Murali/Sanga vs Ambrose/Lara

[subshakerz]

Which pair would you have in your average XI?

 

[shortpitched713]

Great comp, not too sure, really.

 

[Johan]

Ambrose>Murali
Lara>Sanga

so give me Lara/Ambrose

 

[BazBall21]

Fairly easy

 

[subshakerz]

Ambrose>Murali
Lara>Sanga

so give me Lara/Ambrose

Ambrose isn't better than Murali as an allround bowler.

 

[Johan]

Ambrose isn't better than Murali as an allround bowler.

hard, monumental, cosmological, world shattering disagree.

 

[Coronis]

Ambrose>Murali
Lara>Sanga

so give me Lara/Ambrose

I think you could call Ambrose better than Murali. I personally don’t but I think you certainly could.

However, especially since we have first hand evidence of it, for an otherwise pretty average bowling attack, arguing that Ambrose would be more valuable for an average XI than Murali is a very silly thing to argue.

 

[Thala_0710]

This one is relatively simple, Sanga not at the level of the other 3.

 

[subshakerz]

hard, monumental, cosmological, world shattering disagree.

Really? He is that clearly ahead for you?

 

[subshakerz]

This one is relatively simple, Sanga not at the level of the other 3.

Yeah but just looking at rankings isn't the best way to determine which combo offers more value to an average team.

The difference between Lara and Sanga may be clear but not huge whereas Ambrose and Murali are two quite different bowlers and will give different results.

 

[Johan]

I think you could call Ambrose better than Murali. I personally don’t but I think you certainly could.

However, especially since we have first hand evidence of it, for an otherwise pretty average bowling attack, arguing that Ambrose would be more valuable for an average XI than Murali is a very silly thing to argue.

Yeah, but on the inverse, I'd back a decent lineup to be better with Ambrose, because they'd be able to get out the squabble and I definitely favour Ambrose against good batters than Murali, overall these comparisons are kinda hard alone considering the lack of context which determines who would make into what side, home wickets for one, rest of bowling attack, batting lineup etc so generally I just go by what I consider better rather than thinking too much about it given the number of variables.

 

[subshakerz]

I think you could call Ambrose better than Murali. I personally don’t but I think you certainly could.

However, especially since we have first hand evidence of it, for an otherwise pretty average bowling attack, arguing that Ambrose would be more valuable for an average XI than Murali is a very silly thing to argue.

Completely agree.

 

[Johan]

Really? He is that clearly ahead for you?

nah I'm playing on that, I do have Ambrose and Steyn a miniscule amount ahead of the spinners tho.

 

[subshakerz]

overall these comparisons are kinda hard alone considering the lack of context which determines who would make into what side, home wickets for one, rest of bowling attack, batting lineup etc

This is also true. If the home wickets are Australia, it makes no sense not selecting Ambrose. If SC, Murali is obvious.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Curtly and Brian

 

[DrWolverine]

Ambrose > Muralitharan
Lara > Sanga

 

[vidiq]

Murali>> Ambrose
Lara>>>> Sanga

So lara and Ambrose wins by a small margin.

 

[Johan]

Murali>> Ambrose

Nah

 

[vidiq]

Nah

He almost took 2 times more wickets.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

The difference between Lara and Sanga isn’t that big either