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Old 29-12-2006, 08:03 PM in reply to Colourful Chaddi's post starting "Good thread brain_lara !! I am going..."
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Originally Posted by Colourful Chaddi
the most attacking batsman of his time, a time when bowling attacks included the likes of Marshall, Holding, Garner, Lilliee, Thompson, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan, Hadlee, and many more that bowled on more bowler-friendly wickets than today. One can only imagine how he would bat in this era of flat pitches and weaker bowling attacks.
for a long time i thought this too - but if you're non-oz (eg Lara). you've had to deal with the Murali, Warne, macgrath, pollock, gillespie (he was very good at his best), donald, akram, waqar, akthar... some very fine bowlers indeed!!
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