Not sure if Zaheer Abbas can be considered the game's great.
He averaged 36 in 42 Tests played away. His career average is boosted to 44 because of at home average of 58 in 36 Tests.
His career average against West Indies (home and away) is 18 in 16 innings His career average against New Zealand is 17 in 28 innings
There is more to batsman than average I guess ...
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Not sure if Zaheer Abbas can be considered the game's great.
He averaged 36 in 42 Tests played away. His career average is boosted to 44 because of at home average of 58 in 36 Tests.
His career average against West Indies (home and away) is 18 in 16 innings His career average against New Zealand is 17 in 28 innings
Don't just look at Zaheer's test average. Look at his one-day record as well (an average of 47.62) He was one of only 6 batsmen of his era (others being Viv Richards, Miandad, Greg Chappell, Haynes and Greenidge) who averaged 40+ in both tests and ODIs
Zaheer had 4 double hundreds in 70 odd tests, two each against England (both in England incl. his highest score of 274) and India
Besides average is not everything. Zaheer was sheer class and grace at the crease, one of the sweetest timers of the cricket ball.
And it was also very noticeable (and Imran Khan wrote this in his autobiography 'all-round view') that when both Zaheer and Miandad were at the crease together and in form, Zaheer easily outscored Miandad because of his exquisite timing
There is more to batsman than average I guess ...
He was over-rated in my opinion. Except for a couple of innings in England, he was total flop over-seas and big suspect to pace and bounce.
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Golden, sure he was one of Pakistan's better batsman of the 70s but I still think he was NOT the game's great.
My current favourite:
Faisal Iqbal
Imran Farhat
Salman Butt
Shoiab Malik
Fawad Alam
Yasir Hameed (even though he is not in the squad)
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^ How can you forget Mohammad Hafeez? 
Yes you are right I forgot about Mohammed Hafeez.
I also forgot about Bazid Khan.
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:)
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if i was to pick my best 5 batsmen, i would have the following :
SEHWAG
DILSHAN
TENDULKAR
PONTING
DUMINY
Most dominating batsmen or match winners
Past
Mark Waugh
Miandad
Viv Richards
Martin Crowe
Dean Jones
Present
Yuvraj
Peterson
Gibbs
Gayle
Simmonds
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Somebody remembered David Gower's square cuts. Man that was so awesome.
Viv Richards
David Gower
Tendulkar
Gilchrist
Saeed Anwar
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Kallis
Jaysuriya
Ponting
Dravid
Gayle
My current favourite:
Faisal Iqbal Imran Farhat Salman Butt Shoiab Malik Fawad Alam Yasir Hameed (even though he is not in the squad)
Predictable :)
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Ponting
Tendulkar
Inzi
Miandad
Gilly
Predictable :)
Yeah man all class players.