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

[Noble One]

Hobbs, Hammond, Sobers

 

[mr_mister]

I thought about it OS but I'm nearly positive Sehwag wouldn't have made it any further then Round 3 anyway, in his heat who out of Kallis/Dravid/Lara/Ponting/Sanga/Sachin would he have snuk past? None if you ask me so like, sorry but I don't wanna chuck him in this last heat it'l screw things up further.


Round 5, Heat 1:

Sobers (17 votes)
Hobbs (15 votes)
Hammond (8 votes)
Hutton (6 votes)
Headley (5 votes)


Round 5, Heat 2:


vote for your top 3

Greg Chappell
Viv Richards
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Ricky Ponting

vote for your top 3

 

[morgieb]

Greg Chappell
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara

 

[Zinzan]

Since it's test cricket only...

Brian Lara
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar

Sorry Viv...

 

[Burgey]

Richards
Lara
Tendulkar

 

[OverratedSanity]

Viv
Lara
Tendulkar

 

[Coronis]

Chappell
Lara
Tendulkar

 

[OverratedSanity]

Chappell over Viv? Gotta be joking.

 

[Zinzan]

Weird you'd think Chappell or Ponting over Richards would be that contentious, I'd not like he was rating Sehwag ahead of Viv or something like that.

There's really not much between those 5 batsmen to warrant that sort of shock.

 

[honestbharani]

Richards
Lara
Tendulkar

This

 

[Coronis]

Chappell over Viv? Gotta be joking.

Afraid not, sorry my opinion doesn't match up to yours.

 

[honestbharani]

Lol.. OS has pretty much been dng this all thread. It's almost as if he doesn't get how good these batsmen are and how close in quality they are to each other. Ultimately it's mostly personal preference I feel.

 

[Zinzan]

Afraid not, sorry my opinion doesn't match up to yours.

Yeah that was quite weird at this stage in the selection.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Afraid not, sorry my opinion doesn't match up to yours.

Yeah. Disappointing.

 

[Prince EWS]

Tendulkar
Lara
Richards

 

[mr_mister]

Sachin
Lara
Punter

 

[ankitj]

Richards
Lara
Tendulkar

 

[ankitj]

Tendulkar
Lara
Richards

Didn't you always argue that Richards was overrated in test cricket?

 

[Prince EWS]

Didn't you always argue that Richards was overrated in test cricket?

Yep. Most people have him in their ATG XI or very close to that, and I don't really have him quite in that frame. That doesn't mean I don't think he was better in Tests than Chappell or Ponting though.

 

[Victor Ian]

Richards
Tendulkar
Lara