Cricketers with similar careers

[Pup Clarke]

Not sure how fast VRV has been timed at though.

Mostly bowls late 130kph or early 140s. There was a spell however against Bangladesh where he was hitting the mid 140s pretty regularly.

 

[aussie]

Hadlee & McGrath. Both without a doubt the most accurate bowlers of their time if not the best and it will be debated with metronomical genius was the better expotent of accurate bowling.

 

[Richard]

It is very debatable whether McGrath was any more accurate than Curtley Ambrose or Shaun Pollock, and whether Hadlee was any more than Malcolm Marshall or Joel Garner.

 

[FRAZ]

Sir Donald Bradman and Shoaib Akhtar
Both best ever at their department !!

 

[FRAZ]

Aaqib Javed and Javagal Srinath
Both decent but people forgot about em so quickly !!

 

[FRAZ]

Sreeesanth and Munaf Patel
No explaination needed !!

 

[FRAZ]

Arvinda Desilva and Mark Taylor !!
Extreme similarities in their shot selections , Both have been captains and both were stylish !!!

 

[Richard]

Arvinda Desilva and Mark Taylor !!
Extreme similarities in their shot selections , Both have been captains and both were stylish !!!

Aravinda >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tubby anyday, though, TBH.

 

[Julian87]

Blewett was more of a Ramprakash and Bevan a Hick IMO. In several ways.

No that's just wrong imo.

Bevan is the best one day batsman in history, compare his and Hick's records. Hick is a hitter and Bevo relied on placement, unorthodoxy at times and hard work, ie running between wickets. And their test careers differ as well imo. Bevan was only given one real crack in the mid nineties and never got another tbh. He actually deserved to come back into the team ahead of Darren Lehmann around 2000 but never did. I just see the main difference between them as Bevan proved how good he is on the world stage, Hick didn't.

 

[Fiery]

Arvinda Desilva and Mark Taylor !!
Extreme similarities in their shot selections , Both have been captains and both were stylish !!!

Tubby Taylor stylish? I can't see a single similarity between those two tbh Fraz

 

[FRAZ]

Tubby Taylor stylish? I can't see a single similarity between those two tbh Fraz

I need a defination of "stylish" !!!

 

[Fiery]

I need a defination of "stylish" !!!

Stylish

 

[pasag]

Sir Donald Bradman and Shoaib Akhtar
Both best ever at their department !!

 

[Xuhaib]

Andrew Flintoff and Chris Cairns.

Both started at a young age and it took them a while to realise their potential, on their days they could be as good as any all-ronder in the history but unfortunatley both highly injury prone.

 

[Fiery]

Andrew Flintoff and Chris Cairns.

Both started at a young age and it took them a while to realise their potential, on their days they could be as good as any all-ronder in the history but unfortunatley both highly injury prone.

Yeah not a bad comparison actually

 

[short shorts]

Botham and Flintoff.

Both built their reputations on a good period followed by an extended poor one. Botham became fat Botham (which his ardent followers would prefer to blank out) and Flintoff seems to be going down the path of drunk injured Flintoff...

Yeah, I'm not being entirely serious (except for the fat Botham part), so potential pedants - there you go.

 

[Lostman]

Tony Greig and Botham

Grieg averages 40(batting) and 28(bowling)
Botham 33 and 28

 

[Richard]

Greigy's Test bowling-average is 32.

 

[Fiery]

Greigy's Test bowling-average is 32.

I thought that sounded a bit low

 

[Richard]

No that's just wrong imo.

Bevan is the best one day batsman in history, compare his and Hick's records. Hick is a hitter and Bevo relied on placement, unorthodoxy at times and hard work, ie running between wickets. And their test careers differ as well imo. Bevan was only given one real crack in the mid nineties and never got another tbh. He actually deserved to come back into the team ahead of Darren Lehmann around 2000 but never did. I just see the main difference between them as Bevan proved how good he is on the world stage, Hick didn't.

WTF? How on Earth did Hick not prove he was an exceptional ODI batsman? He's up there on the top shelf IMO - not as good as Bevan, no, obviously, but no-one is - as you say, he's the best ODI batsman in history. To stereotype either as either hitters or nurdlers, meanwhile, would also be wrong - both were perfectly capable of both smashing the ball and knocking it around - there's no way you get as good at OD batting as those two were without having both dimensions to your game.

And while Bevan got less of a Test chance than Hick, the fact is that early on both were found-out by the short ball in that form, yet actually improved their game to a level where it ceased to be a problem. Hick, in the end, had a far more notable Test career than Bevan, that's not really up for argument. To average all but 50 over 46 innings against some of the best bowling-attacks ever seen is one hell of a feat, ITBT, and Hick did so between 1993 and 1996.