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Sehwag have performed in every Cricket playing nation
No he hasn’t.
Lol, is this even a comparison...
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Even in India Younis Khan was better than Sehwag
YK drew a test series in England. He was definitely a lot better than Sehwag outside Asia.
Yk was also leading run scorer for Pakistan in Australia tour in 2004-05.
Who is a better test batsmen?
Younis khan:
118 tests
10099 runs
Avg: 52
100s:34
Virender Sehwag:
104 tests
8586 runs
Avg: 49
100s:23
Younis easily. He had a bigger impact on his team's wins and future players than Sehwag ever did. Part of there reason why Sehwag and co will never be considered the best in their class is because they were overshadowed by their own team man Sachin in all aspects.
Sehwag, pure match-winner.
He struggled against lateral movement but so did Younis. Averages alone do not tell a story - Younis has never been good enough to handle quality lateral movement. He has been a fisherman throughout his career, both on the cricket pitch and off the pitch.
He has been able to handle bounce at times, i.e. Old Trafford 2006, Oval 2016, Sydney 2017, but he has never produced anything substantial against quality swing and seam bowling. The innings in Auckland in 2001 is the closest that he has come to performing against lateral movement.
to be fair to Sehwag, if there was an XI for 2000s, Sehwag would have a genuine shout for the openers position competing with Hayden and Graeme Smith. In fact, Sehwag along with Smith, would be the openers for 2000s XI.
Younis Khan would not make to the decade XIs for 2000s, and might just get into the 2010s XI (3 of Sanga, Younis, Amla, Kohli, Root and ABD; Steve Smith is guaranteed for 2010s). By the end of the decade, Kohli is expected to take over, leaving the remaining 2 spots between the other 5. I suspect, by the end of 2010s the middle order for the decade would consist of Smith, Kohli, Root and ABD.
To be fair to Younis, his strongest period was between 2005-2017, whereas Sehwag's strongest was between 2002 - 2010. So if we look at Younis's strongest period, 2005 - 2017, Younis is still not guaranteed a place in that X1. For the Middle Order, Amla, Kallis and Sanga are certainties.The remaining 1 spot is competed between Younis, Kallis, Steve Smith, Chanders and Clarke.
So Swhwag might have been overshadowed as a batsman by Sachin, but he was still one of the best at his craft, opening. Younis, despite being the best in his team, was not necessarily the best in the world.
As an overall batsman, I still think Younis was ahead by just a minute margin. And saying that Sehwag vs Younis is no comparison is also incorrect.
Because Sehwag is an opener, he should not be judged with a middle order batsman.
The would-he-make-a World's XI for an arbitrarily bracketed 19XX-XX seems a very strange criterion to me.
The question was who was the better batsman.
Sure, there were been better middle order bats around than Younis Khan, but he could still be worse than these batsmen, and better than Sehwag.
Anyone ever heard of set theory?
Surely its a fair point to note that one was an opener and another a middle order bat. Apples and oranges.
But that just tells us that if we were to select the best possible opener of the two, we would pick Sehwag, the best possible middle order bat, Younis.
The point about facing quality lateral movement may be worth raising, but it is also surely overdrawn, and particularly by Mamoon, who's been wrong so often about YK's abilities that it hardly bears repeating.
Is this the only qualification worth mentioning? Who of the two were better players of spin? Who had a better 4th innings average? Who could be counted on to score in the most varied conditions?
For his SR, Sehwag was a rather more odd beast than YK, but not necessarily a better Test batsman for that.
Sehwag, pure match-winner.
He struggled against lateral movement but so did Younis. Averages alone do not tell a story - Younis has never been good enough to handle quality lateral movement. He has been a fisherman throughout his career, both on the cricket pitch and off the pitch.
He has been able to handle bounce at times, i.e. Old Trafford 2006, Oval 2016, Sydney 2017, but he has never produced anything substantial against quality swing and seam bowling. The innings in Auckland in 2001 is the closest that he has come to performing against lateral movement.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...-test-icc-world-xi-tour-of-australia-2005-06/
Inzi made 1 & 0 in the same match
Lara scored 5 and 36. Is he also worse than Sehwag?
Except Lara has done well against them before quiet a number of times.
You failed to mention that in your post. Your logic was based on one match's scorecard.
Both are different kind of players. One played in the middle order and the other opened. One was a grafter and the other was an aggressive opener. I don't think this comparison is valid to be frank.
Younis KHan and I think most would agree.
Sorry, that does not wash. They might be batsmen of contrasting styles but that by itself doesn't rule out comparison between them. Otherwise how would one go about singling out ATG players where players of different styles are compared?
They are not only different styles, their role in the team is different as well. Sehwag opened the batting which consisted of one of the strongest middle orders in recent times, Younis was a crucial member of the middle order of Pakistan. Chalk and cheese. How can you begin to compare and differentiate the impact the players had on their respective teams? Yeah you can compare their stats and say one is better than the other, that is just the numbers game and people are within their rights to do so.
You are struggling with comprehension here. When someone says Bradman is the greatest ever, it is implied that he is better than all other batsmen with vastly different roles, styles, whatever you have. According to your logic, Bradman should not be compared to such batsmen and ergo should not be called the greatest ever. But Bradman is in fact often called the greatest ever. Same for Sachin. So what's so unique about Sehwag and Younis? Sure their roles were different but they are still batsmen who tested their skills against bowlers with different degrees of success. Sounds like a fit case for comparison.
Sehwag is an ATG opener. What a ridiculous comparison. Try Ganguly vs Younus khan.
Gilchrist vs Dravid:
Gilly 48 at 82 sr
Dravid 52 at 42 sr
Gilchrist > Dravid as per this thread
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to be fair to Sehwag, if there was an XI for 2000s, Sehwag would have a genuine shout for the openers position competing with Hayden and Graeme Smith. In fact, Sehwag along with Smith, would be the openers for 2000s XI.
Younis Khan would not make to the decade XIs for 2000s, and might just get into the 2010s XI (3 of Sanga, Younis, Amla, Kohli, Root and ABD; Steve Smith is guaranteed for 2010s). By the end of the decade, Kohli is expected to take over, leaving the remaining 2 spots between the other 5. I suspect, by the end of 2010s the middle order for the decade would consist of Smith, Kohli, Root and ABD.
To be fair to Younis, his strongest period was between 2005-2017, whereas Sehwag's strongest was between 2002 - 2010. So if we look at Younis's strongest period, 2005 - 2017, Younis is still not guaranteed a place in that X1. For the Middle Order, Amla, Kallis and Sanga are certainties.The remaining 1 spot is competed between Younis, Kallis, Steve Smith, Chanders and Clarke.
So Swhwag might have been overshadowed as a batsman by Sachin, but he was still one of the best at his craft, opening. Younis, despite being the best in his team, was not necessarily the best in the world.
As an overall batsman, I still think Younis was ahead by just a minute margin. And saying that Sehwag vs Younis is no comparison is also incorrect.
Because Sehwag is an opener, he should not be judged with a middle order batsman.
Sehwag imo.