Jasprit Bumrah vs Waqar Younis

[kyear2]

Yeah definitely.

Don Bradman
Sachin Tendulkar
Jack Hobbs
Viv Richards
Garfield Sobers
Brian Lara
Len Hutton
Sunil Gavaskar
Wally Hammond
Steve Smith
Honourable Mention:- George Headley
(Obviously, putting aside Grace)

Smith below Hammond and Gavaskar? Ummm.

And no Chappell?

 

[kyear2]

Some interesting top 10's.

Bradman
Hobbs
Tendulkar
Sobers
Richards
Smith
Lara
Hutton
Richards
Gavaskar
Chappell
Hammond
Ponting
Border
Kallis

Hobbs is either 2nd if 5th depending on criteria.

Gavaskar / Chappell / Hammond order may vary.

 

[ma1978]

Bradman
Tendulkar
Hobbs
Sobers
Richard
Lara
Hutton
Hanmond
Ponting
Gavaskar
Smith
Headley

 

[centurymaker]

Bradman
Tendulkar
Hobbs
Richards
Sobers
Lara
Gavaskar
Hutton
Hammond
Ponting
Smith
Kallis

 

[centurymaker]

I think we underrate openers. It's the hardest place to bat. Had they batted in the middle order, their stats would only look better. Maybe I need to further account for this.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

I think we underrate openers. It's the hardest place to bat. Had they batted in the middle order, their stats would only look better. Maybe I need to further account for this.

Yea this is why Jaiswal is the Goat

 

[sayon basak]

Smith below Hammond and Gavaskar? Ummm.

And no Chappell?

Chappell makes my top 13.

 

[Johan]

I think we underrate openers. It's the hardest place to bat. Had they batted in the middle order, their stats would only look better. Maybe I need to further account for this.

Yeah that's why Hutton is top 6

 

[centurymaker]

I prefer Gavaskar slightly as he opened in an era where the bowlers were actually trying to kill/ knock your head out.

 

[Johan]

fast bowlers are retards, reckon they've been trying to kill since Bodyline

 

[PlayerComparisons]

I feel like fast bowling went to another level after 1975. Maybe that’s why helmets came in?

 

[Johan]

No real reason and evidence for it to go to another level, I think Thommo was just the outlier.

 

[Johan]

I reckon pace bowling became a strong thing in 30s, with Windies and Bodyline, and then along the way some outliers came but it stayed between 80mph and 95mph.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

If we're talking about Waqar.

He, along with Bishop were terrifyingly fast. I can't put a number on it, but both would have been up there with Patterson and Malcolm if not faster.

This is just from my memory though.

This>>. I have no reason to argue when someone is calling my opinion as a joker when saying Waqar was quicker than Bumrah. And there is argument being made on he wasn’t.

 

[ma1978]

This>>. I have no reason to argue when someone is calling my opinion as a joker when saying Waqar was quicker than Bumrah. And there is argument being made on he wasn’t.

quicker or not quicker, at this stage there is zero argument he’s better. The only thing he has a long period of mediocrity more than Bumrah.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

quicker or not quicker, at this stage there is zero argument he’s better. The only thing he has a long period of mediocrity more than Bumrah.

Let Bumrah take 275 ish wickets at less than 21 ish and I would agree.

Waqar took twice as many wickets as Bumrah and at a stage of his career was averaging the same as Bumrah. Plus demolished lineups in his peak. Absolute terrifying in his peak. Someone incomparable for me. We aren’t comparing Waqar to Marshall for him to have no argument.

 

[sayon basak]

quicker or not quicker, at this stage there is zero argument he’s better. The only thing he has a long period of mediocrity more than Bumrah.

This.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Waqars must have been at least 145 on average with how low his strike rate is

 

[centurymaker]

I feel like fast bowling went to another level after 1975. Maybe that’s why helmets came in?

Exactly!

West Indies weren't just trying to get you out. They wanted to finish you off. And the crowd would come to see that baying for your blood.

 

[Johan]

Bodyline - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

read, this happened in 1932-33