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Top 10 openers of all time ??
- Thread starter Chrish
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Patience and Accuracy+Gut
State Vice-Captain
J.B Hobbs
Hutton
Sutcliffe/Gavasker(Can’t separate)
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Other 5-
Smith
Boycott
Greenidge
Sehwag
Morris
Hutton
Sutcliffe/Gavasker(Can’t separate)
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Other 5-
Smith
Boycott
Greenidge
Sehwag
Morris
trundler
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Richards batted at 3.
Patience and Accuracy+Gut
State Vice-Captain
Barry Richards played only 4 Tests
Fuller Pilch
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Lol
trundler
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Well you know where I stand on this one mate
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
This. Close thread.
In the 25-man ESPN "Legends of Cricket" (2001) so ignoring anyone debuting post '95, they had 5 openers:
Grace
Hobbs
Hutton
Gavaskar
B. Richards
(no Sutcliffe interestingly)
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Well done. I've tried to edit thread titles in the past and failed.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
In April/May this year CW voted on openers.
This was the top 25:
Hobbs
Hutton
Gavaskar
Sutcliffe
Boycott
Smith
Simpson
Greenidge
Sehwag
Richards
Hayden
Gooch
Morris
Lawry
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Cook
Mitchell
Ponsford
Hanif
Turner
Hunte
Woodfull
Barnes
Kirsten
Langer
This was the top 25:
Hobbs
Hutton
Gavaskar
Sutcliffe
Boycott
Smith
Simpson
Greenidge
Sehwag
Richards
Hayden
Gooch
Morris
Lawry
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Cook
Mitchell
Ponsford
Hanif
Turner
Hunte
Woodfull
Barnes
Kirsten
Langer
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Gavaskar
Hobbs
Hutton
Rest
Hobbs
Hutton
Rest
trundler
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Oh god don't remind me of the absurdity of having Richards over Hayden but not Sehwag.
Pap Finn Keighl
International Debutant
Gavaskar
Hutton
Hobbs
WG
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B. Richards
Suttcliffe
Boycott
Sehwag
Greenidge
Hutton
Hobbs
WG
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B. Richards
Suttcliffe
Boycott
Sehwag
Greenidge
Slifer
International Captain
Yeah I don't think there's a gulf between those three and Hertbert but to each his own...
Chrish
International Debutant
There is an arrow right below the thread title.
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Click on the arrow and it lets you edit the title and also add the poll if you are an OP of the thread. I didn’t know this feature was there before.
Red_Ink_Squid
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Genuine question: I know you rate Greenidge highly and think Barry is greatly overrated. How do you reconcile this with them playing so many FC games together for Hampshire and Barry being generally seen as (slightly) the better of the two when they were a power couple?