The better CRICKETER Wasim or McGrath

[smash84]

yep you have phrased it correctly.

 

[marc71178]

The way I look at it is this. There are four factors to be considered.

1. Winning games with Wasim's bowling.
2. Winning games with McGrath's bowling.
3. Winning games with Wasim's batting.
4. Winning games with McGrath's batting.

Factors 1 and 2 are massive, and about even. Factor 3 is greater than factor 4 by a considerable margin.

Go on then, how many games has Akram won with his batting?

I bet McGrath's bowling has won considerably more games than Akram's anyway.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

Hard to put a figure on it, but Akram did score over 6,500 international runs, with 3 tons and 7 fifties in tests and 6 fifties in ODIs. I think it's fair to say that McGrath won no games with his batting, and would never have done even if he had played for a millenium.

Another way of looking at it is that the difference between Akram's test batting average (22.64) and McGrath's (7.36) is over 15 runs/innings, or 30/match. So any match in which a hypothetical Pakistan beat a hypothetical Australia by fewer than 30 runs could be chalked up to a win thanks to Wasim's batting. Of course, I would like to see a sample size of 10,000 matches before feeling confident in drawing such a conclusion.

Re: matchwinning bowling, it should be noted that McGrath has 3 10WMs in 124 matches, and 29 5WIs. From 20 fewer matches, Akram has 5 10WMs and 25 5WIs. This means that McGrath got a 10 wicket bag every 41 matches, compared to Wasim's 21.

 

[Debris]

I seem to remember the Pakistan team imploding under Akram's captaincy. This would outweigh any positive if true.