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Garry Sobers vs Imran Khan

Who is the greater test cricketer?

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capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

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Thala_0710 said:
Kapil was voted in the top 35 pacers ever in L&L's voting last year
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I know, yet I somehow hugely overrate him...... Tbf I have some names above which just weren't rated. VvDB, Procter, Spofforth, Lohmann, Turner, King, Richardson; and a few I feel are too underrated like Tate, Mahmood, Johnston and Pollock.
 
ankitj

ankitj

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kyear2 said:
Ahh, came here made a post, not a negative word written. Didn't even mention Imran.

But I'm the one obsessed.

Didn't refer to any poster in a negative light, just being positive.

No reference to the actual post, but just a string of ad hominem attacks and unrelated comments.

Yup, this forum hasn't degraded into a toxic highschool clique at all.

You'll don't debate points, you come at posters.
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This thread is about Imran. So it is a very topical question.
 
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subshakerz

subshakerz

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Bolo. said:
Kapil is not an okay lower order bat. He is a top tier ATG lower order bat. If you want to compare him to specialist bats, fine. He comes up short. He isn't a specialist bat though. Judge him on the terms he actually played on.
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Yeah I regard Imran as a no 6/7 and Kapil as a 7/8. He probably is the best 7/8 in tests I can think of. Certainly better than Pollock.
 
kyear2

kyear2

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Bolo. said:
Kapil is not an okay lower order bat. He is a top tier ATG lower order bat. If you want to compare him to specialist bats, fine. He comes up short. He isn't a specialist bat though. Judge him on the terms he actually played on.
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What exactly is an ATG lower order bat. He's not comparable to a specialist top order batsman, as implied by the lower order lead in. He's a below average test batsman as a useful lower order one.

My argument is if I had to choose between him as my strike bowler or Taylor as my opening batsman, it's easily Taylor as my opening batsman.

If I don't trust him as my strike bowler, the rest doesn't matter, as I made in argument with him vs Walsh. And an inconsistent lower order bat doesn't impact the game nearly as often or as much as is believed around these parts and is not something to build a team or primarily base a selection around.
 
kyear2

kyear2

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subshakerz said:
Yeah I regard Imran as a no 6/7 and Kapil as a 7/8. He probably is the best 7/8 in tests I can think of. Certainly better than Pollock.
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During his bowling career as per your preferences, and the years you prefer to have his career framed between.

He had an rpi of 27.

But more to your point, during that time he batted:

9 innings at no. 6
59 innings at no. 7
29 innings at no. 8
4 innings at no. 9

You're not allowed to just make **** up dude.

Imran was very much a 7 / 8 batsman, please stop.
 
subshakerz

subshakerz

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kyear2 said:
During his bowling career as per your preferences, and the years you prefer to have his career framed between.

He had an rpi of 27.

But more to your point, during that time he batted:

9 innings at no. 6
59 innings at no. 7
29 innings at no. 8
4 innings at no. 9

You're not allowed to just make **** up dude.

Imran was very much a 7 / 8 batsman, please stop.
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Do you accept Imran's overall career bowling stats or just between 76 to 88/89?

Oh right you don't consider those stats that would make his bowling look better. But then you hypocritically bring up the batting stats in that period to ignore his late career batting peak so you can make his batting look worse.

Do you think folks won't spot your silly games?
 
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