Time machine thread - Putting players in different eras

[subshakerz]

Very straightforward.

Take your favorite players and put them in a different era of cricket or the current era and tell how they would fare and how they would be viewed.

 

[ataraxia]

Colin de Grandhomme would be the greatest cricketer of the 1950s.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Brian Lara back in the 1870s: uh what is this guy doing here

 

[trundler]

What do if you don't have a time machine?

 

[ataraxia]

What do if you don't have a time machine?

Pretend Lindwall is a better bat than Davidson seems a good bet

 

[trundler]

Pretend Lindwall is a better bat than Davidson seems a good bet

More of an all rounder than Kallis too.

 

[Victor Ian]

Put starc into 1870 and they will call him the Demon, leaving Spoforth to be called Spoffo.

 

[Victor Ian]

Put Stokes into anywhere before 1980 and they will call him 157643.

 

[fredfertang]

Put Garry Sobers in any era and you'll see he really is The Greatest

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

Bill O’Reilly in any era with no career interruption and he would prove on why he is,

“The Greatest Bowler In Cricket History.”

 

[subshakerz]

Put Garry Sobers in any era and you'll see he really is The Greatest

Sobers would be the ultimate T20 cricketer.

 

[social]

Sobers would be the ultimate T20 cricketer.

And probably bowl more spin

 

[the big bambino]

I'd take Kohli back to the golden age and then tell cricket web he couldn't bat.

 

[Ali TT]

Darren Stevens in the late 19th century and we'd not be talking about WG any more.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

I think this concept has been done before.

 

[Coronis]

Put starc into 1870 and they will call him the Demon, leaving Spoforth to be called Spoffo.

Put Starc into 1870 and he gets injured and dies/retires before playing a test.

 

[Ali TT]

I think this concept has been done before.

Blame our future selves for forgetting they came back to 2020 already to post this.

 

[the big bambino]

I put Stokes in a molecular transporting time machine and he turned up in the 1890s as a fly.

 

[the big bambino]

Archie MacLaren put him in a position between third man and third slip and that is where the term fly slip originated.

 

[Coronis]

I think he stayed in NZ and died anonymously without infecting anyone with his unique brand of ****. Simpler times…