Langer a great cricketer

[KennyD]

Who? Sinclair? Richardson?

And Langer just scored a double ton.

probably Richardson i'd think

congrats Lang, i love that little b*stard

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

probably Richardson i'd think

congrats Lang, i love that little b*stard

I disagree about Richardson being better then Langer.

 

[KennyD]

Sinclair
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 24 40 5 1363 214 38.94 44.03 3 4 22 0

Richardson
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 37 63 3 2751 145 45.85 37.95 4 19 25 0

Therea re the stats, im going with richardson

 

[Scallywag]

Sinclair
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 24 40 5 1363 214 38.94 44.03 3 4 22 0

Richardson
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 37 63 3 2751 145 45.85 37.95 4 19 25 0

Therea re the stats, im going with richardson

Richardsons strike rate is 37 compared to Langers 52
Richardsons has 4 centuries compared to Langers 20

I'm going with Langer

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Richardson has played less than half the Tests Langer has. He's got more than enough time to gain ground.

 

[Scallywag]

Richardson has played less than half the Tests Langer has. He's got more than enough time to gain ground.

A bird in the hand is better than one in the bush.

 

[tooextracool]

can someone please explain to me why langer should be considered better than richardson?

 

[Scallywag]

can someone please explain to me why langer should be considered better than richardson?

Although there is only .65 of a run difference in averages between the two players Langer has scored in excess of twice as many runs than Richardson and has scored 5 times as many centuries and played over twice the amount of tests. Langer also scores his runs faster than Richardson.

A bit like comparing Dravid and Tendulkar, Dravid has a bit better average but Tendy has performed over a longer period and scored more runs.

 

[Sudeep]

Langer as opener:

41   70   3  3166 250  166  162   47.25  12  10

I'd pick him over Richardson any day...

 

[Scallywag]

Langer as opener:

41   70   3  3166 250  166  162   47.25  12  10

I'd pick him over Richardson any day...

Its now

42 71 3 3377 250 211 166 49.66 13 10

as an opener

 

[Scallywag]

Heres a tough one, who would you rate as the better opening partnership and why.

JL Langer & ML Hayden (Aus) 40 68 1 3912 58.38 12 14
CG Greenidge & DL Haynes (WI) 89 148 11 6482 47.31 16 26

 

[C_C]

GG and DH over MH and JL anyday of the week.

While i consider Haydos to be better than Greenidge, Langer is simply not in Hayne's class as a batsman.

Langer is a dead-rubber specialist along with the fact that the bowling faced by the OZ pair is downright club-level compared to the bowling faced by the Windian pair.

 

[Scallywag]

GG and DH over MH and JL anyday of the week.

While i consider Haydos to be better than Greenidge, Langer is simply not in Hayne's class as a batsman.

Langer is a dead-rubber specialist along with the fact that the bowling faced by the OZ pair is downright club-level compared to the bowling faced by the Windian pair.

Why do you rate Hayden so highly if he only faces club level bowling and can only just shade Langer.

 

[KennyD]

Richardsons strike rate is 37 compared to Langers 52
Richardsons has 4 centuries compared to Langers 20

I'm going with Langer

whoops my bad, I made a mistake reading Sir Bloody Idiots post, thought he said Sinclair is better than Richardson....

Yeah i think Langer is better.

And I think Haydos and Langer are the best opening partnership Australia ever had, but I cant rate them in the world, dont know enough about greenidge and Haynes, Im too young

 

[C_C]

Why do you rate Hayden so highly if he only faces club level bowling and can only just shade Langer.

I dont rate him that highly. Not as highly as the likes of Gavaskar, Hutton etc.
But i still rate him as better than Greenidge.

 

[tooextracool]

Although there is only .65 of a run difference in averages between the two players Langer has scored in excess of twice as many runs than Richardson and has scored 5 times as many centuries and played over twice the amount of tests. Langer also scores his runs faster than Richardson.

neither of which actually matter in test match cricket.....

 

[tooextracool]

Langer as opener:

41   70   3  3166 250  166  162   47.25  12  10

I'd pick him over Richardson any day...

IMO langer has been terribly inconsistent, in that he usually has 1 good inning a series in which he scores really big, and then fails in the other 5.

 

[Scallywag]

neither of which actually matter in test match cricket.....

I have allways thought how many many matches you play and the amount of runs you score were the only things that mattered in test cricket.

 

[Scallywag]

CC

I"m interested in your opinions on G Chapple and B Lara. I myself dont feel you can compare players from different era's but you seem to have a very confident comparision on lots of players from different era's.

 

[Scallywag]

IMO langer has been terribly inconsistent, in that he usually has 1 good inning a series in which he scores really big, and then fails in the other 5.

Cant agree with that statement when you look at his innings list, he appears very consistant. In fact he looks very solid over the last 4 years with no serious form slumps at all.