Top ten greatest bowlers and batsmen of all time

[weldone]

I don't deny that Sachin is shorter than Dravid.

 

[Chrish]

Batsmen:

1. Bradman
2. Viv
3. Sachin
4. Sobers
4. Lara
5. G chappell
6. Ponting
7. Sanga
8. Dravid & Kallis
9. Gavaskar
10. Hutton & Hobbs

Bowlers:

1. Mcgrath
2. Marshall
3. Muralitharan
4. Lillie
5. Steyn
6. Ambrose
7. Wasim
8. Warne
9. Hadlee
10. Garner

 

[Red]

Current thoughts

Bradman
Sobers
Hobbs
Tendulkar
Hutton
V.Richards
Lara
G.Chappell
Trumper
Kallis

Marshall
McGrath
Hadlee
Ambrose
Lillee
Imran
Wasim
Trueman
Holding
Larwood

O'Reilly
Warne
Murali
Grimmett
Laker

 

[Coronis]

At this point in time...

Bradman
Sobers
Hobbs
Hammond
Tendulkar
Headley
Pollock
Sutcliffe
Sangakkara
Hutton

Marshall - McGrath
Muralitharan
Warne
Hadlee
O'Reilly
Grimmett
Steyn
Ambrose
Wasim

 

[kingkallis]

Why should I feel left out?

/ ( Not considering players who played less than 50 test matches )

Don Bradman
Vivian Richards
Brian Lara
Jack Hobbs
Garry Sobers
Wally Hammond
Sachin Tendulkar
Jacques Kallis
Len Hutton
Ricky Ponting

o ( Not considering players who played less than 50 test matches )

Malcolm Marshall
Glenn McGrath
Dale Steyn
Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
Wasim Akram
Muttiah Muralitharan
Dennis Lillee
Fred Trueman

 

[Chrish]

Will give it a go once again..

Batsmen:

1. Bradman
2. Viv
3. Tendulkar
4. Sobers
5. Lara
6. Gavaskar
7. Ponting
8. Sanga
9. Chappell
10. Kallis

Bowlers:

1. Marshall
2. McGrath
3. Steyn
4. Murali
5. Hadlee
6. Imran
7. Lillie
8. Trueman
9. Wasim
10. Donald

 

[Burgey]

Absolute travesty that TOTAB isn't consistently recognised as second only to Bradman.

 

[stephen]

Absolute travesty that TOTAB isn't consistently recognised as second only to Bradman.

Nah he's third behind Smith now.

 

[Burgey]

Nah, Smith has modelled his determination on Border. He needs to excel at his current level for 156 tests, 153 of them consecutively, to be considered in the same league.

 

[bagapath]

Bradman
Hobbs
Hutton
Sobers
Viv Richards
Tendulkar
Hammond
Lara
Gavaskar
Border


Marshall
Hadlee
McGrath
Warne
Murali
Lillee
Imran
O'Reilley
Ambrose
Steyn

 

[honestbharani]

Bags, you said Lara was > Tendulkar.

 

[Burgey]

Plainly Bagapath's list of batsmen is in reverse order, except Bradman who is so great he automatically goes top.

 

[Zinzan]

Nah, Smith has modelled his determination on Border. He needs to excel at his current level for 156 tests, 153 of them consecutively, to be considered in the same league.

Speaking of Smith, we can't be far away from a thread comparing Smith to Ponting, who's generally considered Aust's 2nd greatest bat ever. Who would have thought that comparison would be anything more than a joke 2 years ago...

 

[Burgey]

Well, he'll need to carry on in this vein for a while yet for that to happen. Ponting was averaging 60 after 100 tests. They use that 52 test streak measure thingy to compare players to Bradman, Ponting's best 52 test spell was an average of 75. Seventy. ****ing. Five. smdh.

 

[Gob]

Speaking of Smith, we can't be far away from a thread comparing Smith to Ponting, who's generally considered Aust's 2nd greatest bat ever. Who would have thought that comparison would be anything more than a joke 2 years ago...

Me

Any who in the times i spent banned, away from CW, got me thinking of most things. Like Bradman, Blocky, Backstreet boys, Kittens, Kites, Unicorns, Aliens, Ted Bundy....Are they all somehow connected or are they all random? Is there a higher power or are we all in a reality tv show created by the extra terrestrials and broadcast-ed all over the universe. Think i'm more spiritual now like Kiwivictor (Also smoked a ton of weed as well). Any who the point is its new me so the best batsmen and bowler list for new me is different to old me so here is the new me list

Batsmen

Bradman
Tendulkar
Richards
Hobbs
Sobers
Lara
Hutton
Chappell
Gavaskar
Hammond

Bowlers

Marshall
Warne
Murali
McGrath
Hadlee
Ambrose
Lillee
Steyn
Imran
Donald

 

[honestbharani]

Out of curiosity Gob, are you listing only the folks you have seen in the bowlers' list? Think Donald wont make many top 10s otherwise.

 

[Red]

Speaking of Smith, we can't be far away from a thread comparing Smith to Ponting, who's generally considered Aust's 2nd greatest bat ever. Who would have thought that comparison would be anything more than a joke 2 years ago...

Maybe.

I consider Greg Chappell to be Australia's second best batsman. He was phenomenal against great bowling.

Then there's Trumper, Harvey, Border to consider.

 

[watson]

Speaking of Smith, we can't be far away from a thread comparing Smith to Ponting, who's generally considered Aust's 2nd greatest bat ever. Who would have thought that comparison would be anything more than a joke 2 years ago...

Chappell and Border are always picked ahead of Ponting in the Australian ATG XI stakes for good reasons.

Wonder how Smith's unorthodox tecnique would go against Roberts, Holding, Marshall, Waqar and Akram?

 

[Shady Slim]

as much as i hate watching him the thing smith does so well is test bowlers' patience

aside from that ranchi second innings i haven't seen a side stack the off side field and belem smith to death, they try it for a bit but then they go for the glory ball and inevitably get flicked for four so easily

 

[Zinzan]

Chappell and Border are always picked ahead of Ponting in the Australian ATG XI stakes for good reasons.

Are they in sides picked after about 2010? And according to whom?