Who Is The Second Greatest Batsman Ever?

[Himannv]

With 13 joke votes going to Hobbs and 9 to Martin shows the value of these polls.

Ahem, whats so bad about Jack Hobbs?

 

[Streetwise]

Ahem, whats so bad about Jack Hobbs?

Nothing wrong with Hobbs, voting him second best is comical and shows how unreliable and funny these polls are.

 

[Pratters]

Yeah, the lack of Barry Richards in the poll in disappointing. Deserves to be on the list more than quite a few of those names.

Thought about putting him but forgot to put any one after I did those with averages of 50. Careless.

 

[Pratters]

4 votes for richards and 15 for sachin?

Richards doesn't compare to Tendulkar in tests IMO.

 

[GuyFromLancs]

Would make the whole study of any kind of history pointless if you go along with that logic.

(Maybe you are right and I am doing the wrong degree)

I have an interest in history myself, but I don't recall comparing the respective merits of Henry VIII compared to Elizabeth II on a seaming track.

 

[GotSpin]

I have an interest in history myself, but I don't recall comparing the respective merits of Henry VIII compared to Elizabeth II on a seaming track.

Feminist interpretation of history IMO.

 

[GuyFromLancs]

I said it can give you a good first impression but that said first impression needs to be tempered.

I feel you can form a fair assessment without an instinctive impression formed by watching a player as a game was unfolding (ie, when you didn't know what you were about to be shown before you were shown it).

You seem to be confusing instinct with first impressions. I said that you can only get a feeling for how good a player really is if you were around when he was.

 

[GuyFromLancs]

Feminist interpretation of history IMO.

What is?

 

[Himannv]

Nothing wrong with Hobbs, voting him second best is comical and shows how unreliable and funny these polls are.

Personally I think Hobbs is a more than decent shout for second best. He's arguably the most prolific batsman of all time and he's been consistent for more than 2 decades.

 

[GotSpin]

What is?

Was only joking about a comparative interpretation between Henry VIII and Elizabeth II. Don't mind me *whistles*

 

[GuyFromLancs]

Was only joking about a comparative interpretation between Henry VIII and Elizabeth II. Don't mind me *whistles*

Fair enough. You just lost me. It is Monday morning here

 

[GotSpin]

Fair enough. You just lost me. It is Monday morning here

Yeah it was a fairly poor joke. It's monday night here.

 

[bagapath]

With 13 joke votes going to Hobbs and 9 to Martin shows the value of these polls.

i voted for hobbs. and i definitely didnt mean to be funny.

for someone to score 5000+ runs at a 50+ average starting his test career well before WW1, when a 30+ avg was more difficult to attain than a 50+ avg these days, is phenomenal. there are no gaps in his resume. he is definitely one of the leading candidates for the no 2 spot.

 

[bagapath]

Richards doesn't compare to Tendulkar in tests IMO.

really pratters? i am willing to give tendulkar the nod in ODIs. as a test batsman, i think viv should be comfortably ahead of sachin. he revived the art of attacking batsmanship 60 years after trumper and jessop hit their last boundaries in test cricket. gilchrist, jayasuriya, hayden, sehwag, pietersen, de silva and dhoni are all his bastards.

 

[The Sean]

Went for Sir Jack - England's greatest Test batsman, and the greatest of all Test openers IMHO.

Disappointed, given the "best average" criteria on the poll, not to see SG Barnes. I can only assume you've got a 20 innings cut-off (and Barnes only played 19) but it's worth nothing that even had he played that 20th innings and scored zero, his average would still be beaten only by Pollock, Headley and Sutcliffe on that list.

 

[The Sean]

Hobbs. You don't score 5410 @ 56.94 by being average. And he backs up that with his 61760 FC runs. Sheer weight of numbers put him ahead for me.

61,237 for me. I'll be in the cold, cold ground before I acknowledge those extra 500-odd runs they've recently given Hobbs retrospectively for matches that not even he thought should be counted.

 

[fredfertang]

I went for WG - obviously I never saw him bat, never spoke to anyone who did and have just seen the usual posed photographs and that tiny clip of him in the nets when he was well into his 50's - that said I still think he's an easy choice by virtue of the degree of his dominance over his peers when he was in his prime - I can never get away from the stat, that I've quoted here several times, that when he scored his 50th First Class century no one else had scored more than 10

 

[Pothas]

I have an interest in history myself, but I don't recall comparing the respective merits of Henry VIII compared to Elizabeth II on a seaming track.

Henry VIII basically was basically Ian Botham, would have been great in his younger days.

Elizabeth II no match for her namesake, she would have been great on any tricky wicket.

 

[pasag]

YouTube - Barry Richards 129 Hampshire Vs Lancashire 1972

 

[Faisal1985]

Why wouldn't be Inzi part of the list.....