Gavaskar/Kapil or Boycott/Botham

[Johan]

I've not seen those sentences, but I'm guessing one of those sentences was, "Say bye bye to Gavaskar".


Don't get me wrong. I support your work.

eh I just pointed out how Gooch had tougher conditions, how Greenidge never had to play the Greatest pace attack of all time while Gooch played 24% of his innings against them and how England was tougher to open in than WI.

and Gooch still had a higher overall run per inning and a higher average after playing as many tests as Greenidge.

 

[sayon basak]

First class stats

Clarke: 942 wickets @ 19.52

Roberts: 889 wickets @ 21.01

Croft: 428 wickets @ 24.59

Clarke probably bowled faster than Akhtar.
@capt_Luffy

 

[sayon basak]

eh I just pointed out how Gooch had tougher conditions, how Greenidge never had to play the Greatest pace attack of all time while Gooch played 24% of his innings against them and how England was tougher to open in than WI.

and Gooch still had a higher overall run per inning and a higher average after playing as many tests as Greenidge.

Man you are a G.

 

[Johan]

Man you are a G.

True

 

[DrWolverine]

Sylvester Clarke was very fast

Fixed

 

[DrWolverine]

Clarke probably bowled faster than Akhtar.
@capt_Luffy

Viv Richards claimed Clarke was the only bowler he did not feel comfortable batting against.

David Gower stated that Clarke was by far the fastest man he ever faced.

Alan Kourie recalls that Clarke, during the unofficial West Indies 1983 rebel tour, recorded speeds between 98 mph and 101 mph by two South African police officers testing out a new automobile speed radar gun who were present at Johannesburg ground.

Geoff Boycott said Clarke "scared me silly".



In the mid-1980s Garry Sobers wrote that Clarke was "the quickest and most hostile fast bowler now playing in world cricket.

 

[DrWolverine]

Please explain why he wasn't good.

Unproven in test cricket

 

[PlayerComparisons]

I remember seeing Imran rating Clarke highly somewhere

 

[sayon basak]

Unproven in test cricket

Why does that mean that he was not good?

 

[Johan]

I remember seeing Imran rating Clarke highly somewhere

this?

 

[DrWolverine]

Sylvester Clarke & Patrick Patterson
They would have been multi millionaires in IPL today

 

[capt_Luffy]

Unproven in test cricket

In the only 2 full series he played, he was the best bowler in one and averaged 17 in the other; that too in India and in Pakistan

 

[Johan]

Geoffrey Boycott is a better Batsmen than Javed Miandad

 

[Johan]

@capt_Luffy Larwood or Clarke

1. Better?
2. Faster?

 

[DrWolverine]

Sylvester Clarke

 

[Johan]

Hard to say who is faster between the two

 

[capt_Luffy]

@capt_Luffy Larwood or Clarke

1. Better?
2. Faster?

Both Larwood, though not sure of the latter.

 

[Johan]

Larwood's run up is longer and quicker than Clarke so he may be faster.

 

[Johan]

Yeaaaaah, Larwood's quicker. Larwood comes sprinting in like an athlete, Clarke looks rather....waddling.

 

[Johan]

Both Larwood, though not sure of the latter.

is Larwood in your top 10 fastest bowlers ever?