Yeah batting away seems harder, specifically due to even weaker sides like Bangladesh and Windies having potent attacks in their home conditions, and teams like India and England having far more dominant attacks at home than away it seems.
Gayle is underrated as a test batsman. Openers usually have lower averages compared to middle order batsman because they have to face the new ball which swings more. However, Gayle was lucky to get a lot of flat pitches and he did well there. He has good record in Australia and South Africa and that can't be discounted. However, his home record was also poor vs major test nations. There were several test openers during his era who averages much higher than him.
actually yeah, I was looking into the home bowling stats of all the sides and without minnow bashing it's kind of absurd how much of a gap there is between the home performances of the bowling attacks of 2000s and of the fab 4 era
Easier than Australia, England, India and South Africa according to the data above
Only because Williamson is such a gun 3
Those are home bowling attack stats though, nothing to do with KW?
Groin strain
Reduction of minnow bashing.
rip Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Bowling’s gone to ****. (tbf SL’s isn’t that bad Murali was just such a freak) Though curious how things would change with UAE included
tbf Sri Lanka is better than Eng/Ind/NZ, supports your point about the strength of Home team attacks. now onto Pakistan, Pakistan in UAE seems a pretty capable attack, it's mostly the wickets but still. during the Fab 4 era:
Crowe played some games with a shattered knee
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