Got me thinking who are the top 10 bowlers and batsmen for each team. I'm going to assume that this thread doesn't already exist :
And to think for Australia you still have: Ponting, Hussey, Hayden, Martyn, Simpson, Lawry, Clark etc. Depth is ridiculous.
Which is what happens when you've been ranked (mostly) 1 or 2 for the 140 year history of the sport.
Plenty of decent reasons to have Border and Waugh ahead of him. Even if you go just by stats.
Trouble is you don't understand the stats in context and you rely on the highlighted crap as if its evidence of anything more than your of profound bias against any era except the present.
If you are referring to my Trumper comment then I am well aware the fact that batting averages pre- WW1 were well below what's the current norm. However, you must compare him with his contemporaries and the fact remains his test and FC numbers don't hold any water against guys like Ranji and pre-war Hobbs.
Seven is actually a lot considering the era tbh.
What a lazy post. You obviously haven't read much about him.
Trumper averaged 75 against SA and only 32 against England.
And Clem Hill averaged 35 against Eng and 62 against SA. What's your point?
That you can't write off other batsmen's averages of that era by saying they bashed SA, because Trumper did it too.
His point that Trumper's average was bolsted as much by playing SA as all the other batsmen of his era, so to say the ones who averaged as much as he did only because they benefited from this isn't a fair argument given Trumper also benefited from it.
It was just Eng, SA and Aus. And everyone bashed SA. And 30-40 was a good average in Trumper's era.
#betterthanTOTAB
