Wally Hammond vs Brian Lara

[sayon basak]

I rank Lara and Hammond at Top 6 and 9 respectively purely as Batsmen.
But Wally Hammond was more than a handy fast bowler (could bowl faster than Maurice Tate when he wanted to) and an ATG fielder.

So, this should be close.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

And Lara was just Lara

 

[sayon basak]

And Lara was just Lara

Isn't that a bad thing?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Isn't that a bad thing?

I will never find anything bad about a guy who cracked a double ton in Australia and named his kid after the place. That's high level d!ck waving

 

[sayon basak]

Lara vs Top bowlers:

Hammond vs Top bowlers:

 

[subshakerz]

Lara for his X factor.

 

[sayon basak]

Lara for his X factor.

X factor>decent fast Medium bowling and ATG slip fielding?

 

[DrWolverine]

Brian Lara : A modern day great batsman who played better bowlers in a more professional era.

 

[sayon basak]

Brian Lara : A modern day great batsman who played better bowlers in a more professional era.

What do you mean by "more professional"?

Could you please provide me with the calculations that you came up with to quantify professionality? Where does Don fall? Closer to Hammond, I'd guess? Is that a justification to rate Bradman below "more professional" players?

 

[subshakerz]

X factor>decent fast Medium bowling and ATG slip fielding?

Yes unless that medium bowling is near specialist level.

And X factor is just having a higher ceiling while admittedly with less consistency.

 

[sayon basak]

Yes unless that medium bowling is near specialist level.

And X factor is just having a higher ceiling while admittedly with less consistency.

Fair.

 

[Johan]

Lara just, or maybe even Hammond but his international bowling stats aren't beautiful. Hutton over either.

 

[sayon basak]

Lara just, or maybe even Hammond but his international bowling stats aren't beautiful. Hutton over either.

As a cricketer? Man, Hutton will really be proud of you.

 

[Johan]

As a cricketer? Man, Hutton will really be proud of you.

shrugs

He brought back the Ashes, but Hutton himself rated Hammond as the greatest but he was pretty modest (unless you're a bowler and he's the captain, then he was brutal).

 

[sayon basak]

Hammond doesn't deserve to get bashed 8-1.

 

[Johan]

tbf he deserves it for being rated above Hutton in batting by many

 

[sayon basak]

Hammond doesn't deserve to get bashed 8-1.

There you go. It's much closer now.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Would pick Lara if just judging batting, but Hammond with all skills considered.

 

[Johan]

going Lara myself

 

[sayon basak]

David Foot quotes an unnamed cricketer saying that the two ruling passions of Hammond's life "were his cricket bat and his genitals". His strong desire for women was noticed by teammates from early in his career. Foot believes that Hammond had ***ual relationships with many women, sometimes several contemporaneously, before and during his first marriage, some of which led to marriage proposals. This was widely known in cricket circles, prompting disapproval from figures such as Barnett