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Bradmanesque

karan316

State Vice-Captain
Marciano's record is nowhere near as statistically dominant as Bradman's over other batsmen. I mean, Mayweather just retired undefeated recently.
Keep twisting my words when you have no answers.:laugh:

With regards to boxing, I had clearly mentioned that Marciano had no competition while Ali dominated at a time when there were too many boxing greats, Ali is rated highly because of the competition he faced. I never talked about the boxing game "evolving", my point was purely based on the competitive environment which was way more difficult than in Mayweather and Marciano's time.
 

karan316

State Vice-Captain
Keep going in circles guys, this is why the number of users are not increasing on CW. A bunch of trolls want everyone to agree with them.

Cross-era comparisons in a sport like cricket are BS, we all know how much the game has changed since Bradman's time. Field placement, fitness, quality of bowling, reverse swing, improvement in spin bowling, fielding, number of quality teams, variety of conditions in which the players have to adapt, amount of cricket played, etc. Everything has changed, but DB has to be the greatest, all other players, despite of the hardwork and talent, are a tier below.
 
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karan316

State Vice-Captain
Could have been interesting if Bradman was not from England or Aus, he wouldn't have been glorified by a well-respected media.
 

indiaholic

International Captain
You know he would have been. Everybody loves a batsman whose average is 4 standard deviations away from the mean.
 

Victor Ian

International Coach
Could have been interesting if Bradman was not from England or Aus, he wouldn't have been glorified by a well-respected media.
At least Australia and England keep to limits. Bradman's ceiling is best ever batsman - rather than God
 

Shri

Mr. Glass
Okay, lets take a legend of the game like Kallis. Now, his worst tours were usually tours to England and by the end of his career, he ended up averaging 35 there anyway. THats a 20 point drop from his overall average. If Bradman had a 20 point average drop due to a lot of reasons, he would still be the best test batsman in the history of the game. Its really insane how far away he is from the rest that most arguments against it done seriously are amusing.
 
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Adders

International Coach
Keep going in circles guys, this is why the number of users are not increasing on CW. A bunch of trolls want everyone to agree with them.
Are you sure it's not posters like you that are responsible?? It's not that you are posting a different view to the majority......that in itself would be fine and I'm sure most here would would engage with you. But seriously, the way you and jonbrooks have presented your arguments.........****ing dire mate.
Could have been interesting if Bradman was not from England or Aus, he wouldn't have been glorified by a well-respected media.
Want some sauce with that chip on your shoulder???
 

TheJediBrah

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strong tactics ITT tbh

Step 1: Have an unpopular opinion
Step 2: Give a plethora of nonsensical, irrelevant and just plain wrong reasons why you think so, making sure to be as rude as possible to everyone
Step 3: Other posters give respectful, patient, intelligent responses as to why the the popular opinion is what it is
Step 4: Have a whinge complaining that everyone is a troll and can't accept someone with a differing opinion
Step 5: ???????
Step 6: profit
 

Spark

Global Moderator
strong tactics ITT tbh

Step 1: Have an unpopular opinion
Step 2: Give a plethora of nonsensical, irrelevant and just plain wrong reasons why you think so, making sure to be as rude as possible to everyone
Step 3: Other posters give respectful, patient, intelligent responses as to why the the popular opinion is what it is
Step 4: Have a whinge complaining that everyone is a troll and can't accept someone with a differing opinion
Step 5: ???????
Step 6: profit
You forgot "whinge that they're so oppressed and they will probably be banned now"
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
the fact that Hammond, Hutton, Headley and Hobbs are all considered top 10 batsmen of all time yet Bradman averaged way more than all of them is enough proof that you could stick him in any era and he'd be a gun

lets just accept that he was one of a kind
 

karan316

State Vice-Captain
Its quite evident from the recent posts, you guys attack like a pack of dogs and go as far as you can to make others look bad and irrelevant. Old posters(or multis) over here want everyone to come to CricketWeb and blindly agree with them.

This is the reason why more people stick to PlanetCricket which has an authentic and more open-minded user base. Even when it comes to game promotions or related stuff people prefer PlanetCricket.

Not agreeing with me is one thing, but constantly taking jabs and targeting individuals is just not cool.
 

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