Yeah, that happens when Hutton wants it to happen, IE, When he thinks the match situation deems to be aggressive, same thing Smith does.
You can, it's just inconsistent, and there's no reason to have Sachin over Viv if you value dominance that much
1. I want him to accelerate as a matter of course. Not when he is in the mood like Kallis.
No, Smith puts the accelerator pretty much most times once he is set.
I don't value it that much compared to longevity, etc, its just a quality I believe the top tier need as a prerequisite and a tiebreaker between bats of close quality and record.
1. that's silly, the job of a Batter is to play to the match situation.
No, he doesn't, he's the slowest of the fab 4 along Williamson
Hutton has the quality, you're just critiquing it because he deemed slower batting more necessary to the match situation most of the time.
Batsmen also set up match situations, and that means dictating the pace.
I don't consider Greenidge an elite, that was just an example, nor do I think I have a Pakistan bias frankly that would affect how I rank cricketers.
Only relatively but he still scores at a healthy pace. He can't be considered a conservative bat by any stretch.
That quality, like I said, is a general batting standard and not an option.
You can't really, you can slap a bowler around, but if you make 60 runs in 10 overs or 60 runs in 20 overs, it's not gonna change anything..
... Yeah, right. There's a reason 90% of openers are defensive and frankly, your critique might work with Boycott or Sutcliffe, it straight up doesn't work with Hutton.
By current standards? he is, very much, a conservative Batsman. Head dominates way more than him for one.
why would you make aggressive batting your standard when the defensive option is a lot more favourable to the team?
Totally disagree. I guess you believing that explains why you underestimate this point.
Yeah right, can't applies for the guy with an SR in the 30s.
I can think of more situations where I'd want a batter like Hutton than a batter like Viv tbh, assuming same quality.
Yeah, because even the dashers and attacks of the time played in 40s
Khawaja is also very very slow but he is Aesthetically Pleasing Batter.
Head is an outlier he has a SR of nearly 70. Look at Smith especially during his series in his peak he scored quite speedily. And he isn't slow today, I consider him an aggressive bat overall.
It isn't. Defensiveness is contextual, aggressiveness is the otherwise preferred option. Yes to an extent for openers it can be allowed to be slower but I still prefer dominant bats.
other than 2019 Ashes, he's a cautious batsman through and through, watch 2017 BGT and Ashes and you'd notice that.
It's not too an extent, arguably, outside of Asia, it's better for your opener to be slow and spend more time on the crease.
Not really if you want to win more games.
And Hutton was behind them and known as conservative. Why run away from it?
Lol looks like you literally just went through his peak series and picked the two major outlier examples and ignored the host of other ones where he is freely scoring.
For your opener, yes. But across the board? No.
Yes really, I'd want my best batsman to be logical and consistent under preassure in a 4th inning chase, rather than getting out playing an unnecessary shot. This isn't just my view, this is something Sutcliffe and Hammond themselves told Hutton and Compton respectively.
conservative, by choice, as I said way back, nothing to do with skill level.
That's literally two of his three highest scoring serieses brother, but even in Ashes 2015, he was notably slower than his English counterpart in Root.
.......... that's just you agreeing with me then, Hutton is an opener, thus him batting slow is logical and favourable to the team.
Majority of the time you want bats who can set up games by quick scoring when set and putting opposition on the backfoot. Even in chases this approach often can be helpful depending on the pitch and opposition.
I prefer bats who make more daring choices lol.