Brian lara vs Steve Waugh

[Coronis]

Hill has one less century tbf, which boosts his percentage. And Hill scored more of those centuries against SA, right?

Yeah. 100% of Hill’s tons vs England were matchwinners tho

 

[Johan]

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

Root a bigger match winner than Tendulkar? Hmmmm

 

[sayon basak]

Yeah. 100% of Hill’s tons vs England were matchwinners tho

So 4. How many of Trumper's Century vs ENG were match winning?

 

[Coronis]

Root a bigger match winner than Tendulkar? Hmmmm

Viv carried by Marshall et all like Sanga was carried by Murali.

 

[sayon basak]

Root a bigger match winner than Tendulkar? Hmmmm

Don't get started.

 

[DrWolverine]

Saurav Ganguly has scored 16 centuries and India has not lost a single match when he scored a ton.

 

[Johan]

Viv carried by Marshall et all like Sanga was carried by Murali.

and like Ponting by McWarne and Gilchrist

 

[sayon basak]

Saurav Ganguly has scored 16 centuries and India has not lost a single match when he scored a ton.

But not all of them were match winning.

 

[Coronis]

Saurav Ganguly has scored 16 centuries and India has not lost a single match when he scored a ton.

Yeah I was curious as to the player who scored the most centuries, all of them coming in wins.

 

[Johan]

the fact we've Chanders mentioned in a thread about Lara and Waugh is so disrespectful to the 2 greats

 

[sayon basak]

Yeah I was curious as to the player who scored the most centuries, all of them coming in wins.

Oh then this metric is not very helpful. Go through the innings to figure out the actual winning knocks. Pretty sure only 4 or 5 of Hayden's centuries were match defining.

 

[Narayana]

Saurav Ganguly has scored 16 centuries and India has not lost a single match when he scored a ton.

Rohit Sharma also has similar stats.

 

[Coronis]

Oh then this metric is not very helpful. Go through the innings to figure out the actual winning knocks. Pretty sure only 4 or 5 of Hayden's centuries were match defining.

No i mean after this I’m just curious as to who has 100% of their tons in wins. I just made the list to poke fun at Johan’s dumb post.

And yeah the answer is Rohit

 

[subshakerz]

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.

Well said. I don't get why others are putting the same expectations of a prime bat on a teen bat.

 

[honestbharani]

Sachin's 100 against Donald was very good. Personally, I think his Perth 100 is far better and probably his best 100 in his career. But discounting that 100 in 92 in RSA for any reason is just silly.

Lara is still better than Sachin, Waugh and especially Ponting though.

 

[subshakerz]

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.

Tendulkar's 169 against Donald and Pollock is an underrated great innings. Came in for a partnership at 5 down for little and played with complete control and balance.

 

[subshakerz]

Sachin's 100 against Donald was very good. Personally, I think his Perth 100 is far better and probably his best 100 in his career. Discounting that for made up reason is just silly.

Lara is still better than Sachin, Waugh and especially Ponting though.

Sachin considers his Perth knock as his best. Nobody should discount it.

 

[honestbharani]

Tendulkar's 169 against Donald and Pollock is an underrated great innings. Came in for a partnership at 5 down for little and played with complete control and balance.

For me, his best knock in RSA will be Bloemfontein 2001. I think he achieved against a greater attack in 2010 but that 100 was just peak batsmanship as far as Sachin's batting was concerned, for me. He shepherded Sehwag along beautifully as well on his debut.

 

[subshakerz]

For me, his best knock in RSA will be Bloemfontein 2001. I think he achieved against a greater attack in 2010 but that 100 was just peak batsmanship as far as Sachin's batting was concerned, for me. He shepherded Sehwag along beautifully as well on his debut.

Yeah that was a top knock.