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Stephen Fleming vs Arjuna Ranatunga

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Migara said:
Ranatunga averages 36 with the bat with SR of 78, compared to Flrming averaging 32 with SR of 72, despite starting a decade later. Adjust it to the era, and Ranatunga would be 10 points clear of Fleming with a higher average.

During his 17 year career, Arjuna was the 5th highest scorer in ODIs. Fleming just scrapes in to top 10. 1982 - 1999, Arjuna was the highest averaging batsman in SL team. Other than for Aravinda and Marvan, all his support cast averaged sub 30. Fleming during his time had five batsmen averaging more than him. It shows who had more pressure to deal with. Arjuna average 50.4 against WI and 33.9 against Australia, which were the two best sides during his career other than for his own. Fleming averaged 29.5 against Australia and 18.7 against Sri Lanka who were the best sides during his career.

Finally to round off here are ICC ranking points graph to demonstrate the gulf between them.
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Ranatunga belongs to the tier of Aravinda, Azhar, Salim Malik, Martin Crowe, Richie Richardson and Dean Jones tier, the tier of flowed geniuses in ODI cricket. Fleming is no where good as him.

Edit: And with all these limitations he wend on to win a World cup, irritated Aussies to the maximum possible and mouthed off and bashed Warne around. None of them Fleming could achieve. Not only ODI batsman, Ranatunga is a better ODI captain too than Fleming.
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:laugh:

He was a solid middle order batsman who averaged 35, helped along by 47 not outs in roughly 250 innings.

Come on mate, settle down.
 
mr_mister

mr_mister

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And both are probably better than Richie Richardson unless I'm missing something. I know he had a good '96 WC but yeah, strange tier he's came up with there

I like the rest of the post though. Arjuna flew under the radar in the '96 WC(with the bat), but still performed great. It's funny that Kalu probably gets as much credit for that WC win as him(again, with the bat)

And in '87 and '92, Ranatunga was their best bat
 
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Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
Yeah Fleming tests; Ranatunga ODIs.

Ranatunga vs Roger Twose in ODIs would be close. Twose was better, but not by much.
 
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ashley bach

International Coach
Arjuna was a gun competitor, the type of player you'd really want in your team when a tough fight was required.
Who knows how much better he could have been if he stayed in good shape. Certainly remember a few run outs that should never have been.
Unfortunately the meat pies got the better of him in the end, or was it the tomato sauce the pies were swimming in.
 
Migara

Migara

International Coach
ashley bach said:
Arjuna was a gun competitor, the type of player you'd really want in your team when a tough fight was required.
Who knows how much better he could have been if he stayed in good shape. Certainly remember a few run outs that should never have been.
Unfortunately the meat pies got the better of him in the end, or was it the tomato sauce the pies were swimming in.
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Nah it was rice and jak fruit with plenty of wild boar did the trick.

And this is a Jakfruit curry

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ashley bach

International Coach
TheJediBrah said:
Oh but pardon me Migara, Ranatunga is not even close to Dean Jones tier
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If there's any comparison between these 2 players you couldn't find a bigger margin when it came to running between the wickets.
Dean Jones was the greatest ever(except for Tim David) and Arjuna must be close to the worst(certainly towards the end)
 
mr_mister

mr_mister

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What I want to know is how are you supposed to get fat eating fruit

Surely it was more of the wild boar alluded to earlier. Can picture Ranatunga chewing on a boar leg like King Henry
 
TheJediBrah

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mr_mister said:
What I want to know is how are you supposed to get fat eating fruit

Surely it was more of the wild boar alluded to earlier. Can picture Ranatunga chewing on a boar leg like King Henry
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What you eat is technically irrelevant to whether you gain or lose weight. It's purely a matter of calorie balance, ie. how much you eat.

Of course other factors affect your calorie input (which is half the equation) like palatability, compliance to a diet, calorie density etc.

But essentially gaining weight is purely a function of energy balance (first law of thermodynamics). Doesn't matter what you're eating, if you are in a calorie surplus you will gain weight. Even if it's all fruit. btw fruit is full of sugar anyway has plenty of calories
 
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RossTaylorsBox

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mr_mister said:
What I want to know is how are you supposed to get fat eating fruit

Surely it was more of the wild boar alluded to earlier. Can picture Ranatunga chewing on a boar leg like King Henry
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Decided to eat some wild boar because of this post, thank you sir
 
Migara

Migara

International Coach
ashley bach said:
If there's any comparison between these 2 players you couldn't find a bigger margin when it came to running between the wickets.
Dean Jones was the greatest ever(except for Tim David) and Arjuna must be close to the worst(certainly towards the end)
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Arkuna was prettygood between wickets even when he was fat. 82-93 period was one of the quickest between wickets.
 
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