subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Lol there was also a ROW XI.
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Who won these battles?
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subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
This was a concentrated series on the line.
Thala_0710
International Captain
That I take into account more for a particular skill. For example, Murali and Warne both talk about Sachin as probably the best they bowled to. I factor that in his spin playing skill. But Sachin faced them in about 10% of his overall games. What about the rest of the 90%? We get a lot of anamolies in peer rating because of this. Some people perform at their best against certain guys, who in turn end up rating them highly. Doesn't mean they were this good against everyone else.
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
Like there was one in 2005......
subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
And one in 1970 that wasn't a joke. We don't need to dismiss them all.
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
Oh 1970 wasn't joke as it was properly organised Test Series. WSC was a Billionaires whim of new ways of making sports money.
subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
One can. Like we did a breakdown of the recent ATG XIs selected by modern cricketers.
subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Lol it was also a test series my friend. The same issues you have with WSC would apply to 1970.
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
It was organised on a billionaire's whim with the sole focus to sale it to the masses as "exciting cricket"?? I don't think so it was really. Those RoW matches had Test status back in the day and removing that was unnecessary imho.
vidiq
State Regular
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subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah cricket with more excitement and intensity that players are invested in. Not like some free flowing relaxing charity game.
Johan
Hall of Fame Member
wtf when did he make the Crawley/sobers comment?( former sa player - gibbs).
He thinks Smith vs Lara/Sachin is similar to
Crawley Vs Sobers comparison
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vidiq
State Regular
He didn't say that; I'm just making a funny guess based on his reaction to this comparison.
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
More like artificial intensity here really.
subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Intensity which was lacking in cricket before that era generally
Johan
Hall of Fame Member
It wasn't, No.
subshakerz
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
How can you be so sure?
In fact I wouldn't even point to WSC specifically, it started with the Ian Chappell captaincy.
Johan
Hall of Fame Member
What did Ian Chappell's captaincy do that captains before him did not intensity wise?
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
That's the overall narrative. And even if true, that on itself doesn't mean the competition was tougher.