Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
What current teams would you consider mid tier? I can think of a few teams that have the bowling but quite poor batting.
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Which player would you select in your average side?
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sayon basak
International Coach
Disagree. Sobers could be equal to (or even better than) the average bowlers in the team, while being almost equal as a batter to Hadlee the bowler. There are surely some mid teams that would benefit more from Sobers.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
The current NZ and SA teams would benefit more from Sobers.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Currently the depth in pace bowling and in bowling allrounders in very high, while batting is very weak.
DrWolverine
International Captain
Sobers in NZ?
I would love to see how he does there.
And that too in a bowling era as well.
subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
SA clearly have an above average quality attack but point taken.
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Would also suggest India and West Indies
subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
India I wouldn't consider an average side
shortpitched713
Cricketer Of The Year
You don't need only mid tier players to make an average team. Most average sides I'd say have 1 or 2 star outliers, and the rest is nothing special, with a genuinely weak player thrown in for good measure.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Sobers is going to open the bowling in an average side. Hadlee isn't going to bat 4.
subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
With Hadlee in the 80s, NZ were a top tier team.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
No, he's not. He'd only open for a side with no adequate seamers
Johan
Hall of Fame Member
a team with adequate batting and low seam bowling stocks, would take Hadlee as that would give them more balance, an example of such a team would be current England.
a team with adequate seam bowling reserves but low batting stocks, would take Sobers as he'd relevantly strengthen both ends, an example of that would be current South Africa or New Zealand.
a team with adequate seam bowling reserves but low batting stocks, would take Sobers as he'd relevantly strengthen both ends, an example of that would be current South Africa or New Zealand.
Johan
Hall of Fame Member
ataraxia
International Coach
Like usual, we're both right.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Mitchell averages more away
Johan
Hall of Fame Member
more to the contrary imo.