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Battle of the Cricketers

Zinzan

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archie mac said:
It seems to be the favourite thing on this site to find fault with the reputation of one DK Lillee in my opinion the greatest fast bowler ever.

Apparently he was an overated bowler who could not bowl out side of Aust. or Eng. He was no good in SL? True but he did only play one Test there, so I will say big deal!

He was no good in Pakistan, true? But he only played three Test there. The great Imran only claimed six wickets in the series, and told Lillee not to play the 2nd and 3rd Test as they would be roads! Imran did not play in the 2nd Test, but did play in the 3rd because 'I need the money'. So I will say big deal!


He was no good in the WI True? but he did only play one Test there and broke down with a career threating back injury, so I will say big deal!

The Windies were the best during his playing days by quite a distance he claimed 55 at 27.74 not too bad I would think. He also claimed Viv Richards wicket 9 times, not bad for an overated bowler.

He also lost two years to WSC where he bowled against the best players in the World at the time and also did fairly well. If these wickets were included he would have claimed 500+ Test wickets.

Every contemporary player including both Hadlee and Marshall rate him the best fast bowler they played with or against. To quote Marshall 'I didn't see much of him in his prime in the early 70s yet in my opinion he was surely the best of all fast bowlers'.

To quote Sir Richard Hadlee: ' 'To me he was the complete fast bowler' ' in many respects I copied Lillee'

Now as neither of these great players are Australian, I take it they must have been brained washed by the Australian media? :@
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Since when are Hadlee and Marshall "Every contemporary player"?? ...Slight exaggeration.

Also there are a lot of ifs and buts in the whole argument.
 
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Tom Halsey

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FaaipDeOiad said:
I'm not going to bother with the rest of the post, as you will quote from your notepad files at me and refuse to listen to any non-statistical argument anyway, but I do think it's quite funny that you accused two of the least biased posters on the entire forum of being clear examples of bias.
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Yeah, I thought that post was quite funny as well. The fact of the matter is that statistics are not he be all and end all of the game (especially when Lillee played so few games in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and with horrendously biased umpires as well at those times).
 
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