top_cat. but tbf it was a different poster.
top_cat. but tbf it was a different poster.
Who knows what Viru would have averaged in that era. Pie throwing old bowlers, no video analysis, pitches were easier e.t.c. Either way you cannot say Viru is Bradman or rather Bradman is Viru.
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Seems a little backwards - Indian players are so naturally talented that they need to work on the skills, whereas English guys are so naturally **** that they shouldn't bother to train?
Surely if India is blessed with such talent, they'd need less time in the nets to get the same effect as the Poms, and therefore have more time to devote to fitness. And similarly, if England was crippled by a lack of talent, they'd surely be training rather than working purely on fitness.
Your point is illogical and fallacious.
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If we're being honest, Sehwag is probably better than Bradman.
Sehwag has had to play on much bigger outfields than Bradman, and although Bradman played the first half of his career under the 'one hand/one bounce' rule, Sehwag also had to deal with a much more bowler friendly LBW law.
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Tony Greig always says that “match fitness it what counts” I could not agree more in the case of Sehwag he is an immensely gifted cricketer with some of the best hand eye coordination the game has ever seen, if you can strike a ball like he can or be as safe in the slips like he is then who cares about how many push ups you can do? It becomes irrelevant once you have the ability to execute better than the rest.
Also we should not lose sight of exactly what Viru has achieved in Test Match Cricket, it is not as though he is some glorified slogger in the mould of say Luke Wright, Viru is one of only 4 men, Bradman included to make 2 Test triple hundreds and he was just a few runs away from making a 3rd.
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I never said that. I said they are much more naturaly gifted than their english counterparts so it would be better for them to hone their skills by long hours at the nets than go crazy with gym fitness. A limited team like England strives on its fielding to be competitive. I had a friend who said Collingwood had made fielding a specialist position![]()
Injuries are part of the game, England work hard at their training and fitness yet Broad and Finn are injury concerns for them, Dwayne Bravo is an amazing athlete and he has been struggling with injuries.
The fact of the matter while you do need match fitness, if you have the talent of Viru with the fast hands and great ball striking ability then fitness is not really all that important at all.
And no one can overlook the lack of video analysis and tactics back in the day. These days you can get a computer to work out exactly what someone's percentage shots are and number of dismissals to certain balls. You can actually work out exactly where to bowl to increase likelyhood of dismissal as Nasser Hussain once showed on sky.
yeah that never happened to bradman...
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