From the last 50 years, who has the worst ATG XI from the big 8? SL, NZ or England?

[OverratedSanity]

Kohli has been mostly good vs Australia but not as significant or memorable as Pujara. I do think his 2014 tour gets extremely underrated especially the second innings knock at Adelaide (it's a myth that the pitch was a road on day 5). But he's had some lows as well and doesn't have the array of atg innings that Pujara /vvs do.

 

[sunilz]

Kohli has been mostly good vs Australia but not as significant or memorable as Pujara. I do think his 2014 tour gets extremely underrated especially the second innings knock at Adelaide (it's a myth that the pitch was a road on day 5). But he's had some lows as well and doesn't have the array of atg innings that Pujara /vvs do.

Please consider every opposition .

 

[Teja.]

I'm arguably the biggest Laxman fan on the forum, but I genuinely don't think pujaras career is that far off. He has his own strengths, for instance at his peak he piled on the runs and dominated series in a way vvs didn't really do. Even vs Australia, Pujara has played almost as many if not more extremely valuable match winning knocks. He doesn't have the 281 which let's be fair no one does. But his 92 at bangalore, the double at ranchi, both innings at Adelaide in 2018 tour and his Sydney knock earlier this year all compare favorably with other vvs classics like Mohali. He should 100% make a team to play Australia over Kohli imo. He has been the single most important batsman in India's last 3 series wins vs them and they've all been in historically important series.

He's not far away but needs a career resurgence of 20-30 tests where he is high quality if not world class to compare to Laxman IMO. His career has mostly been quite underwhelming outside of a few useful/gutsy 50s since approximately the 65 test mark (post 18/19 Autralia tour) which is not really many tests when compared to modern greats of the game.

 

[Spark]

Genuine question: what's wrong with picking ATG XIs only with respect to playing a specific team? It's closer to how real cricket teams are selected after all

 

[sunilz]

Genuine question: what's wrong with picking ATG XIs only with respect to playing a specific team? It's closer to how real cricket teams are selected after all

Will Australia pick Warne in their ATXI team if the match was to be played against IND ?

 

[_00_deathscar]

Will Australia pick Warne in their ATXI team if the match was to be played against IND ?

Yes.

Thankfully!

 

[ankitj]

I'm arguably the biggest Laxman fan on the forum

@teja tackle him

 

[OverratedSanity]

Come at me bro

 

[honestbharani]

Its interesting, isn't it? I posted somewhere else about the intangibles and how I felt that McGrath benefitted from having Warne on his side even though the stats show the opposite. VVS is another case. On one hand, he played match winning knocks fairly regularly against ATG bowling line up of Australia, but OTOH he also played in the noughties which was the best batting era and averaged only around 50 even in that era. Pujara has obviously been playing in the tougher era overall for batting.

Still think if he can retain the tempo he showed in the last couple of knocks in England the last series, he will back to his best or close to his best very very soon.

 

[Burgey]

Struggling to see how England is in this discussion tbh.

 

[harsh.ag]

Will Australia pick Warne in their ATXI team if the match was to be played against IND ?

Nah just pick 4 pacers

McGrath
Lillee/Harris
Gillespie
Cummins

 

[Burgey]

Haze over Dizzy tbh. Peak Thommo or Johnson maybe over both of those guys, actually.

 

[Teja.]

Haze over Dizzy tbh. Peak Thommo or Johnson maybe over both of those guys, actually.

That line up is for India where Gillespie was great on a consistent basis. Arguably even better than McGrath here.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah but Thommo will kill some ****.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah but Thommo will kill some ****.

And then watch his team lose from a 6*4 cell in Central Jail.