Athers perhaps better than Fleming with the bat (both about John Wright level) as Fleming struggled so much at home, but Fleming was one of the greatest captains and slip fielders of all time. Also, was unbelievably good against Murali in SL.
I mean we've just remarked that there aren't that many bowlers and all-rounders who've played 100 tests. I'm surprised there's anyone with 150 wickets at a lower WPM tbh – who is it?
And a clearly worse bowler (a bigger gap imo). Although batting is their primary skill which is why I have them about level although if I had to pick 1, I'd pick Hammond
Kallis over Viv and Sachin is also a very fine take.
Fair. I'll actually change it, you're right.
My bad. It's actually the second worst with 100+ wickets, where the worst one is Carl Hooper.
Maybe, but I don't believe in it
Kallis for both. Not particularly close considering both bowling and slip fielding.
He averaged 30 and had a better face also wasn’t blocking a generational cricketer like Adam Gilchrist.
Oh Wow!!!! Boucher averaged 2 whole runs more in the 2000s than Healy did in the 90s!!!
Stupid way of judging gap between two players.
Umm....how would he know that?
His record does stand out as removing key players and breaking partnerships, which is essentially the exact thing you want from your 5th bowler, no? iirc his 3 most dismissed players were Ponting, Gilly and Chanders.
He was a quality 5th bowler no doubt. But that is how I rank I him, he wasn't of the quality of a front line bowler.
not Creepy's fault that people don't wait for his career to finish and force to do a quality analysis rather than a career analysis. Under your methodology Crawley is at a default disadvantage.