Nikhil99.99
U19 Cricketer
Joe root
It's not an unreasonable call. Hill was certainly more consistently productive, and as Phil Derriman wrote if you wanted one of them to bat for your life you may well have chosen Hill. There's just a romantic wonder about Trumper that has never gone away, and while I'm not one to just blindly accept peer ratings - we all know that feelings can get in the way of facts - I also don't discount them on the basis of a decimal point in averages. When there's one bloke who virtually everyone else who played with or against him, or saw him close at hand, is so in awe of to the point that they elevate him to an entire other level, that does count for something in my books.
So Boycott got 1 vote and 3 votes in the same round. Quite impressive. Some of these being named before him are beyond ludicrous.Simpson - 1
Boycott - 1
De Villiers - 5
Boycott - 3
Gilchrist - 1
Worrell - 1
Williamson - 1
Trumper - 2
Hill - 1
Root - 1
Flower - 1
The List
1. Don Bradman
2. Jack Hobbs
3. Garry Sobers
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Viv Richards
6. Brian Lara
7. Len Hutton
8. Wally Hammond
9. Sunil Gavaskar
10. Steve Smith
11. George Headley
12. Herbert Sutcliffe
13. Greg Chappell
14. Ricky Ponting
15. Graeme Pollock
16. Kumar Sangakkara
17. Allan Border
18. Jacques Kallis
19. Steve Waugh
20. Ken Barrington
21. Javed Mindad
22. Rahul Dravid
23. Everton Weekes
24. Denis Compton
25. Younis Khan
26. Clyde Walcott
27. Dudley Nourse
28. AB de Villiers
The vote for the #29 test batsman of all-time begins now.
It would have been a better protest if you had voted for Geoffrey instead of Kane since your vote would have got Geoffrey ahead of AB.I only voted Williamson last round as a protest against AB. Voting for Geoffrey