Mark Waugh in Odi's

[Jayro]

Name players who have been comfortably better batsmen than him in odi's.

 

[Prince EWS]

Name players who have been comfortably better batsmen than him in odi's.

Tendulkar was a moderate upgrade.

 

[honestbharani]

Saeed Anwar

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Not "comfortably" better, but slightly and above:

Viv
Abbas
Dean Jones
Sachin
Jayasuriya
Bevan
Ponting
Gilchrist
Hussey
Taylor
Amla
Dhoni
AB
Kohli
Rohit
Babar
Root
Bairstow

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Chappell
Abbas
De Silva... May be

 

[mr_mister]

Chappell and Taylor comfortably better?

Anybody remember the 1996 WC

 

[TheJediBrah]

Chappell and Taylor comfortably better?

Anybody remember the 1996 WC

Ross not Mark lol

 

[ZK$]

Jacques Kallis

 

[Everton Seymour]

Hashim Amla , especially in his prime was an ODI monster

 

[anil1405]

So many to name but the one guy he is on par with in ODIs is Dilshan. Both have identical records and both transformed into openers after starting their career batting elsewhere.

 

[mr_mister]

Ross not Mark lol

I know, but I don't think it's enough of a gap to say comfortably better

An average of 50 these days is equivalent to 40 in the 90s imo

 

[mr_mister]

And re Anwar, what is there to even split them on? Basically identical stats in the same era

 

[TheJediBrah]

I don't think it's enough of a gap to say comfortably better

Not "comfortably" better

. . .

 

[sunilz]

I know, but I don't think it's enough of a gap to say comfortably better

An average of 50 these days is equivalent to 40 in the 90s imo

More like 50 is the new 35

 

[mr_mister]

. . .

Oh whoops, don't mind me. I'm just too triggered right now

 

[sunilz]

Oh whoops, don't mind me. I'm just too triggered right now

Mark Waugh was the 2nd best opener of 90s in ODI. A lot of players who average 50 now would struggle to average 35 in 90s.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I know, but I don't think it's enough of a gap to say comfortably better

An average of 50 these days is equivalent to 40 in the 90s imo

For those who've scored at least 5000 runs since Jan 2010, Taylor has the 3rd highest average (53.27) - only behind AB (64) and Kohli (58). Better than Sangakkara, Rohit, Dhoni, Root, Amla etc

 

[sunilz]

For those who've scored at least 5000 runs since Jan 2010, Taylor has the 3rd highest average (53.27) - only behind AB (64) and Kohli (58). Better than Sangakkara, Rohit, Dhoni, Root, Amla etc

How many teams field their full strength ODI nowadays? Pitches have completely flattened

 

[Everton Seymour]

Rohit Sharma the opener can't be ignored..
What a transformation , I mean his first 100 ODI matches he averaged 31 at a SR of 75 with 2 ODI hundreds to his name , career going nowhere, missed out on India's World Cup victory in 2011 ...Then Gambhir and Sehwag leave the scene. Dhoni says to Rohit Sharma go and open son ?..

Batting era or no batting era ...
The next 133 matches he proceeds to smash 27 ODI hundreds ..
99.9% of anyone who has played the ODI game doesn't know what it's like to score an ODI double hundred ...This man has 3 !

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Mark Waugh was the 2nd best opener of 90s in ODI. A lot of players who average 50 now would struggle to average 35 in 90s.

Tendulkar was the best, but very little between Waugh, Anwar,Lara, Ganguly, and Jayasuriya.