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Wisden's Cricketers of the Century

SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
JBMAC said:
If I remember correct Nyadu was still playing First Class Cricket at the age of 68
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He played his last innings for UP in 56-57 when he was 62 and scored a fifty. He played a charity match seven years later (which has become his official last first class game) but effectively he played till 1956-57.

Thats not young too. :)

I saw him almost ten years later around 1965 I think.

He died in November 1967
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
The season of 1952-53 was virtuallythe end of his career. He was 58. After that he played half a dozen matches over the next ten years.

  • 1953-54 : 1
  • 1954-55 : NIL
  • 1955-56 : NIL
  • 1956-57 : 3
  • 1957-58 : 1
  • 1958-59 : NIL
  • 1959-60 : NIL
  • 1960-61 : NIL
  • 1961-62 : NIL
  • 1962-63 : NIL
  • 1963-64 : 1
 
Sanz

Sanz

Hall of Fame Member
I am not so sure, I will always pick Wasim Akram ahead of Imran Khan for his extra-ordinary skills with the ball.
 
BhupinderSingh

BhupinderSingh

Banned
Sanz said:
I am not so sure, I will always pick Wasim Akram ahead of Imran Khan for his extra-ordinary skills with the ball.
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But don't u think Imran achieved more with the ball than Wasim Akram?I mean Wasim had the help of Waqar,Saqlain,Shoaib & one or two other good bowlers but all Imran had was mediocore bowlers in the form of Safaraz Nawaz & Abdul Qadir,even then he ended with much better stats than Wasim.Imran has not only better average,S/R etc but also took 4.1 wkts/match(would be more than 5 wkts/match atleast if u exclude those 20 matches he played as a specialist batsman,some in mid 80s when he was injured & some at the end of his career ) as compared to Wasim's 4.0 wkts/match.
 
Sanz

Sanz

Hall of Fame Member
No, I dont think Imran achieved more than Akram as a bowler. We have gone over this a couple of times already.
 
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funnygirl

State Regular
Definitely Imran Khan is a much better cricketer than Wasim Akram or any other Asian greats . There is nothing the guy hasn't achieved . One of the great fast bowlers of all time , a very fine batsman , peerless captain , grooming young talents.He did every thing a cricketer could have .

Imran is simply outstanding and miles away from all other cricketers from Asia .

Wasim the greatest quickie i have ever seen ,is a huge under achiever with the ball(yes), Bat and even captaincy .He could have done more .He was that gifted ,a natural if ever there was one .
 
BhupinderSingh

BhupinderSingh

Banned
funnygirl said:
Definitely Imran Khan is a much better cricketer than Wasim Akram or any other Asian greats . There is nothing the guy hasn't achieved . One of the great fast bowlers of all time , a very fine batsman , peerless captain , grooming young talents.He did every thing a cricketer could have .

Imran is simply outstanding and miles away from all other cricketers from Asia .

Wasim the greatest quickie i have ever seen ,is a huge under achiever with the ball(yes), Bat and even captaincy .He could have done more .He was that gifted ,a natural if ever there was one .
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Agreed except the bolded part.
 
Sanz

Sanz

Hall of Fame Member
She didn't say 'Wasim is the greatest Quickie', She said 'Wasim is the greatest quickie she has ever seen'. How can you disagee with her what she has seen ?
 
shortpitched713

shortpitched713

International Captain
Sanz said:
She didn't say 'Wasim is the greatest Quickie', She said 'Wasim is the greatest quickie she has ever seen'. How can you disagee with her what she has seen ?
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Well what if she saw Allan Donald too? Then Wasim couldn't possibly have been the best player that she had seen, and frankly I'm appaled at her passing off her opinion as fact.

/Richard
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
shortpitched713 said:
Well what if she saw Allan Donald too? Then Wasim couldn't possibly have been the best player that she had seen, and frankly I'm appaled at her passing off her opinion as fact.

/Richard
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Well Allan Donald's quite patently a better seam-bowler than Wasim TBH.
 
nightprowler10

nightprowler10

Global Moderator
Wise man that Lara. Border also said something along the lines of "If I could be born again I'd want to come back as Wasim Akram".
 
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