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Dawood Ahmad

U19 Vice-Captain
harsh.ag said:
Dawood! Taliban is watching. Be careful. Don't say you find Gavaskar, Tendulkar impressive, unbelievable. Stick to hate; at best, mild criticism. Or you could choose to fight and be the next Taliban-assaulted kid who gets to give a speech at the UN and what not.. :)

Anyways, good on you for having the insight to not pick Viv, Imran, Lillee and Marshall. The 80s were beginning to take a stranglehold upon ATXIs. You may also want to look up an English bowler named Sydney Barnes. He was a fascinating medium pace spin bowler around a century ago. He may yet make your team.
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The best bowlers were there in 90s and the first half of 2000s because in 80s, things were being invented about bowling like reverse swing etc. In first half of 90s, about everything was invented and the bowlers were at their best and had a very bad impact on the batsmen which made ICC to introduce power play.
 
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Dawood Ahmad

U19 Vice-Captain
Not picked Viv because I had ponting there which is better than Richard. Ponting had a better attack (Attack doesn't mean how much boundaries he hit or how many balls he played but it means that whenever he tried to hit, it was mostly a boundary. A good attacker can also be defined as he does not loose his wicket when attacking.)
Ponting had a better defence. He could play for two to three days in tests which is better than richard.
Any batsman can be rated in terms of
atttack and defence
leg side, straight and off side
 
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Dawood Ahmad

U19 Vice-Captain
Monk said:
Dagwood, could you provide a brief opinion on these players please?

Allan Border
Javed Miandad
Trevor Bailey
Jack Iverson
Everton Weekes
Ronnie Irani
Bishen Bedi
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Allan Border-
He had an incredible ability of deciding which shot to play at which occasion. He was an unthinkable player of leg-spin with only three shots. Such a remarkable approach is outlandish for any player.
Javed Miandad-
He is the best batsman Pakistan has ever produced due to his ridiculous ability of playing in all the situations (light and hard). His six off the last ball was a flimsy moment which made his innings a remarkable one for playing under pressure. Pakistan's leading test-run scorer can be said as the second greatest Pakistani cricketer. If he would play in the current era, he could score upto 13000 runs.
Trevor Bailey-
Trevor Bailey is not comparable with the great historic english all rounders(Flintoff and Ian Botham) but he was an irregular player. Such players have the advantage that the opponent is always scared of them (like Afridi).
Jack Iverson-
He was a great spinner of his generation as he invented a suspect delivery which was later discovered by mendis and we can see the result that even in those fields of current era, that is useful.
Everton Weekes-
He, with some of other West Indians, played the key role in west indies' dominance of more than 15 years. Such timing of the ball can be seen very minutely and tracely in the sport. Other useful stokers can be Tendulker, Ponting, Amla, Devilliers, maxwell, Afridi, soon Q de kock will be after 10 years, etc.
Rooni Irani-
He is the same as T Bailey.
Bishan Bedi-
I watched him very little, i apologize.
 
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Dawood Ahmad

U19 Vice-Captain
uvelocity said:
can you write mcgraw again please
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The Aussie bowler Mcgraw is no match for Pakistani death bowlers like Wasim and Waqar and for all South African, Indian and English bowlers of the history. Wasim could just swing the ball similar to Waqar but Mcgrath determined the weakneses of the batsman in 3-4 overs and kept on bowling at that place. That caused a great pressure on batsman and he soon lost his wicket in next 15-20 overs by someone else like B Lee, Warne, Gillespie etc. He also had the advantage that he did not let the batter score runs. Soon, batter wanted to hit and then lost wicket.
 
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Dawood Ahmad said:
Both of them were not consistent.
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At what, exactly? To my mind, Bailey was a model of consistency - you got what you got from him - it was how the opposition responded to that which could be inconsistent. With Irani, you were more likely to get a vigorous callisthenics routine than a decent performance out of him at international level. Any comparison at all is completely ludicrous - they couldn't be more different in their delivery or results.
 
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The normal awards that everyone else has
Dawood, what about these players:

- WG Grace
- Alan Davidson
- Gavin Wanganeen
- Peter May
- Vinoo Mankad
- Gus Logie
 
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