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Williamson vs Root
- Thread starter jaideep
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In seriousness, I expect this thread is going to be chock full of people claiming that it's Williamson and that it's not close, which is of course ludicrous. You could barely fit a gnat's winkle between them.
The main fallacy at play when people underrate Root is this: once a weakness is identified (in this case, Root's conversion rate, which people only really see as important once it can be used to put someone down), it's easy to assume that that weakness is utterly debilitating. It's not.
The main fallacy at play when people underrate Root is this: once a weakness is identified (in this case, Root's conversion rate, which people only really see as important once it can be used to put someone down), it's easy to assume that that weakness is utterly debilitating. It's not.
jaideep
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Root's had a pretty meh year despite a couple of excellent knocks. But atleast he plays the format.
a massive zebra
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Root because I am a biased Englishman.
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Root's beard game needs to up the ante to match up with Kane's
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Kane for me.
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The prophecy has been fulfilled.
Conversion rate by itself doesn't mean much. He didn't convert much vs RSA for example. But he made valuable runs almost every time he batted and helped England to an outstanding run of results.
Kane converted really well vs RSA, which was really handy when he did it. But he failed a lot of the time and NZ did very badly vs RSA.
Roots consistency has been more valuable than Kanes ability to convert vs RSA. The opposite is probably true vs some other opponent, but roots consistency is definitely not a smoking gun against him.
Anyway, root hasn't been so consistent recently and hasn't been making enough runs. They have had very comparable careers to date, but kane has been getting better and root worse, so you have to back kane going forward.
Kane converted really well vs RSA, which was really handy when he did it. But he failed a lot of the time and NZ did very badly vs RSA.
Roots consistency has been more valuable than Kanes ability to convert vs RSA. The opposite is probably true vs some other opponent, but roots consistency is definitely not a smoking gun against him.
Anyway, root hasn't been so consistent recently and hasn't been making enough runs. They have had very comparable careers to date, but kane has been getting better and root worse, so you have to back kane going forward.
J_C
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Against non-minnows, Root averages 51.28, KW averages 47.41.
Against Top 6 opposition, Root averages 50.08, KW averages 41.97.
In away/neutral games against non-minnows, Root averages 46.38, KW averages 41.73 (Against Top 6 sides it's 43+ for Root vs 39+ for KW).
Root has a peak rating of 917. KW has a peak rating of 893.
Not sure why KW is so far ahead in this poll
Against Top 6 opposition, Root averages 50.08, KW averages 41.97.
In away/neutral games against non-minnows, Root averages 46.38, KW averages 41.73 (Against Top 6 sides it's 43+ for Root vs 39+ for KW).
Root has a peak rating of 917. KW has a peak rating of 893.
Not sure why KW is so far ahead in this poll