CW's Ranking of Spinners (Tests)

[CricAddict]

Yeah Herath for me too.

 

[HookShot]

Bishan Bedi

 

[morgieb]

Herath - 433 wickets @ 28.07 (SR 60, Econ 2.80)
Harbhajan - 417 @ 32.46 (68.5, 2.84)
Lyon - 415 @ 31.79 (64.2, 2.96)
Swann - 255 @ 29.96 (60.1, 2.98)
Chandraskehar - 242 @ 29.74 (65.9, 2.7)
Ravi Jadeja - 232 wickets @ 24.84 (61.7, 2.41)
Rhodes - 127 wickets @ 26.96 (64.7, 2.49)

I think the two that are probably the closest out of those were Chandra and His Roundness. The average gap between Benaud and Harbhajan/Lyon is massive, whereas Swann's Test career wasn't very long + probably replicated his peak. Jadeja's had the advantage of a very home-skewed record while Rhodes did it in an era of bowling that was pretty simple.

And I guess I just have a slight bias against Asian spinners, especially if they largely dominate at home.

Here I'll go Herath.

 

[Xix2565]

The Answer for me (Jadeja).

 

[honestbharani]

I dunno if Jadeja makes it in the spinners list but its definitely stupid if he does not make the allrounders list soon.

 

[_00_deathscar]

I dunno if Jadeja makes it in the spinners list but its definitely stupid if he does not make the allrounders list soon.

Yea which then compounds the point - like I said, let's see how this goes but there's a very real chance that he's outside the top 20 in spinners and outside the top 15 or so in all rounders. Which is nuts.

For the record I have no problem with the current all rounder ranking or those included above him so far...but he should be getting his spot very, very soon if not next up.

But let's see...don't fail me CW.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Chandra is underrated imo. Probably indias first match winner away from home and bowled some legendary spells. Good numbers all around the world. Would have him over fatty much as I love him.

 

[CricAddict]

Yea which then compounds the point - like I said, let's see how this goes but there's a very real chance that he's outside the top 20 in spinners and outside the top 15 or so in all rounders. Which is nuts.

For the record I have no problem with the current all rounder ranking or those included above him so far...but he should be getting his spot very, very soon if not next up.

But let's see...don't fail me CW.

Totally my stance too. Those who have been voted so far are better but Jadeja does deserve to be top 20 in spinners and top 15 in all-rounders. That will be perfectly valid.

But I am not too confident on that based on the stance that various cw voters are taking. Let's see.

 

[The Sean]

As for my Benaud vote, I suppose I am quite enamoured with how good his peak was from 1956-1959 - he had a 17-Test run where he took 110 wickets at 19, with 11 five-fors. He was an incredibly prolific wicket-taker during that period.

Obviously, I acknowledge that also means he was less successful during the other parts of his career either side of that, though I tend to be a bit generous and give him a bit of a pass for the early years when he was a young bits-and-pieces player trying to establish himself in the side.

 

[gftw]

Chandra - 4
Rhodes - 2
Jadeja - 2
Saqlain - 1
Ramadhin - 1
Wardle - 1
Herath - 5
Bedi - 1

The List
1. Muttiah Muralitharan
2. Shane Warne
3. Bill O'Reilly
4. Jim Laker
5. Clarrie Grimmett
6. Hedley Verity
7. Hugh Tayfield
8. Anil Kumble
9. Derek Underwood
10. Lance Gibbs
11. Ravichandran Ashwin
12. Richie Benaud
13. Rangana Herath

The vote for the #14 test spinner of all-time begins now.

 

[ataraxia]

Rhodes

 

[ankitj]

Based on DoG's rating, spinners rank as below:

1. Murali
2. Warne
3. O'Reilly
4. Grimmett
5. Ashwin
6. Kumble
7. Herath
8. Laker
9. Jadeja
10. Tayfield

I think I can live with that. Voting after top 5 spinners is arbitrary because folks vote based on who they can remember rather than relative merit (just like fast bowlers after top ~20).

 

[The Sean]

Could be any one of a bunch of great spinners next up, so it seems as good a time as any for this one:

Sonny Ramadhin

 

[Line and Length]

Johnny Wardle I gave you his Test stats (ave 20.3) and his FC figures are also impressive (1846w @ 18.9).

 

[Xix2565]

Jadeja

 

[Bolo.]

The Answer

...

for me (Jadeja).

Redundant.

 

[Xix2565]

...

Redundant.

Sorry about that.

 

[harsh.ag]

Chandra

 

[OverratedSanity]

Chandra

 

[Nikhil99.99]

Bedi