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Batting Blockathon - Mission Impossible

subshakerz

subshakerz

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
What odds out of 10 would you give the following bats (Waugh, Border, ABD, Viv, Steve Smith, Lara, Tendulkar) to survive 50 overs on a worn out Day 5 old Trafford pitch with the below bowlers:

10 overs of McGrath (new ball)
10 overs of Steyn (five new ball, five old ball)
10 overs of Murali
10 overs of Garner
10 overs of Warne
 
Johan

Johan

International Coach
Thala_0710 said:
Tendulkar, Smith have the best chances imo with Viv close. I'd have Viv top but Murali scares me
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what's the point of a hypothetical of Murali vs Viv when we saw Murali cutting down Sachin's average post-98 very clearly, with Murali going as far as claiming Sachin has an issue with quality off spin.

Murali vs Sachin is why I said 0% at the first place.
 
Thala_0710

Thala_0710

International Regular
Johan said:
what's the point of a hypothetical of Murali vs Viv when we saw Murali cutting down Sachin's average post-98 very clearly, with Murali going as far as claiming Sachin has an issue with quality off spin.

Murali vs Sachin is why I said 0% at the first place.
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That was just after the tennis elbow issue in 2005 where he was getting done by most guys tbh. After that it was only the first test in 2008 where Murali got him. And Sachin anyway wasn't the same player to spin after 2005 as he had been for the first 15 years of his career. Overall he definitely had the wood over Murali and I'd back pre 2005 Sachin over post doosra Murali
 
subshakerz

subshakerz

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Johan said:
what's the point of a hypothetical of Murali vs Viv when we saw Murali cutting down Sachin's average post-98 very clearly, with Murali going as far as claiming Sachin has an issue with quality off spin.

Murali vs Sachin is why I said 0% at the first place.
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Tendulkar mostly got out attacking Murali. I think he could block him more effectively.
 
Johan

Johan

International Coach
Thala_0710 said:
That was just after the tennis elbow issue in 2005 where he was getting done by most guys tbh. After that it was only the first test in 2008 where Murali got him. And Sachin anyway wasn't the same player to spin after 2005 as he had been for the first 15 years of his career. Overall he definitely had the wood over Murali and I'd back pre 2005 Sachin over post doosra Murali
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2007 he was coming off of the Australian series where he averaged 70 and averaged 15 in Sri Lanka, both Hansie Cronje and Muttiah Muralitharan came to the same conclusion that the one problem Tendulkar has is a ball that pitches outside and deviated in off the pitch, there's nothing to say Sachin would dominate Post 1998 Murali and their only encounters don't give that much faith.
 
Thala_0710

Thala_0710

International Regular
Johan said:
2007 he was coming off of the Australian series where he averaged 70 and averaged 15 in Sri Lanka, both Hansie Cronje and Muttiah Muralitharan came to the same conclusion that the one problem Tendulkar has is a ball that pitches outside and deviated in off the pitch, there's nothing to say Sachin would dominate Post 1998 Murali and their only encounters don't give that much faith.
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Murali only got him first test of that series and never again. Mendis actually troubled him more.
There's ofc no guarantee but I'd back that Sachin against any spinner, more so than Viv and others (barring Lara)
 
Johan

Johan

International Coach
Thala_0710 said:
Murali only got him first test of that series and never again. Mendis actually troubled him more.
There's ofc no guarantee but I'd back that Sachin against any spinner, more so than Viv and others (barring Lara)
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I'd not if two Cricketers have come forward and admitted that he struggled against bowling similar to Murali's, one of them being Murali himself.
 
Thala_0710

Thala_0710

International Regular
Johan said:
I'd not if two Cricketers have come forward and admitted that he struggled against bowling similar to Murali's, one of them being Murali himself.
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Latter career Sachin did, post the tennis elbow after which he changed his technique quite a bit
 
subshakerz

subshakerz

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Johan said:
2007 he was coming off of the Australian series where he averaged 70 and averaged 15 in Sri Lanka, both Hansie Cronje and Muttiah Muralitharan came to the same conclusion that the one problem Tendulkar has is a ball that pitches outside and deviated in off the pitch, there's nothing to say Sachin would dominate Post 1998 Murali and their only encounters don't give that much faith.
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You keep saying this but his actual dismissals to Murali don't match that at all

 
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