Ignore him, trolls enjoy the attention.
Definition of troll : someone who doesn't say yes to my views.
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Ignore him, trolls enjoy the attention.
How is Murali being a chucker an unproven allegation ? Was he not called for chucking several times and found to be chucking by the contemporaneous rules ?
I don't have time either for posters of your caliber.
If that can be used as evidence for 'cheating' then the likes of Warne, Tendulkar and Dravid are also cheaters.
Irrelevant argument.
Murali being chucker or not is a subjective matter. Has ICC banned him like it did with Ajmal ? Please talk about facts.
No answer thus stating "irrelevant argument". Makes sense
Answer my questions.
Definition of troll : someone who doesn't say yes to my views.
Which one ?
For the second best player of all time, not many included him in their first choice XI, let alone Bradman.
That's quite an obtuse view, but going by your posts it something that you certainly seem to belive in.
People give too much importance to unquantifiable metrics like talent etc.
All of them since you're dodging them pretty much.
I take care of not calling anyone a troll just because he disagreed with my view.
Sorry, I may have lost track of them since I am replying to many posters simultaneously. Can you repeat questions ? I will not dodge for sure, I may give wrong answer though.
Compared to Murali.. who is GOAT in ODIs too. Context, man, context.
Right.. but I am not talking about masses, but a few well known experts who are regarded for their keen knowledge of the game and unbiased views.
They can still be wrong but we need strong evidence to prove them wrong.
For Imran's evaluation we can checkout the Wisden players of the century listing.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/153387.html
Imran got 13 votes and stood 10th. But this was in a setting where 48 out of the 100 experts were from England and Australia. You can expect some bias towards English and Australian players and if you take these out Imran stood second - only behind Sobers.
Asian countries used to be generally sidelined in these listings in the previous century. BCCI's rise has ensured that some modern Indian players may get biased ratings, but nobody gains a penny by biased voting for players from Pakistan and Srilanka. Imran's ranking at #2 among the neutrals strongly suggest how much he was rated.
For Imran's evaluation we can checkout the Wisden players of the century listing.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/153387.html
Imran got 13 votes and stood 10th. But this was in a setting where 48 out of the 100 experts were from England and Australia. You can expect some bias towards English and Australian players and if you take these out Imran stood second - only behind Sobers.
Asian countries used to be generally sidelined in these listings in the previous century. BCCI's rise has ensured that some modern Indian players may get biased ratings, but nobody gains a penny by biased voting for players from Pakistan and Srilanka. Imran's ranking at #2 among the neutrals strongly suggest how much he was rated.
I take care of calling a troll a troll particular when he has been one for so long.
Yes, but it can be always used an excuse for rejecting differing views. At best you can report him, and if he is flying well below the ban radar, so it boils down to difference of opinion at best.
Lol at putting Imran and Muralitharan at the same level in ODIs, ridiculous to say the least.
That may be ridiculous, but what is even more radical is the discussion of ODIs when measuring greatness.
Previous page, don't know the post number.
But same can't be said about pattinson , cummins etc.
That may be ridiculous, but what is even more radical is the discussion of ODIs when measuring greatness.
I'm quite objective and know what a troll us, so thank you for the lesson.
Lol at putting Imran and Muralitharan at the same level in ODIs, ridiculous to say the least.
You meant Murali didn't belong to the same class as Imran in ODIs or the other way round ? I doubt it's former.
OK. It's your personal opinion, and nothing else.. not a fact then. Fair enough.
please find the post, I was not able to.
Correct, but it's the only way you can compare Kapil and Imran.
Don't know what you're on about, but yes it's a fact that he's a serial troll.
One is the post that you quoted in #160 and the rest are on the previous page.
I don't think he is a troll.
Well you're probably the only one on here then.
How is Murali being a chucker an unproven allegation ? Was he not called for chucking several times and found to be chucking by the contemporaneous rules ?
I don't have time either for posters of your caliber.
If that can be used as evidence for 'cheating' then the likes of Warne, Tendulkar and Dravid are also cheaters.
This one ?
OK..fair enough.
How is Murali being a chucker an unproven allegation ? Was he not called for chucking several times and found to be chucking by the contemporaneous rules ?
I don't have time either for posters of your caliber.
If that can be used as evidence for 'cheating' then the likes of Warne, Tendulkar and Dravid are also cheaters.
This one ?
It actually no. 4
Frank Worrell and Viv Richards are also ahead of him in those rankings.
A couple of points - Since you mentioned that there is nothing gained from voting for a Pakistani - what is gained from voting for a WI player? There are 3 of those in the top 10. Also, this was done in 2000. Murali, SRT and Warney only had half of their career
Your argument of taking out 48 out of 100 experts because they "could" be and not "were" biased can neither be refuted nor accepted.
WI was an influential team back then. India and Pakistan were mostly minnows until the 70s, which is why almost all the old players in that list are either from WI, England or Australia. WI were no longer influential after early 90s so you don't see a single person voting for Lara.
Jack Hobbs with 30 votes and Marshall with 3 votes should tell you the effect of 48 experts in the list.
Not sure where are you going with these logics. All of these are assumptions of bias at best. From a poster of your quality, expected better.
We don't know the distribution of who voted for whom, do we ?
Why do you think Lara did not get a single vote then?
But we can guess how Hobbs got 30 votes.
A lone spinner place and a lone all rounder place is usually there in the ODI sides. If Imran makes it to all time ODI sides ahead of Botham and Kapil, I agree. Murali will most likely make it to spinner's place.
Wow, what's happening this morning here?
Are you ok?
Imran was never as good as Murali in ODI cricket. Murli is a champion ODI cricketer. Imran is just a very good ODI cricketer.
You don't have to make things up to proove Imran is the best asian cricketer ever, that's a no contest.
All round stats are overrated. Eventually people judge you by your skill at one competency, either batting or bowling. Fact is Imran is one of the best bowlers of all time in a bowling friendly era and a great captain. He was inferior to bowlers in terms of pure ability in his own era and hence he wont ever be considered as greatest. Greatness cannot be accumulated but has to be substantial. Its not a 2+ 2 better than 3 thing. 3 is still a greater number and a greater cricketer even if 2 beats him on aggregate. Jack of all trades is never greater than master of one.
Bradman, Warne, Tendulkar,Viv, Marshal etc could all claim to be greatest in one skill and hence rated above Imran usually
Imran is quite underrated in ODIs. He averaged 22-23 for most of his career, only towards the end did his average climb to 26 because he was way past it.
A clean striker of the ball who could provide impetus later in the innings or come in early to rebuild.
Name 5 better.
Imran is quite underrated in ODIs. He averaged 22-23 for most of his career, only towards the end did his average climb to 26 because he was way past it.
A clean striker of the ball who could provide impetus later in the innings or come in early to rebuild.
No he is not, he was not a great ODI player.. He still bowled very well but his batting really never worried anyone... Kapil's batting was far more dangerous ( 175 ag Zim )
He was still very good in 87 world cup but was way past his prime in 92, and yeah that SF knock was not great either but i think God's had chosen him to win the 92 cup, gave him a rain break against England and then that farcical South African exit and then Akram's two beauties....
The way Pak posters hate slow batting these days and throw hate at misbah, i don't know whether they would have liked seeing Imran bat in limited overs...
No he is not, he was not a great ODI player.. He still bowled very well but his batting really never worried anyone... Kapil's batting was far more dangerous ( 175 ag Zim )
He was still very good in 87 world cup but was way past his prime in 92, and yeah that SF knock was not great either but i think God's had chosen him to win the 92 cup, gave him a rain break against England and then that farcical South African exit and then Akram's two beauties....
The way Pak posters hate slow batting these days and throw hate at misbah, i don't know whether they would have liked seeing Imran bat in limited overs...
Right.. in fact that SF innings was so slow it almost put Pakistan out of the game. Knowledgeable posters on this forum claim it was the foundation for Inzy to launch his attack on.. lol.
You do know Imran and Misbah were in completely different generations. Misbah played in the generation in which people started hitting 200s.
Also, Just because Kapil had a more aggressive approach does not necessarily mean Imran was NOT A GOOD ODI PLAYER or a batsman. To even suggest such a thing is preposterous. He's still statistically better than most allrounders in ODIs, Kapil included.
Lol at statistically better part.. seriously if anyone takes Imran ahead of Kapil in an ODI side as an allrounder, I would be surprised.. as much as if someone had done the reverse in a Test side.
Kapil was agressive, but he had an Afridi-like tendency to get out and thus an Afridi-like average. Imran had a more subtle approach. Yes, he was atrociously slow at times. But he also proved he could play the steady hand after an early wicket. They were very similar with the bowl however.
Arguably not much to seperate the 2 in ODIs. Even though Imran averaged 10 runs more.
But he was head and shoulders above Kapil in tests.
So allround Imran is still better than Kapil.
Note: The post is "greatest cricketer of all time". Not "greatest ODI player of all time."
Show me one cricketer who has performed with bat and ball like Imran at the time time for such a long period of time , not to forget he was playing Odis as well.
and greatest cricketer criterion includes ODIs too.. if you consider that it's not "greatest Test player" thread, and lol again at comparing Kapil with Afridi.
The thread is not about greatest ODI cricketer and test cricketer seperately. It's greatest cricketer. So far Imran has a pretty healthy claim. Sobers and Bradman haven't played ODIs.
So tell me one cricketer who has played as good with BAT AND BALL in TESTS AND ODIS (since you so desperately want to include ODIs we will disclude Sobers).
For a 12 year period
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en...;spanval1=span;template=results;type=allround
Difference of batting and bowling averages in Sobers' case = 31.66
Difference of batting and bowling averages in Imran's case = 30.32
If you include ODIs and Tests both, I think Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar and Muralitharan will claim to be the greatest cricketers of all time. Will be hard to look past these three players. I wouldn't rule out Wasim and Imran too.
No he is not, he was not a great ODI player.. He still bowled very well but his batting really never worried anyone... Kapil's batting was far more dangerous ( 175 ag Zim )
He was still very good in 87 world cup but was way past his prime in 92, and yeah that SF knock was not great either but i think God's had chosen him to win the 92 cup, gave him a rain break against England and then that farcical South African exit and then Akram's two beauties....
The way Pak posters hate slow batting these days and throw hate at misbah, i don't know whether they would have liked seeing Imran bat in limited overs...
You still didn't answer my question. Tell me one cricketer who has played better than Imran with BAT AND BALL in TESTS AND ODIS.
The thread is not about greatest ODI cricketer and test cricketer seperately. It's greatest cricketer. So far Imran has a pretty healthy claim. Sobers and Bradman haven't played ODIs.
So tell me one cricketer who has played better than Imran with BAT AND BALL in TESTS AND ODIS (since you so desperately want to include ODIs we will disclude Sobers).
IIRC Mudasser was a better ODI all-rounder than Imran :-; and certainly the better test batter.
How to make a blockbuster thread on PP: Insert any one of the following names in thread title: Imran Khan, SRT, Don Bradman
What a nonsensical question. Can you tell me who has played better than Kohli with the bat in TESTS, ODIS and T20s? Does that make him the greatest batsman ever? If some player is better than Imran with the bat or the ball by a significant margin (to overshadow Imran’s bowling/batting), than it doesn’t matter if Imran is better than him in the other discipline.
Not even the greatest from Asia bcoz that tag goes to Sachin. Not even the greatest captain from Asia as he was superceeded by a long margin by MSD. So the answer to the question posed by OP is No. But I do not want to debate this topic further as I think there has been many debates about this in PP. Imran was a great great cricketer and a legend. Lets leave it like that.
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You still didn't answer my question. Tell me one cricketer who has played better than Imran with BAT AND BALL in TESTS AND ODIS.
Individually as batsmen and bowlers SRT, Viv, Murali, McGrath, Wasim were respectively the best at their craft. But Imran was good at both.
Imran was a good ODI batsman for his time. Do people know what strike-rates were in those days? Doesn't seem like it.
As a bowler, he was better than Kapil and Botham. His career average doesn't do him justice in this regard, since he turned in to a batsman who bowls a bit towads the end.
And of course, that 70 odd in the World Cup final, winning it for Pakistan, is a more significant innings than most of the guys being compared with him, ever played.
Better than Sachin as a cricketer, better than Dhoni as a captain and better than Wasim as a bowler.
Lets leave it at that.
Calm down. I was answering the guy who was saying ODIs and Tests BOTH should be the criteria. I don't agree with that myself. I don't think Imran is the greatest.
Nobody has completely overshadowed Imran's batting or bowling in tests btw. He could make it into any team as a specialist bowler or batsman.
Better than Sachin as a cricketer, better than Dhoni as a captain and better than Wasim as a bowler.
Lets leave it at that.
You’re saying this as if it is 100% true. It may be true but there are many experts who rate Sachin as a better cricketer, Dhoni as a better captain and Wasim as a better bowler.