Overhyped to the max.

Yep, lots of cheap runs . . . just like Murali's cheap wickets.

Best Batsman is Ponting
Best Bowler is Warne

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Originally posted by JGK:

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Originally posted by Gary_86:

1920's / 30's Batting Averages:

97.94 Don Bradman
67.25 Len Hutton
66.71 George Headley
61.45 Wally Hammond
60.73 Herbert Sutcliffe
59.23 Eddie Paynter
58.50 Phil Mead
56.63 Jack Hobbs
55.00 Ernest Tyldesley

Averages since 2000 (min 1500 runs);

player Ave
Ponting 64.42
Dravid 63.51
Flower 63.26
Kallis 62.46
Inzamam-ul-Haq 60.65
Mohammad Yousuf 56.12
Hayden 56.07
Tillakaratne 54.24
Tendulkar 53.81
Thorpe 53.31
Waugh 53.3
Lara 52.5
Sehwag 52.13

The most telling statistics. Bradman played in an era very similar to our own, with many high averaging batsman. But Bradman did far more than all of them. Case closed.

Best bowler Warne ? Sure he got alot of wickets. But at 25 apiece? No way. And 10% or more of his wickets were dubious lbws to the googly when sure, he defeated the batsman, but no way would it for CERTAIN have hit the stumps. I've seen these given time and time again.

Best Bowler that I've seen: Hadlee or Marshall. I'd like to have seen Lohmann and Briggs tho.

Back to the main debate: I know it's hard to imagine a batsman better than Ponting with the lack of video evidence but surely Bradman is so far ahead on statistical terms, in his era and any other, this can hardly be in doubt.

Best bowler I have seen is Waz Akram.

Best bat: Viv la Richards.