Shivnarine Chanderpaul vs Rahul Dravid

[DrWolverine]

Test legends

 

[capt_Luffy]

I can sense a slaughter incoming

 

[sayon basak]

Come on!

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Shiv about to get a pounding in this one

 

[sayon basak]

Shiv about to get a pounding in this one

Because it's chanders.

 

[sayon basak]

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Shiv averages 51.37, not 52.37; and his S/R is 43.31, not 46.88.

EDIT:- and his high score is 203*, not 269*
(Tbh, you can keep the 269*)

EDIT-2:- also, he hit 1285 fours and 36 sixes, not 835 and 30.

Edit-3:- also the 4's of Dravid.

 

[DrWolverine]

Shiv averages 51.37, not 52.37; and his S/R is 43.31, not 46.88.

EDIT:- and his high score is 203*, not 269*
(Tbh, you can keep the 269*)

EDIT-2:- also, he hit 1285 fours and 36 sixes, not 835 and 30.

Thanks. I will delete the pic.

 

[Johan]

Chanders is trash and not even better than Kevin Pietersen

 

[sayon basak]

Chanders is trash and not even better than Kevin Pietersen

Averages 67 in England tho.

 

[Johan]

Averages 67 in England tho.

Yeah, whenever he made runs in England, England won, that's the plus.

 

[TestMatch]

I like Shiv, but he's arguably the least deserving member of the 10,000 runs club. He averaged in the low 40s for most of his career, and only started averaging in the 50s in a brief batting friendly period, and when he dropped down the order and hid.

He's arguably more difficult to remove than Dravid - and one of the most difficult batsmen to dismiss - but Dravid has many more meaningful knocks, and had a much bigger positive influence on surrounding teammates. If Chanders had moved up the order and batted with or above Sarwan when Lara quit, he'd probably have a reputation akin to Cook's, but he didn't.

Dravid, meanwhile, was a giant shield. When batting at 2, 3 or 4, he cushioned everyone batting around him. IMO he's in the top ten of all the "gritty", "block, leave and score slowly" batsmen (Steve Waugh, Cook, Kallis etc). Chanders is a bit slightly below these guys.

 

[sayon basak]

Basically If Shiv scores, it's not a very good news for the team.

 

[Wanna_Be_AB]

Basically If Shiv scores, it's not a very good news for the team.

Where as India won some of it's most historic test matches because of Dravid.

 

[DrWolverine]

Where as India won some of it's most historic test matches because of Dravid.

Dravid scored like 2 centuries against Aus in 50 odd innings and it was 2 legendary knocks - 181 @ Kolkata and 233 @ Adelaide

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Can we close the thread already.
Shiv already conceded

 

[sayon basak]

Can we close the thread already.
Shiv already conceded

We need more humiliation!

 

[Wanna_Be_AB]

Dravid scored like 2 centuries against Aus in 50 odd innings and it was 2 legendary knocks - 181 @ Kolkata and 233 @ Adelaide

What about the test match where he scored twin fifties in WI in 2006 on a minefield?

 

[Sliferxxxx]

This is insulting to Dravid.

 

[BazBall21]

Dravid by a distance

 

[sayon basak]

Dravid by a distance

How much distance are we talking?