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He was brilliant in first class cricket, had a better record than Steve iirc. Was my favourite batsman to watch, so elegant.
Guess it was mental?
Guess it was mental?
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Anyone who has scored 20 test hundreds has not underachieved in test cricket! So why would you say he did?
Sure you don't mean Dean or Danny?![]()
His average iss poor because he never made the Daddy Hundreds needed to pad the stats.Averaging 41 with Marks ability is underachieving imo and he always batted in this best position to score big being number 4 but only scored 1 score of 150+...
He averaged low fortys against most opposition except England, he averaged 50 against themHis average iss poor because he never made the Daddy Hundreds needed to pad the stats.
In reality, runs above 100 rarely actually matter.
SL were much stronger back in the day than they've been the last decade and a bit.He averaged low fortys against most opposition except England, he averaged 50 against them
A guy who averaged 55 in domestic cricket to only average 40 in test cricket is underachieving
Not Hick, Ramprakash or Bevan bad but still didn't realise his potential
The only "poor" opposition he didn't cash in on was Sri Lanka
Didn't cash in when he had easy opposition ground down and beaten
Opportunities to push on to really big scores passed him by
Perhaps his ability to concentrate for really long periods was lacking? Seemed to get bored at times
Wouldn't trade it however. Perhaps the most watchable player of an amazing era and made some crunch runs as others have pointed out
Feel the evidence is in the stats no? Only passed 150 once (his brother did it 14 times). 20 100's and 47 50's in 209 innings is not that far away to the greats in getting startsDo the "didn't cash in" or "got bored once he made 100" answers have evidence? Did he get more starts, more 50s, more "little" 100s than other players of his era that have higher averages? My gut instinct is no, and that it's a bit of retrospective allowance given to him because he had such an enjoyable to watch style.
Yeah, that's what I was after, thanks! I didn't have time to actually look at the stats, so guess my gut instinct was pretty off. How does that rate against the best of the era (Lara, Tendulkar etc)?Feel the evidence is in the stats no? Only passed 150 once (his brother did it 14 times). 20 100's and 47 50's in 209 innings is not that far away to the greats in getting starts