Making_Splinters wrote:Comparing their value to the side.
Not sure how you can work out how much a player worth to the side especially when they are still playing.
Also cook only singlehandly won two series or series been linked to him and even then the India one more remembered by panesar and kp contributions but kp is harsh really since cook score more runs and was more solid, kp was genius, lucky and a fluke.
Reckon Bradman won quite a few on his own.
The rest is really been a team effort or other players played a key role.
Even when England were number 1 for about 10 months it was a team effort think all the batsman were averaging 50 plus and bresnan, Swann, Anderson and broad all under 30s
Weirdly enough you can argue kp was really the most valuable player since he played the match winning or Game turning knocks or Anderson or broad.
Tbh root destined for greatness since he got cook stubbornness and kp and bell shot making skills.
Probably England first fully completed batsman since the olden days.
Not sure anyone had the mental strength and the stroke play root got, batsman have generally got one and not the other.
Kp lacked constinetcy and actually struggled to get motivated for lesser teams, bell lacks mental strength and cook lacks shot play.