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    Peter May

    He's an ATG imo. Regarding longevity, he suffered from physical health and was an amateur cricketer and would have suffered huge financial loss. So he retired, and also he retired when batting started to get easier in the 60's.
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    Peter May

    Peter May; he had it really tough in terms of conditions. Top 7 average in matches involving Peter May away from home: 26.24 Remember, he played for the team that had a batting line-up of Hutton, Graveney, Compton, Cowdrey, and himself? Adjusted average and top 7 average stats may not always be...
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    Graham Thorpe vs Adam Gilchrist

    Unreal disrespect to thorpe. Gilchrist was a walking wicket against half decent lateral movement. Wouldn't have averaged anything above 40 in the 90s. Massively overrated test bat if anything
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    Ricky Ponting in tests

    Ponting was consistently a very very good player and a player of great peak, NEVER a great player. Scoring runs when everyone fails against quality bowling on tough pitches is the bare minimum, and Ponting simply lacks iconic knocks like the outside few. Viv, Lara, SRT, and Sobers are the ones...
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    Kevin Pietersen vs Ricky Ponting

    SIR please give me 5 iconic knocks of Ponting. Ponting doesn't have I'm him knock
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    Kevin Pietersen vs Ricky Ponting

    Ponting simply could never play mumbai 187. Ponting lacks iconic knocks, he mostly scored when everyone else scored. Run machine but not someone who was magician like KP or Lara
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    Kevin Pietersen vs Ricky Ponting

    It's important to look at player's contextual resume, strength and weaknesses rather than just averages and era. KP averaged 47 and Ponting averaged 51 in a similar era, but I expect them to have a similar average in the bowler-friendly era because Ponting would have had a far bigger drop-off in...
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    Player Comparison

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