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    Best distribution of runs

    A 3 or 400 is likely coming in easy circumstances and probably isn't having as positive an impact on results as 3 or 4 scores of 100 would. Is this true at every level? Are 2 50s likely to be better than 1 100 and a zero? Or 2 25s in relation to 50 and zero?
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    2024 Ranking of Bowlers Poll

    Tayfield Gibbs Underwood
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    Strongest Bowling combination

    You have made this argument. And you have made the WPM in relation to Ambrose and others. And many times you have accused other posters of not looking beyond averages, when they were looking at much higher differences than a run or two. Not just for Imran either. You are comparing 2 streches...
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    Strongest Bowling combination

    How much time you have spent arguing that measures like WPM are more important than just averages when comparing Imran to players like Ambrose? Where is your consistency? I've already brought up Imran's quality over shorter timeframes. Not necessarily 27 or 33, cos that would probably include a...
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    Strongest Bowling combination

    Marshall 83- 89 calendar years, 54 tests 292 wickets 19.2 average. I don't think a run and a half in average is significant in relation to what you are losing on all the other measures. It's only just over 7 runs a match difference for Imran's WPM.
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    Strongest Bowling combination

    He is still missing a decent proportion of games for that period, and his average goes up to 18. Marshall averages 19 at almost the same time (83-89). More games, with a significantly higher WPM, proportion of games played, and total wickets.
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    Strongest Bowling combination

    Missing over 40% of tests for a period is substantial. You can pick some different date times for peak with a slightly better ratio of games played, but his performances in the games he played won't be as good.
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    Does Barry Richards deserve an exemption to be ranked among the greats of the game?

    Nobody seems to be arguing for rating him a test great though. The question is whether you can be a great without a proper test record to support it.
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    2024 Ranking of Bowlers Poll

    Grimmett Anderson Ashwin
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    2024 Ranking of Bowlers Poll

    Walsh Grimmett Laker
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    Better Batsman - Jadeja or Imran?

    Imran is horrifiically underrated as a bat by quite a lot of people. Did well for years. Performed against the best group of bowlers ever assembled. I think he's probably marginally ahead of Jadeja for now. I expect to rate Jadeja ahead a couple of years from now though.
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    Ravindra Jadeja vs Don Bradman

    Nobody deserves a sympathy vote when they are being compared to Sir Jadeja.
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    Dravid vs De Villiers against lateral movement

    Don't be too fussed. This subforum lives and breathes on pendantry. It's gated already. People who don't enjoy stupid pedantry can just stay away.
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    Is Venkatapathi Raju ATG?

    I don't think we could cover this in 1000 posts.
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    Do SC Pacers Deserve More Credit For Home Performances?

    The normal method of FTFY is to dismiss the post. Great post, but let's take it further.
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    Dravid vs De Villiers against lateral movement

    Other than his time as an opener (when he was mediocre), how much lateral movement did AB play?
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    Do SC Pacers Deserve More Credit For Home Performances?

    Groovy. Happy to agree to disagree at this point. I really liked the engagement with you at the beginning, cos it made me think of things that had not previously occurred to me. But we are both over it, and it's time to call time.
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    Do SC Pacers Deserve More Credit For Home Performances?

    As you said, I'm just running off stats. I have no skin in this game personally in relation to the Pak players. Reality aside, big fan of Imran and Waqar. Wasim can eat a bag of dicks. My bias on them as a group is somewhat (weakly) positive as a whole. I'm a south african. I've seen guys...
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    Steve Waugh vs Ricky Ponting in Tests?

    Missed that. Fair play.
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    Steve Waugh vs Ricky Ponting in Tests?

    I'm not going to argue semantics on 'great'. But RSA had some serious quality in the 90s. And he absolutely brutalised us. His few failures vs RSA came in the 2000s against a declining attack.

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