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Denis Compton vs Ian Botham

Compton vs Botham

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sayon basak

sayon basak

Cricketer Of The Year
Coronis said:
Why are you dodging such a simple question by posting nonsense?
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Why is it nonsense? You are trying to interpret it in a way that I don't have Compton as an ATG because I don't have 30 ATGs, where I just said two related lines.

And don't think I'd have him as ATG, He didn't play many matches after his retirement.
 
Coronis

Coronis

Hall of Fame Member
sayon basak said:
Why is it nonsense? You are trying to interpret it in a way that I don't have Compton as an ATG because I don't have 30 ATGs, where I just said two related lines.

And don't think I'd have him as ATG, He didn't play many matches after his retirement.
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That’s not even where I was going lol.

So please do answer, in 1957 would you have said Compton was an ATG batsman or not?
 
Coronis

Coronis

Hall of Fame Member
sayon basak said:
As long as I'm not indoctrinated by mu surroundings, No. He'd still be very close, just like how he's now.

Am I missing something?
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No. I just believe that if someone is considered an ATG at the end of their career, they shouldn’t be downgraded by the emergence of newer players. i.e I don’t believe in a static number of ATG players, imo the list should be ever expanding as we have more and more players.
 
sayon basak

sayon basak

Cricketer Of The Year
Coronis said:
No. I just believe that if someone is considered an ATG at the end of their career, they shouldn’t be downgraded by the emergence of newer players. i.e I don’t believe in a static number of ATG players, imo the list should be ever expanding as we have more and more players.
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Yeah, I fully agree. Whether one is ATG doesn't depend on How many are ahead of him, but rather on what one means by ATG. I should've clearly stated that, sorry.
 
Coronis

Coronis

Hall of Fame Member
sayon basak said:
Yeah, I fully agree. Whether one is ATG doesn't depend on How many are ahead of him, but rather on what one means by ATG. I should've clearly stated that, sorry.
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Yeah all I was going to do was point out that I disagree with that philosophy if say, you would also have 30 at that point in time and Compton would’ve been one. I’m also a believer that once a player has reached a certain tier/point I’m not going to downgrade them beyond a certain point e.g I might rate Kohli higher right now than a fair amount of people do.
 
Johan

Johan

International Coach
Coronis said:
Yeah all I was going to do was point out that I disagree with that philosophy if say, you would also have 30 at that point in time and Compton would’ve been one. I’m also a believer that once a player has reached a certain tier/point I’m not going to downgrade them beyond a certain point e.g I might rate Kohli higher right now than a fair amount of people do.
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I have Kohli above Miandad
 
Johan

Johan

International Coach
All Javed bashing aside, I think Kohli is pretty great and would average 50 or really close to it in other eras, his away average substantially lowballs him.
 
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