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Pretty sure I would tip it in favour of the good guys. No way the Pakistan posters on here can play my dibbly-dobblers + off-spin (when I get tired after bowling two overs). And we would have far more trouble bowling out the tail than the top order.I'd back a team with great bowling and average batting to perform better than a team with great batsman and average bowling more often than not. Not much in it, obviously.
Now I know people will use examples of the current Indian and Pakistani sides to rebut that, but I don't think it's a fair example. Here's why :
The current Pakistani bowling attack is not great (talking tests here). It's very good/above average, yes, but not great. It'd be a different story if Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif were around, though. Simply put, the gulf between the batting line-ups of the two sides is much more than the gulf between the difference in their bowling attacks (heck, some would argue there's little to choose between Zaheer, Sreesanth, Sharma, Harbhajan and Gul, Wahab, Ajmal, Rehman).
For the comparison to be a fair one, the gulf in batting quality should be more or less equal to the gulf in bowling quality. Consider these two teams :
1) Salman85
2) Smalishah
3) Fusion
4) Faisal
5) Agent Nationaux
6) Xuhaib
7) Imran Khan
8) Wasim Akram
9) Waqar Younis
10)Shoaib Akhtar
11)Saqlain Mustaq
1) Virender Sehwag
2) Sunil Gavaskar
3) Rahul Dravid
4) Sachin Tendulkar
5) Gundappa Vishwanath
6) VVS Laxman
7) MS Dhoni
8) vcs
9) Jono
10)Silentstriker
11)Sanz
Which team would you expect to do better and why?