ohnoitsyou
International Regular
Barry Richards, one of the finest batsmen of all time was who i was referring to.i wouldn't take hobbs/hutton/sutcliffe in my 2nd XI. hobbs and sutcliffe were used to opening against military medium an sometimes, spinners. the few real pacers they faced, didn't head-hunt them. I'd seriously worry for their life if they were to take the field against any genuine fast-men from the 70s-90s era, given that those guys were specialist head-hunters. hutton faced serious pace but not headhunting.
richards, yes' i'd rather have him than sehwag but sehwag gets the opener's slot and richards is not an opener. and nobody except gillchrist- not even richards was capable of absolutely smashing the bowlers as much as sehwag. that sehwag did it first up, makes it even more mindboggling imo.
Next i will mention that true fast bowlers have existed since the 1890s and maybe even earlier. Kortright and a few others come to mind and im sure that they took many a wicket of the bouncer. Kortright to this day remains the only bowler to bowl six byes, which gives you an idea of his pace. It doesn't even matter if these guys were only 130, the likes of Hobbs and Huttons had techniques up there with the best ever, if the bowlers were 10-15k faster there is no reason they wouldn't have been able to adapt.
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