Best Batsman of 2006

Yeah theres only 2 from 2006. Ponting and yousef. yousef through sheer amount of runs, I think at one stage he had four scores of 190 or over in four consecutive tests. Absolutely fantastic!

Originally posted by garrywarne [QUOTE=saadadvanced7] The year's coming to an end so lets see who you guys think was the best [Test] batsman of this year. For me, the only and the obvious choice is Mohammad Yousuf. His record speaks for itself. He needs approx. 150 runs in one test to beat Viv Richard's record tally of 1710 runs in one year. You might say that more tests are played these days so obviously its easier to score more runs. BUT Vivian Richards achieved the feat in 19 innings, and so far Mohammad Yousuf has played 17 innings. He has only 2 more innings left to have a go at Richard's record. Along with that, Yousuf has already equalled Viv Richard's and Arvinda De Silva's record of most Test centuries in one year (7). So if he scores one more century in the last test, he will also break that record. Keep up the great work Yousuf![/ QUOTE] I've thougt about it and said Yousef, then been told to think about it again, and said Yousef, then I was told to change my answer and I said Yousuf.

seriously, one more stupid, pointless uppage and you are gone

Quit bickering boys - if you must witter , do it by PM.

THe thread wasn't that old was I'm just saying yousuf was the stand-out batsman of 06, ok.

[QUOTE=saadadvanced7] The year's coming to an end so lets see who you guys think was the best [Test] batsman of this year.

For me, the only and the obvious choice is Mohammad Yousuf. His record speaks for itself. He needs approx. 150 runs in one test to beat Viv Richard's record tally of 1710 runs in one year. You might say that more tests are played these days so obviously its easier to score more runs. BUT Vivian Richards achieved the feat in 19 innings, and so far Mohammad Yousuf has played 17 innings. He has only 2 more innings left to have a go at Richard's record. Along with that, Yousuf has already equalled Viv Richard's and Arvinda De Silva's record of most Test centuries in one year (7). So if he scores one more century in the last test, he will also break that record. Keep up the great work Yousuf![/
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I've thougt about it and said Yousef, then been told to think about it again, and said Yousef, then I was told to change my answer and I said Yousuf.

Ponting had a magnificent year with bat and of course that 5-0 series white wash the poms while Yousuf broke the record for most runs in a season. Take your pick! I watched all og Pontings knocks and only a couple of Yousuf's so from what i had seen, Ponting is my tip but i take nothing away from Yousuf. He had an absolute stellar season.

not that you are in any biased of course

I agree.  Tendulkar, Lara, Mark Waugh etc., in my opinion, are players who fall into the more skilled category.  I am not saying that they didn't apply themselves though.

Nice

nice one, he makes batting look so easy.

It is a good achievement , well done to Nafees, he even scored a test century against the world champions, Australia.  Gilchrist also had a good year in ODI's with the bat.

Interesting. Ponting has scored tons in all the series he has played this yr (against 3 teams in 4 series).

Originally posted by MiNiWaRnEy Originally posted by Wal Bada But what ever said Yusuf deserves to be the best batsman this year because he was scoring that much under pressure. But to be counted as a legend he should prove against AUS, SAF and SL (mainly Murali). Yusuf averages blow 30 gainst all these three teams.   Ponting got a gutsy 142, under a heap of pressure.. Well done to him, I would say that both Youhana and Ponting are on par this year. it is hard to differentiate them.. and it is unfair too.

WOW! Exactly what I just said. I thought you were supporting Ponting.

Originally posted by Wal Bada But what ever said Yusuf deserves to be the best batsman this year because he was scoring that much under pressure. But to be counted as a legend he should prove against AUS, SAF and SL (mainly Murali). Yusuf averages blow 30 gainst all these three teams.

Unfortunately the thread is related to 2006 and yousuf never faced any of these three in his phenomenal year with bat (probably lucky for those teams I guess!) so is the case with pontting he has not faced a few this year, so probably thinking that he should score more against the three teams would be considered when his carreer is considered. One thing for sure he never played an innings against Bang or Zim for sure!