Who is a better batsman Martyn or Chanderpaul?

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Chanderpaul has been amazing for the West Indies almost game in game out lately. I don't want to bring up the whole supporting cast issue, but it is relevant. I will say that whilst slothed through 2004 with 400* in his back pocket, Chanderpaul stood up to be counted. When Lara has been out of the side, or out of sorts, Chanderpaul tends to shine. He's as much a clutch player as Martyn IMO.

 

[Jono]

Oh well, it appears this is the thread for stupid overstatements.

Is that why you made yours?

 

[Jono]

C_C has run away.

Bit ironic coming from you. Where were you when the Aussies lost to the mighty Bangladesh?

 

[Scallywag]

Bit ironic coming from you. Where were you when the Aussies lost to the mighty Bangladesh?

In a hotel room with your girlfriend.

 

[vic_orthdox]

In a hotel room with your girlfriend.

Class.

 

[Jono]

In a hotel room with your girlfriend.

Lol, not a tad bit surprised coming from you.

 

[viktor]

Oh well, it appears this is the thread for stupid overstatements.

as in:

Quote:
Originally Posted by cricket player
You must be kidding me right,

Martyn better then Tendulkar?



Comfortably.


pardon me if i missed any intended sarcasm..

 

[tooextracool]

I had a big argument on this the other day and i am maintainig that Martyn is a better batsman than Chanderpaul in most area's. Before Martyn superb performances in both forms of the game in 2004, they were probably even but since then Martyn has grown a gap in my view.

What do u blokes think??

martyn......
big gap......
chanderpaul.

largely because of this:
Chanderpaul
Home 55.37
Away 39.89

 

[tooextracool]

On what i've seen Sehwag struggled against warne, rather than mac gill. when he played against australia.

are you serious?
have you seen sehwag bat at all? hes positively one of the best players of spin around, its an absolute joke that you think he cant play spin mr ponting.

 

[roseboy64]

I'd say Chanderpaul. If both were put in the same environemnt, it's expectable that Chanderpaul would shine brighter. It's rather stupid to say that there's a big gap between the two. That's uneducated drivel. They're both fine batsmen and the gap between them is small to say the least. Both are mainstays of their respective teams and those teams would struggle without them. Not much between the two.

 

[aussie]

Bulldust- Sehwag excelled when every other batsman was struggling against the aussies.
Sehwag opens too, which is harder than comming in at #4.
on recent form, sehwag is miles ahead of martyn in tests.

you have got to be mad, i have seen every test that both Martyn & Sehwag has played between 2004 to now and Martyn is ahead of Sehwag but not much.

And on your point with opening being difficult than coming in at 2 which is true but would you say then that Slater or Kirsten two of the better openers of the last 10 years is better than Lara & Tendulkar???

 

[aussie]

When Martyn is going in full flow, he is very very good to watch.

For me I would choose Chanderpaul. Partly because I like his style.

Haha so your saying you are going for a batsman who has one of the worst techniques in the world, mind it is very effective overa batsman who is arguably the most technically correct batsman in world cricket.

 

[aussie]

Up until this year though, he didn't. Martyn was just so awesome in 2004... not so much in terms of the runs he scored, but the situations he scored them in, that he suddenly got a heap of press. Remember that after the series against Indies in 2003/04 people were calling for him to be dropped.

Chanderpaul is undoubtedly massively underrated though, and I rate him among the top 10 or so batsmen in the world today.

this sums it up perfectly,well saip faaip

 

[roseboy64]

Haha so your saying you are going for a batsman who has one of the worst techniques in the world, mind it is very effective overa batsman who is arguably the most technically correct batsman in world cricket.

As long as it works his technique is ok by me.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Haha so your saying you are going for a batsman who has one of the worst techniques in the world, mind it is very effective overa batsman who is arguably the most technically correct batsman in world cricket.

How can it be bad technique if it allows him to score runs against quality bowlers? Unorthodox does not equate poor.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Haha so your saying you are going for a batsman who has one of the worst techniques in the world, mind it is very effective overa batsman who is arguably the most technically correct batsman in world cricket.

All hail Daren Ganga, right?

Rubbish post.

 

[age_master]

Martyn test - 51.25 - sr 51.7
Chanderpaul test - 47.32 - sr 43

Martyn ODI - 42.3 - sr 79
Chanderpaul ODI - 36.53 - sr 70

so he has a higher average and SR in both forms

 

[age_master]

Martyn tests home - 49.25
Martyn tests away - 56.24
Martyn ODI home - 43.4
Martyn ODI away - 46.05

Chanderpaul tests home - 55.36
Chanderpaul tests away - 40.85
Chanderpaul ODI home - 34.47
Chanderpaul ODI away - 39.78

Chanderpaul has a 15 difference in average in tests prefering home games but in ODI's its 5 prefering away games.

Martyns Test average 7 higher away from home, ODI is 3 higher. i didn;t know he liked tours that much

Martyns away test average is 16 higher than Chanderpauls, Chanderpauls home test average is 6 higher than martyns.

in ODI's Martyns efforts at home are 9 higher than Chanderpauls, in away games he averages 7 more....

 

[Mister Wright]

Chanderpaul is undoubtedly massively underrated though, and I rate him among the top 10 or so batsmen in the world today.

And obviously you'd rate Martyn in the top 10 also? Why then did you say that Martyn is better than Chanderpaul by "a fair margain"?

 

[Mister Wright]

How can it be bad technique if it allows him to score runs against quality bowlers? Unorthodox does not equate poor.

Aussie really doesn't know that much about techniques.