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Originally Posted by Rachael  You make my point: Ramps played that innings at a level that dispelled any doubts about his ability against the very best bowling... which is more than Hick ever did... and is more than the many recent top players have ever done (though in their defense, most have just about never had the chance). |
Given that for a golden period late in 1995 (sadly only consisting of the three test matches) Hick reeled off a run of scores of 118 not out, 7, 96, 51 not out and 141 against West Indian and South African attacks including messers Ambrose, Walsh, Donald and Pollock (ably backed up by the Bishop's, McMillan's) that's hardly the case. In fact he averaged more against the big three Australia, West Indies and South Africa than he did against the closest thing to the county attacks he constantly got accused of bullying New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Of the top international attacks it was only Pakistan and in particular Waqar Younis that he truely failed against.
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Originally Posted by Rachael Ramps' average for his 204 runs from 11 innings against NZ was 7.75! |
I think you'll find that was Pakistan from to be fair only 2-3 games. His average against New Zealand is around 20.
In terms of Hick's ultimate failure in test cricket (still has to go down as the best one day players we have ever produced) for all the selectorial incompetence that dogged his career Athers gormless declaration at Sydney has to go down as the single worst piece of man management in the history of cricket. What difference those two runs would have made we'll never know but a hundred against Australia would have been a monumental confidence boost for such a mentally frail individual.