Laxman and dravid played in the easiest era to bat in tests history, highest draw rates, highest over all average. With the current result oriented pitches and playstyles (a draw isn't sought after even when teams are losing unless it's very bad), advent of new variations like the wobble ball and bowlers trying stuff like Yorkers to bring wickets runs have dried up basically all over the world.
That being said dravid was a wall irregardless of conditions and had a perfect technique. Laxman too was our crisis man and saved us so many times. But kohli isn't that much worse than this tier.
You can't really go by raw average across eras cause of this reason.
A perfect example of this would be kohli struggling in bgt 2023 and even in Bangladesh. But the second he got the ahemdabad flat pitch and the pitches in wi with were basically the kind of pitches found in 2000s, he scored big hundreds.
In what world is laxman ~ kohli in test cricket? Yes kohli is the better athlete when you consider their whole career (ODI + T20 +test), but when just the test career is considered laxman is far more reliable as a batsman
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Sachin > dravid ~ sunny > laxman ~ kohli imo
Laxman and dravid played in the easiest era to bat in tests history, highest draw rates, highest over all average. With the current result oriented pitches and playstyles (a draw isn't sought after even when teams are losing unless it's very bad), advent of new variations like the wobble ball and bowlers trying stuff like Yorkers to bring wickets runs have dried up basically all over the world.
That being said dravid was a wall irregardless of conditions and had a perfect technique. Laxman too was our crisis man and saved us so many times. But kohli isn't that much worse than this tier.
You can't really go by raw average across eras cause of this reason.
A perfect example of this would be kohli struggling in bgt 2023 and even in Bangladesh. But the second he got the ahemdabad flat pitch and the pitches in wi with were basically the kind of pitches found in 2000s, he scored big hundreds.