CricAddict
Cricketer Of The Year
This is the most fiercely competed top 8 that I have seen in CW polls.
The semi finals!
Please only vote for your top 2 this time around
Pumping the final 8 into the randomiser...
Group 1:
Don Bradman
Allan Border
Imran Khan
Frank Worrell
Group 2:
Richie Benaud
Clive Lloyd
Douglas Jardine
Mike Brearley
Benaud and ImranThe final:
Vote for your top 2!
Frank Worrell
Imran Khan
Douglas Jardine
Richie Benaud
In Tom Graveney's book "The 10 Greatest Test Teams" (which considers 10 of the best teams in the 40 years after the war), 5 of the teams were captained by players listed above (obviously not Jardine and it was a bit too early for Border and Imran's teams). Graveney ranks their captaincy as follows:Results:
Group 1:
Frank Worrell (15 votes)
Imran Khan (12 votes)
Allan Border (10 votes)
Don Bradman (5 votes)
Group 2:
Douglas Jardine (12 votes)
Richie Benaud (12 votes)
Mike Brearley (10 votes)
Clive Lloyd (8 votes)
What a round. We only kept 1 out of the 3 aussies, Richie Benaud of all people who I honestly didn't know was rated so highly as a captain