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<p>Make sure they're all girls pal, I reckon a boy might bowl you for 800 or so....</p>
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The modern age with its bat domination suits India to a tee, especially at home. I remember 20 or so years ago Pakistan toured and the two Ws as always dominated but right after that India came and their spearhead Javagal Srinath looked military medium in comparison.....I mean can anyone honestly name a truly world class Indian pace bowler apart from Kapil Dev? ( and even his claim is tenuous compared to others )
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<p>Zaheer Khan was pretty good for a long time, predominantly bowling on wickets not made for him. He took more than 300 wickets, that's not bad. </p>
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Zaheer Khan was pretty good for a long time, predominantly bowling on wickets not made for him. He took more than 300 wickets, that's not bad.<br></p></blockquote>
I thought of him too but he's hardly up there with the very best is he? Pakistan produced Imran, the two Ws and Shoaib Akhtar who are all far superior to anything India produced but the flip side is they haven't had anywhere near as many class batsmen...... -
<p>There are 7 players from India or Pakistan who have batted in a minimum of 75 innings with an average of over 50. 4 are from Pakistan</p>
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<p>There are 25 players from India or Pakistan who have batted in a minimum of 75 innings with an average of over 40. 10 are from Pakistan</p>
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<p>There are 11 pace bowlers from India or Pakistan who have taken at least 50 wickets with an average of under 30. 1 (Kapil) is from India - and he has the worst average</p>
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<p>There are 20 pace bowlers from India or Pakistan who have taken at least 50 wickets with an average of under 35. 5 (Kapil, Srinath, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Karsan Ghavri) are from India</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="dogmeat" data-cid="551419" data-time="1452217333"><p>There are 7 players from India or Pakistan who have batted in a minimum of 75 innings with an average of over 50. 4 are from Pakistan<br>
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There are 25 players from India or Pakistan who have batted in a minimum of 75 innings with an average of over 40. 10 are from Pakistan<br>
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There are 11 pace bowlers from India or Pakistan who have taken at least 50 wickets with an average of under 30. 1 (Kapil) is from India - and he has the worst average<br>
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There are 20 pace bowlers from India or Pakistan who have taken at least 50 wickets with an average of under 35. 5 (Kapil, Srinath, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Karsan Ghavri) are from India</p></blockquote>
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Well those stats back up my bowling argument but surprised at the batting one, off the top of my head the Indian batsmen would be Gavaskar, Tendulkar and Dravid for India and Miandad.....and......shit can't guess the other three Pakistanis... -
<p>off the top of my head, Younis Khan and Mohammed Yousef would be in there, and what about fat old Inzie?</p>
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off the top of my head, Younis Khan and Mohammed Yousef would be in there, and what about fat old Inzie?</p></blockquote>
Nope, Mr spud head only managed 49.60.<br><br>
Just read a link on Joe Root, in England's entire history only seven blokes have averaged over 50........Shit I woulda thought it'd be more than that.<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/959395.html">http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/959395.html</a><br><br>
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<p>Now you've made me use Cricinfo</p>
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<p>And it tells me the following Pakistani bat's man have played more than 75 innings and average more than 50</p>
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<p>Younis Khan - 53.94</p>
<p>Javed Miandad - 52.57</p>
<p>Mohammade Yousef - 52.29</p>
<p>Inzamam-ul-Haq - 50.16</p>
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<p>on England, i assume you mean "... and played more than 50 test innings"</p>
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<p>The number isn't high, but the names are some of the greatest in test history.</p>
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<p>They also have an awful lot in the very late 40s</p>
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<p>It doesn't surprise me that much actually. England weren't much chop for a long time in the batting era, and even then they didn't have stand-out test batsmen, but a lot of very good guys who are in the really late 40s.</p>
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I see what's happened. For Pakistan, yes you are right about lard boy.....<br><br>
But one shit match for ICC brought the average below 50......<br><br>
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Off the top of my head for other countries I'd say.....( with no cricinfo cheating ) <br><br>
Oz: Bradman, Border, G Chappell, S Waugh, M Hayden, Ponting, Clarke, Hussey....( probably a few more )<br><br>
WI: Lara, Sobers, Richards, Worrall, Weekes, Walcott, Chanderpaul, Headley<br><br>
Zimbabwe: Flower<br><br>
SL: Sangakara<br><br>
SA: Kallis, Amla<br><br>
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<p>For Aus Clarke didn't get there, but Smith and Warner are both in. </p>
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<p>Who the fuck is Headley? Worrall didn't get there</p>
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Dude, hand on heart that was totally off the top of my head like I said. Pretty happy with my awesome level of cricket nerdness. <br><br>
This joker.....career was too short to qualify.....get a load of that fucken first class average though. <br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/52050.html">http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/52050.html</a><br><br>
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<p>cracking record! </p>
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<p>While i was looking at this stuff, it showed how fucking good Bradman's numbers are. He played 52 tests, batted 80 times, and scored 7,000 runs. What was the 1930s equivalent of PEDs?</p> -
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<p>cracking record! </p>
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<p>While i was looking at this stuff, it showed how fucking good Bradman's numbers are. He played 52 tests, batted 80 times, and scored 7,000 runs. What was the 1930s equivalent of PEDs?</p>
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cracking record! <br><br>
While i was looking at this stuff, it showed how fucking good Bradman's numbers are. He played 52 tests, batted 80 times, and scored 7,000 runs. What was the 1930s equivalent of PEDs?</p></blockquote>
Without a word of a lie I truly believe the Rugby equivalent of Bradman would be a guy who plays like Richie McCaw with the added bonus of getting wide and playing like Jonah at the next phase. <br><br>
I still wonder if he wasn't actually real and was made up, how can anyone have dominated the game like that? The thread a few years back on here comparing Tendulkar to him was laughable, I'd argue ST was not even the best of his generation let alone being compared to 'The Don'<br><br>
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<p>It's called the war. Take out 3/4 of the good cricketers who were killed in WW2 and suddenly, his record doesn't seem that great.... :fishing:</p>
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<p>I said that to an aussie mate once, he dead seat punched me in the head. We are sitll good mates to this day, and he confesses it's the greatest wind-up he's ever heard. I'm not convinced he's 100% over it, and it was over 10 years ago.</p> -
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I said that to an aussie mate once, he dead seat punched me in the head. We are sitll good mates to this day, and he confesses it's the greatest wind-up he's ever heard. I'm not convinced he's 100% over it, and it was over 10 years ago.</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="551444" data-time="1452230393"><p>cracking record! <br><br>
While i was looking at this stuff, it showed how fucking good Bradman's numbers are. He played 52 tests, batted 80 times, and scored 7,000 runs. What was the 1930s equivalent of PEDs?</p></blockquote>
6,996 runs to be pedantic, hence the shit 99.94 average.<br><br>
Clearly a choker too.
