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Have batting standards massively declined in recent years?

Daemon

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Sanga, Kallis, Tendulkar, Dravid, Ponting, Chanderpaul, Lara, Jayawardene, Inzi, Younis, Sehwag, Laxman all played in the same era. There's so many others I've left out as well. Madness tbh.
 

smash84

The Tiger King
Sanga, Kallis, Tendulkar, Dravid, Ponting, Chanderpaul, Lara, Jayawardene, Inzi, Younis, Sehwag, Laxman all played in the same era. There's so many others I've left out as well. Madness tbh.
Madness?

This is CRICKETWEB
 

Valer

First Class Debutant
I'm of the opinion that batting now is stronger than usual, perhaps stronger than ever. It could be an NZ bias because the BCs have 2 of our best 3 bats in history in the side right now. But I can't remember seeing a lot of guys like ABDV, Root, Amla and Smith in my time watching cricket either.
NZ is averaging roughly the same as the 2000s -- most teams aren't.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
I'm of the opinion that batting now is stronger than usual, perhaps stronger than ever. It could be an NZ bias because the BCs have 2 of our best 3 bats in history in the side right now. But I can't remember seeing a lot of guys like ABDV, Root, Amla and Smith in my time watching cricket either.
Have you literally been watching cricket for about 2 years or something then?
 

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