This CT showed that the moment ball starts doing little bit off seam or swings a bit (Discounting some extremely bad pitches), almost all batters struggled. It has lot to do with media and money involved in cricket, guys putting in money want 100 over match not when a side is bowled out in 40 overs. However if batters are capable enough we wont see 80 Overs ODI. To me averaging around 50 ain't testemony of greatness any more, the bar should be raised a bit now.
Another point of view for this debate (accrd. to me) it gives a great opportunity for a bowler , a guy who can swing it both ways and bowl at a decent click can easily run through sides where as in the past you'd have to have much more than these things to get rid of guys like Viv, Sunil etc.
I would certainly not rate any batters who do well against the friendly Indian bowling attack, simply cause most of them struggle or fail to impress against others or dont do even half good.
Then there are those batsmen who do damn well on friendly pitches but fall flat them moment there is something in the pitch for the bowlers !!
I support the Indian cricket team and to be honest {not favoritism} i think the Indian batting is the second best in the world after aussies !! And this when you look purely at the batting and not results !!
I don't think a team which fails on a regular basis on a fast track can be considered as the 2nd best in batting. Take two players out of this team Sachin and Dravid and tell me whether they can justify your confidence.
I think we are getting a bit off topic here, the topic was whether today's batsmen are as good as those of yesteryears and not which batting side is the second best or third best. I have watched cricket since 1975 and i feel the quality of batsmanship has overall gone down, the records may say otherwise since lots of batsmen are scoring lots of runs these days. However not many of them would hold a candle to those who played in days when pitches were left uncovered, the fast bowlers did not have restriction on number of bouncers they could ball. I doubt if a number of those playing today would have had even half the record they have now if they play in 70's or 80's there are exceptions to this as some very good batsmen play even today but a majority are just novices compared to past greats. These exceptions being SRT, Dravid, Lara, probably Ponting and Inzi other than these the rest well least said about them the better. The quality of the rest can be found out by a good bowler on a decent sporting pitch let alone on a truly seaming or turning wicket.
I strongly feel that barring a few players modern day batsmen are not of the same standard like those in the past. Whenever the ball starts swinging many surrenders without a fight.
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