Ricky Ponting vs. Kumar Sangakkara (ODIs)

[weldone]

Might help if you didn't selectively feign deafness yet again and read the very next sentence after the one you quoted.

Tendulkar had the better peak IMO (depending on how you define 'peak'). Plus there is no clear definition of peak. So, that's not a statistical argument.

Is peak a one-test phenomenon? Or 10 tests? 10 years? 57 tests? 7.54425435 years? 24 years? 18 years?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah you're being a pedant now. Congratulations on turning this into Sachin vs everyone, btw. Good job.

 

[weldone]

Huh, you'll say out of the blue that Ponting and Tendulkar are 'dead even' statistically - and nobody else has any right to point out the incorrectness in that statement.

They are not dead even statistically in any sense of the term. Period.

 

[Johnners]

When comparing Ponting & Sangakarra, I find it entirely offensive that no-one has mentioned Mitchell Johnson.

 

[weldone]

When comparing Ponting & Sangakarra, I find it entirely offensive that no-one has mentioned Mitchell Johnson.

Mitchell Johnson is dead even statistically with Sreesanth. If you have to compare them don't use statistics. People who prefer unnecessary aggression and drama are justified in liking Sreesanth slightly more.

I did it for you.

 

[OverratedSanity]

fmd

 

[TheJediBrah]

'Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.'

 

[weldone]

Also, if you think Johnson and Sreesanth aren't statistically even then you are just a Mitchell Johnson-fanboy, and all things said about Johnson-fanboys are proven correct. You are just an imbecile fanboy, and I am the true objective cricket observer. I am better, you are worse. I am the king, you are the queen's servant.

 

[OverratedSanity]

welsaid weldone

 

[GotSpin]

Ponting got tired at the end of his career carrying 3 world cups around. Tendulkar didn't have that burden.

So good.

 

[weldone]

I thought it was the same World Cup awarded 3 times?

It weights 11 kg though, so I agree that's very heavy for Ponting - especially when he also had to concentrate on which way Harbhajan Singh's deliveries are spinning.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Can't play Harbhajan's bowling====> World Cup trophy heavier.

That's some scary good logic right there, weldone.

 

[weldone]

Can't play Harbhajan's bowling====> World Cup trophy heavier.

That's some scary good logic right there, weldone.

Try facing spin bowling with 11 extra kilograms on your shoulder.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I have a pretty big head tbh

 

[weldone]

I have a pretty big head tbh

Add 11 kg on top of that (33 kg if you are TheJediBrah)

 

[BigBrother]

Yeah, no. neither Pollock nor Donald were playing. In fact Donald had been retired for like 5 years . . .

Lol, try Nicky Boje, Ntini and Andre Nel

I was talking about Ponting...

There has been a lot of misreading of posts, especially by me so I can't really blame you.

I know that the Ashes is prestigious, but as a challenge for Australian batsmen is it really up there? When Ponting faced England he never had to bat against any ATG bowlers (I know the 2005 'attack' was excellent), but who was England's last great bowler? Botham? Willis? Underwood? Snow? Trueman?????

Surely scoring runs against Pakistan or 287 against Steyn should rate higher than Ashes runs for Australia (obv Ashes runs would rate for Englishmen - Michael Vaughan in that series in Oz many moons ago was stunningly good?

He started talking about Sangakkara without mentioning him so that confused me. That's why I was going in my mind where the hell is he getiing 287 from, must have been a typo..

Yeah so my bad. But here's your clue saying I was definitely talking about Ponting

Except when he wasn't facing Steyn he would have been facing Pollock and Donald, two other ATG bowlers...

Steyn has been a gun bowler ever since 2007 btw, he never played Australia before 2008.

 

[BigBrother]

I thought it was the same World Cup awarded 3 times?

It weights 11 kg though, so I agree that's very heavy for Ponting - especially when he also had to concentrate on which way Harbhajan Singh's deliveries are spinning.

World Cup = ODI cricket, where I'm pretty sure he has hammered that little **** quite a bit.

Put some effort into your trolling.

 

[weldone]

World Cup = ODI cricket, where I'm pretty sure he has hammered that little **** quite a bit.

Put some effort into your trolling.

The original supposed-to-be-funny comment about the weight of the World Cup by the poster was made in response to the comparison between Tendulkar and the cheat **** as test batsmen.

Put some effort into your reading.

 

[BigBrother]

The original supposed-to-be-funny comment about the weight of the World Cup by the poster was made in response to the comparison between Tendulkar and the cheat **** as test batsmen.

Put some effort into your reading.

If being butthurt about a Tendulkar joke (or Tendulkar not being seen as God of cricket the way you post) is a good enough reason to post senseless drivel, you should go back to the cricinfo comments section. I'm pretty sure they miss your analogies about weight and it's effect on playing the turning ball.

 

[weldone]

Roger Binny had the burden of carrying a World Cup, but Greg Chappell didn't.