Is Steve Smith heading towards ATG status in Test cricket?

[Smudger]

I think Smith will end his career on par with Jacques Kallis, averaging 57-58 from 130 tests or more. His record is going to be mind-boggling but I doubt anyone outside Australia would remember him with any kind of admiration. He is effective in the same mold as Allan Border and Steve Waugh, without the captivating aura of personality. He will need to dig in on difficult wickets abroad and win test series in England and India before he reaches anywhere near the level of esteem that Border and Waugh are held by fans within the game.

Tell me one series which kohli wonnindia single handedle. Home or Away.
Sachin never really had a peak either. Never dominated like ponting smith or AB.
If india had a batsman like Smith. He would have been God of all Gods

 

[Smudger]

If he plays the amount of test matches Sachin played against all nations in so many conditions, do you really beleive he will maintain anything near this average? If Smith plays another 50 tests combined in Asia and England he will end his career with a 50 average if he plays well.

Sure he can play fast bowling on quick bouncy tracks or play long innings on slow flat tracks but he is terrible against the moving ball and not the best against spin either.

Cricket is the one sport where stats can mean little, context can mean everything, as you know.

Sachin never really had a peak. . Did sachin played 50 tests in india
Tell me one series of sachin where he performed like Smith in india.
What is Sachin avg in headingly and pther green surfaces.
Smith averages 43 in eng but played down the order in earlier tests

 

[AlizeeFan]

Tell me one series which kohli wonnindia single handedle. Home or Away.
Sachin never really had a peak either. Never dominated like ponting smith or AB.
If india had a batsman like Smith. He would have been God of all Gods

What do you say about scoring 13,600 runs at avg of almost 60? Can you call that peak?

 

[Smudger]

What do you say about scoring 13,600 runs at avg of almost 60? Can you call that peak?

He averaged 55 for13000 runs not 60. Averaging 55 or 56 is not a peak if your career avg is 53

 

[Buffet]

Sachin never really had a peak.

1993-2001 - 69 tests - avg 64

 

[Cuts_and_cuts_hard]

1993-2001 - 69 tests - avg 64

How about this?

1993-2011- 157 tests- Avg 60.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en...an;template=results;type=batting;view=innings

 

[Mobashir]

As if Sachin has to be brought in every argument...
But now that people are talking about him.

Never, in his entier career Sachin batted as well as Smith is doing nowadays.
Never Sachin dominated a very good bowling attack over a series away from home as Smith dominated in India earlier this year.

 

[AlizeeFan]

He averaged 55 for13000 runs not 60. Averaging 55 or 56 is not a peak if your career avg is 53

From 1993 to 2011 SA tour he averaged almost 60 for 13,600+ runs. If that's not the peak, then what is?

 

[Smudger]

From 1993 to 2011 SA tour he averaged almost 60 for 13,600+ runs. If that's not the peak, then what is?

I am not denying a fact that he is one of the greatest batsman of all time but he never had a peak like ponting or smith is currently having

 

[Buffet]

I am not denying a fact that he is one of the greatest batsman of all time but he never had a peak like ponting or smith is currently having

Never having peak and never having peak like XYZ are two different thing.

 

[Last Monetarist]

Dont think Waugh or Border won series in India did they?.

No they didn't. But Border dragged a team from the abyss after some of the biggest legends in the history of Australian cricket retired, while Waugh helped them finally overtake the West Indies. Smith will have to do something similar I reckon.