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    Ajmal vs Herath

    Many of you saying that Ajmal has better stats in the last 4-5 years I am not sure I agree with it at all. Stats of Ajmal: Bowling records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo Stats of Herath after Ajmal debuted: Bowling records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN...
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    Ajmal vs Herath

    In the last 4-5 years, Herath and Ajmal have been equally impressive in longer format. Not much to chose between then in this period. In, shorter formats, Ajmal is far ahead. Overall, it's clearly, Ajmal.
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    How good is Sanga?

    For me , I won't argue with anyone who considers him an ATG. I was only making a point that I will feel a lot more comfortable with Kallis and Dravid in my team due to having a better game for different conditions and also being more consistent against better bowling units. That's where all...
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    The bowler of the 90s and 00s

    Yah, I don't recall any other bowler putting so many unplayable deliveries of different styles. Most great bowlers have 1-2 variety of unplayable deliveries.
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    The bowler of the 90s and 00s

    By some margin. Was joy to watch. Dude had me tuned in entire 90s to watch many Pakistani matches.
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    How good is Sanga?

    I wasn't nitpicking here. You asked me to give reasons and that's what I was doing. About the bold. We don't need to look at against all top 8 oppositions. We can find one against the same team Sanga is averaging so high. Sehwag against Pakistan averages 91 in 9 tests. I think many guys will...
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    How good is Sanga?

    While they are not in same class but it's puzzling. If you look at 10+ tests in same period then Mathews, Samaraweera averaged 50+ against Pakistan. Even Jayasuriya was touching 50. Only one guy has done worse than Mahela in this period who played in 1-6, Batting records | Test matches |...
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    How good is Sanga?

    No one should discount performance against Pakistan. They are not Zim or BD. But they have been pretty easy to score against in their home where they play 50% of their games. Pakistan is not really bad but they have been only second to BD at home due to super flat tracks. Sanga has played 60%(11...
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    Does culture influence a test team's performance

    Yaah, Methodical teams are likely to do better in the longer formats. Team with flair tends to do well in the shorter formats. Culture has a big influence in shaping teams. Sure, team matters but culture has some influence.
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    Mathew Hayden vs Virender Sehwag

    Sehwag was slightly better in my opinion.
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    How good is Sanga?

    The second best average and the second best numbers of tons looks great to me specially when less than 5 batsmen averaged 50+. Being a peak decade doesn't mean that he is going to be above Lara in all periods in that decade. He was phenomenal in entire 90s. You could argue about his exact peak...
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    How good is Sanga?

    Nope his best decade was entire 90s by some margin when you are talking about his test career. I forgot exactly when he had some injury but he changed his batting style and started playing less strokes in 2000s. Not the same batsman after that. See how many batsmen actually had good time in 90s...
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    How good is Sanga?

    Arr, SRT started in 89 and Saga in 2000. SRT's peak was past it before Sanga started. When did you start watching cricket? Genuine question because match winner stats may show you that SRT was crap in 90s and great in 2000s but trust me it's not true. I saw pretty much all games, where he...
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    How good is Sanga?

    Abuse of stats starts when you take a subset of individual stats based on team's stats. Neither Lara was less capable of winning matches nor Sanga is more capable of winning matches because runs/tons/avg in their team wins says so. Assume player A can play consistently well against above...
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    The bowler of the 90s and 00s

    OK got it.
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    How good is Sanga?

    Win is a team performance which depends on how 22 players do in any given match. Avg/runs/tons in wins ( a subset of players entire career which depends on team's performance) are not comparable unless you are you are playing for the same team and against the same oppositions. You can compare...
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    The bowler of the 90s and 00s

    Are we looking for the best bowlers in each decade here or simply the two best bowlers in 20 years?
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    The batsman of the 90s and 00s

    If you are asking for the best in each decade then 90s SRT and 00's Ponting. That's what I voted. If you are asking for the two best in 90s+00s then SRT and Lara.
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    How good is Sanga?

    You were trying to compare Sachin's entire career's tons in wins with Dravid's or Sanga's to make a misleading point. Winning game is team result which is based on how 22 players do.. They never played for the same team and against same oppositions. To still entertain you, I even compared 2000s...
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    How good is Sanga?

    This match winner logic can make some sense only if other factors are constant otherwise we are abusing stats here. 2000s was the period when Indians were winning. Dravid and SRT happen to play the full decade for the exact same team against same oppositions. There were still few instances when...

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