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    Best Indian ODI Batsman ATM

    Me. Jokes aside, you need to define 'at the moment'. You could mean 'right now' - who would I pick if I had to pick one to save a match right now, in which case I would pick Sehwag. Or you could mean in the past year, in which case surely no-one should even need to ask that the answer is...
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    Unofficial Football World Champions... And Cricket!

    ^^ Thanks to this I think it's fair to say that the system needs to be changed a bit for it to be a reasonable representation of the World Champion. How about having the first team which wins 2 series in a row against the World Champion becomes the new Champion? Look at the current Test...
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    Unofficial Football World Champions... And Cricket!

    I would safely guess that Australia would be both the current ODI champions and also have held the Championship for the longest.
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    *Official* - Road to India in South Africa - 2010-11

    If the Indian Test batsmen can handle South Africa's pace attack and also Dale Steyn (who belongs to a seperate category) on a greentop to score good totals, they are indeed the best Test team in the world. As for the ODIs, it would take Sachin and Sehwag to be in simultaneously exceptional...
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    *Official* - Road to India in England 2011

    I've never understood why people like to go watch so many matches live. With the money that would go into buying multiple tickets, just by a nice big HD Television and watch from there - you get a better view than you could ever get live, and you also get player commentary if you want it...
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    Sehwag - Best Batsman In World Cricket Right Now

    It's a little unfair to compare Sehwag to Tendulkar when the latter is six years older than him and now 12 years past his prime - it's an amazing feat for Sachin to be in the World Top 5 alone, forget being compared with Sehwag. Ponting, of course, is fully comparable to Sachin, but that's for a...
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    How to Bowl Fast?

    Why do you care so much about bowling fast? The 2nd fastest bowler in my group in my club is all over the place with his accuracy - the ability to bowl at 65 mph consistently (106.2 km/h) has got him 55 wickets in 39 matches (1.41 wickets per match) in 20-over U14 games at an average of about 27...
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    Who would you pick? Three players to start a team

    Actually I left a place for a Bangladeshi. :sleep:
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    Who would you pick? Three players to start a team

    Sorry but I'm going to have to pick 6 players - I'm not really happy with leaving out batsmen or with only one pace bowler. So here goes: Glenn McGrath: The pace the team needs; an ultra-destructive bowler at the top-order. Mutthiah Muralitharan: Greatest bowler of all-time in terms of wickets...
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    Waqar Younis vs. Glenn McGrath vs. Shoaib Akhtar

    Do you think he ever showed this level of ability (which would make him the greatest pace bowler of all-time)? If so, which year was it in? When I'm talking about peak, I mean the best 1-2 years of a player's career - for instance, as long as McGrath's peak was, he was really at his best in...
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    Waqar Younis vs. Glenn McGrath vs. Shoaib Akhtar

    To clarify, by "peak" I mean the best 1-2 seasons of their career; you may choose whichever of those you want. I take it then that most people see it as: Waqar Younis Shoaib Akhtar Glenn McGrath But was Waqar during his best year (or Shoaib during his best year - I didn't get that clear of...
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    What is more difficult: Facing a quality pace attack or Facing a quality spin attack?

    Yeah but you gave hypothetical examples as if the Indian spin quartet was the spinning equivalent of the West Indian pace quartet, simply because they are both the best of their kind. While I appreciate what you're trying to do, the West Indian quartet is packed with super-elite pace bowlers...
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    What is more difficult: Facing a quality pace attack or Facing a quality spin attack?

    To compare the Indian spin quartet to the West Indian pace quartet of the 1970-1980s is a ludicrous. The West Indians had Malcolm Marshall (Top 5 Pace Bowlers of All-Time), and also Joel Garner, Andy Roberts and Michael Holding (all among the Top 20 Pace Bowlers of All-Time); later, substitute...
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    Waqar Younis vs. Glenn McGrath vs. Shoaib Akhtar

    Yeah, I was talking about their primes. I wouldn't throw Shoaib into the same sentence as McGrath or Younis as regards their general careers. Would you say that Waqar at his peak/prime would be the best pace bowler of all-time?
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    Waqar Younis vs. Glenn McGrath vs. Shoaib Akhtar

    I have seen people debate many times, and generally agree, that in his peak form Waqar Younis was a superior bowler to Wasim Akram (although the latter is rated higher because of Waqar's short peak). It occurs to me that during the early stages of his career, Shoaib Akhtar was also a fabulous...

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