Spent most of his career opening with Vaughan, and it may be an unfair comparison, but looked a peasent to Vaughan's elegance. Certainly anything but an attractive batsman. One shot here and there, maybe, but certainly not an allround elegant player.
Which would bring Norway's cricketing population down to zero, excluding ex-pats that is.
Hahaha. Either way, he has clearly indicated the pressure upon him while being abroad.
Nick Knight was a terrific ODI batsman and I think he'd still hold the mantle as being England's best ODI batsman in modern times with Trescothick coming in second.
Knight > Hick > Fairbrother > Trescothick, for mine. All superb ODI players though.
It's not though, TBH, I remember near enough all of them.
I didn't, though. I said the reasons for considering one better than the other can only be the same, utterly silly, ones. I never once said the difference is comparable. Atherton is clearly better than Trescothick; Bradman is clearly light-years ahead of Richards.oh you know.
just silly little things like comparing the difference in quality between viv and don, and athers and banger.
If you honestly believe that Fairbrother is a better player than Trescothick then you are from a different planet to anyone else. Fairbrother was a decent player no doubt, but his record flatters him and he is quite frankly overrated by many on this forum. Few people have the sort of 50/100 conversion rate that Marcus Trescothick had, and fewer yet are able to pace their innings as well as he could.
Cook is? He may very well end up so given the age, but at the moment his technique is as ugly if not even more so than Trescothick's ever was. His test match average, is actually not much better and his run scoring ability on seamer friendly pitches is even worse.
