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Players that are the most overated by CW posters.

vic_orthdox

vic_orthdox

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There's no way in the world that Ponting is the worst ever captain, it's ridiculous hyperbole. Look at someone like Chanderpaul, Mohammed Yousuf; there are guys who make decisions on the field as bad as Ponting. As I've said before, it's that Ponting's been good enough in other aspects of the job to keep him as captain for such a long time, which means that there are more bad decisions to point at over a long time.
 
Burgey

Burgey

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JBH001 said:
I thought Burgey was taking the piss with that post, not offering a serious opinion masquerading as taking the piss. I'd think he'd know better.
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It's the letting them draw their own conclusions that's the most fun though.
 
flibbertyjibber

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vic_orthdox said:
There's no way in the world that Ponting is the worst ever captain, it's ridiculous hyperbole. Look at someone like Chanderpaul, Mohammed Yousuf; there are guys who make decisions on the field as bad as Ponting. As I've said before, it's that Ponting's been good enough in other aspects of the job to keep him as captain for such a long time, which means that there are more bad decisions to point at over a long time.
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You missed out Botham off the crap captains list.
 
Shri

Shri

Mr. Glass
Bradman, he isn't a ****ing god and people shouldn't jump on posters who question his superiority with genuine, valid questions. Any such question is generally answered condescendingly and the posters shooed away. Those sort of condescending answers by Aussie fanboys has made me dislike him as a player. Worst set of fanboys in cricket are Bradman's.

























Now replace the name Bradman with Tendulkar and you will see that both of those statements are true.
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
vic_orthdox said:
There's no way in the world that Ponting is the worst ever captain, it's ridiculous hyperbole. Look at someone like Chanderpaul, Mohammed Yousuf; there are guys who make decisions on the field as bad as Ponting. As I've said before, it's that Ponting's been good enough in other aspects of the job to keep him as captain for such a long time, which means that there are more bad decisions to point at over a long time.
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I didn't say he was the worst ever captain, I said he is the worst captain (tactically) that I've ever seen. That's ~15 out of 100+ years of there being Test captains.

And we're not talking about tactical mistakes, or bad, or even terrible decisions, we're talking about 'lol thx for the series' decisions. Anyway, I don't want to harp on this at all - just said my two cents when someone mentioned his captaincy actually takes him higher.
 
Burgey

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Shri said:
Bradman, he isn't a ****ing god and people shouldn't jump on posters who question his superiority with genuine, valid questions. Any such question is generally answered condescendingly and the posters shooed away. Those sort of condescending answers by Aussie fanboys has made me dislike him as a player. Worst set of fanboys in cricket are Bradman's.

























Now replace the name Bradman with Tendulkar and you will see that both of those statements are true.
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Lol... Comparing Tendulkar to Bradman is like comparing Rick Darling to Tendulkar.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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silentstriker said:
I didn't say he was the worst ever captain, I said he is the worst captain (tactically) that I've ever seen. That's ~15 out of 100+ years of there being Test captains.

And we're not talking about tactical mistakes, or bad, or even terrible decisions, we're talking about 'lol thx for the series' decisions. Anyway, I don't want to harp on this at all - just said my two cents when someone mentioned his captaincy actually takes him higher.
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You think Ponting was tactically worse than Chanderpaul? Really?
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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Jono said:
Ah right.

Anyway, Chanders was definitely worse than Ponting IMO.
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Yeah no doubt. Even if you're removing leadership and just looking at tactics (which tbf to SS is what I think he was doing), Ponting may be below average but he's by no means as bad as someone like Chanderpaul.
 
Burgey

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It's odd Ponting's tactics in tests are so often bizarre, yet his odi captaincy seems spot on so often.

Maybe the more formulaic nature of LO stuff suits him more.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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Burgey said:
It's odd Ponting's tactics in tests are so often bizarre, yet his odi captaincy seems spot on so often.

Maybe the more formulaic nature of LO stuff suits him more.
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Yeah, I think the match situation is a lot easier to read in ODIs.
 
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