Marnus Labuschagne on course to be Australia greatest test match batsman

[Coronis]

Test Cricket Career Ratings

I have taken some shortcuts to reduce the amount of data input required.

I stopped reading after this.

ICC Ratings factors in quality of opposition, quality of bowlers and how high scoring the Tests are.

It highlights how impressive their average performance is and how much they stand out compared to everyone else in the games they play in.

One of the ways you can get a better metric is if you adjust the ratings by weighing longevity.

Marnus has an insanely high ICC Rating because he has faced (comparatively to others) a lot of highly rated bowlers. The RPW in the Tests he has played in are lower then the historical average.

His ICC Rating barely dropped in his last series in India because of how low the scoring the Tests were, quality of bowlers and quality of opposition.

I could **** out a better metric to rate players than the ICC.

 

[Burgey]

He got 10 100s already and he has another 8 years of test cricket left in him so why cant he score at least 40 100s in test cricket and become the greatest ever Australian test batsman.

 

[shortpitched713]

ITSTL. If I look at the ICC ratings website, I get very different scores for the batting ratings - e.g. Kane Williamson's highest was 919, Smith's 947 etc.

EDIT: Ah, I see, it's average. Which is a pretty meaningless statistic if a batsman had one random poor patch, debuted too early or went on too long.

It's still weird. They don't match up at all to the numbers I got ( although relative rankings are similar ).

 

[shortpitched713]

I have taken some shortcuts to reduce the amount of data input required.

I stopped reading after this.

 

[chris.hinton]

He got 10 100s already and he has another 8 years of test cricket left in him so why cant he score at least 40 100s in test cricket and become the greatest ever Australian test batsman.

Don Bradman is the greatest ever.

 

[Jayro]

Greatest invariably means Bradman pertaining to cricket

 

[Coronis]

Don Bradman is the greatest ever.

For now. Besides I’m 99.94% sure he was roided up. “appendicitis” my ass, he just OD’d on his steroids that time.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I hope this is a joke. He's about on Mark Waugh's level at best

 

[Nintendo]

Mark waugh has posters of travis head on his bedroom wall he is a wasteman.

 

[Prince EWS]

Mark waugh has posters of travis head on his bedroom wall he is a wasteman.

Doesn't have any posters of Wade though.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Kills me to say this but even Travis Head is **** loads better than Marnus. Marnus is due for a very nasty fall over the next few years. Metaphorically of course.

 

[Nintendo]

Kills me to say this but even Travis Head is **** loads better than Marnus. Marnus is due for a very nasty fall over the next few years. Metaphorically of course.

Marnus is a way better red ball cricketer than head lol. Marnus is defs due a dropoff, I reckon heyll end up somewhere between Ross Taylor and KP, and heads a way better white ball player, but no way is head>Marnus a thing in red ball.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Marnus is better than Ross Taylor but he'll never be as good as KP

 

[Nintendo]

Marnus is better than Ross Taylor but he'll never be as good as KP

Exactly what I said lol. I think heyll end up in that bracket of modern sub 50 average guys who to varying degrees could be argued as ATG tier.

 

[TheJediBrah]

He'll never be ATG

 

[trundler]

There's no way anyone can argue either KP or Taylor is ATG lol

 

[Nintendo]

He'll never be ATG

I mean hes just about to enter that 29-32 age period where top tier batsmen tend to peak and he should play for atleast 5 more years. If he ends up with 7000-8000+ runs at a 46-49 average and batting continues to be as hard as it's been between 2017-now I can easily see an argument being presented for him being an ATG tier player, kinda like Laxman.

 

[Nintendo]

There's no way anyone can argue either KP or Taylor is ATG lol

I've seen some kiwi posters make the Ross taylor argument before and KP has 8000 runs @47.5 and dominated some class bowling attacks.

 

[ZK$]

I mean hes just about to enter that 29-32 age period where top tier batsmen tend to peak and he should play for atleast 5 more years. If he ends up with 7000-8000+ runs at a 46-49 average and batting continues to be as hard as it's been between 2017-now I can easily see an argument being presented for him being an ATG tier player, kinda like Laxman.

Laxman isn’t an ATG though.

 

[Flem274*]

I've seen some kiwi posters make the Ross taylor argument before and KP has 8000 runs @47.5 and dominated some class bowling attacks.

ODIs I can see but not tests. Never an ATG but played some great innings and I've posted the stupid situations he came in to and succeeded in several times.

But not an ATG, just very good.