Ranking the great test cricketers who have not retired yet

[Majestic]

Alright here we go:-

1. Steve Smith
2. Ravichandran Ashwin
3. Joe Root
4. Virat Kohli
5. Pat Cummins
6. Jasprit Bumrah
7. Kane Williamson
8. Ravindra Jadeja
9. Kagiso Rabada
10. Ben Stokes

Please feel free to compile your list, for each their own.

 

[Johan]

1. Steve Smith
2. Joe Root
3. Ravinchandran Ashwin
4. Pat Cummins
5. Virat Kohli

for me

 

[centurymaker]

Cummins
Bumrah
Smith
Ashwin
Jadeja
Root
Kohli
Williamson
Rabada
Stokes

 

[OverratedSanity]

Smith
Bumrah
Cummins
Root
Kohli
Ashwin
Williamson
Jadeja
Shakib
Stokes

 

[capt_Luffy]

All formats or Tests?

If Tests only:

Steve Smith
Ravichandran Ashwin
Pat Cummins
Virat Kohli
Joe Root
Kane Williamson
Ravindra Jadeja
Kagiso Rabada
Jasprit Bumrah
Shakib Al Hasan
Ben Stokes
Nathan Lyon
Rishabh Pant
Josh Hazlewood
Mohammad Shami

 

[Bitmap]

Smith
Ashwin
Root
Williamson
Cummins
Kohli
Jadeja
Bumrah
Stokes
Rabada

 

[Thala_0710]

Smith
Ashwin
Root
Cummins
Kohli
Williamson
Jadeja
Bumrah
Rabada
Shakib

 

[kyear2]

Smith
Bumrah
Cummins
Root
Kohli
Ashwin
Williamson
Jadeja
Shakib
Stokes

Know you disagree with most things I say, but really do agree with most of your lists.

Cummins and Bumrah is probably the only quibble, no doubt Bumrah is better, but Cummins has put a bit more on paper. Probably would still come down with the order you have.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Cummins and Bumrah is probably the only quibble, not doubt Bumrah is better, but Cummins has put a bit more on paper.

Oh definitely. As I said I've ranked then more on skill than on career though I've considered both. Cummins will go down as a greater bowler for sure but Bumrah is the most outrageously skillful bowler I've seen since Wasim. The number of jaffas he bowls is only outdone by the sheer variety of them. Not just that boring top of off corridor shite like most great bowlers.

 

[Coronis]

Shakib averages 34.43 with the ball in tests outside of the Zim, IRE, AFG, and WI C of the 2009 series. Lot of average padding in the bowling front. Batting average goes to 37.8, but bowling gets massive hit.

Still better than Stokes

 

[sayon basak]

Smith
Ashwin
Root
Kohli
Cummins
Bumrah
Williamson
Jadeja
Rabada
Stokes
I would happily put shakib at the bottom of the list.

 

[sayon basak]

Still better than Stokes

Stokes didn't play one third of his matches against minnows.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Stokes didn't play one third of his matches against minnows.

Also wasn't his team's lead bowler for a big chunk

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Cummins and Bumrah should be in the top 3 once they have enough longevity

 

[sayon basak]

Also wasn't his team's lead bowler for a big chunk

Also his team wasn't Bangladesh.

 

[Coronis]

Also his team wasn't Bangladesh.

Not Shakib’s fault he’s Bangladeshi.

 

[Burgey]

Not Shakib’s fault he’s Bangladeshi.

His fault he's a **** though.

 

[Coronis]

His fault he's a **** though.

Obviously.

Stokes is a far bigger **** though, I’m sure we can all agree.

 

[Burgey]

I actually don't know about that. Stokes is obviously a self-righteous, violent thug whereas Shakib is a dummy spitting thug, a cheat and a corrupt match fixer.

He's also the most over rated out of any current player by people on here for reasons which escape me. He's basically done bugger all against decent sides.

 

[OverratedSanity]

If anything Shakib got unlucky he didn't get to beat up on England and Australia at home in the mid/late 2010s . Their batting lineups were utterly woeful vs spin and would've made for easy prey on the turners Bangladesh were producing at the time. The couple of chances he got vs them he won a test match each vs them basically by himself.