Stats Pack: Afridi overtakes Kumble

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Re: Stats Pack: Afridi overtakes Kumble

@Decent_6Chora

Just as many people (including experts) believe that Viv Richards was better batsman than Tendulkar even though Tendulkar has every record in front of his name, but has this stopped people from praising (and in some cases worshiping) Tendulkar?

Its pretty clear that Kumble the bowler was better than Afridi specially in longer format. Afridi has his own value in limited over format that can not be denied no matter what.

I agree Viv Richards is head and shoulders the greatest batsman of our era esp. when it comes to playing and dominating pace bowlers. No one can thrash or intimidate fast bowers like him and we are talking of an era in which there was no restriction on bouncers per batsman per over and no neutral umpires. He had brilliant reflexes and supreme confidence as exemplified by the fact that he never wore a helmet. I don’t need to look at stats to know how great Viv was. It is about quality not quantity. Having said that Viv was n’t the best player of spin IMO. Besides there were/are other batsmen who’re probably better players than Viv in pressure situations

**Best batsmen of pace bowlers IMO (in no particular order after top three)

**- Viv Richards

• Gordon Greenidge (his statistical record does not do justice to his talent)

• Adam Gilchrist

• Gavaskar (13 test hundreds against the mighty Windies of the 70s & 80s confirms his class)

• Ponting

• Zaheer (early years)

• Sachin (early years)

• Inzi (again statistical record does not do justice to his talent)

**Best players of spin (in no particular order)

**- Miandad

• Viv Richards
• Sachin
• Lara
• Inzi
• Border
• Kallis
• Younis

**Best batsmen under pressure (again in no particular order)

**- Gavaskar

• Miandad
• Inzi
• Viv Richards
• Border
• Kallis
• Dravid
• Steve Waugh
• Younis (has a record four 4th innings hundreds)