AngusBeef wrote:I'll bite
watermelon wrote:
1- He made most of his high scores against Bangladesh
What are you basing this off? A quick search reveals only 1 of his highest 20 scores were against Bangladesh
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watermelon wrote:If you take his Bangladesh scores, a different picture is painted.
Only 4 of his 112 Innings were against Bangladesh; even if you take them out his average drops by less than a run from 51.54 to 50.62 which is still amongst the best of the players you mentioned when you look at their stats without Bangladesh to pad their figures:
Player, Ave. not including BD (Ave. vs all teams)
Ponting 51.64 (51.85) 5 innings
Flower 50.62 (51.54) 4 innings
AB De Villiers 50.46 (51.31) 5 innings
Gayle 41.39 (42.18)
Sharma 34.23 (33.18) 1 innings
And when you take into account someone like Ponting never had to play Australia while Flower never got a chance to play Zimbabwe (against whom Ponting averages close to 100) it makes his stats even more impressive.
Stats,stats,stats and stats.
This is the thing.
Cricket is a game with a bat and a ball, it isn't mathematics in some classroom.
I'm sick of people using these statistics to justify why they think this guy is a God.
Brendan Taylor and Sean Williams (both better than Andy) had batting averages of 70+ last years World Cup, and as talented as they are, no ones saying they are world class players!
The truth is, and I admit, that andy would make our 'best of' team in the last twenty years as a batsman. However, he only JUST scrapes in.
Carlisle, BT, ervine, taibu, Rinke and Williams are better. He would just be above grant which makes up the 7 batsman and all rounder in my team.
It's a tragedy that stats have skewed common sense and the perspective of people here. If he was black people would just think he had a good run of form.
Everyone except Jemisi (who is a champion and really smart) needs to go back to school, because apart from Jemisi, you all have rocks in your head. Especially Aydee, who has no brains at all.
-watermelon