If It Happens ….Then …!

◆If………..It happens…Then…?◆

Sunil Gavskar[C] *V Sehwag
Navjot Siddhu*Rahul Dravid
M Amarnath* S Ganguly [C]
GR Vishvnath* S Tendulkar
DVengserkar *. Virat Kohli
F Engineer * MS Dhoni
K Ghavari * Kapil Dev
BS Bedi * Anil Kumble
BS Chandra* RC Ashwin
J Shrinath * M Shami
Ishant Sharma *J Bumrah

Discussion on Class and stats :
Yeah this is the Elevens selected from 1980 to 2021.
Yeah above cricketers are the buzzing characters of indian cricket world . And I have selected them for the best Elevens for fantasy contest between these two squad . Yeah 5 Test Matches Series. Yeah before start the combat here is preview yes to scale and compare the strength of the cricketers .
Yeah
● Gavaskar vs Sehwag—
Yeah both ones are bigger cricketer batsmen of their eras . And if compare these two then obviously class as well as the stats point of view SM Gavaskar’s height is taller than V Sehwag . Critics point of view it rests 80-20 . Yeah if use metaphor for these two giants then Sunny is The ROCK and Sehwag The Typhoon. And the big difference between these two is the consistency and reliability. Yes Sehwag is a gamble selection for the team and captain while Gavaskar is the trust and gurantee .
Yes Sunny’s era was tougher in batting regard than the era of Sehwag .
But yes as a critic we can estimate V Sehwag bit less but can’t neglect his impact . India is destined to have these two great opening batsmen who glorified India’s goodwill in the field of cricket. A thing puts the critics in the groan that despite an aggressive,
attacking and explosion he has 10 double centuries on his worthy name that is unbelievable. And has two triple ton on his name and one is 293 yeah nearer to triple and this measures him outstanding . Sunny yeah despite a big compact batsman couldn’t slam Triple and his highest score is 236 not out against mighty bowling attack of West Indies . And at the conclude Sunny rests very high.
●Navjot Vs Dravid
Yeah Navjot Singh is the specialist opening batsman while Rahul Dravid is a makeshift opener but being top order batsman and technically sound Rahul is fully fitted as an opener . Yeah Navjot Singh Siddhu is the specialist opening batsman and well known for his compactness ,
patience and solid defense. And his epic masterpiece innings of 201 there in the land of West Indies against formidable,stingy and fiery bowling line up. First of all Rahul Dravid can’t be compared with Navjot because he was a top order batsman and he did opening in the test temporarily but at the critical stage he did this job gallantly and as the opener his statistics are good . And being top order batsman he has been tested many a times at the frontier batsman . Yeah if talk about the batting average than Rahul David’s average is very high yeah 52.33 and NS Sidhhu’s batting average is 42.97. But the average can not justify an opener because the opening slot is always greater challenging and if the batsman have 45 plus batting average then he is considered in greats . Yes it is so because we have seen that Sunil Gavaskar played 73 balls and scored 21 in the memorable Banglore Test that was the last Test of Sunil Gavaskar. And such as his opening partner faces 60 plus balls and makes 15 runs so partnership rest only 36 but they both played 133 deliveries . Yeah 133 balls means 32.1 overs of the freshest ,untired bowlers and thus they reduced the shine of the new ball and ruined the fresh energy of the rival team’s opening bowling attack and that demoralised , discouraged the bowlers and team and that balls’ faced off paved the way for the next coming batsmen who have to face less pressure and less fire because batting gone easier than the beginning. Navjot played 51 Tests ,scored 3203 runs,his batting average s 42.13 and slammed 9 centuries and 15 half centuries and 201 the highest individual Test score. But in conclusion Rahul David’s height is far greater and Sachin’s Eleven’s scale is heavy .
●Mohinder vs Ganguly–
Yeah two big and characters of their time . As the batsman Mohinder Amarnath is bigger than Sourabh Ganguly . Mohinder Amarnath’s batting average is second highest up to 1990. Yes in the longevity concerned who played 50 plus Test yes Jimmy’s Batting Average is second highest after Sunny Gavaskar the great. India got its Test status in 1932 and since that indian cricket saw some good batsmen yeah Vijay Hazare,Vijay Merchant , Mustaq Ali, Chandu Borde, ML Jaysimha, Rusi Modi,Hemu Adhikari, Vijay Manjrekar, Nawab Pataudi, Dilip Sardesai, Ajit Wadekar,Viju Mankar , Pankaj Roy, Madhav Apte, Pally Umrigar, GR Vishvanath, Mohinder Amarnath,Sunil Gavaskar,Dilip Vengserkar , Chetan Chauhan, Ravi Shastri ,Yashpal Sharma ,Sandip Patil and if see these stalwarts’ batting average then after Sunil Gavaskar Mohinder Amaranath’s batting average comes second in the longevity picture or plus 50 Test tally at least. Yes Vijay Merchant and Vijay Hazare have plus 47 batting average but played 10 and 32 Test only and Madhav Apte who has 49 plus batting average but played only 7 Test and Rusi Modi has 46 batting average but played only 6 Test . So obviously Mohinder rests at the 2nd place in the batting average matter. yeah Mohinder Amarnath played one of the all time fiercest bowlers of the World Cricket and against them his batting average remained 55 plus . Yes he slammed 11 Test hundreds in 69 Tests and all the centuries remained quality prone against stingy and lethal bowlers and tough rivals . Yes Sourabh is the best left handed batsman of india and his stats are rich no doubt but compare to Mohinder he retreats bit behind to Jimmy . Yeah look the statistics of both the batting maestros-
69Test 4378 Runs
42.50 Batting Average,11 hundreds ,24 half hundreds ,138 highest individual score.
113 Test 7212 runs 42.17 batting average, 16 hundreds ,35 half hundreds 239 highest individual score. Both the cricketers can be said all-rounder due to their ability to bowl medium pace. Yes though both ones’ bowling stats are poor and just equal to each other. Yes Mohinder ball bowled 3676 while Sourabh delivered 3117 and it’s just an accident that both have 32 dismissals on their name. And the bowling average of Ganguly is quite ineffective with 52.53 while Mohinder ‘s bowling average is greater expensive than Sourabh yes 55.68 . Yes the best bowling figures are
4/63 of Jimmy and 3/28 of Dada. Mohinder took 47 catches in 69 Test while Ganguly held
71 catches. So Mohinder as the fielder appears bit greater to Ganguly in proportion. So here Sunny’s Elevens scale is heavier than to Sachin Eleven .
●GR Vishvanath vs Sachin Tendulkar :
Yes the toughest comparison at this place because in the first glance there is no match of GR Vishvanath to Sachin Tendulkar the greatest . In statistics’ look Sachin rests the giant and Vishvanath a dwarf . But to prefer the stats only we can’t deny the greatness of little master GR Vishvanath . At first look the stats of both the maestros of their era.
Vishi ‘s and Sachin’s stats-
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91 200

15921
41.93. 53.78
14/35. 51/68
222 248 n.o.
Yeah Vishi’s career spanned for 15 years (1969 to 1983) and Sachin’s career stood for 23 years yeah November 15,1989 to1990 to 14 November, 2013.
Yeah its great to mind that Sachin played 23 years and throughout the career kept his form high and remained quite consistent and there was scarecely faced a lean face. And in the stats Sachin is very tall but there is one thing that goes in the favour of Vishvanath and that proves him a great indian batsman and thing also be noticed that Vishi remained the part of very poor team’s member whose batting and bowling was very poor. But in that phase Vishi batted well and slammed 14 centuries and the matches in which he made hundreds india won mostly . And in this sense his percentage in winning concerned rests higher than Sachin the great. So i compare both the pivotal of the game equally.
●Dilip Vengserkar vs Virat Kohli :
Yeah statistics point of view Virat rests far higher than Colonel yeah Dilip Vengserkar. But there is the class that put Vrbgserkar higher than Virat Kohli in my view. Yeah to give hight to the discussion needs to glance out the stats of both the batting master.
Dilip Virat
116 – 99
6868 – 7962
42.13 – 50.39
17/35 – 27/28
166 – 254 n.o.
Yes obviously in the stats Virat seems so tall than D Vengserkar but once in the ICC batsmen’s rank Dilip Vengserkar ranked at the 1st position and for 3 consecutive Test century in the three Test Matches he was called Lord of Lord’s. M Holding , M Marshall like great bowlers let Vengserkar very tough to bowl. But in a final reaction Virat leads in the ample way to Dilip Vengserkar.
Farukh Engineer vs MS Dhoni
Yes both are the wicketkeeper and could bat well . The stats favours MS Dhoni as the greater wicketkeeper- batsman than Farukh Engineer but for it needs to see the figures of both the keeping masters . Yes look –
● Farukh Engineer vs Mahendra Singh Dhoni
46 90
2611 4876
31.08. 38.09
2/16 6/33
121 224
66/16 256/38
Yes in the stats Dhoni’s height is taller than Farukh Engineer . But as the batsman despite low batting average Farukh left his impact and influence as the attacking batsman . And yes Dhoni who had unconventional batting style in the Test and his batting average is not great but as the wicketkeeper who used to come at number 4th down the batting average is good. And here the scale of Dhoni is heavy.
Kersen Ghavari vs Kapil Dev
Let see the Test statistics :
●Kapil —–Ghavri●
131 —–39
5248 —-913
31.05 —-21.23
8/27 —-0/2

——- 86
27740 ball –7036
434 —–109
29.64 — 33.54
23 —– 05
2 — 0
9/83 —-5/33
64 –16
Yeah no match between these two medium pacers. Yes though Kapil was considered as the fast bowler primarily but soon he gave attention to the swing bowling rather than the speedy bowling . Due to swing outswinger and inswinger the batsman gets lures ,haunt and strive to leave the delivery and the bowler get more wickets . Yeah Richard Hadlee,Imran , Bothom , W Akaram,W Yunus, Jimmi Anderson and G MecGrath got more wickets due to their swing bowling. So I do clear the mirror that being left arm K Gavari was well capable to trap the batsman and he was a classy bowler. Yeah though Zaheer Khan is considered as the big left arm bowler of india but in stats he is almost nearer to K Gavri the handsome beau from indian cricket.
Yes Zaheer Khan has 32.95 while K Gavari ‘s bowling average is 33.54 thus Zaheer is ahead from Gavri only by a decimal margin that is just
.59
A Meliborn Test that India won in which K Gaveri’s roll was important where he dismissed Greg Chappal on ZERO is memorable . But of course Kapil is extraordinarily all-rounder who gave india a sky height by breaking Richard Hadlee the great’s record of highest Test wickets .
●Bedi vs Kumble●
If see the statistics of these two spin wizards then the figures of Anil Kumble appear huge than Bedi. But if we talk about spin class and control then Kumble doesn’t seem near to BS Bedi. Yeah only wicket tally of Kumble is huge than to Bedi but in the average and economy concerned Bedi’s stats are rather impactive than Anil Kumble. Yeah BS Bedi was genuine spinner while A Kumble a spinner but not the big turner of the ball but he used to get help from the pitch and reading the mindset of the batsman he used intelligence and trick and trapped out the batsman and that’s why he could get 600 plus wickets and considered a great spin bowler with his contemporary greats S Warne,M Muralidharan,D Vittorrie, Saqlen Mustaq,Greame Swan,etc
Yeah the Test career stats of both ones-
132 -67
2506- 656
17.77- 8.98
1/5-0/1
110* -50*
40850 -21364 balls
619-266
29.65-28.71
5fers 35–14
10ters 8–01
Best 10/74-7/98
Catches 60-26
Career Stays :18-13 years
*Yes bowling average is the best medium of the bowler to measure his bowling height and in this converted BS Bedi stays higher than Anil Kumble 29.65 and Bedi 28.71 yes in decimal by .94 but it’s high margin in the bowling sense . Yes if we talk about the strength of Anil Kumble then his strength was Pace, Bounce and Accuracy while Bishan Singh Bedi’s strength was
Flight , Armer , Big turn and Accuracy. And as class of view Bedi ‘s cadre is very high in the critic world. World ‘s one of the greatest spinners Jim Laker showered great praise on Bedi’s spin class . But compare is a different thing and no doubt Anil Kumble was a useful striking bowler of his era and i measure both the maestros equally.
◆Bhagwad Chandrashekhar vs Ravichandran Ashwin◆
Here the comparison between these two spin magicians is very tough. Yeah R Ashwin’s stats are bigger and rather impressive than BS Chandra but what class B Chandra left was unequalled and figures can’t justify with this great bowler . Chandra had class to give india victory single-handedly and R Ashwin is also a big spinner who can bind ,control batsmen and could able to perplex through different kinds of variations.

●Jawagal Shreenath vs Mohammad Shami ●
Yeah the stats of M Shami is greater than J Shreenath but J Shreenath earned big reputation as the fast bowler and M Shammi is also a genuine fast bowler with impressive bowling average.

●Ishant Sharma vs Jasprit Bumrah●
Yeah at the beginning Ishant was very fast and later he got bit slower and focused on his swing and so could played 100 plus Test and named 311 Test wickets. Yeah Jasprit Bumrah who is one of the fastest bowlers of present era and he has created fear in the rival batsmen’s mind and his bowling average and success story is very high but his career has crossed a little journey and have to see how long he goes and retire with this height .

■Yeah Strength Conclusion and Series Result Prediction :
Yeah very interesting to discuss the potentiality of both the Elevens (1970 To 2021). Yes stats point of view Sachin Eleven is more powerful than Sunil Gavaskar.
Yeah stats point of view Sunil Gavaskar has only one big name and that is he himself while Sachin Eleven has five big characters yeah including Sachin himself Rahul Dravid , Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli,Anil Kumble ,MS Dhoni , Kapil Dev and fiery duo Bumrah-Shami .
Yeah Sunny Eleven has a solid opening duo as Gavaskar and Navjot and very much capable to play with ease yeah any kind of pace and spin bowling . So Bumrah- Shami- Kapil, Kumble-Ashwin no fear for this duo. Yeah other side there are V Sehwag and R Dravid and they have to face J Shreenath-Ishant as the pacer and Karsen Gavari(pace+ spin) and stingy spin duo Bedi-Chandra and Sunil Gavaskar is the captain and he is very intelligent and strategic leader and he isn’t Greame Smith ,Mahila Jayawardene and Yunus Khan that the dashing opener Virender Sehwag could make 309,311 and 293 all easily with explosion. Gavaskar knows how to and when their bowlers would use so according to my opine Virender Sehwag couldn’t destroy opposite attack as per his will . Yeah Rahul Dravid is a makeshift opener and could go high due to his perfectionist approach . Yes Mohinder Amaranath,GR Vishvanath,Dilip Vebgserkar are well capable to handle and face situation and very much capable to face any kind of bowling attack at the highest level and other side Sachin’s Eleven has Sourabh Ganguly ,Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli are well dependable batsmen and reliable to pile the runs.
Yes Farukh Engineer and MS Dhoni are specialist wicketkeeper and in batting standard Farukh is a conservative styled batsman and can bat any down and add runs for his team while MS Dhoni’s batting average is higher but his batting style is typical non-conventional . So I favour Farukh as the batter and Dhoni who is a big athlete heavy in Wicketkeeping.
Yes Sunny Eleven has two specialist spin maestros and one pace cum spin bowler and two speedster while Sachin’s Eleven has two pacemen, one genuine swing plus pace master and two spin masters .
So the rivalry would be very high between these two Elevens and my experience,my critical view and behavioural approach I favour Sunny Eleven and the series result would be 3-2.
*NK Sanatan