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CW Ranks the Batsmen

Noble One

Noble One

International Vice-Captain
1. Barry Richards - Don Bradman rated him a great, many of his contemparies rated him a great, his first class record is supurb. To rank him the 13th greatest batsman of all time is a suitable honour.

2. Ricky Ponting - This vote could goto anyone. Weekes, Sutcliffe, Ranji, Trumper, etc. But having watched Ricky Ponting over 95% of his test innings I am confident that he deserves his place amongst the best. Since 2000, until his recent form slump, you almost got the feeling a hundred was on the cards every time he walked to the wicket.
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
1. Victor Trumper
2. Ricky Ponting

Two Aussie champs a century apart, but both more than worthy.
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Has no one heard of a brilliant and by far the most graceful batsman ever from the West Indies called Frank Worrell ?
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
I was just browsing though Denzyl Batchelor's wonderful book A Book of Cricket which came out in 1952. It has beautiful pen-portraits of 211 cricketers from Grace to May. At the end of it he selects a world XI tp play a team from Mars.

He makes the assumption that "each player is at his prime and at his best when the team is selected on the day the side plays a timeless Test against a team from Mars"

The team reads

  1. Hobbs
  2. Trumper
  3. Bradman
  4. Fry
  5. Worrell
  6. Compton
  7. Tate
  8. Oldfield
  9. Lockwood
  10. Larwood
  11. Mailey

Of course one may disagree with him and as he says . . .

"Yes, I am aware that this is a personal list. I am aware that Grimmett's average over the years eclipses Mailey's and that many bowlers would rather bowl at Worrell than at Hammond, despite the latter's lack of puissance on the leg side. Still this is my team. I picked it to play Mars in the first Test Match. If it loses, there are four more Tests, aren't there? And there are all the winter evenings for everybody to point out to whoever will listen where I've gone wrong."​

It would have been great if he was a member of CW. :)
 
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