CW's 100 Greatest Cricketers Poll

[subshakerz]

Ambrose
Steyn
Smith
Gavaskar
Lillee
Chappell
Headley
O'Reilly
Trueman
Border

Bro did Steyn fall a bit in your rankings? Thought you had him ahead of Ambrose.

 

[Brook's side]

Odds of Bumrah coming 41st?

 

[Brook's side]

Keepers didn't stand next to the stumps while keeping Larwood.
Some footage from the bodyline series:-

And don't really get how hobbs got into all of these.

Viv would be hitting those out of the ground.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Viv would be hitting those out of the ground.

Lol shows what you know. Viv wasn't even born.

 

[Brook's side]

Larwood does look useful in fairness.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Viv would be hitting those out of the ground.

With those bats he would be lucky to go past the mid wicket fielder

 

[Brook's side]

With those bats he would be lucky to go past the mid wicket fielder

Didn't even have stickers.

Edit: Actually, although I read that bats changed very little from the 30s to the 60s, I see that Everton Weekes (who smashed it) only hit 2 test match 6s, so you're probably right.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Alan Border
Allan Donald
Kumar Sangakkara
Alan Davidson
Ricky Ponting
Ray Lindwall
Joel Garner
Kapil Dev
Rahul Dravid
Frank Worrell

 

[sayon basak]

Viv would be hitting those out of the ground.

And that would prove something? Bradman averaged 56.57 in that series, which is his lowest in any series and still higher than Viv's career average.

 

[Brook's side]

And that would prove something? Bradman averaged 56.57 in that series, which is his lowest in any series and still higher than Viv's career average.

If Viv really was hitting those out of the ground, then it would prove something, yes.

 

[sayon basak]

If Viv really was hitting those out of the ground, then it would prove something, yes.

What would that prove? Larwood was actually bowling slow and don was a ****?

 

[Brook's side]

What would that prove? Larwood was actually bowling slow and don was a ****?

If that video showed one batsman getting hit in the chest, another falling over, another getting bowled, another jumping out of the way etc, and then showed Viv coming to the crease and smashing Larwood out of the ground, flaying him around the park and hitting him out of the attack, you don't think that would prove anything?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Please take it to a separate Bradman thread ffs. This thread is a vote for 100 best cricketers don't clutter it with irrelevant debates it must make counting the votes a pain.

 

[Bitmap]

Graeme Pollock
Herbert Sutcliffe
Ray Lindwall
Ricky Ponting
Victor Trumper
Allan Border
KS Ranjitsinhji
Allan Donald
Kumar Sangakkara
Alan Davidson

 

[centurymaker]

Ponting
Border
Donald
Waqar
Dravid
Waugh
SPollock
Garner
Dev
GPollock

 

[capt_Luffy]

As votes are less in this round than prior and people are still voting, I will keep this round open for an additional 2 hours.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

Sutcliffe
Lindwall
Ponting
Garner
Waqar
G.Pollock
Border
Trumper
Worrell
Donald

 

[capt_Luffy]

18 voters. Not bad. Again another clean round where the top end looks very well rounded. The players to almost make the last round all features here. There are two sets of tied players making in this round, and the 12th spot is also tied. As Border and Lindwall also tied on votes obtained, I am using my vote as a tie breaker. Hence, the one I voted lower (Lindwall here) gets ahead.
Here is the list:

Playera	Points	Votes
Herbert Sutcliffe	89	12
Ricky Ponting	86	13
Ray Lindwall	81	13
Allan Border	81	13
Joel Garner	79	13
Allan Donald	78	13
Kumar Sangakkara	59	9
Graeme Pollock	41	7
Steve Waugh	29	6
Shaun Pollock	29	5
Barry Richards	28	4
K S Ranjitsinhji	23	5
Victor Trumper	23	5
Waqar Younis	20	5
Everton Weekes	18	3
Kapil Dev	17	4
Alan Knott	17	4
Mike Procter	17	3
Alan Davidson	15	4
Ken Barrington	15	2
A B de Villiers	14	2
Frank Worrell	13	5
Rahul Dravid	10	4
Michael Holding	9	4
Fred Spofforth	9	1
Clyde Walcott	7	1
Wilfred Rhodes	5	1
Ravichandran Ashwin	4	1
James Anderson	3	1
Virat Kohli	2	1
Clarrie Grimmett	2	1
Clive Lloyd	1	1
Ravindra Jadeja	1	1

Here is the Top 40 list:

Rank	Players
1	Don Bradman
2	Garry Sobers
3	Imran Khan
4	W G Grace
5	Sachin Tendulkar
6	Richard Hadlee
7	Jack Hobbs
8	Malcolm Marshall
9	Viv Richards
10	Glenn McGrath
11	Shane Warne
12	Mutthiah Muralitharan
13	Jacques Kallis
14	Keith Miller
15	Brian Lara
16	Wally Hammond
17	Len Hutton
18	Adam Gilchrist
19	Wasim Akram
20	Sydney Barnes
21	Curtly Ambrose
22	Dale Steyn
23	Sunil Gavaskar
24	Steve Smith
25	Dennis Lillee
26	Bill O'Reilly
27	George Headley
28	Greg Chappell
29	Ian Botham
30	Fred Trueman
31	Herbert Sutcliffe
32	Ricky Ponting
33	Ray Lindwall
34	Allan Border
35	Joel Garner
36	Allan Donald
37	Kumar Sangakkara
38	Graeme Pollock
39	Steve Waugh
40	Shaun Pollock

 

[capt_Luffy]

I now declare voting open for the next 48 hours for the spots 41-50. I will begin with:

K S Ranjitsinhji
Victor Trumper
Michael Holding
Mike Procter
Alan Davidson
Wilfred Rhodes
Waqar Younis
A B de Villiers
Virat Kohli
Ravichandran Ashwin

 

[OverratedSanity]

Alan Davidson
Rahul Dravid
Frank Worrell
Kapil Dev
Pat Cummins
Waqar Younis
Younis Khan
Alan Knott
Ravichandran Ashwin
Javed Miandad