Alright. Farhat - Nicol (poor cricketers for quite some time who have recently taken the step up. Bowl a bit of medium pace) O'Neill - Wade (young cricketers who have done very well in their short careers) Morris - Sangakkara* (keepers who have very solid records but aren't quite the best) Verigotta - J Taylor (young English batsmen set to light the world on fire soon) Masters - Finch (Victorian, inexperienced but decent batsmen...hard one) T Man - Powell (former consistently solid performers who still can sometimes bat well from time to time) Laing - D Brown (solid Scottish all-rounders who can do both things decent but aren't quite strong enough to be brilliant) N Hunt - Hogg** (Australian all-rounders who can produce decent performances from time to time) C Smith - Bracewell*** (a Kiwi all-rounder with some talent but yet to prove himself) McDougal - Meaker (young English quicks with genuine speed who look likely to be excellent bowlers soon) Edwards - Mahmood (flaky bowlers who can bowl with fire and can take wickets but haven't bowled very well) * when he was still keeping ** at FC level *** circa 6 months ago Really struggled to think of good comparisons for this side.
He said while Sanga kept, which is fair enough if we're going by the BS=Tests line of thinking. Bats 3, keeps, averages 40 odd.
Is accepting that Sanga is way better with the bat when he's not keeping actually acknowledging that he's pretty much the best batsmen of his generation? He averages 70 odd when not keeping, so if he didn't keep all those years...