Cummins Overrated?

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He doesn't have the Glenn McGrath aura about him who imo is the best I've ever watched but Cummins is one of the best of his era, pretty weak era though imo.
hard to compare but I'd argue that McGrath overall bowled on better wickets (in terms of more for bowlers)
but I'd also argue that the standard of batting opposition quality in mcgrath's era was better so it probably balances out.
 
hard to compare but I'd argue that McGrath overall bowled on better wickets (in terms of more for bowlers)
but I'd also argue that the standard of batting opposition quality in mcgrath's era was better so it probably balances out.

Your kidding right? Last 5-10 years have been historically the best bowling wickets in decades, early 2000's there was a epidemic of roads in Tests, don't believe me? Look at the scorecards.
 

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Your kidding right? Last 5-10 years have been historically the best bowling wickets in decades, early 2000's there was a epidemic of roads in Tests, don't believe me? Look at the scorecards.
Yeah agree that from the early 2000s or so the wickets here got very flat. Not all of McGrath’s career though.

Our wickets here are still flat. Batting is just generally shit.
 
has come through in some good moments. don't think he should move up the order though like some of the columns around the place are hinting. it's only in place of someone like starc at test level anyway, so 9 to 8. the arse could easily drop out of his batting again.
 
has come through in some good moments. don't think he should move up the order though like some of the columns around the place are hinting. it's only in place of someone like starc at test level anyway, so 9 to 8. the arse could easily drop out of his batting again.
Even then I wouldn't. Starc averages more at 8 at test level than Cummins and more than he does at 9. Cummins is the reverse. Just makes sense to have them that way.
 

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I don't think we've had a tailender as clutch with the bat as Cummins is

Warnie was pretty good, don’t know if he was as reliable as Cummins and probably suffered a bit in that he was more ‘talented’ so it often looked like he could have been better than he ended up being.

For a whole generation and a half really, it wasn’t all that common for them to have to be very clutch as such because for most of them the most pressure they were under was helping a senior partner to a landmark here and there with the odd shaky low total chase.

Dizzy was good for propping up an end, Lee was always very handy with the bat.
 

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