Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
Completely agree. Though it is interesting how so many great players of yore have such ordinary numbers. How do you "account" for that; I mean, it's the same game. Youngsters think we are having them on.

It was a lunchtime discussion on TMS a few years ago, before T20 was a thing, and it was decided that the separation between Test cricket and one-dayers was spurious as pretty much all the best players actually excelled at both.
Only having seen the very tail end of Boycott's career, Cook's by far the best English opener of my lifetime. And Buttler's the best white ball slogger.