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Best 'street-fighter'

Burgey

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AB.

When Jeff Dujon lists as one of his greatest disapoointments the fact that AB didn't get a ton in each innings vs the fearsome foursome in the WI in 84, that really says it all as to the toughness of the bloke.

One of the toughest fighters in cricket, especially as he had to carry his side for a large portion of the 80s.
 
Perm

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Javed Mianded, Allan Border, Steve Waugh are the three that spring to mind for me as being some of the more successful batsman who could be 'street-fighters'. Obviously there are some lesser batsman like Michael Atherton who were just as determined but less illustrious.

BoyBrumby has some very good points about Arjuna Ranatunga though, certainly an inspiration for Sri Lanka.
 
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Fiery said:
Nah, I never think of Steve Waugh as having had immense talent....his brother Mark is a different story
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Well you obviously didn't see much of Steve in his early days, because he was one of the most talented cricketers of his generation. Thing is, he channelled this talent into a productive batting style and limited himself in order to be more successful, not always allowing that talent to shine through. No doubting he had bucketloads of the stuff IMO.
 
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Perm said:
Well you obviously didn't see much of Steve in his early days, because he was one of the most talented cricketers of his generation. Thing is, he channelled this talent into a productive batting style and limited himself in order to be more successful, not always allowing that talent to shine through. No doubting he had bucketloads of the stuff IMO.
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mmm, I remember his OD debut against NZ actually
 
Fiery

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Perm said:
Yeah, pick out one irrelevant segment of my response, that's a real good way to put your point across.
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Well, I kind of agreed with most of the rest of your argument... so didn't bother arguing that part :). As for not seeing much of early part of his career...I saw all of it.
 
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Gary Kirsten and Waugh are names that spring to mind first and Chanderpaul is capable of being pretty gritty the other day was brilliant.

A name I'm going to throw into the ring which might seem a bit odd is Laxman, he certainly never resembled a street-fighter...there was nothing scrappy or limited about his batting and he didnt appear particularly dogged, but he played the best innings (let alone rear-guard innings) I've ever seen against Australia in 2001, and little over a year before he made another great hundred against the strong Australian attack on a greenish pitch in Sydney.
 
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