Best Batsman of 2006

Originally posted by MiNiWaRnEy You are foolish,,, read my post , make an UNBIAS judgement. Your judgement is as subjective as it comes as you have indicated you do not like Ponting, you should not have included it otherwise it proves your bias.

How is it bias. I am Indian and I hate all Pakistani, Sri Lankan players. Not because of political reasons, but I always find their games boring if they don't play India and i find watching those players boring too. Of you want a bias jusgement then here goes. I think the best player of the year is Dravid. I felt that Yousuf was better, so I said it.

Originally posted by DRAVID FAN Originally posted by wiseguy Infact I would always say for the last decade ausie batsmen have been at an advantage to have not faced the best bowling and that should be considered too! It just gives them an open field to score runs, ponting , hussey, gilchrist, hayden have never faced the oppening spell of macgrath and lee, and never faced warne on a 4th day track so they have been lucky to be a part of ausie team also, will some one consider that too! They have faced the opening spell of Ntini and Pollock which is the equal of Mcgrath and Lee. One with a lot of pace and the other with a lot of accuracy. I remember that you said that sometimes MiNiWaRnEy says rubbish comments by comparing pitches. I agree to the part that he sometimes says rubbish things.

...Or Pollock and Donald.

That is infact as bias as it gets.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

nice one, he makes batting look so easy.

Nice

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.

not that you are in any biased of course

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.

[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.