Similar Players

[Goughy]

Irfan Pathan = Wasim Akram (big swinger with big hitting ability)
Alaistar Cook = Stephen Fleming (compact, defensive technique)
Makhaya Ntini - Malcolm Marshall

Makhaya Ntini = Malcolm Marshall!!! Say what now.

There are no similarities apart from the obvious. You had may as well compare Simon Jones.

I had the pleasure to bowl with Marshall and have seen both first hand on a number of occasions.

Marshall was short, was blisteringly fast, skidded the ball onto the bat, bowled a deceptive bouncer and could swing the ball both ways.

Ntini is not a genuine fast bowler (before anyone disagrees he just isn't), he does not swing the ball and he hits the deck hard rather than skiddy.

Makhaya takes wickets often with his ability to bowl an unplayable delivery where as Marshall worked over the batsman using much more skill and consistency.

Cheers

By the way many of these similar players on this thread arn't that similar. Its a hard thing to do. Apart from the obvious of Caddick and Hadlee I think the best is the
Edwards-Thompson comparision.

 

[Goughy]

Ashley Giles and Nicky Boje

Similar stats, Boje styled his over the wicket attack on Giles, and both international careers are prob over now.

However, Boje could bat

 

[tooextracool]

Are there any players who you have watched and thought, the way they play cricket is amazingly like another player that I've seen in the past. I can think of a few...

Irfan Pathan = Wasim Akram (big swinger with big hitting ability)
Makhaya Ntini - Malcolm Marshall

i really dont understand either of those comparisons. Pathan is a far better batsman technically than Wasim ever was, while Pathan doesnt and probably never will be good enough to lace the boots of wasim with the ball.
as far as comparing a completely one dimensional bowler like Ntini to a bowler who was capable of absolutely everything is concerned...

 

[andyc]

Ntini is not a genuine fast bowler (before anyone disagrees he just isn't)

How convincing

 

[tooextracool]

Indeed virtually the exact same actions, quite the same with Daniel Luca Vettori - Mudhsuden Singh Panesar.

daniel vettori's action is hardly similar to Panesar's.further vettori is a far better user of drift than almost every bowler in international cricket bar warne.

 

[tooextracool]

Marcus Trescothick = Graham Gooch in a mirror, in all except the backlift.

other than the fact that they are both well built, there are barely any other similarities between the 2. I think its fairly safe to say that Gooch moved his front foot more than never.

 

[tooextracool]

I won't win any awards for originality, but Strauss has clearly seen Langer play once or twice. Fidel Edwards is like a "mini-me" version of Thommo too.

Strauss indeed looked to many people like Langer when he first came in.However unlike strauss, Langer actually bats with a much straighter bat and has a much tighter technique than strauss.

 

[Armadillo]

Pathan doesnt and probably never will be good enough to lace the boots of wasim with the ball.
as far as comparing a completely one dimensional bowler like Ntini to a bowler who was capable of absolutely everything is concerned...

If you will read the first post in this thread I have actually talked about players that look like others when playing, I am not comparing their ability in any way. How can you think that Alaister Cook's abillity can be compared to an accomplished batsman such as Stephen Fleming.

 

[Richard]

Ashley Giles and Nicky Boje

Similar stats, Boje styled his over the wicket attack on Giles, and both international careers are prob over now.

However, Boje could bat

Well... so can Giles, just not as well as Boje.
I'd be surprised, very surprised in fact, if either's international careers were over.

 

[Richard]

daniel vettori's action is hardly similar to Panesar's.further vettori is a far better user of drift than almost every bowler in international cricket bar warne.

You seriously think so?
I've not commented on Panesar's use of drift because the only time I've seen him before is in a couple of u19 games.
But I'd say his and Vettori's actions are near identical.

 

[Richard]

other than the fact that they are both well built, there are barely any other similarities between the 2. I think its fairly safe to say that Gooch moved his front foot more than never.

Indeed.
The similiarity is that both generally stood pretty tall (Trescothick until the last minute) and use much heavier bats than their physique makes look possible.

 

[Goughy]

Well... so can Giles, just not as well as Boje.
I'd be surprised, very surprised in fact, if either's international careers were over.

Maybe I based the statement in hope rather than fact, but Im still not convinced they have many test wickets left in them. Still see a role in ODIs though

 

[Richard]

I've never really thought either often merited places - both useful when the pitches are turning but if they're not I'd prefer all-seam attacks for both countries. Find it beggars belief that Boje has often been preferred to Terbrugge, Willoughby, etc., however much of a k*nt Willoughby apparently is.

 

[Swervy]

Indeed.
The similiarity is that both generally stood pretty tall (Trescothick until the last minute) and use much heavier bats than their physique makes look possible.

so there is hardly any similarity then?

 

[Richard]

Put Gooch (or Trescothick) in a mirror and they'll look pretty similar in their pre-delivery stance.
That's all I meant.
Anyway - it wasn't me who made the initial comparison, it was Tim De Lisle (see final part, paragraph 2).

 

[SA]

Asim Kamal = Michael Bevan

 

[Richard]

Asim Kamal = Test specialist
Michael Bevan = ODI specialist
Interesting comparison...
Mind, there's a similarity in that they're both stupidly hard-done-by, I suppose...

 

[luckyeddie]

I had the pleasure to bowl with Marshall and have seen both first hand on a number of occasions.

 

[Richard]

Must've been an experience, bowling alongside the greatest seamer of the modern era.

 

[Kweek]

Mcnamara>Vettori ive been told