Super Cricketer

[max_dillon2007]

Hi everyone,

Here we will let everyone know bout our fictional player. yeah the one with all the shots in the book and talent of a genius. How often we said, Why dont he straight drive like Tendulkar??. Here is my Super Batsman

Everything from Tendulkar except -- Slog Sweep(Yuvraj),Switch Hit(K.P), Power(Roy),Body(Joel Garner),

My Super Bowler would be:

Lee with the accuracy and precision of Macgrath, Reverse Swing(Akram),Normal Swing(Akram), Seam(Freddie), body(Joel Garner)

These two would have RUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLed the world cricket.

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Just Imagine a batsman Standing 6 feet 8 inches tall(Joel Garner) with all the gift and talent of tendulkar walking in to bat. Man:hpraise:hpraise bowlers would tremble.:crying

 

[Will_NA]

Ian Bell opening plus Ian Bell batting in the middle order plus Ian Bell as WK and Ian Bell bowling.

 

[Cricketman]

Can anyone say Dinesh Karthik?

 

[metallics2006]

All rounder with the bowling skill of Sid Barnes and the batting skill of Bradman.

 

[aussie_ben91]

Phillip Hughes.

Seriously, his on par with Bradman, Tendulkar, Headley & Pollock at 20 years of age.

 

[Cricketman]

Nah, Tendulkar has 7 tons at 20 iirc.

 

[Harrypotter_fan]

Phillip Hughes.

Seriously, his on par with Bradman, Tendulkar, Headley & Pollock at 20 years of age.

So, he is better than Hayden?

 

[King Pietersen]

Phillip Hughes.

Seriously, his on par with Bradman, Tendulkar, Headley & Pollock at 20 years of age.

I don't remember seeing Bradman etc getting out for 32 in a pressure situation to a bowler of Paul Harris' level of skill Ian Bell's better, hes the king of pressure!

 

[manee]

My super fast bowler:
- Determination of Bob Willis
- Stamina of Andrew Flintoff
- Suppleness of Shoaib Akhtar
- Conditioning of Dennis Lillee
- Action of Brett Lee
- Bouncer(s) of Andy Roberts
- Yorker of Joel Garner
- Pace of Jeff Thomson
- Conventional swing of Malcolm Marshall
- Reverse swing of Waqar Younis
- Accuracy of Curtly Ambrose
- Seam movement of Glenn Mcgrath
- Cutters of Nathan Bracken
- Guile of Andy Roberts

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I don't remember seeing Bradman etc getting out for 32 in a pressure situation to a bowler of Paul Harris' level of skill

How about his last innings?

 

[King Pietersen]

Bradman's last innings? He came in at 118-1, batting with a man in Arthur Morris who went on to make 196, and he was bowled by Eric Hollies, who took 5 wickets in the innings, and had a Test average of 30 and a FC average of 20. Hughes has come out to open the batting with his side 450odd behind with his side trying to bat out a day and a bit to save a Test match, and he gets himself in against Steyn and Ntini but then fails to build on a start, by edging a bowler like Paul Harris behind. That's far worse than Bradman's failure.

 

[manee]

Bradman's last innings? He came in at 118-1, batting with a man in Arthur Morris who went on to make 196, and he was bowled by Eric Hollies, who took 5 wickets in the innings, and had a Test average of 30 and a FC average of 20. Hughes has come out to open the batting with his side 450odd behind with his side trying to bat out a day and a bit to save a Test match, and he gets himself in against Steyn and Ntini but then fails to build on a start, by edging a bowler like Paul Harris behind. That's far worse than Bradman's failure.

Granted that Hollies was a good spinner but Bradman was under massive pressure to end his career with a 100 average.

 

[aussie_ben91]

So, he is better than Hayden?

Don't remember seeing Hayden bat better then this in bowler-friendly conditions against such a quality attack. So yeah, probably.

Though, I'm not sure because Steve Waugh once Hayden's innings of 122 in Johannasburg in 2002 as the best one he'd ever seen on a difficult pitch. He claimed that it was embarrassing to bat with Hayden because Hayden was so good.

I don't remember seeing Bradman etc getting out for 32 in a pressure situation to a bowler of Paul Harris' level of skill Ian Bell's better, hes the king of pressure!

Bradman averaged 66 at the same age as Hughes.

Your just jealous because you know that Hughes is going to finish a better batsman then Pietersen and you thought that Pietersen was easily going to be the best batsman of the next 10 years but his not going to be anymore because Hughes is.

Cricinfo - 4th Test: England v Australia at Leeds, Jul 22-25, 1938 - Doug Wright got Bradman out for 16 in the 2nd innings of a run-chase. Wright averaged 39 with the ball.

 

[King Pietersen]

I'd say that average protection is a little less pressure than trying to save a Test match for your country, even if it was Bradman's last innings.

It doesn't really matter anyway though, as I'm sure Ben's joking about Hughes being on par with Bradman, Tendulkar, Headley & Pollock. If he isn't, then I'll be incredibly surprised, and my comment wasn't to be taken seriously anyway tbh, was just a good way of pointing out to Ben that Hughes just got done by Harris.

As for Steve Waugh's comment about Hayden's innings on a difficult pitch, there have been so many better ones than that, although I'll let him off as he didn't see innings on sticky wickets. Innings from the likes of Bradman, Hammond, Hobbs and most notably Hutton on sticky wickets would have been far better than that of Hayden though. Especially a 62* (I think) at Brisbane after England had made 68/7 declared, and Australia followed that with 32/7 declared. England were chasing 193, and the top order collapsed, and somehow Hutton managed to bat out on an and make 62* on a terrible, rain effected wicket that everyone else had collapsed on. Brilliance.

As for that Bradman innings, slight difference in that it was on an uncovered wicket whereby England were skittled out for 123, he wasn't following an innings where South Africa had run riot, with 3 men making hundreds. Notice the difference?

 

[aussie_ben91]

I said, Hughes being on par with Bradman, Tendulkar, Headley & Pollock when they were all 20 years old. Not being on par with their overall careers.

Really, I've never seen such a young player dominate such a quality bowling attack in bowler-friendly conditions ever before. Quite frankly I'm astonished because I never thought I'd see someone with the potential to overtake Hayden so soon. Because of Hughes, I've found more respect for Tendulkar because that's exactly what he was doing, when he was younger then Hughes.

 

[King Pietersen]

He's had 1 good Test match. He looked out of his depth in the first one, playing an awful shot first innings, and then looked very scratchy in his 2nd innings although he did make a handy score. He then made them 2 emphatic hundreds, and in this final game he hasn't dominated the attack, and then got out on 2 occassions after getting starts. 1 good Test match and you're already comparing him with legends. It's not like Steyn and Ntini dominated that 2nd Test either, they bowled very averagely at Katich and Hughes and certainly didn't show their best form.

He's got a heck of alot of potential, but to say he's got the potential to overtake Hayden after 1 good Test match is unbelievable really. If he's still scoring hundreds in 2 years, then fair enough, but you shouldn't really be making comments like that after 1 good Test. Dwayne Smith made a hundred in South Africa aged 20 against Pollock, Ntini, Nel and Kallis in South Africa, and he did dominate them, making his 105* off 105 balls. 1 good Test doesn't make a player.