Great player v great player

Debate some of these. Here's my opinion in brackets-

Hobbs v Hutton (Hobbs)
Sobers v V.Richards (Sobers)
B.Richards v G.Pollock (Pollock)
Botham v Kapil v Imran (Imran)
Hadlee v Lillee (Can't split them- Hadlee expolited conditions better, Lillee was smarter)
Mcgrath v Ambrose (Ambrose)
Border v S.Waugh (Border)
Lara v Tendulkar (Tendulkar)
Warne v Muralitharan (Warne)
Ponting v Kallis (Kallis)

Thoughts?

Most of them depend on the question "For what (situation, conditions and purpose)?"

not sure Sobers v V.Richards is right...sobers was the complete all rounder and viv a great batsman...

Plus, you are hardly comparing like with like in most of those cases.


Garner vs Ambrose
Hadlee vs McGrath
Warne vs Abdul Qadir (or O'Reilly)
Hobbs vs Bradman
Bazza vs Greenidge (or possibly Jimmy Cook)
Shoaib vs B Lee

etc etc

would be more like it.

Sobers v Miller then? Although they're not of the same generation- Sobers came along about 15 years after Miller.

Also,

North vs Pile of Crap

might be added to the list.

Clive Lloyd vs V Richards

Sobers vs Imran perhaps (though Imran clearly more of the fast bowler, both potentially invaluable as MVP)

Broad v Broad (Broad)

Or (going back)

B RIchards vs Sehwag

Laxman vs Ranji

DJ_Smerk wrote:Broad v Broad (Broad)

Narrow decision, that.

Haydos vs King Kong

Robert Croft v Phil Tuffnell (Croft)

Philippe-Henri Edmonds vs Phil Tufnell

Bryce McGain vs Barn Door (Barn Door)

Wally Grout vs Wally Hammond

Mike Gatting v Graham Gooch

Artie Dick vs David Sincock

John Bastard vs Edward Bastard (Bastard, utter Bastard)

Umar Gul vs Dickie Bird

Chris Lewis v Howard Marks (Marks isn't in prison).

Chris Lewis vs Coco the Clown (Coco the Clown)

Don't think that's particularly fair. Coco was a genuine all-rounder.

Bruce Francis v Eddie the Eagle (Eddie the Eagle, though Bruce may have been a more effective projectile)