@JoeGrine
- I champion no one, if you were an astute reader, your friends here would say you should remove your head from you know where, you would see that I was alluding to the low value (i.e) your star batter Devon Smith that a marginal John Campbell is a better Test opener than he Smith is. Only in your warped, parochial and disingenous mind is 27.85 not higher than 23.78.
You missed the point as usual 27.38 vs 23.78 is just statistically better does not mean he is a better test batsman. Only in your idiotic mind you would deduce that. Now back to Campbell's average pre-25-26 and compare that to his after and you would see a marked improvement. 9 tons this Test cycle is a marked improvement over 2 in the last.
Marlon Samules didn't need your idol to be globally recognized. Steve Waugh saw brilliance on the teenager's Test debut.
Globally recognised doesn't mean a crap if you do not fulfil of your potential. When others discarded and ostracised him (he was not liked by some of his peers and the ban), Sammy was the one who believed in him... The rest is history.