FEATURE: In the run-up to the England-South Africa series and, indeed, during the first test, many commentators have made the claim that Dale Steyn and James Anderson are equals – on the basis of their records over the past three years. Looking at their total averages over that period, however, is misleading. If you break those statistics down by season, you arrive at a different conclusion.
FEATURE: There is a tired old analysis that, thankfully, is doing the rounds less and less these days: that Jacques Kallis is boring – not a real ‘great’ because he never does anything memorable. It has recently been rehashed by Michael Henderson, writing in the Independent newspaper in Britian. He even suggests Ian Botham was superior. What nonsense. Here is why Kallis is better than not just Botham, but Botham and Flintoff combined – a new character I have created called ‘Flintham’.
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