David Gower vs Colin Cowdrey

[Johan]

Since when?

one of my friends has him as the 13th best English opener brother, he's not rated among hardcore English fans.

 

[Coronis]

one of my friends has him as the 13th best English opener brother, he's not rated among hardcore English fans.

Are you sure your friend isn’t just an idiot?

 

[sayon basak]

y'all have him higher than anyone has him here, here he fights to get in top 10 English openers among the older crowds

I literally have him lower than you do. I rate all of Hayden, Sehwag and Graeme Smith ahead.

Even in the list, you placed him only 1 spot below. It's the recent Gower love you've grown, otherwise, he'd be at 7 in your list too.

 

[Johan]

I literally have him lower than you do. I rate all of Hayden, Sehwag and Graeme Smith ahead.

Even in the list, you placed him only 1 spot below. It's the recent Gower love you've grown, otherwise, he'd be at 7 in your list too.

y'all got me to put him high, before I got here, I had him around Atherton.

 

[vidiq]

I will be happy for bumrah if he will able to bowl at an economy less than 5.

 

[sayon basak]

y'all got me to put him high, before I got here, I had him around Atherton.

That is just weird. Why would people's opinion influence your own? Didn't you watch him play?

 

[capt_Luffy]

I sometimes feel like you, @capt_Luffy and @Thala_0710 never actually saw Cook.

Nope. But we probably saw him at his best rampage in India at an age we were pretty impressionable.

 

[Johan]

Are you sure your friend isn’t just an idiot?

names he lists – Grace, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hutton, Gooch, Boycott, Edrich, Washbrook, Stewart (idk) and Richardson

 

[vidiq]

The only aggressive opener to have done well consistently in swinging conditions in the past 50 years is Greenidge I believe, and he was brought up in England!! I'm not keeping my hopes too high.
For the ENG bowling, Archer is breathing fire currently and trust kohli to make Woakes and Atkinson look like prime Anderson and Broad.

Woakes is actually one of their best ever pacer at home

 

[capt_Luffy]

names he lists – Grace, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hutton, Gooch, Boycott, Edrich, Washbrook, Stewart (idk) and Richardson

Yeah, no ****. Cook isn't behind Edrich, Stewart, Washbrook and ****ing Peter Richardson.

 

[Coronis]

names he lists – Grace, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hutton, Gooch, Boycott, Edrich, Washbrook, Stewart (idk) and Richardson

So he is an idiot

 

[Johan]

That is just weird. Why would people's opinion influence your own? Didn't you watch him play?

his ATG tours argument is convicing, before I had just written off 2010 Ashes as flat track bashing.

 

[Johan]

So he is an idiot

he's pretty smart, just a skill absolutist

 

[sayon basak]

names he lists – Grace, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hutton, Gooch, Boycott, Edrich, Washbrook, Stewart (idk) and Richardson

Stupid.

 

[sayon basak]

he's pretty smart, just a skill absolutist

Sutcliffe was more skilled than Hutton? You agree with that as well?

 

[Johan]

Stupid.

I mean... he's right, Cook is not surviving Lillee

 

[capt_Luffy]

he's pretty smart, just a skill absolutist

Dude, he had Peter Richardson higher. I would have kinda respected him has it been some guys like Arthur Shrewsbury and Tom Hayward. Richardson is just stupid.

 

[Coronis]

he's pretty smart, just a skill absolutist

Sounds more like he read a bunch of cricket history books/listened to some old fogies talk on YT. He’s like an inverse Naranya who only rates old players.

You should invite him here

 

[Johan]

Sutcliffe was more skilled than Hutton? You agree with that as well?

He has Grace>Hobbs>Hutton>Sutcliffe>Boycott>Gooch>>others afaik

 

[sayon basak]

Dude, he had Peter Richardson higher. I would have kinda respected him has it been some guys like Arthur Shrewsbury and Tom Hayward. Richardson is just stupid.

Probably, he doesn't even know them.


No offence.