Harsh Thakor Posted January 23, 2020 Posted January 23, 2020 (edited) Here I wish to compare how the standard of test cricket has improved in the sub-continent in the last 3 decades.I have made a 1st and 2nd XI for 1990 onwards and pre-1990. Pre-1990 1st XI Sunil Gavaskar Vinoo Mankad Zaheer Abbas Javed Mianadad Gundappa Vishwanath Kapil Dev Imran Khan Abdul Qadir Wasim Bari Fazal Mahmood Subash Gupte 1990 and after 1st XI Saed Anwar Virendra Sehwag Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar Virat Kohli Kumar Sangakaara Azhar Mehmood Wasim Akram Waqar Younus Shoaib Akhtar Muthiah Murlitharan Post 1990 XI would win by a narrow margin with more match winners having more explosive batsmen and more lethal fast bowling.Talent on par but post 190 batsmen more reliable or durable.Still pre-1990 team had better spinners and more all-rounders .Vinoo, Kapil and Imran is quite a handful number of allrounders. 2nd XI pre-1990 Vijay Merchant Hanif Mohammad Majid Khan Mohinder Amarnath Vijay Hazare Asif Iqbal Mushtaq Muhammad Syed Kirmani Sarfraz Nawaz Bishen Bedi Erapalli Prasanna 2nd XI 1990 and after Sanath Jayasuriya Gautam Gambhir Mahela Jayewardene Aravinda De Silva Inzamam Ul Haq Salim Malik Mahendra Singh Dhoni Abdur Razaak Zaheer Khan Mushtaq Ahmed Mohammad Asif Jasprit Bhumra Both teams more or less equal.Post 1990 has more lethal fast bowling and faster scoring batsmen while pre -1990 has more accomplished batsmen and better allrounders and spinners.If I had to flip a coin here I may just go for 2nd pre-1990 XI. Overall proves standard has marginally improved but cricket was also very competitive before the 1990s on the sub-continent .In certain conditions they may have even toppled the teams from 1990 onwards. Edited January 23, 2020 by Harsh Thakor
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zen Posted January 23, 2020 Posted January 23, 2020 The exercise appears to be about squeezing in as many Pakistanis as possible into an 11 Sandeep99 and Zero_Unit 2
Sandeep99 Posted January 23, 2020 Posted January 23, 2020 8 hours ago, zen said: The exercise appears to be about squeezing in as many Pakistanis as possible into an 11 Well Harsh is a closet Pakistani.. zen 1
First class Posted January 23, 2020 Posted January 23, 2020 12 hours ago, Harsh Thakor said: Here I wish to compare how the standard of test cricket has improved in the sub-continent in the last 3 decades.I have made a 1st and 2nd XI for 1990 onwards and pre-1990. Pre-1990 1st XI Sunil Gavaskar Vinoo Mankad Zaheer Abbas Javed Mianadad Gundappa Vishwanath Kapil Dev Imran Khan Abdul Qadir Wasim Bari Fazal Mahmood Subash Gupte 1990 and after 1st XI Saed Anwar Virendra Sehwag Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar Virat Kohli Kumar Sangakaara Azhar Mehmood Wasim Akram Waqar Younus Shoaib Akhtar Muthiah Murlitharan Post 1990 XI would win by a narrow margin with more match winners having more explosive batsmen and more lethal fast bowling.Talent on par but post 190 batsmen more reliable or durable.Still pre-1990 team had better spinners and more all-rounders .Vinoo, Kapil and Imran is quite a handful number of allrounders. 2nd XI pre-1990 Vijay Merchant Hanif Mohammad Majid Khan Mohinder Amarnath Vijay Hazare Asif Iqbal Mushtaq Muhammad Syed Kirmani Sarfraz Nawaz Bishen Bedi Erapalli Prasanna 2nd XI 1990 and after Sanath Jayasuriya Gautam Gambhir Mahela Jayewardene Aravinda De Silva Inzamam Ul Haq Salim Malik Mahendra Singh Dhoni Abdur Razaak Zaheer Khan Mushtaq Ahmed Mohammad Asif Jasprit Bhumra Both teams more or less equal.Post 1990 has more lethal fast bowling and faster scoring batsmen while pre -1990 has more accomplished batsmen and better allrounders and spinners.If I had to flip a coin here I may just go for 2nd pre-1990 XI. Overall proves standard has marginally improved but cricket was also very competitive before the 1990s on the sub-continent .In certain conditions they may have even toppled the teams from 1990 onwards. Majid Khan and Hanif Mohammad both have been included in many all time world eleven, surprisingly they are not in the first eleven, Majid at his peak was an ATG and should be opening with Gavaskar.
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