Neil Fairbrother or Roger Twose - Who was the better ODI bat?

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unfortunately I can hardly find any of Twose's innings from his tremendous 99-00 run on youtube. I managed to find Fairbrother's only ODI ton on there, a decent innings.

https://tune.pk/video/27303/roger-twose-80-vs-australia-world-cup-1999

 

[fredfertang]

Fairbrother was a top class ODI batsman, right up there with Michael Bevan

Twose wasn’t good enough to play for England and buggered off to New Zealand where, briefly, he had a bit of good fortune

There’s no real comparison to be made

 

[Mr Miyagi]

Fairbrother was a top class ODI batsman, right up there with Michael Bevan

Twose wasn’t good enough to play for England and buggered off to New Zealand where, briefly, he had a bit of good fortune

There’s no real comparison to be made

Tell me more about England's odi standing in world cricket of the 1990's Fred :P

Since Gatting's reverse sweep and the 2015 World Cup - how would you say England fared vis a vis NZ in ICC events?

Selector preference is not really good reason disqualify the comparison.

It is a bit like saying Wagner cannot be compared to any Safrican bowler because he buggered off to NZ and briefly had some good fortune.

And yet - believe it or not - with 2 more years like his last 2, he is seriously chasing down someone of the quality of Morne Morkel level.

 

[fredfertang]

Tell me more about England's odi standing in world cricket of the 1990's Fred :P

Since Gatting's reverse sweep and the 2015 World Cup - how would you say England fared vis a vis NZ?

Can't remember tbh, but I accept we were pretty poor, as evidenced by the fact that a batsman who generally looked like a club cricketer in Test matches was far and away our best ODI batsman

 

[Mr Miyagi]

Can't remember tbh, but I accept we were pretty poor, as evidenced by the fact that a batsman who generally looked like a club cricketer in Test matches was far and away our best ODI batsman

On the bright side, your test team's best middle order bat this summer may be a t20 slogger with a license at 7.

Things are on the up and up.

 

[Starfighter]

On the bright side, your test team's best middle order bat this summer may be a t20 slogger with a license at 7

A slogger who scores slower than Graeme Smith to be exact.

 

[mr_mister]

Fairbrother had 2 purple patches, several years apart.

His first one was from mid 91 to 93 where he scored 922 runs from 23 innings @ 51.22. This included the 1992 WC where he performed tremendously

Then after his recall in late 98 til just before the 99 WC he scored 371 runs from 8 innings @ 92.75


Twose had one, extended run of super form from the beginning of 1999 to the end of 2000 where he hit 1858 runs from 42 innings @ 56.30. This included the 1999 WC where he performed tremendously

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I'd go for 2s. Fairbrother v Nick Knight would be close

 

[TheJediBrah]

Fairbrother had 2 purple patches, several years apart.

His first one was from mid 91 to 93 where he scored 922 runs from 23 innings @ 51.22. This included the 1992 WC where he performed tremendously

Then after his recall in late 98 til just before the 99 WC he scored 371 runs from 8 innings @ 92.75


Twose had one, extended run of super form from the beginning of 1999 to the end of 2000 where he hit 1858 runs from 42 innings @ 56.30. This included the 1999 WC where he performed tremendously

this summary performed tremendously

 

[Flem274*]

grant elliott

 

[cnerd123]

grant elliott

I thought the irrelevant joke option in all these discussions was going to be Steve Smith for the next year?