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Not your list of Great Cricketers

Dasa

Dasa

International Vice-Captain
GingerFurball said:
Kapil's "greatness" stems from him being the only Indian quick to actually be any good.
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The small matter of eight Test centuries, over 5000 runs and one of the few allrounders in history to have a batting average>bowling average as well as being one of the most exciting cricketers ever might have just a tiny bit to do with it.
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Jono said:
Are you suggesting that Kapil Dev wasn't a great cricketer? Or shouldn't be classified as a 'great' of the game?
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Not in the slightest, I realised when I posted that that what I said wasn't exactly flattering to Kapil.

Poor cricketers don't take as many Test wickets as Kapil did, nor score the runs he scored. At the same time though, part of his greatness is because he's so much better than any other Indian quick to have played the game - I don't think he'd have been regarded as highly if he had exactly the same career but turned out for Pakistan instead. Same sort of way that Abdul Qadir is remembered as a great leg spinner, I don't think he'd be remembered as fondly if he was Indian.
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
In fact, scratch that, I'm being completely unfair to Kapil in that I'm pretty much disregarding his batting.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Perhaps he would be seen differently if he was from another country, I don't think you're that way off the mark. Was just curious to see that post coming from you, particularly after in that thread where you had to pick between Klusener, Kapil, Klusener and Pollock in ODI cricket you suggested Pollock was so far ahead of the others.

I get the feeling, particularly in ODI cricket, you underrate Kapil. And I don't think Kapil's ODI exploits have much to do with him being the only Indian fast bowler of note, because he was a seriously destructive ODI batsman.

The difference between Kapil and Pollock's ODI bowling isn't as big as Kapil's superior batting to Pollock in the limited overs game IMO.

Anyway that's another thread.
 
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