Sunil Gavaskar vs Wally Hammond

[subshakerz]

I answered you this 3 weeks ago.

Pollock was loyal and stayed home to play in and support SA cricket. Barry was the mercenary who played his trade around the world.
During the expulsion Pollock was more important to SA cricket.

And I literally just gave you a list of players who called Barry the best they've seen.

Where have I ever said Pollock doesn't have a case, they are both ATG bats.
My personal and objective opinion is that Barry was better, and being at the top was another plus.

I've also watched the two of them extensively and I also use that too as a gauge.

I literally said less than an hour ago, that it's my opinion, you don't have to agree. I'm not trying to convince you.

Barry was top tier elite to me, and many who saw him called him the very best they've seen.

Okay that's fine as long as you have acknowledged Pollock has as good a case and it's your personal preference.

 

[kyear2]

Okay that's fine as long as you have acknowledged Pollock has as good a case and it's your personal preference.

All of everything we do is personal preference though.

And for me they aren't especially close.

 

[peterhrt]

Yeah makes sense, Constantine has a brilliant record against England considering the era and has a brilliant FC record too, so Hammond struggling against him makes sense.

Constantine bowled against Hammond in 35 innings and got him out 11 times, Hammond averaging 40 with four hundreds. On ten occasions there was at least one other fast bowler in the opposition.

 

[Burgey]

Definitely not to spin

wtf Chappell was a terrific player of spin. And I say that as someone who wouldn’t have him in an AT Aus XI

 

[Burgey]

Lack of SC record

Why do you think the SC attacks of Chappell’s time were anything other than second rate? Seriously the biggest challenge of touring there back then was galloping dysentery.

 

[Coronis]

Pretty sure Chappell did just fine in his Pakistan series against Iqbal Qasim.

 

[capt_Luffy]

wtf Chappell was a terrific player of spin. And I say that as someone who wouldn’t have him in an AT Aus XI

As was Gavaskar

Why do you think the SC attacks of Chappell’s time were anything other than second rate? Seriously the biggest challenge of touring there back then was galloping dysentery.

Chandrasekhar - Bedi - Prasanna - Venkataraghavan

They were decently successful in Australia as well. His elder brother Ian called Prasanna the best visiting spinner ever in Australia.

Pakistan had Imran.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Why do you think the SC attacks of Chappell’s time were anything other than second rate? Seriously the biggest challenge of touring there back then was galloping dysentery.

Eh the quartet and especially bottlecap Imran were still around.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Pretty sure Chappell did just fine in his Pakistan series against Iqbal Qasim.

Did good in the 3rd Test. 2nd Test, in which he scored a double, was horribly flat though, according to both scorecard and what I read of about the pitch.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Did good in the 3rd Test. 2nd Test, in which he scored a double, was horribly flat though, according to both scorecard and what I read of about the pitch.

Imran missed the test too. Chappell's fraudulence exposed yet again.

Big-dick Border made runs in the game Imran played and the first test which was played on a rank turner.

 

[Burgey]

Eh the quartet and especially bottlecap Imran were still around.

Played 3 tests in Pakistan and averaged 70 though. The quartet wouldn’t have bothered him. Seriously, he was a properly great player of spin.

 

[Johan]

Imran missed the test too. Chappell's fraudulence exposed yet again.

Big-dick Border made runs in the game Imran played and the first test which was played on a rank turner.

did he hide at 5 or 6 this time?

 

[Burgey]

Chandrasekhar - Bedi - Prasanna - Venkataraghavan

They were decently successful in Australia as well

They played against a WSC-less Australia in 1977 and couldn’t beat them. I went to the Sydney test that series. They were over rated. And ****ing boring to watch. Honestly, just ****ing awful.

 

[capt_Luffy]

They played against a WSC-less Australia in 1977 and couldn’t beat them. I went to the Sydney test that series. They were over rated. And ****ing boring to watch. Honestly, just ****ing awful.

Yikes, you went to ground in 1977??? My father wasn't even born back then......

Well, on point, Prasanna had a pretty Great series just the previous tour when Ian called him the best to tour Australia; and Bedi and Chandrasekhar gave Australia some good beatings, a tragedy we didn't had enough good pacers to finish the job.

 

[Burgey]

Yikes, you went to ground in 1977??? My father wasn't even born back then......

How do you know that? I heard you’ve not met him

 

[capt_Luffy]

Played 3 tests in Pakistan and averaged 70 though. The quartet wouldn’t have bothered him. Seriously, he was a properly great player of spin.

On the back of a double ton in a flat as pancake bed in a match Imran missed..... It's the problem with going with averages in something like a 3 match series.

 

[Johan]

Greg Chappel is honestly Kane Williamson tier

 

[Burgey]

On the back of a double ton in a flat as pancake bed in a match Imran missed..... It's the problem with going with averages in something like a 3 match series.

Made a pair of 50s in the third as well. The bloke was a gun. Get with it

 

[capt_Luffy]

How do you know that? I heard you’ve not met him

I heard you have met Border once and he smoothly ignored you

 

[Burgey]

Greg Chappel is honestly Kane Williamson tier

Williamson is about 3/4 of the batsman Chappell was and about four times the bloke