Because we had 158 players nominated. Needs a better mathematician than me to figure a way this could be done with even numbers in each battle and without 79-way battles.
2 way battles
Yeah, well done. What do you do when you're down to 79?2 way battles
Yeah, it can be hard. We tend to have a greater affinity to the blokes we've either grown up with or seen in action - when it comes to the old-timers I suppose I have certain particular heroes that I grew up reading about and being inspired by in some way. I guess it works both ways - the old-timers suffer on the one hand because I never saw them in action, but benefit on another insofar as I probably over-romanticise them as both players and human beings.
Hey, I was onyl asking the original question you asked. I've got no issues with 4s and 3s myself
I'm hoping I can count on your vote when it comes to MW Tate, who definitely falls into that category for me? I'm terrified that he's going to get a pummelling in the voting against some 23-year-old T20 specialist.
That'll be the final then.
Old Maurice seems, like Bedser, to have been both a wonderful bowler and a wonderful bloke - I reckon you can be 80-90% assured of my vote for him. My caveat is that there are probably still half a dozen or so particular all time favourites of mine yet to emerge, and who I would be honour bound to vote for ahead of Tate should the unfortunate happen and they get drawn against him.
