This is the only sore point of your brilliant counter to this craddock guy. I really do not know if you have played competitive organised Cricket yourself, but the fact is there ought to be 11 players contributing to the result of a game.That is what made the West indies team of 60's and 70's and the Australian outfits of 90's and 2000's! When runs are put on board, the bowlers need to get the wickets 7 vice vrsa when wickets are taken the batmen should capitalise. The single handed victories, by the so called match winners, is in my understanding of the game a once in an life-time achievement, when everyone fails you wage a lone battle and win it for the team. Gilchrist & the great Gary sobers scored their runs as number sevens, with the tail wagging merrily with them. Not that the tail was either batting wise incompetent or had better abilities than the current Kumble,Bhajji,zaheer. ( RP & Ishant are unknown qunatities, but from what i can see, they both are good for 50 runs and 100 balls if the need arise) case in point is the Chennai test where scahin tok us nearly to victory, only for the last 4 greats, buckling shamelessly in home condtions! I bet austalian tali would have carried through to victory in that type of scenario. Just go back to statistics and records tosee how many times , Sachin has fought single handedly & the surrounding support, including the alleged match fixing types!?
