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Greg Chappell Vs Rahul Dravid - who was the better test match batsman?

trundler

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Who do you think was the superior test match batsman? Why? Both technically correct, elegant batsmen in the classical sense yet completely different in their approaches. One vastly more likeable than the other.
 
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cnerd123

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How could you create a thread like this and not include a poll? Fail

I'm a Dravid fanboy, but admittedly not strictly for cricketing reasons.

Dravid was fantastic to watch when on song, it's just that he chose to play in a boring sensible manner most of the time. Hard to pick between the two on pure aesthetics IMO.
 

trundler

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How could you create a thread like this and not include a poll? Fail

I'm a Dravid fanboy, but admittedly not strictly for cricketing reasons.

Dravid was fantastic to watch when on song, it's just that he chose to play in a boring sensible manner most of the time. Hard to pick between the two on pure aesthetics IMO.
I'm still learning how to work the site.

On pure aesthetics, Chappell wins. Not just because he was more dominating but his drives were ***ier.
 

andmark

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Classic example of a Trundlering. As everyone knows, to be a good metric of opinion, a thread of this type needs a poll which includes an irrelevant option
 

trundler

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Dravid had that phase where he got bowled all the time. Chappell had the famous duck season.
 

Xuhaib

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Chapel jr is arguably Australia best batsman post Bradman.He is in close competition with AB and Ponting with Steve Waugh just below them .Steve Smith would have overtaken them and can still do if he can return well.
Dravid as good as he was was I believe was below Ponting hence I would put him behind Chappali aswell
 

Bolo

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Dravid is underrated.
Chappell is overrated. Mostly by me.

Chappell>Border>=Waugh>Ponting=Dravid
 

Burgey

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Chappell imo was a marginally better player than Dravid, but Dravid has a far more complete record.
 

Bolo

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Ya, Chappells record is extremely incomplete. This knocks a player down a couple of notches in my book. I just rate what he did do ridiculously highly.
 

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