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Slifer

Slifer

International Captain
Rank the top 5 test teams by their propensity to produce very good/great of a certain type of cricketer(s). I'll go first:

Openers

England
Australia
India
WI
Pakistan

Middle order batsmen

Australia
England
WI
India
Pakistan

Spinners

Australia
India
England
Sri Lanka
Pakistan

Fast Bowlers

WI
Australia
RSA
Pakistan
England

Fielders

Australia
RSA
NZ
ENG
WI

ALL rounders

RSA
England
India
Australia
Nz

WK (keeping only)

England
Australia
RSA
India
Nz
 
Gob

Gob

International Coach
WI comfortably and India probably ahead of England at producing middle order batsmen. Sobers, Richards, Lara, Headley I mean they are pretty close to Australia if not as good

I mean let's look at the top 10 of each

Aus

Bradman
Smith
Chappell GS
Ponting
Border
Waugh SR
Clarke
Harvey
Gilchrist
Walters

WI

Sobers
Richards
Lara
Headley
Chanderpaul
Walcott
Lloyd
Worrel
Richardson
Weeks

Maybe Australia slightly ahead
 
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Gob

Gob

International Coach
India

Tendulkar
Dravid
Kohli
VVS
Pujara
Azar
Merchant
Vengsakar
Ganguly
Rahane

Rubbish binny and whodafakeesdhawan unlucky to miss out
 
Slifer

Slifer

International Captain
Gob said:
WI comfortably and India probably ahead of England at producing middle order batsmen. Sobers, Richards, Lara, Headley I mean they are pretty close to Australia if not as good

I mean let's look at the top 10 of each

Aus

Bradman
Smith
Chappell GS
Ponting
Border
Waugh SR
Clarke
Harvey
Gilchrist
Walters

WI

Sobers
Richards
Lara
Headley
Chanderpaul
Walcott
Lloyd
Worrel
Richardson
Weeks

Maybe Australia slightly ahead
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I'd replace Richardson with Kanhai personally. The thing with the WI though, is that it looks like we've just about hit a brick wall when it comes to producing even decent middle order batsmen. Even when Australia and England were at their lowest, they still produced Border, Dean Jones, Gower, Robin Smith etc. WI don't look close to having those types of prospects on the horizon.
 
J

Jack1

International Debutant
Gob said:
Hmm

SA

Kallis
Proctor
Pollock
Faulkner
McMillan

England

Botham
Flintoff
Stokes
Grieg
Grace
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Don't think this is simple

Dev
Ashwin
Jadeja
Mankad
Shastri

SA are definitely not a long way ahead. I suspect India are just ahead of SA to be honest. India's combined wickets per game looks like it might be overwhelming without working it out.

(Those 5 aren't necessarily the best for this for SA and England)
 
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Gob

Gob

International Coach
Spanners

Warne
O'Rielly
Grimmett
Benaud
McGill

Was not aware of the fact that Grimmett has 21 five fers and almost 80 additional wickets to O'Rielly (quite a lot at the time) and a better SR yet O'Rielly was universally regarded as the better bowler. Anyone know why?

India

Kumble
Ashwin
Chandrasekar
Prasanna
Jadeja

Tried to do Eng and Sl but couldn't think of five each
 
F

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
Gob said:
Hmm

SA

Kallis
Proctor
Pollock
Faulkner
McMillan

England

Botham
Flintoff
Stokes
Grieg
Grace
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Jack7 said:
Don't think this is simple

Dev
Ashwin
Jadeja
Mankad
Shastri

SA are definitely not a long way ahead. I suspect India are just ahead of SA to be honest. India's combined wickets per game looks like it might be overwhelming without working it out.

(Those 5 aren't necessarily the best for this for SA and England)
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NZ are ahead of India:
Hadlee
Cairns
Reid
Oram
Vettori
De Grandhomme
 
Gob

Gob

International Coach
TheJediBrah said:
really?
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Almost 3000 FC wickets at 18 with 240 five fers. Ofcourse those stats should be taken with a grain of salt given the era but I've been told that the Santa claus like mother ****er we normally associate as Grace was not the case in his younger days. He was fit and athletic individual who excelled at many sports like AB DeVilliers but unlike DeVilliers it was true
 
Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
Would be a more fun exercise by decades.

Like 2010s


Spinners (Don't exist)
India
Pakistan
Pakistan
Australia
Bangladesh

Openers
India
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
England
etc
 
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_00_deathscar

International Regular
Slifer said:
Rank the top 5 test teams by their propensity to produce very good/great of a certain type of cricketer(s). I'll go first:

Openers

England
Australia
India
WI
Pakistan

Middle order batsmen

Australia
England
WI
India
Pakistan

Spinners

Australia
India
England
Sri Lanka
Pakistan

Fast Bowlers

WI
Australia
RSA
Pakistan
England

Fielders

Australia
RSA
NZ
ENG
WI

ALL rounders

RSA
England
India
Australia
Nz

WK (keeping only)

England
Australia
RSA
India
Nz
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Surely propensity should take into account a regular flow? How are England ranking ahead of India in producing middle order bats?
 
F

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
South Africa definitely top of all rounders

Kallis
Procter
Pollock
Faulkner
Goddard
Sinclair
Barlow
Rice
Philander
Klusener
 
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