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Best Test Openers
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tooextracool
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dont u ever forget that trescothick cant bat???good god!their last good partnership came what 2 yrs ago against a horrible SL bowling attack.marc71178 said:
gayle=horrible while hinds=even worse,perhaps the luckiest player in the side and if you're the luckiest player in the WI side you know how bad you really are. and dont even try to back him up when he has averages of 26,16,19,13 against aus,eng,nz,sa respectively and when his overall average is 31. id pick papps and richardson over gayle and hinds even if theyve only played 3 tests together.Mr Mxyzptlk said:
Ford_GTHO351
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Hayden & Langer
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Hayden and Langer IMO too....
With 1.1-1.2 BILLION people in India and considering how fanatical they are about their own cricket team/players, I'm absolutely flabbergasted that they're not AHEAD in the poll.
The rest of the countries TOGETHER wouldn't get as many votes, and it's not like the average Indian cricket fan isn't blind to facts and reasonable logic.
They can be abit like the English who continued to celebrate 1966 for 37 years for some reason... apparently they have something else to celebrate now??? (j/k'ing)
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Ford_GTHO351
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In regards to the best of the rest, on current form, Sehwag & Chopra. Though Sehwag is mainly getting the runs in the partnership as Chopra mainly is just playing a very defensive game.shankar said:
When both players are in form, I rate the Vaughan & Trescothick a better opening partnership then the Sehwag & Chopra opening partnership as they both can score runs without having to be bogged down and playing a very defensive game like Chopra's.
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luckyeddie
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Many CricketWeb Indians are a discerning bunch, as are many CW Pakistanis, many CW English, many CW Austrians (heh) etc.hellnback said:
No terrace element here, oh no. Seats in the pavilion, cucumber sandwiches (crusts off), Assam tea with milk and sugar (two lumps please) and my copy of The Times nicely ironed, please.
wahindiawah
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Actually the thread is about the best opners in the game and not the worst!Bouncer said:
ajaagarkarajaaja
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wahindiawah said:
Pakistan has a history of cartoon version of openers. Some interesting names are Shaiad Afridi (what a clown the guy is), then there was Wajahatuall wasti ( hope i got his spelling right) Saleem Elahi and the sleepy Mudassar Nazar.
Though they had some good too, like Anwar and Sohail.
On present openers, Farhat has limited footwork, i don't think he will be much successful at test level.
luckyeddie
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No, I'm strictly 'terrace' at Derbyshire. Besides, cucumber sandwiches have a high water content, therefore there is real danger of them freezing to your hands at Derbyshire's ground in April.Craig said:
What am I saying? It's freezing there in July. I'll stick to the soup and chips.
Salamuddin
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Maybe its because more people think that Sehwag and Chopra are a better pairing than Trescothick and Vaughan ?marc71178 said:
luckyeddie
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Could be, could be....jamesryfler said:
Interesting to note that, if Trescothick and Vaughan have bagged no votes at all, that means that (shock horror) Marc didn't vote for them either.
tooextracool
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i dont think marc rates trescothick either and its not like vaughan has been scoring bucket full of runs over the last yr.luckyeddie said:
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What does your take on Gayle's and Hinds' technique have to do with their record as openers?tooextracool said:
And I will back Hinds. Hinds is one of the unluckiest players in the West Indies side. Have you seen Hinds bat? He's gotten so many bad decisions, I've lost count. In England he got one just about every time he batted. The fact that his technique is shot doesn't affect his ability to score runs. I'm not claimingb either Gayle or Hinds is a great batsman, but the statistics prove that they are a good opening partnership.
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It's quite possible that Marc doesn't rate them as the best opening pair, but rates them better than the Indian pair.tooextracool said:
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I don't consider India to have had much better success in openers than Pakistan.ajaagarkarajaaja said:
ajaagarkarajaaja
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Mr Mxyzptlk said:
LOL. Does the names of Gavaskar,Srikanth, Sehwag means anything to you?
this doesnt make any sense.
i think Trescothick-Vaughan average is about 45 and sehwag-chopras is about 65(on par with the hayden-langer).
so either take into consideration that 4/7 matches were against aus(best team in world) and could(probably) only do better with others and rate them as clear 3rd best pair.
or
dont rate them at all until they play substancial amount together.
now with an average of 20 more than their england counterparts why would they be on par with them. do you expect their avg. to fall? if anything chopra hasnt fired yet so this pair could probably get even better. so this could go either way.