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I was very young when he made his debut, but for some reason, the moment I saw him bat, I was utterly convinced he was a genius. Despite being made to play out of position for a large chunk of the beginning of his career and getting flack from plenty of people, I constantly sang his praises and knew all he needed was time and being given the opportunity to bat in the middle order. When he smacked McGrath, Lee, Warne, Fleming all over Sydney, I felt a sense of vindication like no other... until the 281 a year later which even took me by surprise at how ridiculously good it was. At that point, I was pointing and laughing at every single one of my stupid friends who wrote him off early in his career and I anointed him the next true god tier ATG Indian bat. Now that didn't quite happen, but that hardly dampened my love for the guy. Only enhanced it really, since he had his critics for a long, long time who used words like "inconsistent" to describe him, when in actuality he averaged 51 over a 12 year period until that fateful final series and barely had any prolonged patches of bad form. WAFG
I was very young when he made his debut, but for some reason, the moment I saw him bat, I was utterly convinced he was a genius. Despite being made to play out of position for a large chunk of the beginning of his career and getting flack from plenty of people, I constantly sang his praises and knew all he needed was time and being given the opportunity to bat in the middle order. When he smacked McGrath, Lee, Warne, Fleming all over Sydney, I felt a sense of vindication like no other... until the 281 a year later which even took me by surprise at how ridiculously good it was. At that point, I was pointing and laughing at every single one of my stupid friends who wrote him off early in his career and I anointed him the next true god tier ATG Indian bat. Now that didn't quite happen, but that hardly dampened my love for the guy. Only enhanced it really, since he had his critics for a long, long time who used words like "inconsistent" to describe him, when in actuality he averaged 51 over a 12 year period until that fateful final series and barely had any prolonged patches of bad form. WAFG
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