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    Best Wicket keeper ever

    The depths of ignorance displayed by this drivel are simply too abyssal to be worth engaging with. It is, however, useful to have the demonstration that your opinions abolut the past are so riddled with misconception that it is hardly surprising you spout little but codswallop on the subject...
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    Best Wicket keeper ever

    In terms of quitting chatting rubbish, why don't you start by doing so yourself? What do you mean by "in the older times they had a few professionals boosting their record by playing in a field that had amatuers in it." Please expain this statement with particular reference to the fact that...
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    Best Wicket keeper ever

    And this is supposed to be somehow impressive? Boonie's record was 53. Cheers, Mike
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    Best Wicket keeper ever

    The best English keeper I've seen is Bob Taylor. Knott was preferred most of the time because he was a considerably better batsman, even though he was no slouch as a keeper himself. People with longer memories would probably cite Godfrey Evans as being better than both, although he too was...
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    I think one reason is that his departure from the game was so unclear and unexpected. Wisden didn't publish the traditional tribute article on him until about 1970 because people refused to believe that he had in fact retired at the height of his powers (at least, as they saw it). Another is...
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    Wickets in the pre-covering era

    To recap: There was a thread about all-time best English batsmen, and someone called C_C told us that pre-1985 players were not as good as they are cracked up to be because conditions were so much easier - citing fielding standards. Richard's view on the other hand, is that batting pre-1970 was...
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    That is a "fact" for which I require a *lot* of evidence. For one thing, you appear to be under the weird impession that rain = sticky wicket, which it doesn't. No more than half of rain affected matches will have a period when the wicket is sticky. But what I'm certainly not going to take is...
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    **JOB VACANCY** In the CW Cricket Media - Apply NOW!

    Impressive. Next, the Sunday edition, available monthly. Cheers, Mike
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    By Bradman's own standards. By ordinary standards, he was just bad. Cheers, Mike
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    Actually, at Durban, in the last Test. Cheers, Mike
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    I think you overestimate the prevalence of rain-affected wickets. There are a great deal more stories about amazing things happening on wet tracks than there are about mundane afternoons in sunshine as batsmen comfortably accumulated routine runs, it's true, but that doesn't mean they...
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    I'd reflect that at no time in history has the bat enjoyed greater dominance over the ball than in the 1930s, and that every, and I mean every, autobiography I've read by players who played in the 30s regards that decade as having the easiest batting conditions they can remember. If it really...
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    Don't quite know what the "more reticent" days means, but still. But it's undoubtedly true that bowlers in the 1930s were generally slower than their equivalents today. I was discussing this topic some years ago with a friend (the late PF Judge of Middx, Glam and Bengal) who was a quick bowler...
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    Top On-Field Personalities

    Compare and contrast this with one of Richard's dissections of an England batsman. Note how Graeme Smith, a batsman with a by now fairly well-established record of carelessness and limited technique, is being hailed as someone who can eradicate his persistent faults overnight, while an English...
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    This is going to take far too long to answer properly, but I don't think that this particular argument holds water. To make the fielding standards argument stick, you have to explain how it is that fielding standards were so vastly higher in the Fifties than they were at any other time, or have...
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    So, taking into account all these factors, have you come up with a figure which would help us correct a raw 1930s average, say, into one equivalent to today's figures? Or are you just hand-waving because you are reluctant to admit that you haven't got any kind of reasonable case and are just...
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    Yes, he did, and that's a factor in vJ's favour. As his basically disappointing record in his Tests up to now are a point against him. He's done a few good things, but he has got out cheaply and stupidly in the past as well. If you can assemble a very strong case that van Jaarsveld ought to...
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    What I said was "The subsequent ignoral of Adams sent the further message that if you do get a decent chance and you screw it up, you can just about forget about ever being called up again." First, I said "just about" not "completely". Second, I said "screw it up", which does not necessarily...
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    Who Is The Best English Batsman of All-Time?

    In the 90s, Gooch got 333 and 123 in a match against India, played the best-ever Test innings by an English batsman, the 154* at Headingley against WI, and was ranked number one in the world on PWC for about 2-3 years following the decline of Viv Richards. In fact, just about all of Gooch's...
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    *Official* England in South Africa Thread

    What if this were a dead rubber game? Would you then have a bias towards giving the new guy another chance, perhaps? I'll declare that I have been very unimpressed with van Jaarsveld in top-level cricket (I've seen him murder an attack in the Lancashire League, but that's not really...
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