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  1. MasterBlaster24

    Fastest Bowler before Jeff Thomson?

    Frank Tyson himself claimed to be capable of bowling at 119 mph (191 kph), which seems somewhat implausible. Nevertheless, Richie Benaud believed Tyson was faster than Jeff Thomson.
  2. MasterBlaster24

    Mushfiqur vs Tamim vs Shakib

    Yep,all three of them were, at one point in their careers, the best ODI batsman their country had.
  3. MasterBlaster24

    Mushfiqur vs Tamim vs Shakib

    Yep, it's Shakib for me as well. But honestly, I think Mushfiqur Rahim's batting peak is really underrated. Till the end of 2013, after 122 ODIs, he was averaging just 26. But from 2014 to 2021, he averaged 49 in ODIs — that's a massive jump. By the end of 2021, his overall batting average had...
  4. MasterBlaster24

    Mushfiqur vs Tamim vs Shakib

    Better odi batter?
  5. MasterBlaster24

    Barry Richards and Dennis Lillee vs Sunil Gavaskar and Fred Trueman

    Don't know the exact reason why windies fans didn't like the Indian team, but maybe this had something to do with it. "But they didn't endear themselves to our spectators because if things were going against them they would drop to 14 overs per hour - Bedi sometimes took six minutes to bowl an...
  6. MasterBlaster24

    Viv Richards vs Steve Smith

    This method seems flawed, imo. An average runs per wicket of less than 30 doesn’t automatically mean the entire series was low scoring. You can still cash in during a high-scoring game within the same series and skew the numbers. The better way to check who performed in genuinely low-scoring...
  7. MasterBlaster24

    Barry Richards and Dennis Lillee vs Sunil Gavaskar and Fred Trueman

    Even after the tragedy of Hughes, bowlers didn’t stop bowling bouncers at the batters. Recently, a young guy like Pucovski retired from cricket because he struggled against short balls. No one apologised to him or said anything like, 'We won’t bowl bouncers at you.' And honestly, they’re not...
  8. MasterBlaster24

    Roy Fredericks vs Chris Gayle

    Better test opener?
  9. MasterBlaster24

    Les Ames vs Andy Flower

    Yeah, maybe I'm wrong on that strike rate thing. I copied that from a old blog. 😐 FTFY.
  10. MasterBlaster24

    Andy Flower vs Adam Gilchrist vs Les Ames

    I've been saying this for some time, and someone has finally agreed with me!. 🤝
  11. MasterBlaster24

    Les Ames vs Andy Flower

    AFAIK, Ames was a great wicketkeeper. Wisden wrote at the time of his death that "was without a doubt the greatest wicketkeeper batsman the game has so far produced..." 17 times he scored more than 1000 runs in a first class season. "His wicket-keeping and batting records: the most...
  12. MasterBlaster24

    Les Ames vs Andy Flower

    Better test cricketer?
  13. MasterBlaster24

    Ravichandran Ashwin vs Aubrey Faulkner

    Better test cricketer?
  14. MasterBlaster24

    Ian Healy vs Andy Flower

    Yup, I agree with you. I don't think we have enough evidence to show that Pant is a worse wicketkeeper than Andy Flower, to be honest. In fact, it's the other way around. Flower himself admitted that he wasn't brilliant behind the stumps. "He admits he is not a brilliant keeper, but is...
  15. MasterBlaster24

    Ian Healy vs Andy Flower

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  16. MasterBlaster24

    AB De Villiers vs Andy Flower

    Yep.
  17. MasterBlaster24

    AB De Villiers vs Andy Flower

    If you have to pick one out of these guys in your ATG Test XI, who would you pick? I know that AB kept a small number of matches overall, but Flower also wasn't great behind the stumps in Test cricket. So who would you pick?
  18. MasterBlaster24

    Which overseas bowler is better in these countries?

    No, I'm not a fan of a chucker, Murali, anyway. But everyone knows that you're moving goalposts to protect your favourites. (You're an absolute sucker for your favourites,jking)I'm not going to discuss this anymore because I have to sleep. Goodnight! Cheers!
  19. MasterBlaster24

    Best bowler to tour England?

    Yep, the best thing he did was reducing Gooch's batting average (where it should be) by some points, IMO.
  20. MasterBlaster24

    Which overseas bowler is better in these countries?

    Yep.

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