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  1. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    You could argue that Gilchrist played the role of the allrounder in the Australian team. Does it matter whether the extra twenty runs come from a bowler or the keeper, compared to a typical player in that role? The Windies, yeah for sure, although again, Marshall was a pretty decent lower...
  2. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    Miller was also one allrounder who's batting was unquestionably negatively affected when he was required to carry a heavy bowling load. From what I've read, the difference between him as a batsman when he was bowled heavily compared to when he was kept fresh for batting was somewhat similar to...
  3. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    In one sense, yes. Outside of the very specific and weird confines of a head-to-head vs with a similar player, I see no problem with saying that someone was for a chunk of their career a true allrounder while being honest about acknowledging that at different stages in that same person's...
  4. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    @ Ikki - Actually, his career stats are very similar to Zaheer Khan's - he took his wickets at 34 a piece rather than 32 for Zaheer, over a pretty similar number of tests and a pretty similar number of wickets. Also, I do think that its pretty well established that his fast-medium stuff was...
  5. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    I think you'd be happy to have him as a fifth bowling option, given that he costs you absolutely nothing at all in terms of your batting.
  6. Matt79

    The Myths & The Truth

    Yeah, really depends on whether you consider a player's bowling crap when they can bowl at the level/style of Chaminda Vaas AND Daniel Vettori all while being an automatic inclusion as a batsman the level/style of Brian Lara. The point IMO you keep being unable to get past Bhupinder is that as...
  7. Matt79

    *Official* Pakistan in England 2010

    After reading that, I'm going to feel so bad for Fusion when they dump Zulfi next test to bring back Kamren Akmal!
  8. Matt79

    Sanz - with regards to your post regarding Prince EWS in the India/SL tour thread, most of the...

    Sanz - with regards to your post regarding Prince EWS in the India/SL tour thread, most of the moderation team missed this at the time, but have since had the opportunity to look at the posts referred to in your comment, and those leading up to them. The consensus within the team has been that...
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  9. Matt79

    Hadlee, Khan, Dev, Botham - Who was the best allrounder?

    Severely tempted to lock this thread. Stop the bickering, stop punctuating your arguments with insults or it will be closed and further action will be looked at for those involved in it.
  10. Matt79

    CW Awards?

    Believe this standard should be applied to all the great moral questions of the day - "yes sir, clubbing seals is abhorrent, but it's loads of fun!" :ph34r:
  11. Matt79

    *Official* Pakistan in England 2010

    And that's why young Australian players are such good players of spin for instance? And have to remind you before you laugh too hard at Pakistan that we got skittled for disastrously low scores twice in recent times by Pakistan.
  12. Matt79

    *Official* Pakistan in England 2010

    No doubt, but prank openers averaging in the 20s seem to have been a feature of the Pakistan team for a long time now, regardless of the conditions they're playing in.
  13. Matt79

    Hadlee, Khan, Dev, Botham - Who was the best allrounder?

    Seriously guys, which part of the bolded section of my post below was too difficult to understand? 8-) This is going to be a VERY tedious thread from here on in if no-one came make any comment at all without getting an immediate retort of "Yeah, but Imran was better". Obviously Imran's...
  14. Matt79

    *Official* Pakistan in England 2010

    This is not meant to be a ****ty comment, but I find it curious that Pakistan as a country that currently, and historically, produces such good fast bowlers has such a poor record of producing good opening batsmen. Typically a country's batting strengths at Test level, in very broad terms, tend...
  15. Matt79

    Hadlee, Khan, Dev, Botham - Who was the best allrounder?

    lol, Black Warrior, you've just used your yearly allotment of :laugh: in one page of a single thread. :p The other point about why people like to look at Botham's peak is that there is an obvious reason for the discrepency between the two halves of his career - injury. It's a case of 'imagine...
  16. Matt79

    Ricky Ponting should be sacked

    Not impressed that Jack's started calling sixes 'maximums'. :ph34r: One of the most cringingly bad new pieces of terminology to have crept into the game in recent times IMO.
  17. Matt79

    A.F.L. Thread II

    Interesting comparison between him and Serena re who's better in a crunch situation. :p. And who has bigger arms.
  18. Matt79

    I am getting away from cricket

    I hope you re-discover your passion for the game Pratters. I think a break from it and then coming back with fresh eyes next time a good series on will do wonders. The nice thing about pronounced summer and winter sporting seasons is that, here for instance, it's all about cricket from October...
  19. Matt79

    A.F.L. Thread II

    Who pulled your string?
  20. Matt79

    *Official* India in Sri Lanka 2010 - Tests

    Think we need to cut Sanga some slack as he and his team adjust to life without Murali. We saw Ponting going through the same thing - when the entire time that you've been captain, you've had the option of throwing the ball to McGrath and Warne, or to Murali, and then that stops being the case...

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