Modern Fab 3 (or 4).

[Adders]

Cairns obs

 

[TheJediBrah]

He means Cairns, Vettori, Oram

 

[Shady Slim]

4 is the magic number, not 3. Also need to span a full calendar decade.

E.g. No one froths over the Fab 3 allrounders of 1997ish to 2005ish.

if one has a terrible withp they could get keen for a thab thwee

 

[Prince EWS]

No ageist jokes please.

Request denied.

 

[Ali TT]

He means Cairns, Vettori, Oram

What about Styris, Astle and McMillan?

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Tendulkar, Lara,Ponting, Kallis

 

[Coronis]

Tendulkar, Lara,Ponting, Kallis

Doesn’t get more modern than this.

 

[TheJediBrah]

What about Styris, Astle and McMillan?

They're the Fab 3 batting all-rounders

 

[Immenso]

Which one of Kallis, Pollock, Cairns, and Flintoff don't make your 97-05 Fab 3?

lol, it was Kallis actually that I wasn't thinking of ... Was thinking of the similar 3 bowling allrounders.

But, actually, make sit even weirder how little fanfare there was over 4 great seam bowling allrounders being on the scene at the same time.

needs to be full decade based, or all 4 must come from 4 different countries?

 

[andruid]

Tendulkar, Lara,Ponting, Kallis

The comparable 4

 

[TheJediBrah]

Tendulkar and Lara are a tier above Ponting, and Kallis is another tier below that

 

[Bolo.]

lol, it was Kallis actually that I wasn't thinking of ... Was thinking of the similar 3 bowling allrounders.

But, actually, make sit even weirder how little fanfare there was over 4 great seam bowling allrounders being on the scene at the same time.

needs to be full decade based, or all 4 must come from 4 different countries?

Flintoff was decidedly meh until the point Cairns retired.

 

[Coronis]

Tendulkar and Lara are a tier below Ponting, and Kallis is another tier above that

ftfy

 

[Silver Line]

Something from my old excel sheets, that i figured would come to interest on this topic. I call it Cricket’s Future 5, a feature of the top 5 icon batsmen from every era

Big Peak Big Decline	Zaheer	Miandad	Ponting	Pietersen	Kohli
Sole carrier - poor support	Chappell	Crowe	Lara	Gayle	Babar
Always delivers when it matters the most	Lloyd	Viv	Inzamam	Clarke	Williamson
High run tally	Boycott	Gower	Sachin	De Villiers	Root
I like Tests more	Gavaskar	Border	Kallis	Sangakkara	Smith

 

[trundler]

Chapell's team was the best in the world in the mid 70s. He played alongside Chapelli, Walters and Redpath as well as a great bowling attack.

De Villiers most certainly did not have a knack for grinding runs and runs.

Miandad didn't have a precipitous decline either. He still averaged 45 in his last 4 years.

 

[Socerer 01]

Chapell's team was the best in the world in the mid 70s. He played alongside Chapelli, Walters and Redpath as well as a great bowling attack.

De Villiers most certainly did not have a knack for grinding runs and runs.

Miandad didn't have a precipitous decline either. He still averaged 45 in his last 4 years.

de Villiers the downhill skier is a grinder now it seems

 

[trundler]

Gower was pretty far from a grinder too. Just saw Root is in that row too. Also Tendulkar lol.

Just an atrocious list.

 

[Socerer 01]

Gower was pretty far from a grinder too. Just saw Root is in that row too. Also Tendulkar lol.

Just an atrocious list.

pretty on brand from the dude

 

[Silver Line]

Chapell's team was the best in the world in the mid 70s. He played alongside Chapelli, Walters and Redpath as well as a great bowling attack.

De Villiers most certainly did not have a knack for grinding runs and runs.

Miandad didn't have a precipitous decline either. He still averaged 45 in his last 4 years.

miandad averaged 34 in his last 4 years, at least get that right. Thats a big decline, which made his average go from 57 to 52. not sure what your grumpy old ass is throwing fits for.

chappells team was not the best team in the world, West Indies and England were much much ahead, they were par with pak who had imran and miandad etc in the 70s or slightly below them. Those 3 batsmen you named, didnt do anything in odis which chappell carried and even in tests were 42ish avg bats. Respectable but thats really not the greatest support out there. Dont be a biased nostalgia uncle because those stats are comparable to someone like Saleem Malik if that is what you reckon is a consistent support out there in comparision to other great batsmen of that era


All this De Villiers t20 stints has probably made you forget that he doesnt actually just start throwing his bat around 360 in tests. He played at a SR of 55 while the average kept increasing by the year. He had a knack.

Your last line sounds like it a troll or either your grumpiness is getting to you due to aging, because Sachin is the leading run scorer of all time and Root is someone who is on course of breaking that, how you refute they didnt have a hunger for runs is just absurd

 

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