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Jayasuriya V Knight OD Batting

Purely as a batsman

  • Knight

    Votes: 8 25.0%

  • Jayasuriya

    Votes: 20 62.5%

  • Alfred Trestail

    Votes: 4 12.5%
  • Total voters
    32
open365

open365

International Vice-Captain
Jayasuria is always spoken about on comentary as being this amazing one day batsman who's easily one of the best in the world.

Who do you think is/was the better ODI batsman?

Knight's record
Code: 
 	Mat  	Inns  	NO  	Runs  	HS  	Ave  	BF  	SR  	100  	50  	4s  	6s  	Ct  	St
Tests 	17 	30 	0 	719 	113 	23.96 	1661 	43.28 	1 	4 	74 	2 	26 	0
ODIs 	100 	100 	10 	3637 	125* 	40.41 	5085 	71.52 	5 	25 	327 	21 	44 	0
FC 	240 	409 	43 	16172 	303* 	44.18 			40 	77 			292 	0
List A 	414 	394 	45 	13478 	151 	38.61 			30 	68 			174 	0
Twenty20 	23 	22 	2 	584 	89 	29.20 	452 	129.20 	0 	5 			9 	0
Jayasuria's record

Code: 
 	Mat  	Inns  	NO  	Runs  	HS  	Ave  	BF  	SR  	100  	50  	4s  	6s  	Ct  	St
Tests 	107 	182 	14 	6791 	340 	40.42 			14 	30 	885 	57 	78 	0
ODIs 	395 	384 	18 	12063 	189 	32.95 	13317 	90.58 	25 	64 		241 	114 	0
Twenty20 Int. 	2 	2 	1 	92 	51* 	92.00 	53 	173.58 	0 	1 	14 	3 	0 	0
FC 	252 	397 	33 	14295 	340 	39.27 			29 	67 			158 	0
List A 	469 	455 	24 	13897 	189 	32.24 			28 	72 			135 	0
Twenty20 	9 	9 	2 	189 	51* 	27.00 	119 	158.82 	0 	1 			2 	0
 
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Xuhaib

Xuhaib

International Coach
Whats with this sudden Knight fascination, hell I am thinking of creating a thread where I will compare myself with Knight unfortunatley I wont be able to provide any link to my stats for the comparisons.
 
open365

open365

International Vice-Captain
:laugh:

Sorry, but i think it raises an interesting point about how we rate players, I don't think the issue is more about how you rate one of the legends of the game with a player that wouldn't normaly be mentioned in the same breath as Knight.
 
Magrat Garlick

Magrat Garlick

Global Moderator
Pratyush says (through me because he's a bit busy and can't post on forums at present):

Jayasuriya played mainly as a bowler coming low down in the first part of his career. Only after he was asked to open did he truly shine as a batsman. Thus his first 100 matches show an average of just 19.

Statistics opening the batting (which may be a better direct comparison to Knight)

Code: 
  M    I  NO  Runs    Avg 100  50   0
337  337  15 11424  35.47  25  62  24
 
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Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
What's easily forgotten about Jayasuriya is that, for the first 5 years at least of his career, he wasn't really even a batsman, never mind an opening batsman. He was a left-arm spinner who could also bat in the lower-order.

From 1994 or so onwards, however, he became a high-class opening batsman (average of something like 36, SR 90 or something). I've always believed that Jayasuriya > Gilchrist as an opening batsman, though there's probably not really much in it, they have the same vulnerabilities and much the same strengths (if Gilchrist has 1 or 2 more strokes).

Knight, however, was IMO better than both.

EDIT: how on Earth did Hakon (avec Pratyush) post near enough exactly the same thing just seconds before? :blink:
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Xuhaib said:
Whats with this sudden Knight fascination
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I mentioned him, and your comment says a lot, I think, about how widely he's underrated by being unknown.

No-one, ever, would say "what's with this sudden Gilchrist\Jayasuriya fascination". And no, that doesn't say anything about their respective abilities, just the misnomers of some cricket fans.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
When you post a poll, you have the option of making the answers public - ie, everyone can see who voted what.

And almost invariably, it's far better to do that.
 
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