Ricky Ponting.The best?

[andmark]

I have been thinking Is Ricky Ponting the best Captain batsman of all time.

 

[silentstriker]

Quite possibly.

 

[Dravid]

Don Bradman was captain you know

 

[silentstriker]

Yet Chris Martin never was, what does that tell you?

 

[andmark]

Oh.I didn't know.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Not by any stretch was he the best captain ever.

Jardine > Ponting, as a captain by an absolute mile.

 

[silentstriker]

That cheating Pom tried to hurt the Don and the Don still averaged 55 against him. Dire man.

 

[PhoenixFire]

60 down from 99 is good going. He used his brain to gain an advantage, where not many other people would.

 

[silentstriker]

60 down from 99 is good going. He used his brain to gain an advantage, where not many other people would.

Yea, and got owned for the rest of eternity by anyone remotely related to the game of cricket.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Many people find his acheievments (or failure, depending on whether you class a 4-1 win in the Ashes a sucess or not), to be great.

 

[silentstriker]

Many people find his acheievments (or failure, depending on whether you class a 4-1 win in the Ashes a sucess or not), to be great.

But most find it a disgrace to the game (hence it was outlawed).

 

[PhoenixFire]

I find it rather irritating that you assume that everyone in the world agrees with you on certain subjects. Or can you no accept that?

 

[silentstriker]

I find it rather irritating that you assume that everyone in the world agrees with you on certain subjects. Or can you no accept that?

I said 'most', not all. Are you going to argue that most people accept bodyline?

 

[PhoenixFire]

I'm not trying to say that most people accept it, but I doubt that most people would say it isn't acceptable.

 

[silentstriker]

I'm not trying to say that most people accept it, but I doubt that most people would say it isn't acceptable.

If most people don't accept it, then most people would say that it is unacceptable. Or am I missing something?

 

[PhoenixFire]

There is a middle ground.

 

[silentstriker]

So you are going to say that most people didn't have a problem with Bodyline? OK, find the number of books and articles written advocating bodyline vs. number of things written against bodyline.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Ricky Ponting inherited the best team in the World and has kept that run going, it doesn't automatically make him the greatest ever captain.

 

[PhoenixFire]

So you are going to say that most people didn't have a problem with Bodyline? OK, find the number of books and articles written advocating bodyline vs. number of things written against bodyline.

I don't know to be fair, I've liked cricket since I was about 11, and thats only 3 years, so I don't really know what the worldwide view on it is, although I assume that Australians hate it, and English people see no problem as a rule.

 

[silentstriker]

I don't know to be fair, I've liked cricket since I was about 11, and thats only 3 years, so I don't really know what the worldwide view on it is, although I assume that Australians hate it, and English people see no problem as a rule.

Highly doubtful. Larwood was demonized even in England, though first he was a hero.