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The most versatile fielder since Junior Waugh.

@beingictfan @Salfee12 Captain decides the order - The Higher Skilled batters bat up the order. AB was a player of old ball. Anyways 22 test 100s & 8.5 - 9K was always his ceiling ,at best 25-26.

@PD97776 @Salfee12 Lol poor logic 😭

Who's the best Test + T20 batter of all Time? Steve Smith? AB de Villiers?

@beingictfan @Salfee12 That Says ABD never was good enough to be a 3-4 & play the newer cherry. He is a very good test bat , not a great or elite.

@PD97776 @Salfee12 Batting position also matters. He mostly played at positions 5–6, so you can’t expect a lot of centuries or runs at that position. ESPN and Jarrod both ranked him among the top 30.

@beingictfan @Salfee12 He has only got 22 100s in his career. Not even 9K Test Runs. He simply isn't.

@PD97776 @Salfee12 Yes he is

@beingictfan @Salfee12 So AB is Top 30 test bats ?

@Salfee12 Smith is not among the top 50 T20 batters; it’s not even a debate.

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@Aintn0waySwag He said hes the best bat ever. But there has never been an outlier like him in Test Cricket in last 80 years.

@PD97776 In Test he did

I wish he hadn't blocked me tbh...

@6worldcups @sas_3343 @colombianps6 @randomcricfacts Smith As pure bat has influenced many games & series & is a common factor in most of Aussie Achievements H & A & is a Gun Slip Catcher. That Being Said Kallis just about offered a little more just coz of the volume of overs he bowled.

@sas_3343 @colombianps6 @randomcricfacts And he was an exceptional batter for almost all conditions, so is Smith but just highlighting how his bowling is disregarded because he didn’t bowl much in last third of his career

“Kallis won’t win you a fraction of matches” MoTM in tests Kallis - 23 (World Record) Kohli - 10 (lowest among Fab 4)

@NotTheStarlord @6worldcups Kallis has won like over over 25 Major Test Series Trophies.

@6worldcups @PD97776 Oh yes, Kallis has won an ipl with kkr, I forgot, saw his pic with the winning squad some time back but I completely forgot, my bad

You sure you want to go down the ICC trophy route while arguing with an Australian cricket fan?

@Rajdeep_C_18 Tests: SPD Daylight Biggest Test Outlier of all time since Don.

Tests: SPD SRT Ponting ODIs: VK SRT ABD T20Is: VK and daylight T20s: ABD, daylight, VK & daylight again Tests+ ODIs: SRT All 3 formats: VK ABD and daylight. All in order.

@GetHelpAryan Well Said Mate.

One of the major reasons for rating S smith as the goat is because he is quite literally the biggest outlier batting has seen since Coloured TV The sheer difference between the # 1 and # 2 (root) is so much bigger than difference between the top 2 bats of any era any format

@Neyfiction Except Tournament Trophies arent the only major Trophies in cricket

Trophies are more individually influenced in cricket than in football It's easier to score against Bipul Sharma or hit the three stumps in front of your eyes instead of somersaulting than getting a goal vs monster defences in finals of tournaments

@RMTBolton @OldTrafford_148 Reality Is Kiwis will be lucky to win a test on the trip tbf.

@PD97776 @OldTrafford_148 I say "only to those that put Australia on a pedestal". I think the only way the upcoming series would top India 2024 or the 2021 WTC is if NZ won 4-0, for me at least. 3-0 or less is not enough.

Cricket is such a different sport ,Demands of fans of different nations are different. The Best Team is the one which fullfills most of the demands of their fans. Fans Make The Sport.

@sas_3343 Kohli's captaincy in this game isn't talked much about , he let the game drift from a position of strength after wicket no 5.

ABD 65(84) vs Ind 1st Test 2018 Capetown

@Xtra_coverdrive @TUnlimitedd Nothing would've happened. 5 match away series wins are for rare special elite teams - Aus team of that era is just average.

@PD97776 @TUnlimitedd He's right . Warner was their 2nd best batter in bgt 2017 and ashes 2019 .Had he given them a couple good starts in these series' then the results could've been different

David Warner and Rohit Sharma were not even nominated in the top 25 best cricketers list by ESPNCricinfo: Their poor test records was the main reason for that. David Warner was a home bully who averaged 61 at home and averaged only 31 away from home. Produced stinker after stinker in England, India and he's the main reason Australia failed to win the Ashes in 2019 and BGT in 2017. Rohit Sharma on the other hand was always injured at the time of every test series and never kept himself fit. He struggled to adapt to test cricket and he struggled big time at the fag end of his career. 4k runs at an average of 40 doesn't even put in the top 100 best test batters. But even more telling is the fact that from India Kohli, Sachin, Dravid, Dhoni, Bumrah and Sehwag finished all ahead of Rohit Sharma and for Australia Ponting, Smith, Gilchrist, Cummins, Starc finished ahead of Warner in this century. Neither of those players are in the top 5 list best cricketers for their respective country so their fans should stop clowning around and accept reality.

Smithy ,Marnus, Kane ,M.Johnson Boland ,Webster ,Cummo ,Ryan Harris ,Dhoni ,Haddin ,Broad ,Steyn ,Lyon ,Clarke ,Bavuma,Jadeja,

@harsh07661411 Greatest - Sachin.

Test: Smith ODIs: Kohli T20: AB

@WyrdWeaver8 Infamous.

he’s gonna drop great series on bowling paradise before bossing one of the most famous series oat only to retire🤡👏