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Rank and rate these test openers of last 25 years
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SillyCowCorner1
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No Gayle? 2 test triple centuries
Then will have to add many more.
All these AVG atleast 45 which is great for an opener.
SillyCowCorner1
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Oh okay. Got yah!
_00_deathscar
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Tough really - someone like Cook and Sehwag are so diametrically opposite, ideally you'd have both in the team!
kingkallis
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Graeme Smith
Matthew Hayden
Alastair Cook
Virender Sehwag
David Warner
Gary Kirsten
Saeed Anwar
Justin Langer
Matthew Hayden
Alastair Cook
Virender Sehwag
David Warner
Gary Kirsten
Saeed Anwar
Justin Langer
ankitj
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More or less this.
marc71178
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Would be interesting. 100-0 at lunch, Sehwag 75, Cook 20.
Might be more of a problem if they were based in England though....
Howe_zat
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True - in typical English conditions you'd probably want Langer and Kirsten, from that list
StephenZA
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Smith didn`t do to bad in England...
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Smith
Kirsten
Sehwag
Cook
Hayden
Warner
Langer
Anwar
Kirsten
Sehwag
Cook
Hayden
Warner
Langer
Anwar
TheJediBrah
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Cook
Hayden
Warner
Smith
Langer
Sehwag
Anwar
Kirsten
Also of note: Simon Katich. He was probably just as good as Langer/Anwar/Kirsten when he played as opener. Just didn't do it as long.
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honestbharani
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Loved Katich. A draft favorite of mine here at CW..
I like both KK's and OS's lists. But let me try -
Graeme Smith
Gary Kirsten
Virender Sehwag
Alastair Cook
Saeed Anwar
Matthew Hayden
Justin Langer
David Warner
TheJediBrah
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I probably ranked Warner a bit high, needs to improve his overseas record. He's sitting about neck & neck with Sehwag and can get past him with some bigger away scores.
Not rating Hayden ahead of Anwar/Kirsten etc. is criminal
Not rating Hayden ahead of Anwar/Kirsten etc. is criminal
vcs
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Agree with that. People seem to have forgotten just how scary good he was between 2001 and 2003-ish.