What if pace?I'll do ten for each:
Top batsmen :Smith, Sobers, Sachin, Hobbs
Then: Lara, Hutton, Sunil, Richards, Chappell, Hammond.
Top pacers: Hadlee, McGrath, Marshall
Then: Ambrose, Imran, Steyn, Donald, Wasim, Lillee, Trueman.
Top Spinners: Warne, Murali , Bill
Then: Laker, Lock, Verity , Ashwin, Tayfield, Deadly,
***Don't know what the hell Barnes bowled. If spin then same tier as the Murali.
No Grimmett??I'll do ten for each:
Top Spinners: Warne, Murali , Bill
Then: Laker, Lock, Verity , Ashwin, Tayfield, Deadly,
Crap forgot about Clarrie but looking at him and Lock, seems that both bullied the lesser teams and were found wanting vs the stronger teams. But the English lineups Grimmet faced were insane and his record vs them was middling not awful, so replace Lock with Clarie.No Grimmett??
Lock is an interesting choice. Bullied a terrible NZ side which was Bangladesh early 2000 level. I don't know if he'd be one of England's top 10 spinners, let alone the world's.
If pace, I honestly don't know. Probably top tier.What if pace?
The South African batting Clarrie bowled to was brilliant as well Nourse,Mitchell, Rowan,Viljoen, Wk batsman in Cameron and 2 thirty odd averaging batsman. Not saying Clarrie didn’t cash in vs weaker line-up of WI but the SA team Clarrie got 44 wickets in SA was a solid batting line up.Crap forgot about Clarrie but looking at him and Lock, seems that both bullied the lesser teams and were found wanting vs the stronger teams. But the English lineups Grimmet faced were insane and his record vs them was middling not awful, so replace Lock with Clarie.
Plus you know, Lock was a chucker for about 2/3rds of his career (coincidentally the good 2/3rds).No Grimmett??
Lock is an interesting choice. Bullied a terrible NZ side which was Bangladesh early 2000 level. I don't know if he'd be one of England's top 10 spinners, let alone the world's.
Yeah, I meant to write he was a chucker tooPlus you know, Lock was a chucker for about 2/3rds of his career (coincidentally the good 2/3rds).
Top class fielder though.
Your obsession with Weekes is worse than mine with Barrington.Batsmen
S. Smith
Sobers
Lara
Weekes
Bowlers (seam & spin)
McGrath
Murali
Steyn
Ambrose
Allrounders
Imran
Pollock
Hadlee
Miller
And least he didn't say Hayden.Your obsession with Weekes is worse than mine with Barrington.
Probably only in the second tier, with Tendulkar another tier or two down.And least he didn't say Hayden.
Bradman in india: 0 averageAnd least he didn't say Hayden.
Love to see Hammond there, just curious wrt Sobers is he not part of the batsman list because he’s part of the AR list or you just don’t have him quite in that top tier?Batsmen
Hobbs
Hammond
Tendulkar
Quicks
Marshall
McGrath
Hadlee
Ambrose
Spinners
Warne
Murali
O'Reilly
Allrounders
Imran
Sobers
Miller
I actually think Kallis was a better batsman than Sobers, so including him would open a can of worms I didn't really want to do again.Love to see Hammond there, just curious wrt Sobers is he not part of the batsman list because he’s part of the AR list or you just don’t have him quite in that top tier?