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Top 20 greatest batsmen of all time

SillyCowCorner1

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1. Kallis
2. Kallis
3.Kallis
Mine which changes every few minutes:

1 Bradman
2 Sachin
3 Hobbs
4 Viv
5 Sobers
6 Hutton
7 Lara
8 Gavaskar
9 Chappell
10 Hammond
11 Ponting
12 Sutcliffe
13 Sangakkara
14 Kallis
15 Border
16 Barrington
17 Dravid
18 Waugh
19 Headley
20 Walcott

Won't consider current players until they retire. And except for Bradman my list is pretty fickle.

Kallis >Border

Ohh yeah.
 

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
Where have I seen this list before?

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
 

ZK$

U19 Cricketer
Where have I seen this list before?

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
This looks pretty similar to my top 20 actually. I probably wouldn’t have Barrington in the top 20 though. Headley and Pollock are hard to rank as well.
 

subshakerz

International Coach
There is no point doing a top ten as we don't know where Smith ends up.

Bradman obviously no.1

The rest of the top five should be Tendulkar, Sobers, Viv and Hobbs and you can rearrange them in any order frankly as they are all close enough.

Lara too flawed for the top five ever.
 

Adorable Asshole

International Regular
There is no point doing a top ten as we don't know where Smith ends up.

Bradman obviously no.1

The rest of the top five should be Tendulkar, Sobers, Viv and Hobbs and you can rearrange them in any order frankly as they are all close enough.

Lara too flawed for the top five ever.
And Lara has played the most flawless innings than the "top five"

Also Gavaskar > Sobers. Opener > No.6
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Bradman
Sobers
V.Richards
Hutton
Lara
Hobbs
Tendulkar
G.Chappell
 

Fuller Pilch

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Williamson
Crowe
Turner
Donnelly
Taylor
Dempster
Conway
Jones
(the exciting) Sutcliffe
Reid (JF)
Mitchell
Richardson
Wright
Ryder
Fleming
Watling
Latham
Coney
2 from McCullum/Astle/Nicholls/Blundell
 

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Williamson
Crowe
Turner
Donnelly
Taylor
Dempster
Conway
Jones
(the exciting) Sutcliffe
Reid (JF)
Mitchell
Richardson
Wright
Ryder
Fleming
Watling
Latham
Coney
2 from McCullum/Astle/Nicholls/Blundell
Craig McMillan has a few of those covered
 

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