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    How good is Sanga?

    I was taking 1500 for mainly to show that many batsmen did average 60 and most of them would have averaged less. We got sidetracked but my main argument was - it's easier for a freak to be far ahead of their peers if you have 1000 players in entire planet. It gets proportionally tougher to do...
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    How good is Sanga?

    So pretty much all bastmen would have averages less if they had played lot more cricket. You agree to that. Because Bradman was a freak. I was making a point that all those batsmen would have averaged less if they had to play the amount of cricket we play now, including Bradman. By how much...
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    How good is Sanga?

    I didn't say that most of them will drop to 55. I think most of them will drop more if all of them had to play 80-100 tests. Also, I never said that 100 will drop to 55. I think it will drop by some margin but still it will be drastically higher than 55. I have absolutely no doubt that Bradman...
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    How good is Sanga?

    Why? Do you think that batsmen of earlier era were better or it's due to them playing less cricket and also playing only in few venues? Thank you. You are pointing out one of the reasons why so many averaged higher then. Now if all of them had to play in 8 countries and against 8 oppositions...
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    How good is Sanga?

    Discussion was never about his inability to score against Pakistan. Every one knows it and no one really think that he can't score heavily against Pakistan. Every big score against Pakistan is more props to him because it's not easy to do but context of discussion was different. In that context...
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    How good is Sanga?

    Here is 1500+ run in entire history : Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo Something should jump out here. Average of near 60 is pretty much filled with players from older era. Don't look at one or two players. Just look at the trend. We have played more than 50%...
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    How good is Sanga?

    It counts but does it really address anything we all were talking earlier? We all know that he scores heavily against Pakistan.
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    How good is Sanga?

    It's not more by some little margin. It's more by tens of thousands. Population has not grown by that margin but number of players did. I will rephrase what I said. No one has the same chance to stand out by the margin Bradman did. 1 freak among 1000 possible players will have a drastically...
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    How good is Sanga?

    It's a simple matter of some one being so much better than pack in some specific 'period'. If one period has so few guys playing cricket in entire planet and pretty much 2-3 countries playing cricket then any freak has a lot higher chance of being far ahead of pack. Situation is totally...
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    How good is Sanga?

    Problem is nothing has changed with his knock against Pakistan. It wasn't on some rank turner to be really discussed and he has always scored heavily against Pakistan. Nothing new in this knock which goes against prevailing dogma. He could play 5 more knocks like this on the same pitch against...
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    How good is Sanga?

    Fielding of all sides have become drastically better. You could argue that ATG batsmen will adjust to any era to face different bowling but it will be stretch to claim that better fielding doesn't stop batsmen to score less. You will get less runs for your shots on average and you will also get...
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    How good is Sanga?

    I don't know what you are quoting here. I was saying that Sanga had only few places with 35 kind of average and at home around 60 in his entire career. It was never like 200 at home and 25 in few places like you had in mind.
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    How good is Sanga?

    Nah, It's more like 60 for one and 35 for other category.
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    How good is Sanga?

    Some eras had more great bowlers playing in an average match. 19 batsmen averaging 50+ in 00s loudly tells us that something is vastly different in 00s. We had only 4-5 batsmen scoring at 50+ rate in earlier two decades.
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    Ball-tampering: should it be authorised?

    Agreed , we don't want to have situations where even bowlers like Pringle can reverse it in a big way by openly using bottle caps. As old as the hills | Regulars | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
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    How good is Sanga?

    A great one.
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    Ball-tampering: should it be authorised?

    Agree with it. Keep zippers, bottle caps etc out. Also, now days, umpires are quick to change the ball. In earlier era, you could tamper to your heart content without any issue. That was bit too much. Since umpires are now quick to change the ball , I don't have issue with tampering as long as...
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    Ajmal vs Herath

    Argument has a flaw in it. It's not as if other bowlers from Pakistan pick up wickets quickly and as result Ajaml gets less overs to bowl and pick up 5-fers. In given period, Ajmal bowled 28 overs in each inning Herath also bowled 28 overs in each inning. Both bowled 28 overs in each inning...
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    Ajmal vs Herath

    Let me vote for Ajmal. I was only commenting so far. I was saying that there isn't much difference between these two in longer format in the last 4-5 years but in shorter one Ajmal is far ahead. Also, If you ask me to vote for who is a better bowler, only in tests, even then I will say Ajmal...
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    The bowler of the 90s and 00s

    Same way, it's unfair when spinners are compared with pacers for average. They bowl more than pacers so more wickets but higher average.

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