Kallis Vs Flintoff

[Jumno]

Kallis, who plays the anchor role, genuine stroke maker, can bat for your life.

Flintoff, an attacking batsman who adds a lot of value being a genuinely good pace bowler.

Kallis a genuine number three test batsman.

As an all rounder, who would you pick and who is better

 

[Coronis]

I would pick Kallis and Kallis is better. Good thread.

 

[Jumno]

Flintoff's bowling is far superior and his bowling would give him an edge I feel. Both a good bowler for tests and odis.

I remember his spell against Ponting and Kallis.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Kallis was much better - probably the 3rd best allrounder of all time. Flintoff was borderline for top 20.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Flintoff was a fine bowler, but not that good at test batting. He was one of those players who was better at ODI batting.

 

[Slifer]

Comparing Kallis to Flintoff is insulting to Kallis.

 

[Jumno]

Id go for Kallis too.

Although in odis, Flintoff would be useful.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Flintoff's bowling is far superior and his bowling would give him an edge I feel. Both a good bowler for tests and odis.

I remember his spell against Ponting and Kallis.

I feel the idea of Flintoff, the legend of Flintoff is greater than his actual career in terms of Test Cricket, a lot of the times he couldn't handle the demand of test cricket on his body and his batting which was his secondary skill wasn't good enough to hide those flaws, so at times he was a bit of a liability in test cricket, instead of getting two players in one, you'd get a fast bowler who you were scared of giving long spells too , and a batsman whose ceiling was mid 30's at best (His test batting average was 31).

So on durability alone Kallis wins this quite easily, but Flintoff's express pace and big hitting skills I think i would take over Kallis in white ball cricket.

 

[subshakerz]

Kallis easily.

 

[Prince EWS]

Kallis easily.

Hacked.

 

[Socerer 01]

Kallis in tests by a significant margin

Flintoff in odis by a fair margin

overall Kallis > Flintoff

 

[kyear2]

Comparing Kallis to Flintoff is insulting to Kallis.

This, there's no argument for Flintoff here.

Kallis is an ATG batsman who was a anywhere between a quality to useful 4th bowler and ATG slip.

Either the 3rd of 4th all-rounder of all time.

 

[Socerer 01]

Flintoff is atleast 200 times better white ball cricketer than Kallis

in case you’re new here, this forum tends to consider tests to be the only relevant format unless specifically mentioned to be otherwise

 

[Socerer 01]

It doesn't matter what's important here.

so why do you have an issue then

 

[trundler]

It doesn't matter what's important here.

 

[ataraxia]

Flintoff, at least he won matches.

 

[GIMH]

Freddie. Not even close

The only all-rounders better than Freddie in the history of cricket are

Joe Root
Ben Stokes