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Establishing the best decade for cricket: Finding the ATG XI from 12 decades of test cricket - then having a KO tourney to decide the best

honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Gob said:
Kallis
Lara

Murali

People seem to forget how good Lara was in the mid 00s.


i mean this is piss taking
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Best Batsman I have seen... And what a privilege it was to watch him bat too, at his best. :)

























Of course, this must mean he plays for CSK or TN............
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
I just dont think there was a more box office batsman as far as test cricket goes. Sehwag comes close but there just seemed to be something extra with how Lara bats. There are other batsmen who are more brutal and Gilly was often ugly effective. But I am not sure if there was a batsman who made absolute arrogant domination of bowlers look this beautiful.
 
The Sean

The Sean

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honestbharani said:
I just dont think there was a more box office batsman as far as test cricket goes. Sehwag comes close but there just seemed to be something extra with how Lara bats. There are other batsmen who are more brutal and Gilly was often ugly effective. But I am not sure if there was a batsman who made absolute arrogant domination of bowlers look this beautiful.
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Agreed - if we were building an all-time World XI to play for the fate of the world and you guaranteed me I was getting everyone on their very best day, I'd take Lara over any batsman in history not called Bradman. And even against Bradman - based purely on God-mode and nothing else - there can't be much in it.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Gob said:
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Mutual admiration Tendulkar fans have for Lara and vice versa is great too. and then you have Warne and Murali fans eww
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TBH Sachin and Lara were known to be great friends. While Warne and Murali tended to be nice to each other, the relationship not being like that could have also played a part.
 
The Sean

The Sean

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trundler said:
MoYo at 6
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Yeah, he and Lara seemed to be the two overlooked players in this vote so far - though pleasingly Lara now has a couple to his name at least. I'd actually place them both over Tendulkar for the specific decade. Kallis is an absolute lock for me, the question is just where he slots in.
 
morgieb

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The Sean said:
Yeah, he and Lara seemed to be the two overlooked players in this vote so far - though pleasingly Lara now has a couple to his name at least. I'd actually place them both over Tendulkar for the specific decade. Kallis is an absolute lock for me, the question is just where he slots in.
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Yeah I think Ponting + Dravid are clearly 1 + 2 for middle-order bats but picking a 3rd to go with them (as well as Kallis) is tough.
 
R

Raz0r6ack

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sunilz said:
Yes , player with least overseas average like Hayden, Ponting at their respective positions are being voted.

Please check overseas batting average of Hayden, Smith, Sehwag, Ponting , Dravid in 2000-09 and then accuse others of biased.
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If you're talking about overseas records then every Test ever played outside Tasmania is an overseas Test for Ricky Ponting. In which his average would probably be over 50.

Australia landscape wise is just as big as the subcontinent. Traveling from one side of Australia to the other is far greater then other countries. For someone from NSW, Victoria or Queensland, playing in Perth or Tasmania or even Darwin wouldn't exactly feel like "home".

Hayden and Sehwag as openers.
 
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