Sorry to try to lure you out of your abstinence, but why not? Do you just find comparisons rather tedious?

I don't mean any offence to the person who started the thread or those who participate but yes I find these sorts of threads a bit tedious. Particularly those about players from different eras (eg Davison or Wasim?). I'm not saying I'll never participate again though, given a sufficiently tempting bait (Gower v Mark Waugh perhaps?)...

one of the areas wher Ricky can calim to have an advantage is the playing a long inning...Ricky has quite few double 100's and may be he is good at making it count after getting in..but that again brings us back to same qs of quality of bowling he faced vs quality of bowling Jones faced.

In ODIs, it's a very interesting question. Jones's contribution goes beyond mere statistics. He revolutionised ODIs with his quick scoring at the top of the order and his frantic running between wickets (not to mention being the first man to wear sunnies while playing). He was, in many ways, a trailblazer, and therefore always to my mind sits rather high in terms of all-time ODI rankings.