Ballance isn’t better than Ramprakash . Both Hick and Ramprakash would have fared much better under the central contracts system . Ramprakash was also thrown in as a 21/22 year old and played his first 8 or nine tests against Walsh, Patterson , Marshall , Ambrose, Waqar , Mushtaq and Akram . As good as the game has seen in terms of attacks . I think it probably broke him but he was a superb technician and very brave . Not sure Ballance likes it when it gets really quick
Nah those 2 players get so much excuses, they weren't good enough and never would have been, mentally they didn't have it
The ones who did, Hussain, Thorpe, Atherton etc made success of it
The quality of attacks around the world right now is unbelievable by the way too