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This thread without stats is like nihari without gosht

Don't rely on stats. Most of us watched both play, growing up.![]()
We did but stats do give some twists..
Personally Aravinda was one of my favorites back in the days with Attapatu ...but Inzamam was a different class too..
De Silva was kinda similar to Mark Waugh in the sense that when he did click - he could destroy the best bowlers in the business. But he lacked consistency just like Waugh.
Most of his TEST 100s are against India and Pakistan.. and India certainly didn't have great bowlers to destroy.
I don't recall him destroying WI/Aus/SA bowlers ever in Test matches.
Mainly Pakistan. I remember him taking on Wasim, Waqar, Saqi and that was a deadly attack. Yeah but I watched him mostly in ODI's so I wasn't rating his ability on Tests as much. Inzi was a better batsman for me anyway.

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First it was Imran Khan vs Kapil, now it is Inzi vs Da Silva
lol obviously his performances in the 92 WC don't count now do they?Judging on stats, Inzamam is far better.
But I would prefer Arvinda for bigger matches. Don't think Inzy had in him to handle big ICC tourneys.
lol obviously his performances in the 92 WC don't count now do they?

his 60 off 37 was very very helpful in the semi final.Averages 22 in that World Cup. No hundred and one 50 in 10 matces.![]()
his 60 off 37 was very very helpful in the semi final.
The innings in the final was very helpful as well.Averages 22 in that World Cup. No hundred and one 50 in 10 matces.![]()
Depends if there was a brand new sports car in it for Aravinda or not.
[MENTION=134867]Kiri[/MENTION] and other Lankans on PP should understand.
Apparently he played like mad max when there were sports cars involved as prizes.
What Aravinda did in the 1996 final is something Inzamam can only dream of doing 3 wickets with the ball and an unbeaten century. Aravinda was the ultimate clutch player in ODI's along with Ponting.
Inzamam is comfortably the better test player, Aravinda has done nothing much compared to him. However both underachieved considering their raw talent. In ODI's Aravinda edges it he was the better clutch player and matchwinner with the bat despite playing for a far weaker team. Aravinda's worldcup record is insane, his superior fielding and useful part time bowling means I will pick him every time before Inzamam in limited overs cricket.
Inzi played one of the best Under-pressure innings in the 92 WC SF and that on Bouncy pitches of NZ, the 60 something for me was best ever innings played by a Pakistani in WC
What Aravinda did in the 1996 final is something Inzamam can only dream of doing 3 wickets with the ball and an unbeaten century. Aravinda was the ultimate clutch player in ODI's along with Ponting.
[MENTION=74271]O[/MENTION]P start a thread and compare players, you just don't write one sentence like that. Kindly tell what kind of comparison you are doing, is it test cricket OR ODI OR overall. You also provide us with stats of each player.
You can always get stats from cricinfo. Why should OP provide it ?
Why bother to create a thread then, we can always get stats from cricinfo .
Inzamam in tests by a long way, and Aravinda in ODI's just slightly ahead because of his stellar record in WC's and tournament finals.
Again, i feel Aravinda is one of those batsmen who is slightly over rated because he looked so good while batting. His was an absolute home bully in tests.
He only had one good WC while participating in 4 or 5 I think.
Yes, in that match Imran did everything to lose the match, 43 runs of 93 balls chasing 260+ is a crime. Had Inzamam not saved the day for Pakistan, Imran would turn out to be the villain as opposed to the hero he finally became.
Inzamam's heroics hid the slow and painful innings of Imran. Imran's innings that day was a disgrace.
In those days that was the trend start slow and accelerate at the end, we did same in the final, Imran knew that Inzi and Wasim would cover it up
Aravinda didn't exactly fire in ODIs overall..
in 1996 Semi Final, De Silva hit 66 at the strike rate of 140 after losing Jayasuriya and Kalu while living on soup for the last 3 days, he had constant Diarrhea and vomiting. De Silva has won more matches for SL, pulled SL from hardship, helped in a lot of losing battles. His stats doesn't tell all those hard work.
Well, kind of amusing that people are saying that Aravinda is underrated. Yeah, he was a good batsmen that had a great purple patch which included helping in winning the WC, surely a Sri Lankan legend. But Inzi also helped Pakistan in winning a WC. Inzi's semifinal performance is greater than Aravinda's famous semifinal performance, and I would say Inzi is underrated here as a player who was instrumental to helping Pakistan win it's only 50-over WC.
Most of his TEST 100s are against India and Pakistan.. and India certainly didn't have great bowlers to destroy.
I don't recall him destroying WI/Aus/SA bowlers ever in Test matches.
Loool. I've made this point before but unlike Inzy who had no/little pressure on his since he played in a side with many other great players. De Silva played for a rubbish Sri Lankan test side who had barely received test status and were generally regarded as minnows.
Anyhow, your point kind of baffles me nonetheless. Most of De Silva's test centuries have come against PAK - who by the way were probably the leading team at the time. No other player has scored as many test centuries as De Silva has. His centuries came against= IMRAN KHAN, Abdil Qadir, Mushtaq Ahmed, Saqlain Mushtaq, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram etc- WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FGS?? Thats one hell of an achievement for me.
As far his performances against AUS. His 167 at the Gabba for me ranks as the finest test century scored against them by a SL Batsmen - a sheer joy to watch that performance - in a rubbish SL side. Subsequent scores of 75 and 72 runs meant that he would pick up the man of the series award and averaged 105 for the tournament and racked up over 300 runs in total. He also picked up a MOM award against them in Sri Lanka if I remember correctly.
Glenn MgCrath put him in his toughest XI but not Inzamam
Shane warne rates him as the best SL batsman ever and admits that the Australian team would spend more time discussing/planning against Aravinda than any other player.
Dean Jones and Mark Taylor have all praised him.
NVM all the times he destroyed them at ODI level!
Aravinda had a touch of genius about him that Inzamam for me just never had. I still think Aravinda underachieved but I'd still place him far ahead of Inzamam- not even in the same league for me.
Most of his TEST 100s are against India and Pakistan.. and India certainly didn't have great bowlers to destroy.
I don't recall him destroying WI/Aus/SA bowlers ever in Test matches.
Yeah, dropped first ball.. a chance innings.. nothing serious. Also, any one can score a hundred against any team.. the point is what was his average in Aus/SA/WI etc.
Aravinda
Aus 38.63
Eng 37.91
NZ 45.76
SA 30.50
WI 40.0
Inzi
Aus 30.87
Eng 42.50
NZ 59.58
SA 31.78
WI 57.63
Imran in a latest interview mentioned that inzi badly underachieved given the talent he had
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It's an easy excuse.. everyone finally gets what they deserve.. talent is just a term used by failures to glorify. Even Kambli was said to be an underachiever with lots of "talent".
Dude inzi even if he underachieved was not a failure by any means. This comparison with kambli is horribly flawed
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Kambli just self destructed more than Inzy despite being doubly more "talented" than him, that explains his result.