Comparing current great batsmen vs legendary past bowlers - Who would win?

[Sam99]

Was thinking about comparing current great players with great legendary bowlers.

1. Malcolm Marshall vs Steve Smith
2. Glenn McGrath vs Virat Kohli
3. Wasim Akram vs Joe Root
4. Curtly Ambrose vs Kane Willamson
5. Michael Holding/Allan Donald vs AB de Villiers/David Warner

Considering Tests & ODI Formats only, who would win the battle in end?

 

[Haz95]

1) Marshall (I can see Smith handling pace/bounce but not the lateral movement)
2) McGrath (explanation not required here)
3) Wasim (Due to Roots lack of feats more than anything)
4) Kane (This is probably the most neck and neck one here. Kane plays ball later than most players)
5) AB (manhandled a peak Mitchel Johnson...)

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Kane would get done in by Ambrose's yorkers. He gets too deep in the crease and cannot judge the fuller length against taller bowlers. Gets stuck quite often for lbw.

I can only see the last one going in the batsman's favour.

 

[Leo23]

1. Malcolm Marshall vs Steve Smith


smith is a run scoring machine who has found a very effective unorthodox technique to score runs heavily.he performs in all conditions against all bowlers so i don't think marshall will be able to stop him from scoring

2. Glenn McGrath vs Virat Kohli

i have always felt that mcgrath would trouble kohli more than any bowler. kohli's only weakness is offstump channel and mcgrath's disciplined bowling would frustrate him. mcgrath should have had his number.

3. Wasim Akram vs Joe Root

root has no weakness except that he is prone to throwing his wicket away after 60-70 runs. wasim would get him out a lot of times but he will not stop him from scoring runs.

4. Curtly Ambrose vs Kane Willamson

williamson is the most rigid young batsman. loads of temperament and can play any bowling in any conditions. not attacking like kohli or root but he can bat for hours and hours. i expect him to frustrate ambrose.

5. Michael Holding/Allan Donald vs AB de Villiers/David Warner


de villiers has an answer to every bowler in every condition so he will do great

warner has proved himself to be a brute force on flat pitches so he will destroy holding and donald on flat pitches but in difficult batting conditions he has been useless so warner vs holding or donald will entirely depend on the conditions
[MENTION=141114]Hasan123[/MENTION] [MENTION=141557]Chief Destroyer[/MENTION] [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION] [MENTION=136302]Haz95[/MENTION] do you agree?

 

[Chief Destroyer]

1. Malcolm Marshall vs Steve Smith


smith is a run scoring machine who has found a very effective unorthodox technique to score runs heavily.he performs in all conditions against all bowlers so i don't think marshall will be able to stop him from scoring

2. Glenn McGrath vs Virat Kohli

i have always felt that mcgrath would trouble kohli more than any bowler. kohli's only weakness is offstump channel and mcgrath's disciplined bowling would frustrate him. mcgrath should have had his number.

3. Wasim Akram vs Joe Root

root has no weakness except that he is prone to throwing his wicket away after 60-70 runs. wasim would get him out a lot of times but he will not stop him from scoring runs.

4. Curtly Ambrose vs Kane Willamson

williamson is the most rigid young batsman. loads of temperament and can play any bowling in any conditions. not attacking like kohli or root but he can bat for hours and hours. i expect him to frustrate ambrose.

5. Michael Holding/Allan Donald vs AB de Villiers/David Warner


de villiers has an answer to every bowler in every condition so he will do great

warner has proved himself to be a brute force on flat pitches so he will destroy holding and donald on flat pitches but in difficult batting conditions he has been useless so warner vs holding or donald will entirely depend on the conditions
[MENTION=141114]Hasan123[/MENTION] [MENTION=141557]Chief Destroyer[/MENTION] [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION] [MENTION=136302]Haz95[/MENTION] do you agree?

Root is an impulsive puller. While he's great square of the wicket on the offside, he struggles with rib-cage deliveries. No one bowled a more surprising bouncer than Wasim because most would be worrying about their front foot with him swinging both ways then his rapid approach to the crease with not much change in the action(bending of the back, he always stayed upright) when bowling short or full made it impossible to pick him up. He'd get set up for a catch at square leg or deep fine leg.