Steve Smith reclaims No.1 Test ranking from Virat Kohli

[putrevus]

"I thought they were good pitches here against India [last year]. I thought they weren't green seamers but I thought they suited us more than India" Anderson

 

Smith has played on more flatter pitches than Kohli did in England.England attack was better with Anderson.

 

Unless our bowlers make these team pay for rolling these green tracks, this trend of teams rolling out  seamer friendly pitches will not stop.

 

Bhuvi and Bumrah getting hurt did not help matter either.

[Chrish]

Smith has scored runs in England when Anderson was there as well. He has nothing to prove in England.

[SUMO]

Smith might surpass tendy/lara/viv as well & perhaps he is 2nd only to bradman. But people are behaving as if kohli is a tailender lol.
Kohli surely is on the way of having ponting like career. There is no shame in being 2nd to Smith.

In tendulkar's era we had dravid, saurav, sehwag, like greats in both format. Today we have none after kohli. Dont demean him be proud of him.

[Stan AF]

Another feather in the glorious cap of steven smith's test career is that he crossed 100 catches in the last test. Joe Root too.

 

Among fielders who have taken 100 catches or more Smith's catches/innings ratio (0.803) is 3rd to Bob simpson (0.940) & stephen fleming (0.859)

 

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283548.html

Edited September 11, 2019 by Stan AF

[Stan AF]

It's about time ICC designed a Best fielder award/ranking in addition to batsman & bowler rankings.

[rkt.india]

8 hours ago, Chrish said:

Smith has scored runs in England when Anderson was there as well. He has nothing to prove in England.

its not just about Anderson but conditions.  

[ShoonyaSifar]

9 hours ago, Chrish said:

Smith has scored runs in England when Anderson was there as well. He has nothing to prove in England.

In England, Smith averages 47 with Anderson playing (not counting the first Test if the current series where Anderson got injured in the first session)

Without Anderson that average goes up to 80

 

Anderson's absence did make a difference. But takes nothing away from Smith's Bradmenesque run.

[Nikola]

Finn and broad troubled him more than Anderson in 2015.

[Chrish]

21 hours ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

In England, Smith averages 47 with Anderson playing (not counting the first Test if the current series where Anderson got injured in the first session)

Without Anderson that average goes up to 80

 

Anderson's absence did make a difference. But takes nothing away from Smith's Bradmenesque run.

You are saying like average of 47 is poor? 

 

May be he averages more because he had more to prove this time around? He came back better and hungrier for runs? 

 

Your point would stand if he had tailender like record against Anderson. Well he didn’t so... 

[putrevus]

Kohli is still far better overall player when you factor all formats.In tests its is Smith. 

[R!TTER]

On 9/11/2019 at 5:05 AM, SUMO said:

In tendulkar's era we had dravid, saurav, sehwag, like greats in both format. Today we have none after kohli. Dont demean him be proud of him.

That was second half of his career, in Kohli's case he did have Sharma in LO & Pujara in tests do the heavy lifting! It's not like he's set the world on fire when playing crucial knocks in the second (or 4th) innings 

[test fan]

ICC Test ranking - batsmen:

1 Steve Smith - 937 rating points
2 Virat Kohli - 936
3 Kane Williamson - 878
4 Cheteshwar Pujara - 817
5 Henry Nicholls - 749

Wow just 1 point different between Smith & Virat 

[Nikola]

Virat back at #1

 

 

[Gollum]

Smith/Kohli tussle for supremacy is more fun to follow than Sachin vs Lara. 

[Gollum]

4 NZ batsmen in top 15 (Kane, Nicholls, Latham, Watling), most for any country...then Ross Taylor at 16.  Wow that's some team !!!!

 

 

[Frustrated]

I knew that Poyz loved kohli more than we do.  They ensured Kohli retains No1 spot.  Thank You.  Misbah and Co. 

[Real McCoy]

3 hours ago, Gollum said:

Smith/Kohli tussle for supremacy is more fun to follow than Sachin vs Lara. 

Because the previous one was more gentleman's rivalry. This is more of a MC BC kinda rivalry. Also sandpaper adds to the spice a bit

[Vilander]

6 hours ago, Gollum said:

Smith/Kohli tussle for supremacy is more fun to follow than Sachin vs Lara. 

Smith is even more consistent than Sachin and Kohli not prone to peaks and troughs of Lara. So its a more even contest more exciting.

[Vilander]

How does NZ do it with 5 million population ?

[maniac]

1 hour ago, Vilander said:

How does NZ do it with 5 million population ?

Population has nothing to do with producing successful athletes in a sport. 

 

Don't marathon runners from obscure African countries with a handful of population keep winning world long distance events.

 

Nzl has a good structure and pathway and will keep producing good players. Pretty sure the white population of SA is not that much more than Nzl, they kept putting a world beating side pre quota system.