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@ACT-Crusader said in Modern batting averages:
@barbarian said in Modern batting averages:
In terms of batsmen, I'd pick this as the 'batting lineup you'd travel to see' of the 2000s.
- Hayden
- Sehwag
- Ponting
- Lara
- Pietersen
- VVS Laxman
- Gilchrist
Honourable mentions to Mike Hussey, Andrew Flintoff, AB de V, Chris Gayle, BMac.
2-7 I can live with, but not 1. I might be out on my own but I thought Hayden looked awkward. He’s on the bigger side for a test opener and to me he never looked comfortable out there.
Very definition of the flat track bully too
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@mariner4life said in Modern batting averages:
@ACT-Crusader said in Modern batting averages:
@barbarian said in Modern batting averages:
In terms of batsmen, I'd pick this as the 'batting lineup you'd travel to see' of the 2000s.
- Hayden
- Sehwag
- Ponting
- Lara
- Pietersen
- VVS Laxman
- Gilchrist
Honourable mentions to Mike Hussey, Andrew Flintoff, AB de V, Chris Gayle, BMac.
2-7 I can live with, but not 1. I might be out on my own but I thought Hayden looked awkward. He’s on the bigger side for a test opener and to me he never looked comfortable out there.
Very definition of the flat track bully too
30 test tons against everyone ( except Bangladesh when they were truly shit so no padding stats there ), overall averaging 50 ( as an opener ) in over 100 tests ?
That's a lot of flat tracks.
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@mariner4life Can't agree. He was a bully but he could play on all tracks. His series in India in 2001 was an all time performance from an Aussie batsman.
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@MN5 said in Modern batting averages:
@voodoo said in Modern batting averages:
I have Haydon as my 2nd most disliked aussie cricketer behind Andrew Symonds
Shit I have a lot of time for both of those guys and the way they played the game.....
Brad Haddin though.....
Snap.
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@Snowy said in Modern batting averages:
@MN5 said in Modern batting averages:
@voodoo said in Modern batting averages:
I have Haydon as my 2nd most disliked aussie cricketer behind Andrew Symonds
Shit I have a lot of time for both of those guys and the way they played the game.....
Brad Haddin though.....
Snap.
He’s worse than Maradona
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@NTA said in Modern batting averages:
If Hayden was a kiwi, he'd be an all-time, irrefutable legend of the game, selected in any world XI directly behind Bradman and Hadlee.
He walks into an all time Aussie team too as it is. Sure he plundered 380 against Zimbabwe. So what ? He also scored against any and everyone else. I also think people underestimate how tough it is to average that much when your entire career is spent opening too.
He also had a bit of that Richards aura about him.
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@Snowy said in Modern batting averages:
@MN5 said in Modern batting averages:
He’s worse than Maradona
Gloves of god.
Well, granted, cheating to dismiss a kiwi journeyman ( Neil Broom, always partial to a sweep shot ) probably isn’t quite at the magnitude of a football World Cup final....
But yeah fuck you Haddin, still hate ya.
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@voodoo said in Modern batting averages:
@NTA said in Modern batting averages:
If Hayden was a kiwi, he'd be an all-time, irrefutable legend of the game, selected in any world XI directly behind Bradman and Hadlee.
He'd just be a kiwi fuckwit
So... like Hadlee?
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@NTA said in Modern batting averages:
@voodoo said in Modern batting averages:
@NTA said in Modern batting averages:
If Hayden was a kiwi, he'd be an all-time, irrefutable legend of the game, selected in any world XI directly behind Bradman and Hadlee.
He'd just be a kiwi fuckwit
So... like Hadlee?
Such an Aussie thing to say.
I think Hadlee divided his teammates with his attitude to be fair, controversy over him keeping the car he won etc. Part of me thinks what a dick, the other part thinks fair enough as he was far and away the best player on the team.
Also Aussie fans calling him a piston wristed gibbon was a bit of a compliment really, they didn't bother with his teammates as they weren't a threat like Paddles was. .
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