meninblue wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:The recently retired Gambhir averaged 48.7 in SA/WI/NZ/Eng. Remarkable record for an Indian opener. Only 40 if you add Aus though. Rahul averages 38 outside Asia and has a ton in Sydney, so not too bad overall. Only Sunny, Shastri and Gambhir have better averages than Rahul outside Asia for openers to have played more than ten Tests. VJ goes just under 30.
Good post. Gauti was relatively much better. His innings in NZ to bat for a draw was amazing for someone other than Fab 4. Rahul is hyped by player management agency. Averaged 7 runs in South Africa. Team Management still gave him chance in England, flopped there. Again bad start. Gauti was never hyped so much.
Agreed. Both Rahul and Vijay have pretty shoddy records outside Asia (outside India, even), while Gauti did very well in tough places to open. Rahul's average outside Asia is 25 if you don't count easy runs against the West Indies...