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Ricky Ponting vs Steve Waugh

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SJS

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silentstriker said:
Are they really? So why do slow scoring batsmen automatically get classed as having less talent then? It's a different type of talent, not having 'less' of it.
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Its not a question of slow or fast scoring. Talent is what we normally use to describe a 'natural' skill/gift as against an aquired one.

Its not to decry one or the other. A batsman can be a natural and still not be as good as one who has worked on his craft and built his game, brick by brick. Mohinder Amarnath will be anyone's choice over, say, Srikkanth. Here Srikkanth scores much faster and is a naturally gifted stroke player.

Those who sat Tendulkar and Ponting are more talented are not running down Steve Waugh and Dravid but just stating the obvious difference between the two.

Aquired skill is not necessarily superior or inferior to a natural gift.
 
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