CW chooses the second greatest batsman ever redux, 100 men from 5 eras whittled to 1

[Zinzan]

Graeme Pollock
Barry Richards
Greg Chappell
Sunil Gavaskar
Gordon Greenidge

 

[kingkallis]

Graeme Pollock
Barry Richards
Greg Chappell
Sunil Gavaskar
Gordon Greenidge

 

[Victor Ian]

Graeme Pollock
Doug Walters
Geoff Boycott
Clive Lloyd
Barry Richards
Zaheer Abbas
Greg Chappell
Sunil Gavaskar
Alvin Kallicharran
Gordon Greenidge

 

[mr_mister]

5th and 6th are separated by only 1 vote so I'll leave this open a few more hours

 

[honestbharani]

Doug Walters
Zaheer Abbas
Greg Chappell
Sunil Gavaskar
Gordon Greenidge

 

[mr_mister]

Round 1, Heat 6:


Greg Chappell (17 votes)
Sunil Gavaskar (17 votes)
Graeme Pollock (15 votes)
Gordon Greenidge (13 votes)
Clive Lloyd (8 votes)
Barry Richards (7 votes)
Geoff Boycott (2 votes)
Zaheer Abbas (2 votes)
Doug Walters (2 votes)
Alvin Kallicharran(0 votes)


Round 1, Heat 7

Viv Richards
Graham Gooch
Javed Miandad
David Gower
Allan Border
Martin Crowe
Alec Stewart
Mohammad Azharuddin
Aravinda De Silva
Steve Waugh

 

[OverratedSanity]

Viv
Border
Waugh
Miandad
Crowe

 

[Prince EWS]

Javed Miandad
Viv Richards
Allan Border
Steve Waugh
Mohammad Azharuddin

 

[morgieb]

Viv
Border
Waugh
Miandad
Crowe

This.

 

[harsh.ag]

Round 1, Heat 6:


Greg Chappell (17 votes)
Sunil Gavaskar (17 votes)
Graeme Pollock (15 votes)
Gordon Greenidge (13 votes)
Clive Lloyd (8 votes)
Barry Richards (7 votes)
Geoff Boycott (2 votes)
Zaheer Abbas (2 votes)
Doug Walters (2 votes)
Alvin Kallicharran(0 votes)

Joke.

Round 1, Heat 7

Viv Richards
Graham Gooch
Javed Miandad
David Gower
Allan Border
Martin Crowe
Alec Stewart
Mohammad Azharuddin
Aravinda De Silva
Steve Waugh

 

[OverratedSanity]

Javed Miandad
Viv Richards
Allan Border
Steve Waugh
Mohammad Azharuddin

Azharuddin over Crowe?

 

[Prince EWS]

Azharuddin over Crowe?

Yeah. Azharuddin under-rated on CW IMO.

I don't suspect I really rate Crowe lower than the rest of you do unless he'd actually be in your top four.

 

[Zinzan]

Martin Crowe
Javed Miandad
Viv Richards
Allan Border
Steve Waugh

 

[harsh.ag]

Would have Gooch over Azhar too. Then it's quite equal between the rest.

 

[Zinzan]

Yeah. Azharuddin under-rated on CW IMO.

I don't suspect I really rate Crowe lower than the rest of you do unless he'd actually be in your top four.

I suspect you do if you consider Azharuddin the better bat overall. Crowe is definitely one of a few batsmen around considerably better than their average suggests. As has been harped upon several times, he was picked too early against Lillee and Thomson & finished playing virtually on one leg. The majority of his career he was a >50 batsmen, and he played in the era of Marshall, Imran, Garner, Akram, Younus etc and pretty much got the better of all of them.

 

[watson]

Can't leave out the batsman who played the greatest innings of all time according to the much vaunted book 'Masterly Batting' by Chasingthedon and Fred et al.

Quite like this round as I was able to choose 5 batsman who were both great and critical to the success of their respective teams.


Viv Richards
Graham Gooch
Javed Miandad
Allan Border
Martin Crowe

 

[Zinzan]

Gooch's 333?

 

[Red]

Viv Richards
Graham Gooch
Javed Miandad
David Gower
Allan Border
Martin Crowe
Alec Stewart
Mohammad Azharuddin
Aravinda De Silva
Steve Waugh


Real toss up between Gooch and Waugh for that fifth spot. Could've gone either way.

 

[Mike5181]

Viv Richards
Javed Miandad
Allan Border
Steve Waugh
Martin Crowe

 

[Coronis]

Richards
Border
Miandad
Waugh
Crowe