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Kallis v Sangakkara

Kallis v Sangakkara

  • Kallis

    Votes: 25 64.1%

  • Sangakkara

    Votes: 14 35.9%
  • Total voters
    39
TheJediBrah

TheJediBrah

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Who was the better all-round player, all formats. Take into account batting/bowling/keeping/fielding/leadership/sledging
 
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Chrish

International Debutant
I rate Kallis higher than those players due to reasons I mentioned in Kallis vs Hadlee thread.

Grace had numbers that were even more impressive than Bradman. However, cricket was so different back then, you might as well call it a different sport. Meaningful comparison between Grace and modern players is impossible.
 
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Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
TheJediBrah said:
Who was the better all-round player, all formats. Take into account batting/bowling/keeping/fielding/leadership/sledging
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Batting - tests Sanga, ODI Kallis
Bowling - obviously Kallis
Keeping - obviously Sanga
Fielding - Kallis
Leadership - Sanga
Sledging - Sanga (anazing sledge to Pollock)

Sanga's test batting was amazing when not keeping (and P Jayawardene was probably the best test keeper of the 21st century), while Kallis kept bowling and being a quality slip fieldsman while scoring huge runs so OVERALL

Kallis
 
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Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
TheJediBrah said:
This is a very controversial take
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Both were ATG test batsmen, but fairly mediocre ODI batsmen. Kallis was was too slow but set a base for guys like Klusener and Kemp (and later ABDV). Sanga was also mediocre and only boosted his average over the last 2 years (in many ways thanks to a monster CWC). He scored 11 of his 25 ODI 100s in the last 2 years of his career and boosted his average from 38.56 to 41.98. Beforehand he was no better than Russell Arnold.
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
a keeper averaging 38 in odis is pretty ****ing legit ngl.

would have stood out as more of an advantage in a team with better options at 5-8. SL have always had good top order bats and specialist bowlers of some description in odis but in the middle they cobbled together a lot of jehan mubarak, farveez maharoof, thisara perera and upal chandana.
 
Migara

Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
Flem274* said:
a keeper averaging 38 in odis is pretty ****ing legit ngl.

would have stood out as more of an advantage in a team with better options at 5-8. SL have always had good top order bats and specialist bowlers of some description in odis but in the middle they cobbled together a lot of jehan mubarak, farveez maharoof, thisara perera and upal chandana.
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Mubarak and Perera had potential but did not do well. Farveez was ill-managed from his debut. SL selectors wanted a seam bowler out of him and played him as such in tests. But in reality he was a #7 batsman and the floater in ODIs, who was one of the hardest hitters SL has ever produced. He should have never played tests unless other bowlers were injured. He should have been a #6/7 batting allr-ounder for SL. Even then he was good enough to take 135 wickets at 28 in ODIs
 
Migara

Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
Farveez Maharoof just climbs in to Warne in this IPL match, 5 balls, 26 runs 4 sixes,
 
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