This thread wil be short, I had written a longer post on this topc, but it was against the topic of Afridi as was thus deleted.
You make a big deal of Abbas averaging 44.79 in test crciket and use that figure as "proof" of his class-without breaking down the statistics to show how average he was, bordering on mediocre. He scored against the poor attacks in featherbed conditions and failed against the best opposition in his era, which is the major criteria by which a batsman must be rabked-how they perform against the best.
For the majority of his era, the West Indies were by far the bestteam in the world and his record against them is laughable:
matches: 8
innings: 15
runs: 259
ave: 18.50
h/s: 80
His record against the best team is crap, and exposes his inability to play fast bowling, he was a flat track bully-and that too in part against a team which had JUST got its test status-equivalent to todays bangladesh!
His record is good as India and lanka were a feast of runs, his averages are 87 and 69 respectively-thats hardly consistant performing. Its a case of feeding of the crap bowling attacks and then messing up when it matters against the top side as you lack the technique to deal with it. HE WAS scared of pace bowling, Imran Khan testifies to this in "Imran Khan" by Ivo Tenant and Viv too in "Sir Vivian".
Even against NZl he was crap, the presence of the great Richard Hadlee was enough to expose his flat track bully technique, his average is a mere 17! :rotfl"
If you take away his perormances against INDIA, who had Kapil Dev, Roger Binney and Madan Lal-hardly a top attack, worthy of ceating a reputation on. And SRL-who had just started, his record is mediocre.
He couldnt play pace, and his record is testimony to that-he was a flat track bully, and little else.
You make a big deal of Abbas averaging 44.79 in test crciket and use that figure as "proof" of his class-without breaking down the statistics to show how average he was, bordering on mediocre. He scored against the poor attacks in featherbed conditions and failed against the best opposition in his era, which is the major criteria by which a batsman must be rabked-how they perform against the best.
For the majority of his era, the West Indies were by far the bestteam in the world and his record against them is laughable:
matches: 8
innings: 15
runs: 259
ave: 18.50
h/s: 80
His record against the best team is crap, and exposes his inability to play fast bowling, he was a flat track bully-and that too in part against a team which had JUST got its test status-equivalent to todays bangladesh!
His record is good as India and lanka were a feast of runs, his averages are 87 and 69 respectively-thats hardly consistant performing. Its a case of feeding of the crap bowling attacks and then messing up when it matters against the top side as you lack the technique to deal with it. HE WAS scared of pace bowling, Imran Khan testifies to this in "Imran Khan" by Ivo Tenant and Viv too in "Sir Vivian".
Even against NZl he was crap, the presence of the great Richard Hadlee was enough to expose his flat track bully technique, his average is a mere 17! :rotfl"
If you take away his perormances against INDIA, who had Kapil Dev, Roger Binney and Madan Lal-hardly a top attack, worthy of ceating a reputation on. And SRL-who had just started, his record is mediocre.
He couldnt play pace, and his record is testimony to that-he was a flat track bully, and little else.
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