CW chooses the second greatest batsman ever redux, 100 men from 5 eras whittled to 1

[Zinzan]

Jacques Kallis
Mahela Jaywardene
Ricky Ponting
Matthew Hayden
Shiv Chanderpaul

 

[weldone]

Kallis
Ponting
Jayawardene
Laxman
Chanderpaul

 

[mr_mister]

that's the second time you've voted in a heat after it's finished weldone

 

[weldone]

This is moving way too fast.


Round 1, Heat 10 (of 11)

Michael Hussey
Thilan Samaraweera
Mohammad Yousuf
Kumar Sangakarra
Kevin Pietersen
Virender Sehwag
Younus Khan
Mishbah Ul-Haq
Graeme Smith
Michael Clarke

 

[Zinzan]

Mohammad Yousuf
Kumar Sangakarra
Kevin Pietersen
Younus Khan
Graeme Smith

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Sangakkara
Younus
Sehwag
Smith
Clarke

 

[mr_mister]

This is moving way too fast.


Round 1, Heat 10 (of 11)

Michael Hussey
Thilan Samaraweera
Mohammad Yousuf
Kumar Sangakarra
Kevin Pietersen
Virender Sehwag
Younus Khan
Mishbah Ul-Haq
Graeme Smith
Michael Clarke

do you actually think that?

 

[oitoitoi]

Mohammad Yousuf
Kumar Sangakarra
Virender Sehwag
Younus Khan
Graeme Smith

Only just realised Sehwag's career average ended under 50.

 

[Zinzan]

do you actually think that?

Strange you'd doubt him. What exactly struck you as being so weird about his selections? I mean who did he miss?

Unless you were asking if he thinks the thread if moving too fast...

 

[Prince EWS]

Strange you'd doubt him. What exactly struck you as being so weird about his selections? I mean who did he miss?

Unless you were asking if he thinks the thread if moving too fast...

Yeah I think he was referring to the too fast thing.

 

[Coronis]

Sanga
Clarke
Hussey
Younus
MoYo

 

[weldone]

do you actually think that?

Yes there's too little time per heat. If someone wants to vote in all heats then he can't love his sleep as much as I do.

 

[viriya]

Heh I should have counted myself and tactically not voted for Laxman. Mahela FTW.

Laxman over Mahela really shows the aussie bias in this thread. Not surprising.

 

[weldone]

Laxman over Mahela really shows the aussie bias in this thread. Not surprising.

Hayden getting twice as many votes as Mahela shows the same thing.

 

[viriya]

Kumar Sangakarra
Younus Khan
Mohammad Yousuf
Kevin Pietersen
Misbah-ul-Haq

 

[viriya]

Yes there's too little time per heat. If someone wants to vote in all heats then he can't love his sleep as much as I do.

Yea I also missed one because of sleep..

But I considered it my fault for picking a healthy sleep schedule over something that actually matters...

 

[watson]

Laxman over Mahela really shows the aussie bias in this thread. Not surprising.

The bias comes about because Jayawardene averaged 60 in Sri Lanka, but 40 Away from home. An Away average of 40 is actually pretty good, but put Mahela up against a decent bowling attack and his average plummets to 27.

So bias works both ways.

(But yeah, Jayawardene should be close to Laxman in the voting)

Which batsmen thrive against the best bowlers?

......It is no surprise that top batsmen perform strongly against weaker attacks. Some more so than others, though. For Brian Lara and Tendulkar the difference in their performance against stronger attacks and weaker attacks is about 7 runs per innings. For Mahela Jayawardene, it is about 22 runs. For Jacques Kallis, it is 20 runs. For Ponting, Border and Rahul Dravid, it is about 13 runs.

Blogs: Kartikeya Date: Which batsmen thrive against the best bowlers? | Cricket Blogs | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Burgey]

Laxman over Mahela really shows the aussie bias in this thread. Not surprising.

Loved watching Jayawardene bat, but quite frankly, if it wasn't a test match being beamed in from Sri Lanka, the experience was often all too short.

Not so with Laxman.

 

[weldone]

Yea I also missed one because of sleep..

But I considered it my fault for picking a healthy sleep schedule over something that actually matters...

All the things that we do in life are because either 1. We want to sleep peacefully, or 2. We want to sleep with someone.

 

[OverratedSanity]

All the things that we do in life are because either 1. We want to sleep peacefully, or 2. We want to sleep with someone.

This will be in a fortune cookie one day