Josh Hazlewood vs Jason Gillespie

[PlayerComparisons]

Two great bowlers who were somewhat overshadowed by Cummins and Mcgrath

 

[Line and Length]

Josh can never match Jason's batting achievement.

 

[Anil]

not much in it, both quality bowlers and cricketers but i like gillespie more...

 

[BazBall21]

Gillespie is ahead on variety of conditions production. Hazlewood is a bit unlucky that his prime coincided with Australia hardly touring but you can only judge on what’s happened.

 

[Kirkut]

Hazlewood. That 36 all out was clinical stuff

 

[OverratedSanity]

Gillespie was terrific but I feel instinctively Hazelwood bowls a much more consistently threatening length. Got some great numbers on flat aussie decks too.

 

[The_CricketUmpire]

Josh can never match Jason's batting achievement.

Jason Gillespie - Test Batting Stats

Matches: 71
Innings: 93
Not Outs: 28
Ducks: 13
Runs: 1218
Highest Score: 201*
Average: 18.73
50s: 2
100s: 1

Pretty good stats for a guy who batted at mostly number 9 and number 10. He also batted at number 8, 6, 5, 4 and 3 as well. Good night-watchman too.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Jason Gillespie would have done some ungodly things to some of these current batting line ups we have in Test cricket today , especially in much better bowling conditions than the era Gillespie played in.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

That being said I think Hazlewood is an excellent bowler. very intelligent with his use of angles and mixture of pace . He cracked all formats .

 

[Flem274*]

This is really hard to split, both nailed on world class bowlers. In this case I think I'll split by era, as Jason Gillespie's success in the CEO era was a bit more impressive and made his relative value to a side higher.