So according to you a away Avg of 19 belongs in the same tier as away avg of 25 ?
@Ab Fan
What's even the point of engaging in a conversation with me? You don't want to listen or actually engage in a debate since you're not open to a conversation.
You just want to stick to one view and obsessively tell me why you're right and everyone's wrong which is how most Indian posters behave on this forumn. So why do you want my opinions?
Anyway let me explain, Test cricket in this era is easier for the bowlers for 3 main reason. Odi cricket is defo harder for bowlers due to to 2 new ball rule and rubbish PP changes but for tests it's the opposite.
A) Home side pitch citations. Back in the previous era while pitches were curated, they weren't curated to give teams an unfair advantage. In this age Australia is the only side that doesn't deliberately curate pitches to give themselves an advantage.
The tradition started with England who curated against aus in ashes and then other sides like India and pak copied it. Hence at home it's easier for bowlers to inflate their stats.
B) Flat track tests are extremly uncommon now. Only Pakistan were curating flat tracks before aqib. As a result less tests are drawn now. Infact excluding rain affected games i can't recall a single test game that has been drawn recently whereas their were dozens in the past. Targets like lara scoring 400 isn't possible anymore in this era unless Brooks bats in pakistan again.
The poster you're fanboying BTW,
@Ab Fan himself used the very same logic to argue Steve smith > Sachin. His own words were smith bats in a bowling friendly test era while Sachin had a few games in flat tracks.
It's also why I don't rate laxman highly as excluding Eden gardens his scores were on flat tracks and I watched all his innings where he scored. He's easily the most overrated Indian batter of all time.
C) Bumrah has it easy when it comes to facing batters. The 3 best batters in this era are smith, root and Williamson whole every one else is bang avg and this includes Mr Flat track Brooks who's a clown on any pitch that has a bit of swing or turn.
Williamson is a circus clown in 4 countries and is the definition of a htb. Root is a solid test batter but he has a garnage conversion rate. Steve smith is the only certfied atg but was avg 33 In tests for a year during his form slump, Once he recovered he scored 4 cemturies in 5 test games, 2 of them were against India and this included Bumrah who had no answer for him.
It's why cricket fans are concerned about the quality fo test cricket and wondering if smith, root and Williamson are the last era of great test batsmen.
Duckett, Brooks, Babar, Rizwan, Gill, Rachin and many others are clowns in tests.
Only jaiswal seems to be good and shows promise for the next generation.
Nobody here claims that Bumrah is a ODI great. He does not even play much ODI cricket (and has now sat out of even the CT ).
