Allrounders XI vs. Specialists XI

[watson]

Not sure that 65-65 is quite right Red Hill for Jack Gregory. Yes he did average 37 with the bat, but the fact is he spent most of his career at No.8 and No.9 and was one of Australia's greatest new ball bowlers.

I see him as roughly equivalent to Stuart Broad or Mitchell Johnson with the bat. All good clean hitters who can score well on a good day. But against quality bowling or on a dodgy wicket their techniques would get found out. Basically no where near the class of a consistent opener like Trevor Goddard.

 

[marc71178]

Botham, dev, kallis, Miller all have significantly better total score than imran?

Could agree with peak-Botham but the others are products of one man's view and not what I'd say...

 

[Red]

It's just my opinion.

You will note that I've ranked Imran's bowling at 90. Rate him very very highly as a bowler, not as highly as a batsman. Reckon both Dev and Botham were clearly better batsmen than Imran (in spite of what their averages suggest), while being slightly lesser bowlers.

 

[Red]

Red Hill you've given Aubrey Faulkner the 5th best batting rating yet have him as your 11 wtf lol

Was just chucking a bunch of similarly talented all rounders in a team tbh. Didn't expend a heap of thought into the batting order besides the openers and the #3 and Sobers.

 

[Red]

Not sure that 65-65 is quite right Red Hill for Jack Gregory. Yes he did average 37 with the bat, but the fact is he spent most of his career at No.8 and No.9 and was one of Australia's greatest new ball bowlers.

I see him as roughly equivalent to Stuart Broad or Mitchell Johnson with the bat. All good clean hitters who can score well on a good day. But against quality bowling or on a dodgy wicket their techniques would get found out. Basically no where near the class of a consistent opener like Trevor Goddard.

Except that Gregory made 13 FC centuries from 129 matches, while Broad has made 1 century from 157.

 

[harsh.ag]

All Rounders

WG Grace Batting 97 --- Bowling 45
Charlie Macartney Batting 80 --- Bowling 65
Jacques Kallis Batting 92 --- Bowling 60
Garry Sobers Batting 95 --- Bowling 60
Aubrey Faulkner Batting 75 --- Bowling 60
Keith Miller Batting 75 --- Bowling 85
Adam Gilchrist + Batting 85 --- Bowling N/A
Mike Procter Batting 68 --- Bowling 90
Imran Khan Batting 65 --- Bowling 94
Wilfred Rhodes Batting 45 --- Bowling 90
Richard Hadlee Batting 45 --- Bowling 97

 

[watson]

Except that Gregory made 13 FC centuries from 129 matches, while Broad has made 1 century from 157.

Good point. I hadn't considered Gregory's FC record.