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The Unpopular Opinions Thread

If Ramnaresh Sarwan didn't injure himself in his debut test as captain. He would have gone on to be the most successful skipper of the Windies team.
 

Engle

State Vice-Captain
Finger spin is the best form of bowling
Attritional cricket on slow dead pitches is entertaining
The Nagpur wicket wasn't that bad
Performances against minnows, on flat decks, and playing at home should all be considered just as important
Gavaskar isn't a racist
Kohli should bat at 4 in ODIs
Some women could complete in top level mens cricket
The best policy to deal with bowlers who chuck is to just ban any bowler that looks dodgy, regardless of what testing shows
On that note - the ICC testing for chucking lacks transparency and that's a problem
Asian desserts are good


Flame away
Fukk the chuck. Just allow everything. Good batsmen should be able to deal with arm bending anyways.
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
There is nothing interesting about Renshaw or other slow paced see off the new ball type batsmen
 

garylyon

School Boy/Girl Captain
Kohli is a nice humble guy who gets bad rep for just being really emotionally invested in the game
 

cnerd123

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Not on CW
there's been a bit of a revolution recently where some of us have come to value performances against minnows/at home now, for several good reasons, but I don't think that's the mainstream belief yet. Granted we haven't had much stats-crunching cricket talk lately, but wherever it does pop up people still tend to focus on performances against 'Top' teams and away from home.
 

Mr Miyagi

Banned
there's been a bit of a revolution recently where some of us have come to value performances against minnows/at home now, for several good reasons, but I don't think that's the mainstream belief yet. Granted we haven't had much stats-crunching cricket talk lately, but wherever it does pop up people still tend to focus on performances against 'Top' teams and away from home.
Warner's tour of Bangladesh was good for an Aussie batsman playing spin.
 
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