Ravi Shastri v. Daniel Vettori

[CricAddict]

I think most people will judge this based on Shastri's commentary and Vettori will have a landslide victory as a result.

That being said, after lobbying heavily for this, I am truly glad with the surge in comparison threads. Fun times ahead. Just need some of those prickly ones like Steve Smith vs Virat Kohli or Ben Stokes vs Ravichandran Ashwin

This will be a good one right now.

 

[cnerd123]

wtf ***** joined in '09? Thought you were one of those blow ins after we whitewashed Australia.

woah, *****, you joined in 2009? I never paid attention to that, always thought you were a noob here for some reason.

I didn't start posting frequently till much later; took a while for me to grow out of Planetcricket.

 

[Burgey]

Why is the poll couched in terms of being more important to their respective country's cricketing success when it seems to me neither country had any success when these two guys were playing?

 

[Black_Warrior]

^ Well the poll does ask the question IF tbh

 

[Pratters]

Vettori quite clearly. Didn't retire at 30 because he cbf.

I liked that he retired early. As opposed to hanging on forever which is the norm for Indian cricketers.

 

[Spikey]

Why is the poll couched in terms of being more important to their respective country's cricketing success when it seems to me neither country had any success when these two guys were playing?

mate nz made the wc final and won a couple of test series during Dan's time

 

[Mike5181]

We won the spirit of cricket award in 2009 and 2010

 

[Burgey]

Good point.

Certainly Shastri would never have won anything like that.

 

[Flem274*]

back when dan was captain, player, coach and bus driver we even won the toss sometimes

 

[Pratters]

Shastri could never carry off spectacles.

 

[Burgey]

I can never think of Ravi Shastri without the words "This looks like a good track" coming into my head.

 

[Daemon]

I hate that thing he does before he starts on his sentences (well besides speaking of course)

"nnnnnnnggggggaaand he's belted that out of the ground"

 

[Burner]

Shastri retired at 30? What's the story?

 

[Shri]

woah, *****, you joined in 2009? I never paid attention to that, always thought you were a noob here for some reason.

And yet you are stay here seems longer for some reason.

The better comparison thread would be, "What was more forgettable? Smali's ' s' or *****'s 'Likes'?

 

[Shri]

Shastri could never carry off spectacles.

Bad sleight of hand?

 

[andruid]

Why is the poll couched in terms of being more important to their respective country's cricketing success when it seems to me neither country had any success when these two guys were playing?

Cos they were contributors to what little success their countries could scrape together at the time.



Now to figure out how to milk a comparison thread out of Habibul Bashar's career

 

[andruid]

Why is the poll couched in terms of being more important to their respective country's cricketing success when it seems to me neither country had any success when these two guys were playing?

Cos they were contributors to what little success their countries could scrape together at the time.



Now to figure out how to milk a comparison thread out of Habibul Bashar's career.

 

[cnerd123]

Now to figure out how to milk a comparison thread out of Habibul Bashar's career

You compare him to another limitedly talented, scrappy middle order batsman who lead his struggling nation with great dignity, if not a lot of grace.



Habibul Bashar vs Allan Border.

 

[Burgey]

It's a little known fact that Habibul Bashar is Uzbeki for "God". The comparison is therefore a good one.

 

[Daemon]

It actually translates to Habibi Man according to Google. I'll use a bit of artistic license to say that's Ladies Man and thus quite apt.