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  1. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    You sound like one of those mentally deficient libertarians, who pride themselves on being consistent by their own stupid standards, even though those standards have little to no place in the real world. Walters played match winning innings against England, including famously blazing a ton in a...
  2. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    He'll be stopped in his tracks come November, as you well know. Will likely end up retiring after that series, having never won a test in Australia.
  3. Burgey

    ***2025 State of Origin First Try Scorer***

    FMD I've drawn the Origin equivalent of the two hookers in the old doubles they used to sell at suburban grounds back in the day.
  4. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    England 05 attack was very good. They cheated, of course, miraculously getting reverse swing after 8 overs on the greenest swards in world cricket, but they were formidable. Ponting is streets ahead of Root as a batsman. root is in his peak now and is just reaching the level at which Ponting...
  5. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Walters comfortably better than Root. Didn't **** the bed when it bounced above waist height or play that effete dab cut straight to second slip all the time because he was incapable of adjusting to extra pace and bounce. Wish Doug had been picked for the 81 series. Only needed 15 minutes of him...
  6. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Which puts him four points per knock higher than the bloke you've apparently got in the top 15 players of all time. Root's a plodder, let's be honest.
  7. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Doug Walters is an under rated player. I don't think he's an ATG player. Dravid had a good series out here in 03/04. Made a double in a winning side in Adelaide ffs. Root wishes he'd done something half as good as that ffs.
  8. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    You need to reassess your opinion then.
  9. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Playing well against Australia, especially in Australia, should basically be the benchmark achievement for any halfway decent test playing batsman. They've been consistently the best test playing country in history, and you can count on one hand the number of eras where they've ever been outside...
  10. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    You talking about his bowling figures, surely. Won't make a single hundred and will go home on the back of another hiding.
  11. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

  12. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Anyway, I'm going to cook some dinner. Enjoy your delusions that Joe Root is in the top 15 batsmen of all time. But turn off your webcams while you're doing it, or you'll get caught and lose your jobs.
  13. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Yeah, fortunately he has a really small sample size against them and the rivalry between the two sides isn't at all important to his team. Passenger. rate his off spin ahead of his batting against Australia. He's just a trumped up Ian Bell.
  14. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    He'll need to play 15 tests to make that many.
  15. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    He belongs closer to Graeme Wood.
  16. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Well you've got your head up your arse if you think that, sorry.
  17. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Kallis doesn't come to mind immediately when I think of batsmen, because I'd rather walk from here to Perth to watch Da Silva play one pull shot than stroll down my back yard to my unimpeded view of the harbour bridge to watch Kallis bat for a day at Birchgrove Oval.
  18. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Both Waugh and Cook should be in my list tbh. I think Chanderpaul is closer to Waugh than Cook. Waugh gets marked down for batting five and six, but people forget how many times he dug Aus out of the **** in the 90s agaisnt some seriously good bowling. Cook I think was very good overall...
  19. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    Off the top of my head and in no particular order, here's 17 blokes I've seen since 1995 who are objectively better players than Joe Root, and anyone who says otherwise has been lobotomized: Tendullkar Lara S Smith Ponting Dravid Laxman Sehwag Hayden Williamson Sangakkara G Smith Pietersen Da...
  20. Burgey

    Top 50 Greatest test batters

    I'm not discussing George Headley, I'm discussing Joe "Mediocrity is my Middle Name" Root. FMD I've seen 15 blokes in the past 30 years alone I'd put ahead of him, and half of them I don't rate that highly.

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