Best Test batsman to play 15<x<30 tests in modern times

[Spark]

If you're saying then "surprising" as in "should have more" then no IMO.

 

[honestbharani]

By the end of the 90's I was pretty sure Ganguly would end up better than Dravid in both forms of the game. I think Kolkata 2001 was the turning point for Dravid, to a lesser extent than for Laxman.

I thought the same about Ganguly and Dravid but there was this tour to NZ in 1999 I think, when I immediately realized that Dravid was a class above all batsmen in the Indian side except Sachin... Even in ODIs there, he was awesome, IIRC.

 

[vcs]

I thought the same about Ganguly and Dravid but there was this tour to NZ in 1999 I think, when I immediately realized that Dravid was a class above all batsmen in the Indian side except Sachin... Even in ODIs there, he was awesome, IIRC.

Yeah, that tour and the hundred he scored in the 3rd Test in SA in '97. He had a nasty habit of not converting 50s into 100s back then.

 

[Uppercut]

If you're saying then "surprising" as in "should have more" then no IMO.

You know fine right if he'd been playing today instead of North he'd be not out on 160 (114) having been dropped three times and given not out after edging to first slip, with the referral system unable to be used because it had been put out of action for one over after being struck by lightning.

 

[smash84]

About Ganguly, While him being made captain obv. was more beneficial to the team, I think it killed him as a batsman, He was almost kissing greatness and averaged 50(?) in the 90s where some 3-4 other blokes did and then regressed into this Marcus North-ish batsman for a long while.

a fair assessment this one.

 

[Blaze 18]

Vinod Kambli. He was touted as a better batsman than Sachin Tendulkar - and he may well have been. However, a few disciplinary issues and bad luck screwed his career.

 

[Kylez]

Boof Leahman.

 

[Jono]

You know fine right if he'd been playing today instead of North he'd be not out on 160 (114) having been dropped three times and given not out after edging to first slip, with the referral system unable to be used because it had been put out of action for one over after being struck by lightning.

 

[morgieb]

Kambli, Lehmann. Daresay had Lehmann played for anyone else he would been a great or at least had got an extended chance before 32...

 

[G.I.Joe]

From his cricinfo profile-

Kambli started his Test career three years after Tendulkar, and three years after he had hit the first ball he received in the Ranji Trophy for six

WAG

 

[Chook Herron]

Just to throw one from left field; Murray Goodwin for Zimbabwe

 

[Mike5181]

Johnothan Trott and Jesse Ryder

 

[ramkumar_gr]

Mark Richardson should be right up there.

 

[srkven]

Johnathon Trott

Played 15 - Just.

Average of 59.95!

Delightful, isn't it?

 

[Mike5181]

Johnathon Trott

Played 15 - Just.

Average of 59.95!

Delightful, isn't it?

HEY! i picked him first . Yeah, he has had something of a special career so far.