Mr Mxyzptlk
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Well he doesn't really allow himself to display it, because he fancies slogging so much. But I've seen him play many a correct shot.
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Is talent more important than technique ??
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Mr Mxyzptlk
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But Smith is definitely a case of poor shot selection. He has a pretty decent technique, but he generally doesn't pick the right shot to the right ball. A lot of his play is premeditated.I saw Dwayne Smith play a perfect forward-defensive too once...
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Chris Gayle, Virender Sehwag, Nathan Astle - players with flawed techniques. Right away I can't think of anyone from a major team with a poor technique though. Not a batsman at least. Pick a Bermudan?OK... gimme someone you consider poor technically...
Prince EWS
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Hashim Amla?
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
20% difference is not similar.
pup11
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Add Afridi and Razzaq on that list too, and for that matter most of sub-continental players have faulty techniques since pitches here are flat and unresponsive to bowlers so these batsman basically get away even without good techniques on sub-continental pitches, and its when they tour outside the sub-continent that there techniques are exposed.
Evermind
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Gibbs is still more talented at cricket than 99.9% of all people on earth, and will be better than any average person by many miles even if the average guy were to train 24/7. The guy just smacked 6 sixes in an over, and scored 175 against a top bowling attack to chase down 434.
You make him sound like a backyard tennis-ball cricketer.
honestbharani
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for all that talent, what is his average against the other teams of the top 8?Gibbs is still more talented at cricket than 99.9% of all people on earth, and will be better than any average person by many miles even if the average guy were to train 24/7. The guy just smacked 6 sixes in an over, and scored 175 against a top bowling attack to chase down 434.
You make him sound like a backyard tennis-ball cricketer.
Compare that with the not so gifted Kirsten and you will get my point.
Gibbs vs top 8 sides: 5629 @ 42.62, 13 hundreds, 23 fifties
Kirsten: 626 runs @ 31.30, 1 hundred, 4 fifties
Well you didn't say which Kirsten.
PY
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Different between perfect and not perfect in exam marked out of 10.So 8 and 10 are not similar?
Richard
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Which, of times, he can be.Gibbs is still more talented at cricket than 99.9% of all people on earth, and will be better than any average person by many miles even if the average guy were to train 24/7. The guy just smacked 6 sixes in an over, and scored 175 against a top bowling attack to chase down 434.
You make him sound like a backyard tennis-ball cricketer.
Richard
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Ironic thing is, even Gary Kirsten was far from perfect technically - and twice in his career that lead to Gibbs-esque periods of getting repeatedly dismissed the same way.
No disputing whatsoever Kirsten was the better batsman of the two, but it's not so simple as a risk-taker\technician thing.
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Was thinking the same too. Kirsten played with a straight bat and could play a cover drive, but he wasn't exactly the left-handed Daren Ganga.