Yet the flipside to that is that by not having as many games, Khan could always maintain a level of freshness which the grind of playing a lot of matches didn't allow Dravid, allowing him to be much nearer 100% ready whenever his team had a Test, something which is often overlooked.
Play after joke openers was what sanga did his whole career.. but I digress.
Yousuf retired in 2010, Inzy in 2007. Khan has played almost half his career without those guys. Misbah is certainly good but not great.
Oh, so Dravid came in at 3 and batted on his own....or he batted alongside the likes of Tendulkar and VVS?
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Is your argument for Dravid that he played more matches?
Which also makes it harder to continue with a purple patch, since you won't play as many matches during that peak.
Oh ok good, /thread.
Obviously, we are all typing
Mute or moot?
Its moo. Like a cow's opinion.
Not so much because of number of matches but the intensity of games. Not having a break to iron out kinks in a player's technique or just getting some down time to mentally refresh is something that I often feel is overlooked when looking at batsmen.
Food for thought.
The worst part of this post is lumping Azhar & Asad together with Butt and taufeeq .Azhar & Asad if they continue their current career path they will retire as solid world class batsmen and they are much better then hacks like Farhat, Butt, Faisal or Hafeez.
Also the reason why India will only be playing 2 tests series in England from now on #1-0in2014
What, completely changing my post when in effect the converse is not as likely to be true is food for thought?
Every team needs the odd defender, but realistically we watch cricket to watch the cavaliers. So all things being equal a cavalier should trump a defender because without them there would be no game of cricket in the first place.
I'll always put Khan>Dravid in purely test cricket BUT I agree with the sentiment here. Both guys played a different style of the game and succeeded. Both largely kept their dignity and both were/are sporting examples on the field.
That may be true but neither of those guys are truly world class just yet, although Asad is coming along very nicely and Azhar is improving too. The fact is, none of them were truly great like Tendulkar or on the cusp of greatness like VVS or Ganguly. So my point still stands. If you want to keep on arguing that Pakistan have had a better batting line up and KHan hadn't had to bat with the so called "hacks" you yourself labeled, than do so but I doubt I'll bother readin it.
I dunno...I enjoy watching Cook more than I do Stokes. Then again I guess a truly world class cavalier, say KP, will probably be a great batsman for the viewer than Cook.
