The new Bradman

[Daemon]

top_cat. but tbf it was a different poster.

[Ruckus]

Jesus I'm having a seizure here

[ViruTheBest]

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.

[silentstriker]

I still maintain gym fitness is different to match fitness as Gavasker once pointed out too. I would rather have Indian players catching safely and spending many hours in the nets than working directly on fitness. If we had a limited talent pool then the Andy Flower approch would be crucial.

The two things are not mutually exclusive. Even professional athletes don't hit the gym for more than a few hours per day. There's diminishing returns.

[Dan]

**** it, I'm biting.

Also saying Indian people don't have access to a gym early on hence why lack of emphasis on fitness is rubbish. Once you are cricketer you have the money in India to do what you want-get all sorts of coaches and trainers. It's more a cultural thing then lack of access. Also our players are so talented they haven't really had to work at something so much.

I still maintain gym fitness is different to match fitness as Gavasker once pointed out too. I would rather have Indian players catching safely and spending many hours in the nets than working directly on fitness. If we had a limited talent pool then the Andy Flower approch would be crucial.

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.

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.

Quit the trolling, eh?

[benchmark00]

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.

[Spikey]

tie me to the mast

[Viscount Tom]

Week ban minimum for Skidmark

[Kohli_fan]

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.

[marc71178]

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.

So when he's failing or repeatedly injured so that he can't play (as in the last 2 years) I assume you agree that such things become much more relevant.

[ViruTheBest]

**** it, I'm biting.



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.

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

[Kohli_fan]

So when he's failing or repeatedly injured so that he can't play (as in the last 2 years) I assume you agree that such things become much more relevant.

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.

[ViruTheBest]

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.

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.

[ViruTheBest]

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.

Also Watson is a gym freak and is chronically injured. A lot of it down to genetics. Some players just don't get niggles.

[Spikey]

yeah that never happened to bradman...