Shane Watson or Muhammad Hafeez? All formats

[Fuller Pilch]

Who is the better player? Interesting players to compare.

Watson the better white ball cricketer, Hafeez the better red ball cricketer. Who is better overall?

 

[hendrix]

Watson is an ATG ODI player and pretty good test player so he takes this easily, even without considering the fact that Hafeez is now banned from bowling.

 

[Jono]

Watson

 

[Viscount Tom]

Watto he might have the reviewing skills of sheep that's just taken an anti tank shell to the head but let's not pretend he wasn't a pretty excellent OD player.

 

[Athlai]

The Professor in both forms.

 

[the big bambino]

Watson atm but thinking of reviewing.

 

[Daemon]

The one who doesn't chuck

 

[smash84]

The Professor in both forms.

 

[smash84]

Twatto any day

 

[Athlai]

Twatto had a far far far far far higher ceiling than Hafeez but he never really delivered. Even in ODI cricket where for the most part he was a titan he ended up with a far patchier record than you'd have predicted when he started out.

Overall I think Hafeez has been a better Test player, and in ODI cricket, I think Hafeez had a better last 5 years all round. Watto the better ODI bat by a large stretch and Hafeez the better ODI bowler by a slightly larger stretch.

 

[Athlai]

I didn't know about Hafeez before his recall so I pretty much just ignore that part of his career.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hafeez pretty easily in tests imo. Twice as many hundreds despite playing far fewer matches.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Not even a contest. Make it interesting like Watson v Flintoff. In all forms, that would be an interesting comparison.

 

[morgieb]

Had Hafeez been Australian I reckon he'd have been lucky to play international cricket.

In reality it's close but I'd still say Watson.

 

[Flem274*]

Freddie destroys Watto

Hafeez is annoyingly world class in the right conditions and awful in others. Watson does the same thing everywhere.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Freddie destroys Watto

Wondering when the exaggerated Watto-hate will subside. It will still be years away IMO.

Freddie one of those players loved and thought of often beyond his actual abilities and results, Watto the opposite.

In short form, Watson is so much better than Flintoff it's not even funny. In Tests I'd give it to Flintoff just because of his singular achievements and attitude but even then it's close.

 

[Flem274*]

haha ok buddy

 

[OverratedSanity]

Gonna stick my neck out and say that Flintoff's the best ODI allrounder ever.

 

[OverratedSanity]

And even comparing Watson to Flintoff in tests is a bit ridiculous. Despite being a batting allrounder, Watson's batting stats are barely better than Flintoff (which is a woeful indictment on Watson's batting in all honesty), and bowling wise it's not a contest.

 

[Gob]

Hafeez has literally done nothing against non minnow teams.