NZ v SA Test Series
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@MajorRage said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Thats some pretty surprising reading honestly - I thought Smith would have dominated them. Also amazing that an NZ player has played more tests than many of his counterparts.
EDIT ... so if you had to choose between one of either Smith or Williamson in your team right now - which would you go for? It's hard for me to choose Kane, he's been utterly superb, but Smith has just done so well against all top opposition - I am just hypothesising here, but I assume Kane as faced Bangles, Zim where as SS hasn't. I also wonder what the results would be by country.
I think most NZ pick Kane, all oz (bar nobody) pick Smith, Poms pick Smith, Safa's maybe a mix after this tour, and all Indians to pick Virat Kohli.
I love KW and Smith strikes me as a typical Oz sporting dickhead but ya can't go past a guy with a test average of 60
Poms would be rooting all the way though wouldn't they?
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I'm never a huge fan of looking at lifetime given guys like Boon & Chappell faced the Windies etc, without limits on bouncers, often (certainly Chappell) without helmets. And with normal sized bats so an edge was caught in the slips not in the stands.
If you did the same list for quicks they would all be in the 70's & 80's bar Steyn. Its like an inverse, Marshall, Holding, Hadlee, Willis, Khan, Akram, Waqar, Garner, Bishop etc
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@gollum said in NZ v SA Test Series:
I'm never a huge fan of looking at lifetime given guys like Boon & Chappell faced the Windies etc, without limits on bouncers, often (certainly Chappell) without helmets. And with normal sized bats so an edge was caught in the slips not in the stands.
If you did the same list for quicks they would all be in the 70's & 80's bar Steyn. Its like an inverse, Marshall, Holding, Hadlee, Willis, Khan, Akram, Waqar, Garner, Bishop etc
.....Ambrose, Lillee, Walsh......
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@Virgil said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Just to show how tough batting at 3 is over a test career.
how Kane stacks up against the best of all time..Sanga averaging 60 at 3 is incredible over so many matches. Dead set legend.
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@No-Quarter said in NZ v SA Test Series:
@Virgil said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Just to show how tough batting at 3 is over a test career.
how Kane stacks up against the best of all time..Sanga averaging 60 at 3 is incredible over so many matches. Dead set legend.
Better than Lara and Tendulkar....yawn....yes we know we read your previous post
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@Virgil said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Just to show how tough batting at 3 is over a test career.
how Kane stacks up against the best of all time..I slightly changed the query to sort by avg with a minimum of 50 innings
Player
DG Bradman (AUS)
WR Hammond (ENG)
IVA Richards (WI)
KC Sangakkara (SL)
BC Lara (WI)
RT Ponting (AUS)
KS Williamson (NZ)
HM Amla (SA)
R Dravid (ICC/INDIA) -
Look at that, Sanga ahead of Lara, and no sign of Tendulkar who was hiding away behind Dravid like a pussy.
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@No-Quarter said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Look at that, Sanga ahead of Lara, and no sign of Tendulkar who was hiding away behind Dravid like a pussy.
Lara faced better bowlers. Way better.
Sir IVA Richards batted as low as six late in his career which I always found a bit odd.
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@No-Quarter said in NZ v SA Test Series:
@Virgil said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Just to show how tough batting at 3 is over a test career.
how Kane stacks up against the best of all time..Sanga averaging 60 at 3 is incredible over so many matches. Dead set legend.
A lot of tests against the Bangles. But still an amazing record
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@KiwiPie said in NZ v SA Test Series:
If Kane's stats were to exactly match those of the last 4 years (looking back from today) - in 8 years time he would be 34 and have
137 tests
45 hundreds
61 fifties
12742 runs
57.92 averageChrist on a bike....how amazing is that?
That's an Aussie great record right there....
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So who wants to give a wrap up of our summer of cricket? Do the boys get a pass mark?
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@No-Quarter said in NZ v SA Test Series:
So who wants to give a wrap up of our summer of cricket? Do the boys get a pass mark?
Overall yes......3 day arse raping at the hands of S.A. not withstanding.....
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Mark Geenty rated the players for the SA series.
I'd say test series wins over the Bangles and Pakistan, and regaining the Chappell-Hadlee would have to get a B. The SA series was close but in the end they won both the tests and ODIs. The focus now is on white ball cricket as there are only 13 tests to be played in the next 28 months (compared to 14 tests in the last 8 months).
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@KiwiPie said in NZ v SA Test Series:
If Kane's stats were to exactly match those of the last 4 years (looking back from today) - in 8 years time he would be 34 and have
137 tests
45 hundreds
61 fifties
12742 runs
57.92 averageHaha, is that the ultimate kiss of death or what. If his form slumps in the next series or worse he goes down with a career threatening injury then we know who to blame....
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@ACT-Crusader said in NZ v SA Test Series:
@KiwiPie said in NZ v SA Test Series:
If Kane's stats were to exactly match those of the last 4 years (looking back from today) - in 8 years time he would be 34 and have
137 tests
45 hundreds
61 fifties
12742 runs
57.92 averageHaha, is that the ultimate kiss of death or what. If his form slumps in the next series or worse he goes down with a career threatening injury then we know who to blame....
Hey I'm just a humble stats man! At least I didn't stretch until he's as old as Misbah and getting close to his 100 test hundreds ........
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@Number-10 said in NZ v SA Test Series:
Tom Scott's cartoon in today's Dominion Post.
Has Tom Scott ever been funny?