Among all team games, cricket is such where individual performance counts for a lot, especially if it is consistent over a period of time. This is why individual records are so closely watched and monitored by experts as well as players themselves. In such a scenario, comparison between individual players is not only inevitable, but also meaningful to quite an extent, although it should not be taken to such extremes as to evaluating any player entirely based on cumulated stats.... it is here that we find issues... but the key problem in this Section is immature fans being in majority..... by immature I mean fans who are so emotionally attached to their favourites that they live in an illusory world of their own closing their minds and eyes to the reality that all players and teams have undergone fluctuating fortunes and performance so that none is absolutely great or useless.
Level-headed fans like you and me are unfortunately rare to be found here.
Comparisons always tend to happen in any sport. So it doesn't surprise us that the best players of the game are compared here in this section but I wouldn't say that this is spoiling the section. I would agree that such questions have been asked innumerable times, especially the Sachin vs Bradman one.. People always think that the person they support is the best player among all the compared players.
Indians will think its Sachin, Australians will think its Ponting and so on. But there is no written rule to say who is best among them so biasness tends to arise. And what you may think is bias may not be bias when somebody else thinks.
So, in short, comparisons tend to happen but the number of such questions should decrease.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.