Viv Richards vs Steve Smith

[Johan]

Not that simple.

Yes Viv had a higher peak in the sense he was dominant and destroyed best bowlers then with ease.

If we use innings 80 innings to classify peak, Sachin scored more runs at a better average.

Including World Series Cricket, between 1976 and March 1981, Viv Richards made 4,764 runs @ 67 with no minnows whatsoever involved. Having the best tour of modern times in England and Australia, arguably the best series ever by a touring Batsman in Pakistan and having an ATG series against spin in 76. His peer such as Sunil Gavaskar, was also peaking at the same time and was averaging 55 with an imo lighter schedule, Greg Chappell was at 56 and those are two top 10 of all time candidates and mostly considered top 15, a young Allan Border and old Geoffrey Boycott at 48, that's dominance.

Sachin doesn't have a peak like that.

 

[ankitj]

Yes it is quite good. But the problem is Sachin and Tendulkar had earlier peaks in more competitive and less flat era.

Sachin Baby and Arjun Tendulkar?

 

[DrWolverine]

Like I said before Viv had a higher peak for sure.

But yeah it was for a shorter while and have to include WSC as well which is fair imo.

 

[Johan]

Bedi’s debut.

almost bowled India to a win in his second game.

Chandra was in 3rd year and played just 7 matches.

got a tenfer that series, was averaging 30 at start of the series.

By your logic we should take this into account since Murali was playing his 11th match in the 1994 series.
P. S : Murali took 12 wickets in 3 innings.

Duh, I'm not the one calling out Sachin's SL record, you're calling out Sobers against Pakistan and India. Plus, Sachin faced plenty of worse attacks than what Sobers faced against India early career, 1993 England home series, his 104* in Sri Lanka in 93, hell even 2010 Sri Lanka after Murali was gone and so forth.

Sobers played some great knocks in India against Gupte in his India tour and then toyed with and destroyed the Indian spinners on spin-favouring wickets late in career.

 

[subshakerz]

Like I said before Viv had a higher peak for sure.

But yeah it was for a shorter while and have to include WSC as well which is fair imo.

It wasn't shorter by duration just less tests if WSC excluded.

 

[subshakerz]

Including World Series Cricket, between 1976 and March 1981, Viv Richards made 4,764 runs @ 67 with no minnows whatsoever involved. Having the best tour of modern times in England and Australia, arguably the best series ever by a touring Batsman in Pakistan and having an ATG series against spin in 76.

Sachin doesn't have a peak like that.

Sachins peak between 97 to 2002 averaged 63 and was somewhat close. Faced a lot of worldclass bowlers in the period.

Viv still better.