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The best 50 cricketers Salamuddin has seen

Richard

Richard

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There may not have been much in Australia, but there was a massive difference in England, as far as pitches were concerned.
 
The Sean

The Sean

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Richard said:
There may not have been much in Australia, but there was a massive difference in England, as far as pitches were concerned.
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Fair enough. I'd still personally lean toward a no-holds barred "greatest ever" selection, but I'm happy to go with whatever people are comfortable with. :)
 
Richard

Richard

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I'd be happy to draw a line at 1900 TBH (wouldn't be happy to include anything before then - as I say IMO it was incomparable) but I don't know a hell of a lot about anything before 1930.

From 1930 onwards, though - bring it on, every time. :h:
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
Well if it's any criteria post-1900 you have to break the news to Archie and Neville that they can't vote for the good Doctor. ;)
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Xuhaib said:
Good list but we need you to list in order ala Warnie.:)
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Thats very tough particu;arly comparingbatsmen with bowlers. How does one compare Gavaskar with Warne :-O

Let me rank batsmen and bowlers separately first.
The batsmen in order of ranking. Sobers heads the list even as pure batsman.

  1. Sobers
  2. Richards
  3. Lara
  4. Tendulkar
  5. Gavaskar
  6. Greg Chappell
  7. Ted Dexter
  8. Zaheer Abbas
  9. Kanhai
  10. Vishwanath
  11. Hunte
  12. Colin Cowdrey
  13. Barrington
  14. S Waugh
  15. Geoff Boycott
  16. Dravid
  17. Javed Miandad
  18. Alan Border
  19. Arvinda D'Silva
  20. Sutcliffe
  21. Doug Walters
  22. Hanif
  23. Simpson
  24. Lloyd
  25. Greenidge
  26. Matthew hayden
  27. Lawry
 
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SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
The Bowlers

  1. Murali
  2. Lillee
  3. Imran Khan
  4. Hadlee
  5. Shane Warne
  6. Prasanna
  7. Marshall
  8. Roberts
  9. Bedi
  10. Donald
  11. Holding
  12. Hall
  13. Wasim Akram
  14. Garner
  15. Ambrose
  16. Waqar
  17. Glen McGrat
  18. John Snow

Keepers
  1. Bob Taylor
  2. Alan Knott
  3. Healy
  4. Flower
  5. Gilchrist
Keepers are listed on keeping ability. At the time of fitting in the final 50 I will take care of batting capability.

Openers
  1. Botham
  2. Kapil Dev

Now comes the tough part :@
 
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Matteh

Matteh

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Top 10 i've seen?

Nick Knight
Dermot Reeve
Brian Lara
Allan Donald
Martin Bicknall
Ian Harvey
Courtney Walsh
Curtley Ambrose
Shane Warne
Michael Slater
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Okay here is the complete list with rankings. I removed the last two, Hayden and Lawry (both left handed openers from Australia !) and ranked the rest 1 to 50. Its a tough job and I will never be able to give the same rankings again if I did the list even tomorrow. Just shows how little the rankings mean between great players over different disciplines and eras.

This is just for fun :)

Notr :Its based on test matches only and looks at each player at his peak.

  1. Gary Sobers
  2. Muralitharan
  3. Viv Richards
  4. Brian Lara
  5. Sachin Tendulkar
  6. Imran Khan
  7. Dennis Lillee
  8. Richard Hadlee
  9. Shane Warne
  10. Sunil Gavaskar
  11. Greg Chappell
  12. Erappalli Prasanna
  13. Malcolm Marshall
  14. Ricky Ponting
  15. Andy Roberts
  16. Ted Dexter
  17. Zaheer Abbas
  18. Rohan Kanhai
  19. Gundappa Vishwanath
  20. Ian Botham
  21. Kapil Dev
  22. Bishen Bedi
  23. Alan Donald
  24. Alan Knott
  25. Andy Flower
  26. Michael Holding
  27. Conrad Hunte
  28. Colin Cowdrey
  29. Ken Barrington
  30. S Waugh
  31. Geoff Boycott
  32. Rahul Dravid
  33. Bob Taylor
  34. Javed Miandad
  35. Alan Border
  36. Arvinda D'Silva
  37. Wes Hall
  38. Curtley Ambrose
  39. Joe Garner
  40. Wasim Akram
  41. Adam Gilchrist
  42. Waqar Younis
  43. Bert Sutcliffe
  44. Doug Walters
  45. Hanif Mohammad
  46. Glen McGrath
  47. Bob Simpson
  48. John Snow
  49. Clive Lloyd
  50. Gordon Greenidge

Edited : Ponting comes in and Healy drops off.
 
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