give you some extra points if in countries with excess side ways movement or uneven bounce, it shouldn't put you above guys a tier above you in batting like Sachin vs Sunny
 
capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

International Coach
Johan said:
in the context of batting imo opening should give you some extra points if in countries with excess side ways movement or uneven bounce, it shouldn't put you above guys a tier above you in batting like Sachin vs Sunny
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Sachin isn't a tier above Gavaskar in batting really
 
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