Vijy 5,545 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Just now, Sunil_narine024 said: In other news, Steve Smith's average dropped below 60. yes, for the first time since 2017 I think. labu's avg also went below 60 in this series. conway is the only one with a 60+ avg and that is largely thanks to playing eng and bang in conditions he knows well. in this era, it seems unlikely that people can avg over 60 (or even 55). Link to post
Adamant 1,717 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 This thread has been down since Root's failure in Australian conditions (yet again). Typical. With home season coming up for Kohli and him getting to bat against the likes of Srilanka and Bangladesh this average difference is gonna rise. Link to post
Lord 7,594 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 11 minutes ago, Adamant said: This thread has been down since Root's failure in Australian conditions (yet again). Typical. With home season coming up for Kohli and him getting to bat against the likes of Srilanka and Bangladesh this average difference is gonna rise. are you sure? he looks better away than at home these days. Both SL and BD have some good spinners Link to post
sarchasm 4,508 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 38 minutes ago, Adamant said: This thread has been down since Root's failure in Australian conditions (yet again). Typical. With home season coming up for Kohli and him getting to bat against the likes of Srilanka and Bangladesh this average difference is gonna rise. Bhagode, have patience. Coolie will slide further and you'll be absconding again. sage, Vijy and Adamant 1 1 1 Link to post
Vijy 5,545 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 2 hours ago, Lord said: are you sure? he looks better away than at home these days. Both SL and BD have some good spinners yes, they do. and Ind has stopped preparing "classic" pitches (flat on days 1-2, and turning from day 3 onward) since the whooping by Eng in Chennai. There will be more turners and SL/BD have good enough spinners to capitalize on Virat and Purane. Link to post
Majestic 1,534 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 (edited) Bangalore is the venue for Virat's 100 test and in memory of what he has achieved for Royal Challengers Bangalore for 14 years, the curators will prepare a good batting wicket for their truly memorable batsman and captain to hit a hundred and make his 100th test a memorable one. Edited January 17 by Majestic Link to post
Vijy 5,545 Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 On 1/17/2022 at 1:54 PM, Majestic said: Bangalore is the venue for Virat's 100 test and in memory of what he has achieved for Royal Challengers Bangalore for 14 years, the curators will prepare a good batting wicket for their truly memorable batsman and captain to hit a hundred and make his 100th test a memorable one. even if you give him that patta on which SL scored 952, I am not sure how many runs he will make - I guess we'll find out soon enough. Link to post
sage 2,160 Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 Wow... Root's live average finally levels Virat. What a comeback for Root (and decline for Rat) Link to post
sage 2,160 Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 On 1/17/2022 at 3:03 PM, Adamant said: This thread has been down since Root's failure in Australian conditions (yet again). Typical. With home season coming up for Kohli and him getting to bat against the likes of Srilanka and Bangladesh this average difference is gonna rise. Famous last words Link to post
Vijy 5,545 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 1 hour ago, sage said: Wow... Root's live average finally levels Virat. What a comeback for Root (and decline for Rat) Rooting for Root to finish with an avg of >50. second best batter of this era, immediately behind smith. better than babar, williamson, and kohli. Jay and sage 2 Link to post
Jay 2,798 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Soon he will end up with an average of 46. He will be a pujara level batsman. Hahahahha. What a loser. Link to post
Jay 2,798 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 6 minutes ago, Vijy said: Rooting for Root to finish with an avg of >50. second best batter of this era, immediately behind smith. better than babar, williamson, and kohli. Absolutely. Pant got to be in that list above gobar haram Vijy 1 Link to post
Vijy 5,545 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 3 minutes ago, Jay said: Absolutely. Pant got to be in that list above gobar haram I was focusing on players with reasonably long career (babar has about 1.5 times more tests). next generation will see other top players emerge. Jay 1 Link to post
Majestic 1,534 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 (edited) 3 hours ago, sage said: Wow... Root's live average finally levels Virat. What a comeback for Root (and decline for Rat) England players play a lot of tests and the conditions are not as easy in England so it will not be possible for Root to go past 50 average mark as a bad patch will come and he will eventually end at average of 48-49. Irrespective of the averages, Root is comfortably a better test batsman as he has been carrying a poor batting lineup like a lone warrior. He is still young and in great form so backing him to get to 14000 test runs. To surpass Tendulkar's tally, he will have to play till 38-39 which looks unlikely as I think he wishes to feature in IPL sooner. Edited March 17 by Majestic Vijy 1 Link to post
Majestic 1,534 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 1 hour ago, Jay said: Soon he will end up with an average of 46. He will be a pujara level batsman. Hahahahha. What a loser. Gujara averages 43 in Test Cricket now. sage 1 Link to post
Texan 2,506 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 3 hours ago, Vijy said: Rooting for Root to finish with an avg of >50. second best batter of this era, immediately behind smith. better than babar, williamson, and kohli. In my book, Kane is a slightly better batsman than Root, but hands down both of them are better than Kohli. Link to post
Texan 2,506 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 The Kohli saga of declining average: https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/253802.html?class=1;template=results;type=batting;view=cumulative Stan AF 1 Link to post
Vijy 5,545 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 40 minutes ago, Texan said: In my book, Kane is a slightly better batsman than Root, but hands down both of them are better than Kohli. That's fair enough, although in my book Root is more consistent and versatile across different pitches. KW has middling records in too many countries even though his technique is tighter sage 1 Link to post
Majestic 1,534 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 49 minutes ago, Vijy said: That's fair enough, although in my book Root is more consistent and versatile across different pitches. KW has middling records in too many countries even though his technique is tighter Agreed. KW for some reason has hardly scored runs away vs major countries. He has mostly failed against the likes of India, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka etc. Even against Australia, the one series he dominated was 2016 one where wickets were absolutely flat. He failed there aside of that series. At home, Kane has great record but to some extent even that is inflated as he hasn't done well vs Australia ( a team that is used to beating NZ home and away) and India. All in all, he has been just a Mahela Jayawardene level batsman. Vijy 1 Link to post
Stan AF 5,391 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/303669.html?class=1;template=results;type=allround His average is exactly that of Kohli. 49.95 now Link to post
