In what way?
Is biryani posting some rubbish again?
I'm glad they had it all in the headline because I can't bare listening to that accent. No offense.
Where did he say he hates Kohli
I'm glad they had it all in the headline because I can't bare listening to that accent. No offense.
It's almost as bad as trying to listen to a scouser.
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Italianwhich accent do you bare it all to
It's second to runs in difficult conditions though, and in that sense Root is unmatched.Ability to convert is arguably the most important trait in test cricket. Root needs to level up.
Kohli really needs to be not-trash next English summer for me to rate him higher than Root. Not even amazing, just not a walking wicket again. That's a big black mark against him for mine.Surely with five double centuries, there is no question now. Kohli is the far superior test batsman, and the better ODI batsman, etc. etc.
For the record, I am shocked by those who rate Pujara higher than Kohli (centuries in Australia, South Africa, Windies, etc.)
At some point you people have to accept that average isn't everything.
Now, Steve Smith, on other hand...
He's only had one bad match.Root has dipped down somewhat - still a very good batsman but he has been eclipsed by Kohli and Smith -
Yeah it's more that I'd back Root to be able to do it anywhere, more than anyone else in the world. He reminds me a bit of Clarke in that respect in that he might not be the flat out best batsman but he's the one you'd back when the team is 3/not many and the pitch is tough.I don't think Kohli is behind Root when it comes to scoring tough runs TBH. Examples:
1st Test, England tour of India at Rajkot, Nov 9-13 2016 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo
2nd Test, England tour of India at Visakhapatnam, Nov 17-21 2016 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo
4th Test, England tour of India at Mumbai, Dec 8-12 2016 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo
1st Test, Sri Lanka tour of India at Kolkata, Nov 16-20 2017 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo
If you add "swinging conditions" as a prerequisite for scoring tough runs, then yeah, Root's your guy.
Don't agree entirely with that. Any batsman in the top 5 isn't there to play a pretty half an innings and get out. It would take more statsmongering than I'm prepared to do (which is none) to work out the difference it makes to the team to have someone making fewer fifties but bigger hundreds.He's only had one bad match.
I don't think the conversion rate is quite as big a shortcoming for Root when it comes to a straight comparison with Kohli because he also gets to 50 a lot more often than Kohli does.