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Brian lara vs Steve Waugh

Who is better test batsmen of 90s era

  • Steve Waugh

    Votes: 7 28.0%

  • Brian lara

    Votes: 18 72.0%
  • Total voters
    25
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pardus said:
Sorry to say, these sort of 'Tendulkar was a teen' excuses are so laughably childish. He had been playing professional Test cricket for 3 years then, had scored Test centuries in England and Australia, and was clearly a hardened pro at the time. When you readily count all his accomplishments as a teen, you can't dismiss his failures with that excuse.
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Don't really agree with this part tbh, particularly the bolded. Playing as a teen is so difficult and rare that it's essentially a bonus in my eyes if you manage to have any degree of success and holding any failures against a player at that age in comparison with a player who didnt have to do it makes perfect sense to me.

Obviously agree that there's not much between Sachin and Lara's records vs Donald tbh, both kinda middling. Probably prefer the tons Tendulkar got to the few fifties Lara managed though. Not just because they were tons but because the innings were of higher quality than Lara's (he got a 97 in a very low scoring game at Mumbai in the 2000 series that was superb too). Subjective though.
 
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Johan said:
Okay, I'm gonna ignore the 1993 series on the account of Sachin being a teenager and I'll ignore the 1998 West Indies series on the account of Lara being uninterested and not wanting to play at the first place.


Scoring tons mean nothing unless he's winning games, he isn't, going by average it's the exact same, you can apply whatever context you wish to, at the end of the day, 20 innings 5 dismissals at 32 average vs 20 innings 6 dismissals 34 average.
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Jeez how did you manage to make the dumbest post in a thread where @subshakerz and @kyear2 are having one of their faceoffs.
 
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Fun stats

% of their tons that came in wins

Hill 85.71
Gilchrist 82.35
Bradman 79.31
Waugh 78.13
Hayden 76.67
Trumper 75.00
Ponting 73.17
Root 69.44
Williamson 66.67
Smith 64.71
Chappell 58.33
Sangakkara 50.00
Richards 50.00
Kallis 48.89
Kohli 46.67
Hobbs 46.67
Sobers 46.15
Hammond 45.45
Sutcliffe 43.76
Hutton 42.11
Dravid 41.67
Tendulkar 39.22
Chanderpaul 36.67
Lara 23.53
Gavaskar 17.65

Yet another measure where Hill > Trumper @capt_Luffy

Also Lara sucks
 
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Coronis said:
Fun stats

% of their tons that came in wins

Hill 85.71
Gilchrist 82.35
Bradman 79.31
Waugh 78.13
Hayden 76.67
Trumper 75.00
Ponting 73.17
Root 69.44
Williamson 66.67
Smith 64.71
Chappell 58.33
Sangakkara 50.00
Richards 50.00
Kallis 48.89
Kohli 46.67
Hobbs 46.67
Sobers 46.15
Hammond 45.45
Sutcliffe 43.76
Hutton 42.11
Dravid 41.67
Tendulkar 39.22
Chanderpaul 36.67
Lara 23.53

Yet another measure where Hill > Trumper @capt_Luffy

Also Lara sucks
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Rahane is 9/12 i.e. 75%. Better than all these frauds who make stat-boosting useless non match winning tons. @Teja. vindicated.
 
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