CW Ranks the Batsmen

[sammy2]

headley

 

[bagapath]

I'd pay a lot of money to have the chance to watch Sutcliffe scoring at 1.5 runs per over on a minefield.

so would i, for sure. but in the context of this thread there are 10/15 batsmen to watch whom i would pay more, that's all. but let me underline the fact that sutcliffe's greatness is beyond argument.

 

[zaremba]

Ha ha, correct.

Makes me laugh when people on here, when you post a top 10, always say, "a travesty when these players are left out: and names about 10 players of their own."

Anyone realise that 20 doesn't go into 10?

Well believe it or not the thought had occurred to me...

In my previous post I was just revelling in the exquisite agony of having to perm 10 from 20

 

[SJS]

This reminds me of a certain thread... :

 

[stephen]

I'm gonna throw out a vote for Dudley Nourse, just based on the fact that I think he needs to be considered.

Hutton
D Nourse

 

[weldone]

So mate Shiv is classy, but he'd struggle to make West Indies all time top 10 batsman, let alone World top 10.

No team except Australia has produced so many world-class batsmen as West Indies has done starting from the 40s.

With regards to Chanderpaul's relative position among those greats, I personally think that he should definitely be out of the top 6.

If the great West Indian batsmen are divided into two tiers, in tier I there should be 6 players who must be among world's top 25 batsmen of all time. They are Sobers, Headley, Lara, Richards, Walcott and Weekes (not necessarily in that order).

There are some other absolutely fine batsmen (and definitely world-class) who will be in a tier below. Some of them might be pushing for a position in world's top 25. If not, all of them must be among the top 50 or so. Greenidge, Worrell, Kanhai, Haynes, Lloyd, Kalicharan and, yes, Chanderpaul belong to that category.

 

[adharcric]

Vote for #11 batsman of all-time

Hutton looks to have this one.

1. Don Bradman
2. Jack Hobbs
3. Garry Sobers
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Viv Richards
6. WG Grace
7. Wally Hammond
8. Brian Lara
9. Greg Chappell
10. Len Hutton

The vote for the #11 batsman of all-time begins now.

 

[weldone]

Maybe, just maybe, because stats do not always tell everything. If stats and averages did tell it all there would be no reason whatsoever, to ever ask a player, "Who was the greatest of your time?" A computer could answer that better and faster, and be more reliable and consistent.

Stats and averages are not the same thing though. Statistics is not only about averages, or strike rates etc., it is not even just a combination of all these. A good statistical analyst uses many many more factors to draw a conclusion, and he is sound in his approach, though needless to say that statistical analysts are rarely 'good'. Having said all these, statistics is good only for measuring performances. It can never ever claim to measure talent or potential. That's why there is much more to cricket than statistics. However, while measuring performances, I would prefer a sound statistical analysis more than anything else.

 

[weldone]

1. George Headley
2. (to be filled in later, perhaps)

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Ranji
Miandad

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Sutcliffe
Pollock

 

[The Sean]

Can't really fault that top 10. What a line up.

1. George Headley
2. Sunil Gavaskar

 

[Johnners]

Ricky Ponting
George Headley

 

[honestbharani]

Miandad
Gavaskar

 

[silentstriker]

Sutcliffe
Gavaskar

 

[silentstriker]

Hutton looks to have this one.

1. Don Bradman
2. Jack Hobbs
3. Garry Sobers
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Viv Richards
6. WG Grace
7. Wally Hammond
8. Brian Lara
9. Greg Chappell
10. Len Hutton

The vote for the #11 batsman of all-time begins now.

That's an excellent top ten IMO.

 

[bagapath]

sunil gavaskar
george headley

 

[pasag]

Trumper
Headley

Gavaskar does need to get in ASAP though.

 

[Pothas]

George Headley
Herbert Sutcliffe

 

[Fusion]

Sutcliffe
Headley