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Herbert Sutcliffe vs Rahul Dravid

Who is the better test batsman?

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Saket1209

Saket1209

State Vice-Captain
Rahul Dravid..
These farmers just played village cricket like us and got the name. I don't respect cricketers who played before 70s. No proper fast bowling no spinner just farmers.
Rahul is one of the best ,one of the ultimate best of the game.
 
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Patience and Accuracy+Gut

State Vice-Captain
Saket1209 said:
Rahul Dravid..
These farmers just played village cricket like us and got the name. I don't respect cricketers who played before 70s. No proper fast bowling no spinner just farmers.
Rahul is one of the best ,one of the ultimate best of the game.
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Cricket didn’t start with India. We Australians have dominated cricket before you came and we are still dominating regardless.
 
Saket1209

Saket1209

State Vice-Captain
Patience and Accuracy+Gut said:
Cricket didn’t start with India. We Australians have dominated cricket before you came and we are still dominating regardless.
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I said I respect the players who played after 70s. But you took a different meaning to it. Let it be. And cricket nowadays definitely starts with India and ends with us. If India won't play cricket, it will die. It's already declining in sa , sl, carrebean. You country boards can run without having series with us. Ind vs aus or any other country generates a lot of money. Your players got the fame,respect and money just because us. We are the ones who are really feeding them. Sl cricket is trying hard to have few ipl games there or their board will collapse. See next year when ind tours aus and see the amount of money the boards generate. So cricket is because of India both monetary and passion wise
 
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HouHsiaoHsien

International Debutant
Coronis said:
I think a key qualifier in his post is “arguably”. There are arguments for any of Sutcliffe, Hutton or Gavaskar imo, and I have no issue with any of them being rated above any of the others.

And you guys will never know my secret preference.
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Agreed. Personally I’d go: Hobbs Hutton Sutcliffe Gavaskar. Hobbs for me is the second best after Bradman.
 
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howitzer

State Captain
Coronis said:
I think a key qualifier in his post is “arguably”. There are arguments for any of Sutcliffe, Hutton or Gavaskar imo, and I have no issue with any of them being rated above any of the others.

And you guys will never know my secret preference.
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Blair Hartland?
 
OverratedSanity

OverratedSanity

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Sutcliffe is a top 4 opener, but he benefitted from the uber flat era even more than Dravid did (who had a tremendous record in the mid-late 90s as a youngster) and the weird LBW rule. Relative lack of longevity too. He was a world class batsmen for about 9 years which is good but not amazing. Will vote Dravid coz of bias, but if people are actually saying it's crazy to pick him then it's disrespectful af imo.
 
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HouHsiaoHsien

International Debutant
OverratedSanity said:
Sutcliffe is a top 4 opener, but he benefitted from the uber flat era even more than Dravid did (who had a tremendous record in the mid-late 90s as a youngster) and the weird LBW rule. Relative lack of longevity too. He was a world class batsmen for about 9 years which is good but not amazing. Will vote Dravid coz of bias, but if people are actually saying it's crazy to pick him then it's disrespectful af imo.
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He was a master on the sticky wickets like Hobbs tho, right?
 
kyear2

kyear2

International Coach
HouHsiaoHsien said:
Agreed. Personally I’d go: Hobbs Hutton Sutcliffe Gavaskar. Hobbs for me is the second best after Bradman.
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Hobbs, Hutton, Gavaskar, Barry, Sutcliffe.

Hobbs is a top 4 batsman of all time, no argument there, he was opener 1 even when batting with said Sutcliffe, Hutton faced much more modern, varied and balanced attacks, hell just better bowlers and in more locations. Gavaskar stepped up the quality even more but a more spotty record. Sutcliffe did have a better career than Barry, obviously, but if I had to choose one opener to open for an ATG to save the planet it's Barry over most of them, not just Sutcliffe.
 
Coronis

Coronis

International Coach
kyear2 said:
Hobbs, Hutton, Gavaskar, Barry, Sutcliffe.

Hobbs is a top 4 batsman of all time, no argument there, he was opener 1 even when batting with said Sutcliffe, Hutton faced much more modern, varied and balanced attacks, hell just better bowlers and in more locations. Gavaskar stepped up the quality even more but a more spotty record. Sutcliffe did have a better career than Barry, obviously, but if I had to choose one opener to open for an ATG to save the planet it's Barry over most of them, not just Sutcliffe.
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Jesus christ
 
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