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CW's 100 greatest players result | 2024

capt_Luffy

Cricketer Of The Year
Chanderpaul and Yousuf with long careers and 50+ average didn't make it to top 100. Sometimes CW is harsh on them.
Especially Chanders, but I still have a fair few players ahead of him whom I would had included. Simpson, Mitchell, Inzamam, Underwood, Chandrasekhar, Bedi, Lyon, Statham, Willis, Hall, Snow, Philander, van Bijl, Lohmann, Tate, Broad, Greig, Barlow, Noble, Goddard, Rice, etc.
 

nightprowler10

Global Moderator
Just 5 pakistani players is surprising. Haq, Fazal and Akhtar are notable omissions.
Not sure how many pk fans voted, I certainly couldn't keep up with the thread.

Big surprise to me is Wasim barely making top 20 while considering his whole body of work and not just Tests, but I can't complain since I didn't vote.
 

reyrey

U19 Captain
Not sure how many pk fans voted, I certainly couldn't keep up with the thread.

Big surprise to me is Wasim barely making top 20 while considering his whole body of work and not just Tests, but I can't complain since I didn't vote.
Given the names on the list and the rankings, it doesn't look like it took the shorter format into consideration. Also once you eliminate certain categories of players, Wasims ranking looks pretty fair.

Remove specialist batsmen, batting allrounders, spinners and remove bowling allrounders who could bat 7 or higher and you're only left with McGrath and Marshall ahead of Wasim. That puts him ahead of a lot of great bowlers!
 
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ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
Wasim is not way off where I'd have put him. If you do weigh short format more then he could sneak into top 15 but possibly not much higher than that
 

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
Missed out XI

Hanif Mohammad
Bob Simpson
Inzamam Ul Haq
Michael Clarke
Shivnaraine Chanderpal
Tony Grieg *
Alan Knott +
Hugh Tayfield
John Snow
Ian Bishop
Shoaib Akhtar
Exclude the Top 20 and this side would be as well balanced and competitive as any XI made from the remaining Top 80
 

howitzer

State Captain
Missed out XI

Hanif Mohammad
Bob Simpson
Inzamam Ul Haq
Michael Clarke
Shivnaraine Chanderpal
Tony Grieg *
Alan Knott +
Hugh Tayfield
John Snow
Ian Bishop
Shoaib Akhtar
I thought I hadn't realised Knott wasn't there when I was voting for Waite, but it turns out he's 44th.
 

bagapath

International Captain
Missed out XI

Hanif Mohammad
Bob Simpson
Inzamam Ul Haq
Michael Clarke
Shivnaraine Chanderpal
Tony Grieg *
John Waite +
Hugh Tayfield
John Snow
Ian Bishop
Shoaib Akhtar
 

capt_Luffy

Cricketer Of The Year
Missed out XI

Hanif Mohammad
Bob Simpson
Inzamam Ul Haq
Michael Clarke
Shivnaraine Chanderpal
Tony Grieg *
John Waite +
Hugh Tayfield
John Snow
Ian Bishop
Shoaib Akhtar
Brian Statham should be in for any one of those 3 pacers imo. Also, Mitchell or Lawry over Hanif.
 

howitzer

State Captain
Statham is always grossly underrated. It probably stems from being in an era when Bedser, Trueman and Tyson were held in high regard and overshadowed his achievements.
True, he probably should have made the top 100. I will note however, that he averaged 30+ against both Australia and WI, the two best batting line-ups he faced. Given the majority of his career was played in a low scoring era this is a serious red flag.
 

capt_Luffy

Cricketer Of The Year
I missed one vote for Shaun Pollock, which means he is ahead of Steve Waugh now, as they were previously tied. This places the uncle and nephew right next to each other in the poll.
 

Red_Ink_Squid

Global Moderator
I have performed some careful analysis on the *new* list following Luffy's update.

Players ranked by Country:


England:
  1. W G Grace
  2. Jack Hobbs
  3. Wally Hammond
  4. Len Hutton
  5. Sydney Barnes
  6. Ian Botham
  7. Fred Trueman
  8. Herbert Sutcliffe
  9. Alan Knott
  10. K S Ranjitsinhji
  11. Wilfred Rhodes
  12. Joe Root
  13. Ken Barrington
  14. Dennis Compton
  15. James Anderson
  16. Peter May
  17. Jim Laker
  18. Harold Larwood
  19. Les Ames
  20. Hedley Verity
  21. Geoff Boycott
  22. Ben Stokes
  23. Alec Bedser
  24. Frank Woolley

Australia:
  1. Don Bradman
  2. Glenn McGrath
  3. Shane Warne
  4. Keith Miller
  5. Adam Gilchrist
  6. Steve Smith
  7. Dennis Lillee
  8. Bill O'Reilly
  9. Greg Chappell
  10. Ricky Ponting
  11. Ray Lindwall
  12. Allan Border
  13. Steve Waugh
  14. Alan Davidson
  15. Victor Trumper
  16. Richie Benaud
  17. Clarrie Grimmett
  18. Pat Cummins
  19. Neil Harvey
  20. Fred Spofforth
  21. Clem Hill
  22. Matthew Hayden
  23. Stan McCabe

West Indies:
  1. Garry Sobers
  2. Malcolm Marshall
  3. Viv Richards
  4. Brian Lara
  5. Curtly Ambrose
  6. George Headley
  7. Joel Garner
  8. Michael Holding
  9. Frank Worrell
  10. Everton Weekes
  11. Clyde Walcott
  12. Courtney Walsh
  13. Gordon Greenidge
  14. Andy Roberts
  15. Clive Lloyd
  16. Rohan Kanhai
  17. Lance Gibbs

South Africa:
  1. Jacques Kallis
  2. Dale Steyn
  3. Allan Donald
  4. Graeme Pollock
  5. Shaun Pollock
  6. Barry Richards
  7. Mike Procter
  8. A B de Villiers
  9. Aubrey Faulkner
  10. Dudley Nourse
  11. Graeme Smith
  12. Kagiso Rabada
  13. Hashim Amla

India:

  1. Sachin Tendulkar
  2. Sunil Gavaskar
  3. Kapil Dev
  4. Virat Kohli
  5. Ravichandran Ashwin
  6. Rahul Dravid
  7. Ravindra Jadeja
  8. Virendra Sehwag
  9. M S Dhoni
  10. Anil Kumble
  11. Jasprit Bumrah

Pakistan:
  1. Imran Khan
  2. Wasim Akram
  3. Waqar Younis
  4. Javed Miandad
  5. Younis Khan

New Zealand:
  1. Richard Hadlee
  2. Kane Williamson
  3. Martin Crowe

Sri Lanka:
  1. Mutthiah Muralitharan
  2. Kumar Sangakkara

Zimbabwe:
  1. Andy Flower

Bangladesh:
  1. Shakib Al Hasan
 

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