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One way to measure that question would be in man of the match awards, and the answer is perhaps not, no. Numbers are mentioned in this article: Rob Steen: The worth of the Man-of-the-Series award in measuring greatness | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo Talking about Man of the Match...

I don't think Sobers and Miller really were concurrent either. Miller was done by mid 50s. I would put Imran Khan in that Richards, Lillee trio. That's a star studded trio for sure. Lara, Tendulkar, Warne was pretty massive as well - I don't think any trio has had that much global appeal...

So it's worth mentioning that Ryan McLaren is OUT of this Test with concussion symptoms - not surprised really, nasty stuff from Mitch. South Africa v Australia, 2nd Test, Port Elizabeth : Ryan McLaren out of second Test | Cricket News | South Africa v Australia | ESPN Cricinfo I think the best...

I didn't want to link each page, but that is not how it worked! For each country's batsmen I went back to the query and eliminated his countrymen from the bowling list. eg. for Hayden, the numbers quoted in my post are not matches when the top 25 played, the final numbers are only where the 18...

Special shout out to the short leg work of Alex Doolan. Haven't seen a guy stay down in his crouch for so long! He's so still, even as the ball is hitting the bat. Top notch technique. And David Warner's medium pace? Jury is definitely still out. He was mid 120kph, got a bit of shape...

Well I think it makes sense :D You are helping a team negate it's weakness - pace bowling. Suddenly India's bowlers have got bounce and movement when you were banking on them having none. Weakness gone. Yes, you back your own bowlers to be better, but you do that every match anyway - there...

^I would agree. Why give India's weakest part of the team a boost? Give them a road to play on and make their fast bowlers toil.

^Yah Warner had quite a few letoffs. Sloppy stuff from SA, they'll be much better just by improving their fielding, so there is hope for them. Was surprised at the general lack of bowling by the pace trio yesterday. I know Morkel and Steyn haven't been 100%, but the much vaunted trio of...

^Yep saw that article this morning, just coming over to link it :) Odd that his study makes Sangakkara look the best player of the lot, my numbers are much different for him. Sanga's obviously done well against reasonable attacks but they just haven't featured my top 25 bowlers. I thought it...

Totally! Nicho is one of those guys I can handle at the start of summer, but after a while he just eats away at you with his constant babble. The way he tries to sound so clever with his flowery language - he thinks he needs to talk more to get all that awesome knowledge across. WRONG...

Well for all those questioning why Dhoni would bowl Jadeja, I think this may have been a small reason why.

Yes you must have balance between attack and defense. With that in mind I would only play one of Saha and Pujara, probably Saha since the other batsmen in the side are strong - Pujara isn't really required. I'd probably add Balaji, Saha and Vohra to that team. Shaun Marsh will be hard to...

Yep Doolan's exactly who we thought he was. Shane Watson 2.0 :p. Although it's only one innings and he probably only forced that shot because McLaren was tying him down with some tight bowling. Marsh and Smith :lol If you'd said a year ago that these 2 would be taming the mighty SA attack...

Why is it always about the team? Well it's a team sport, and the team comes before the individual. If the most talented player ran the team his way because he knew he was too important to lose, wouldn't promote much teamwork. There'd be jealously and selfishness. Was just thinking today...

Good thoughts :thumbs Just on the Viv, Sunny, Greg Chappell trio - I think Viv certainly was a fabulous entertainer, Greg Chappell too because he was such a stylish player and scored freely. Sunny, not so entertaining I think, but underrated in that regard as well. I would put Ian Botham in...

Just noticed that if Bangladesh win their qualifying group, then Australia will have Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and West Indies in group A. All those teams will enjoy the slower, lower pitches to some extent. Tough draw for the Aussies I would say.

Mate you're all over it - nice tweaking :thumbs I think that's the beauty of this kind of tool, you can add different players and you'll get varying results. I think originally my problem with Flintoff and Harmison was that it was really hard to take their whole career when they really only...

You might be right! It seems every Indian fan has their views on who the fast bowlers should be. Anyone but Ishant seems to be popular :D I don't think Vinay Kumar is fantastic either from what I've seen...I just thought India might be willing to stick with him for a little longer given his...

^Have to agree. There comes a point where a guy keeps doing the same things and you come to realise 'oh he's not going to change'. Happened with Andrew Symonds, has happened now with KP. David Warner, even Mitchell Marsh might be interesting case studies going forward as they are younger...

Well I was about to take issue with this until I looked up more details. I thought Lara and Tendulkar were relatively weak in the early 2000s when Ponting came on strong, but they certainly had their moments in that time. So I'll vote yes :thumbs But others deserved to be mentioned though...