Allan Border - How Good Was He?

[slippy888]

He basically saved Australian cricket

 

[slippy888]

Guy should be knighted in Australia for sure

 

[GIMH]

He basically saved Australian cricket

Ikki?

 

[The Sean]

Every country should follow Australia's lead and designate their Player of the Year award as the Allan Border Medal.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

He was the bunny of the great Michael Bracewell's uncle (Uncle John Bracewell), but a pretty decent, albeit grumpy, player.

 

[_00_deathscar]

He was an overrated stat padding hack who hid in the lower order instead of manning up for his team

 

[Burgey]

Like Tendulkar then

 

[ZK$]

Tendulkar actually knew how to score hundreds though.

 

[Burgey]

Tendulkar cared about nowt but himself.

 

[Red]

He was an overrated stat padding hack who hid in the lower order instead of manning up for his team

Tendulkar actually knew how to score hundreds though.

Was cool when this forum used to have good cricket discussion instead of this dumb parochial **** from particular quarters.

 

[ankitj]

Was cool when this forum used to have good cricket discussion instead of this dumb parochial **** from particular quarters.

There was fair bit of joke trolling happening in the thread and you have problem with "particular quarters". When did you become like people with particular kind of attitudes?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Was cool when this forum used to have good cricket discussion instead of this dumb parochial **** from particular quarters.

Wow I wonder why you quoted those two posts and not the one between. Hmmmmmmmmm. Very interesting. ? ? ?

 

[Daniel CC]

He's consistently mentioned among the best batsmen in the world by the bowlers of that era.

 

[Burgey]

Wow I wonder why you quoted those two posts and not the one between. Hmmmmmmmmm. Very interesting. ? ? ?

Because the one in between is accurate. Never put himself out for his side and wasn’t good enough to cope with captaining it in his role as its leading batsman. Sad.

 

[honestbharani]

Was cool when this forum used to have good cricket discussion instead of this dumb parochial **** from particular quarters.

Yes CW was better before Burgey.

 

[ankitj]

Yes CW was better before Burgey.

What are you saying? Burger was before CW and all CWers.

Edit: Burgey, not burger

 

[social]

I was lucky enough to play with & against many test cricketers as they all played grade regularly in my day

Border was easily the best & would probably have gone down as a great attacking player if he wasn’t forced to play defensively due to the standard of his test teammates