amber_fluid wrote:carey wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:amber_fluid wrote:
Like Kallis?
Not many if ever better alrounders than him.
His record is second to no one.
Jesus, Carlton win a JLT match and now you're Amber Almighty?
Yes, Kallis is in a class of 2 with Gary Sobers
Imran Khan was pretty handy.
Statistically Kallis and Sobers streets in front of Imran and Kapil Dev.
But all 4 were sensational players although I didn’t see Sobers play.
i did see plenty of Sobers play and he was in a class of his own. The players most like him I would say are Lara as a batsman, Mitchell Johnson as a pace bowler, at least as good a left arm orthodox bowler as Vettori and the best left arm chinaman bowler I have seen. Plus he was the most brilliant fieldsman.
With Kallis, great though he was, I think of the old adage, there are lies, damn lies and statistics. Kallis wasn't in the same league as Sobers and I would have had Imran in my team before Kallis.
Ian Chappell is adamant there have only been four true all rounders in the history of test cricket, Jack Gregory, Keith Miller, Sobers and Imran Khan.
In Chappell's view, to be a true all rounder you have to good enough at either discipline to be able to be chosen just as a bowler or a batsman. I guess that is where Imran makes Chappell's 4 because he in fact did play solely as a batsman when too injured to bowl. this occurred in the 1992 World Cup where Imran played a very heady innings when Pakistan looked to be in all sorts of strife.
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:40 pm
