Who said he was an ATG batsman? I said he had equal batting and bowling skillsMate you’re wrong, Miller was not a near ATG batsman, no matter what position he batted, get over it.
Who said he was an ATG batsman? I said he had equal batting and bowling skillsMate you’re wrong, Miller was not a near ATG batsman, no matter what position he batted, get over it.
He’s a near ATG bowler… he’s nowhere near that level as a batsman.Who said he was an ATG batsman? I said he had equal batting and bowling skills
Shakib is a pure allrounderYou missed the category "Pure Allrounder" with equal batting and bowling skill
Keith Miller
Ian Botham
Andrew Flintoff
These three were not bowing allrounders when they batted in top 6 their whole careers
To put it in context , to score 5248 runs @ 82 str when King Viv scored 8540 runs @70 is some achievement .Kapil seems way under rated in general . A batsman with around 82 batting str: when even Viv Richards was only striking at 70, with several back to the wall innings, with a towering series in WI(GOAT team) ..... a bowler who averaged 29.65 against all odds like longevity , weak support bowling unit , heavy work load etc etc ... A first class all round fielder & a safe catcher ....
Yeah I genuinely think if Kapil averaged either a smidge higher with the bat or a touch lower with the ball he'd be regarded higher in ATG comparisons, even a factor of a couple of runs either way. Genuinely a brilliant cricketer who could do it all. Agree he gets overlooked in ATG discussions more than he should. The bloke was a just genuinely great player, especially bowling seam up for India in that era.Kapil seems way under rated in general . A batsman with around 82 batting str: when even Viv Richards was only striking at 70, with several back to the wall innings, with a towering series in WI(GOAT team) ..... a bowler who averaged 29.65 against all odds like longevity , weak support bowling unit , heavy work load etc etc ... A first class all round fielder & a safe catcher ....
Tim Southee has scored 2,000 @ 83To put it in context , to score 5248 runs @ 82 str when King Viv scored 8540 runs @70 is some achievement .
I think if he did better outside of India he’d be regarded higher.Yeah I genuinely think if Kapil averaged either a smidge higher with the bat or a touch lower with the ball he'd be regarded higher in ATG comparisons, even a factor of a couple of runs either way. Genuinely a brilliant cricketer who could do it all. Agree he gets overlooked in ATG discussions more than he should. The bloke was a just genuinely great player, especially bowling seam up for India in that era.
the longer you play, the lower your average gets in general , be it in batting or bowling. Rare exceptions might be there though. Sachin, Ponting, Viv, Kohli, S . Smith and a lot of others have gone thru this. It should be noted that Kapil averaged 28.87 in bowling after first 100 tests in which he bowled 21000 balls. This 21000 count is lot more than what Imran bowled in his career.Yeah I genuinely think if Kapil averaged either a smidge higher with the bat or a touch lower with the ball he'd be regarded higher in ATG comparisons, even a factor of a couple of runs either way. Genuinely a brilliant cricketer who could do it all. Agree he gets overlooked in ATG discussions more than he should. The bloke was a just genuinely great player, especially bowling seam up for India in that era.
the higher the amount of runs/inns, the more weightage for str: . Southee only averages around 16. Still he should get more weightage than 'a lower order batsman who averages 16 with very lower str:'.Tim Southee has scored 2,000 @ 83
This was in ascending order of quality, right?Okay, here's my attempt to rank all of them:
1. Garry Sobers
2. Imran Khan
3. Keith Miller
4. Jacques Kallis
5. Ian Botham
6. Wilfred Rhodes
7. Kapil Dev
8. Richard Hadlee
9. Shaun Pollock
10. Aubrey Faulkner
11. Ravindra Jadeja
12. Shakib Al Hasan
13. Frank Woolley
14. Monty Noble
15. Ben Stokes
16. Vinoo Mankad
17. Tony Greig
18. Chris Cairns
19. Wally Hammond
20. Ravichandran Ashwin
21. Richie Benaud
22. Jack Gregory
23. Warwick Armstrong
24. Mushtaq Mohammad
25. Brian McMillan
26. Maurice Tate
27. Andrew Flintoff
28. Ray Lindwall
29. Trevor Bailey
30. Wasim Akram
31. Heath Streak
32. Sanath Jayasuriya
33. Chris Woakes
Some other players I would rank above certain others:
Learie Constantine, Jason Holder, Collie Smith, Gerry Gomez, Allan Davidson, Charlie McCartney, Trevor Goddard (the most notable exception), Mike Procter (the best cricketer to be left out), Eddie Barlow, Jimmy Sinclair, W G Grace (the player about whom you could create the strongest argument to be in Top 5), Billy Barnes, Allan Steel, George Hirst, Ted Dexter, Stanley Jackson, Gubby Allen, Ray Illingworth, Intikhab Alam, John Richard Reid, Daniel Vettori (most notable modern exception), Bruce Taylor, Colin de Grandhomme, Chamunda Vaas, Sikander Raza.
YESSSThis was in ascending order of quality, right?