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Recent content by BazBall21

  1. BazBall21

    Ray Lindwall vs Greg Chappell

    Very even. Lindwall edges ahead as a cricketer.
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    Rank these 5 Test openers in order (Boycott, Greenidge, Hayden, Sehwag, G Smith)

    Graeme Smith's strike rate surprised me but nearly all very tall batsmen are/were aggressive. Their high centres of gravity give them a disadvantage in defence.
  4. BazBall21

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Qadir was efficient at home and Gower nailed him there.
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    Lance Gibbs vs Anil Kumble

    Gibbs
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    Graham Thorpe vs Gary Kirsten

    Thorpe. Strong record v Australia&WI and had success v Murali in the subcontinent.
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    Lance Gibbs vs Anil Kumble

    Kumble was averaging 40 away from home before the 2003-04 BGT. It's some call to suggest he would outperform Gibbs on pitches that Sobers claimed "nearly killed Caribbean cricket" and encouraged Lloyd to abandon spin.
  8. BazBall21

    Lance Gibbs vs Anil Kumble

    It's not an erratic assumption. It's context.
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    Lance Gibbs vs Anil Kumble

    I didn't say you aren't entitled to criticise him. I just don't think it makes him qualitatively inferior when given Kumble's struggles outside Asia for a long period of time, he would very likely have suffered the same fate.
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    Lance Gibbs vs Anil Kumble

    If Gibbs was dropped, it isn't much of a point when he had much tougher home wickets than Kumble and Kumble didn't exactly set the world alight outside Asia for a very long time so who's to say he wouldn't have been dropped too? Just seems very straw-clutchy.
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    Lance Gibbs vs Anil Kumble

    Given Kumble's almost constant struggle outside Asia before the 2003-04 BGT, it seems far fetched to suggest he would instead be kept in the side as an ever-present lynchpin on some dreadfully roadish pitches. Thus, Gibbs being occasionally dropped isn't very important.
  12. BazBall21

    Lance Gibbs vs Anil Kumble

    It's not. It's context.
  13. BazBall21

    Lance Gibbs vs Anil Kumble

    Kumble would also have been dropped if he bowled on wickets like that at home
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    Rank these 5 Test openers in order (Boycott, Greenidge, Hayden, Sehwag, G Smith)

    It's natural that T20 influence has had a more adverse impact on the standard of top 3 batsmen than 4-5.
  15. BazBall21

    Rank these 5 Test openers in order (Boycott, Greenidge, Hayden, Sehwag, G Smith)

    Same
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