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Which Decade Saw the Best Players Debut?

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AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
Slifer said:
The 70s or 90s, then the rest. The 70s really doesn't have a better spinner? And for the 90s, curious why Saeed isn't an option as an opener for 90s.
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Spinners with 50+ wickets who debuted in the 70s:
Australia: Kerry O'Keeffe, Ray Bright, Bruce Yardley, Jim Higgs
Eng: Phil Edmonds, Geoff Miller, John Emburey
India: Dilip Doshi, Shivlal Yadav
New Zealand: Stephen Boock
Pakistan: Wasim Raja, Iqbal Qasim, Abdul Qadir

(Wasim Raja was a batting all-rounder, but took 51 wickets in his 57 Tests so qualifies for the list).

Iqbal Qasim (28.11) has the best average of these, with the rest being 30+.
 
capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

Cricketer Of The Year
1870s:

  1. Charlie Bannerman
  2. Harry Jupp
  3. Billy Murdoch
  4. Monkey Hornby
  5. George Ulyett
  6. Tom Horan
  7. Tom Emmett
  8. Jack Blackham+*
  9. James Lillywhite Jr
  10. Fred Spofforth
  11. Alfred Shaw
Subs:
  1. Alec Bannerman
  2. Lord Harris
  3. Billy Midwinter
  4. John Selby+
  5. Frank Allan

1880s:

  1. WG Grace*
  2. Bobby Abel
  3. Arthur Shrewsbury
  4. Percy McDonnell
  5. Allan Steel
  6. George Giffen
  7. Billy Barnes
  8. George Lohmann
  9. Edmond Tylecote+
  10. Charlie Turner
  11. Bobby Peel
Subs:
  1. Walter Reed
  2. Billy Bates
  3. Dick Piling+
  4. Johnny Briggs
  5. John J Ferris

1890s:

  1. Victor Trumper
  2. Archie Maclaren
  3. Clem Hill
  4. K S Ranjitsinhji
  5. Stanley Jackson
  6. Monty Noble*
  7. Wilfred Rhodes
  8. Hugh Trumble
  9. Dick Lilley+
  10. Bill Lockwood
  11. Tom Richardson
Subs:
  1. Tom Hayward
  2. CB Fry
  3. Ernest Halliwell+
  4. George Hirst
  5. Charles Llewellyn

1900s:

  1. Jack Hobbs
  2. Warren Bardsley
  3. Charlie MaCartney
  4. Frank Woolley
  5. Aubrey Faulkner
  6. Warwick Armstrong*
  7. Sammy Carter+
  8. Bert Vogler
  9. Tibby Cotter
  10. Sydney Barnes
  11. Colin Blythe
Subs:
  1. George Gunn
  2. Dave Nourse
  3. Percy Sherwell+
  4. Jack Saunders
  5. Bill Whitty

1910s:

  1. Billy Zulch
  2. Phil Mead
  3. Lionel Tennyson*
  4. Herbie Taylor
  5. Johnny Douglas
  6. Charles Kelleway
  7. Frank Foster
  8. Jimmy Matthews
  9. Ranji Hordern
  10. Jimmy Blackenberg
  11. Bert Strudwick+
Subs:
  1. Philip Hands
  2. Jack William Hearne
  3. Roy Minnett
  4. Tommy Ward+
  5. Harry Dean

1920s:

  1. Bruce Mitchell
  2. Herbert Sutcliffe
  3. Don Bradman*
  4. Wally Hammond
  5. Bill Ponsford
  6. Les Ames+
  7. Jack Gregory
  8. Maurice Tate
  9. Harold Larwood
  10. Clarrie Grimmett
  11. Bert Ironmonger
Subs:
  1. Patsy Hendren
  2. Maurice Leyland
  3. Bert Oldfield+
  4. Tich Freeman
  5. Ted McDonald

1930s

  1. Len Hutton*
  2. Vijay Merchant
  3. George Headley
  4. Dudley Nourse
  5. Denis Compton
  6. Stan McCabe
  7. Billy Wade+
  8. Hedley Verity
  9. Bill O'Reilly
  10. Bill Voce
  11. Bill Bowes
Subs:
  1. Sid Barnes
  2. Lindsay Hassett
  3. Arthur Wood+
  4. Eric Hollies
  5. Jack Cowie
 
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Kenneth Viljoen

Kenneth Viljoen

International Regular
capt_Luffy said:
1870s:

  1. Charlie Bannerman
  2. Harry Jupp
  3. Billy Murdoch
  4. Monkey Hornby
  5. George Ulyett
  6. Tom Horan
  7. Tom Emmett
  8. Jack Blackham+*
  9. James Lillywhite Jr
  10. Fred Spofforth
  11. Alfred Shaw
Subs:
  1. Alec Bannerman
  2. Lord Harris
  3. Billy Midwinter
  4. John Selby+
  5. Frank Allan

1880s:

  1. WG Grace*
  2. Bobby Abel
  3. Arthur Shrewsbury
  4. Percy McDonnell
  5. Allan Steel
  6. George Giffen
  7. Billy Barnes
  8. George Lohmann
  9. Edmond Tylecote+
  10. Charlie Turner
  11. Bobby Peel
Subs:
  1. Walter Reed
  2. Billy Bates
  3. Dick Piling+
  4. Johnny Briggs
  5. John J Ferris

1890s:

  1. Victor Trumper
  2. Archie Maclaren
  3. Clem Hill
  4. K S Ranjitsinhji
  5. Stanley Jackson
  6. Monty Noble*
  7. Wilfred Rhodes
  8. Hugh Trumble
  9. Dick Lilley+
  10. Bill Lockwood
  11. Tom Richardson
Subs:
  1. Tom Hayward
  2. CB Fry
  3. Ernest Halliwell+
  4. George Hirst
  5. Charles Llewellyn

1900s:

  1. Jack Hobbs
  2. Warren Bardsley
  3. Charlie MaCartney
  4. Frank Woolley
  5. Aubrey Faulkner
  6. Warwick Armstrong*
  7. Sammy Carter+
  8. Bert Vogler
  9. Tibby Cotter
  10. Sydney Barnes
  11. Colin Blythe
Subs:
  1. George Gunn
  2. Dave Nourse
  3. Percy Sherwell+
  4. Jack Saunders
  5. Bill Whitty

1910s:

  1. Billy Zulch
  2. Phil Mead
  3. Lionel Tennyson*
  4. Herbie Taylor
  5. Johnny Douglas
  6. Charles Kelleway
  7. Frank Foster
  8. Jimmy Matthews
  9. Ranji Hordern
  10. Jimmy Blackenberg
  11. Bert Strudwick+
Subs:
  1. Philip Hands
  2. Jack William Hearne
  3. Roy Minnett
  4. Tommy Ward+
  5. Harry Dean

1920s:

  1. Bruce Mitchell
  2. Herbert Sutcliffe
  3. Don Bradman*
  4. Wally Hammond
  5. Bill Ponsford
  6. Les Ames+
  7. Jack Gregory
  8. Maurice Tate
  9. Harold Larwood
  10. Clarrie Grimmett
  11. Bert Ironmonger
Subs:
  1. Patsy Hendren
  2. Maurice Leyland
  3. Bert Oldfield+
  4. Tich Freeman
  5. Ted McDonald

1930s

  1. Len Hutton*
  2. Vijay Merchant
  3. George Headley
  4. Dudley Nourse
  5. Denis Compton
  6. Stan McCabe
  7. Billy Wade+
  8. Hedley Verity
  9. Bill O'Reilly
  10. Bill Voce
  11. Bill Bowes
Subs:
  1. Sid Barnes
  2. Eddie Paynter
  3. Arthur Wood+
  4. Eric Hollies
  5. Ken Farnes
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All these players are dead, only one Test cricketer alive from the 40's era of Test Cricket.
Time beats us all in the end.
 
capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

Cricketer Of The Year
1940s:

  1. Arthur Morris
  2. Vinoo Mankad
  3. Frank Worrell*
  4. Everton Weekes
  5. Clyde Walcott
  6. Neil Harvey
  7. Keith Miller
  8. Godfrey Evans+
  9. Ray Lindwall
  10. Jim Laker
  11. Alec Bedser
Subs:
  1. Jack Robertson
  2. Vijay Hazare
  3. Don Tallon+
  4. Bill Johnston
  5. Hugh Tayfield

1950s:

  1. Hanif Mohammad
  2. Bob Simpson
  3. Rohan Kanhai
  4. Ken Barrington
  5. Peter May
  6. Garry Sobers
  7. John Waite+
  8. Richie Benaud*
  9. Alan Davidson
  10. Fred Trueman
  11. Brian Statham
Subs:
  1. Trevor Goddard
  2. Colin Cowdrey
  3. Jim Parks Jr+
  4. Lance Gibbs
  5. Wes Hall

1960s:

  1. Geoff Boycott
  2. Bill Lawry
  3. Ian Chappell*
  4. Graeme Pollock
  5. Clive Lloyd
  6. Doug Walters
  7. Mike Procter
  8. Alan Knott+
  9. Peter Pollock
  10. Derek Underwood
  11. John Snow
Subs:
  1. Glenn Turner
  2. Mohinder Amarnath
  3. Farokh Engineer+
  4. BS Chandrashekhar
  5. Graham McKenzie

1970s:

  1. Sunil Gavaskar
  2. Barry Richards
  3. Viv Richards
  4. Greg Chappell
  5. Allan Border*
  6. Ian Botham
  7. Imran Khan
  8. Rod Marsh+
  9. Richard Hadlee
  10. Malcolm Marshall
  11. Joel Garner
Subs:
  1. Gordon Greenidge
  2. Javed Miandad
  3. Syed Kirmani+
  4. Iqbal Qasim
  5. Dennis Lillee

1980s:

  1. Mark Taylor*
  2. David Boon
  3. Martin Crowe
  4. Sachin Tendulkar
  5. Aravinda de Silva
  6. Steve Waugh
  7. Ian Healy+
  8. Wasim Akram
  9. Curtly Ambrose
  10. Waqar Younis
  11. Courtney Walsh
Subs:
  1. Michael Atherton
  2. Richie Richardson
  3. Jeff Dujon+
  4. Tim May
  5. Ian Bishop

1990s:

  1. Matthew Hayden
  2. Saeed Anwar
  3. Ricky Ponting
  4. Brian Lara
  5. Jacques Kallis
  6. Rahul Dravid
  7. Adam Gilchrist+
  8. Shane Warne
  9. Glenn McGrath
  10. Allan Donald
  11. Mutthiah Muralitharan
Subs:
  1. Alec Stewart
  2. Andy Flower+
  3. Andrew Flintoff
  4. Shaun Pollock
  5. Anil Kumble

2000s:

  1. Graeme Smith*
  2. Virendra Sehwag
  3. Kumar Sangakkara+
  4. Hashim Amla
  5. Younis Khan
  6. AB de Villiers
  7. Shakib Al Hasan
  8. Graeme Swann
  9. Stuart Broad
  10. Dale Steyn
  11. James Anderson
Subs:
  1. Alaistar Cook
  2. Kevin Pietersen
  3. BJ Watling+
  4. Harbhajan Singh
  5. Morne Morkel

2010s:

  1. Usman Khawaja
  2. David Warner
  3. Steve Smith
  4. Virat Kohli*
  5. Joe Root
  6. Rishabh Pant+
  7. Ravindra Jadeja
  8. Ravichandran Ashwin
  9. Pat Cummins
  10. Jasprit Bumrah
  11. Kagiso Rabada
Subs:
  1. Rohit Sharma
  2. Kane Williamson
  3. Quinton de Kock+
  4. Nathan Lyon
  5. Vernon Philander

2020s:

  1. Yashasvi Jaiswal
  2. Devon Conway*
  3. Saud Shakeel
  4. Harry Brook
  5. Kamindu Mendis
  6. Cameron Green
  7. Dhruv Jurel+
  8. Axar Patel
  9. Marco Jansen
  10. Kyle Jamieson
  11. Mohammad Siraj
Subs:
  1. Pathun Nissanka
  2. Rachin Ravindra
  3. Jamie Smith+
  4. Prabhath Jayasuriya
  5. Jayden Seales
 
Slifer

Slifer

International Captain
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AndrewB said:
Spinners with 50+ wickets who debuted in the 70s:
Australia: Kerry O'Keeffe, Ray Bright, Bruce Yardley, Jim Higgs
Eng: Phil Edmonds, Geoff Miller, John Emburey
India: Dilip Doshi, Shivlal Yadav
New Zealand: Stephen Boock
Pakistan: Wasim Raja, Iqbal Qasim, Abdul Qadir

(Wasim Raja was a batting all-rounder, but took 51 wickets in his 57 Tests so qualifies for the list).

Iqbal Qasim (28.11) has the best average of these, with the rest being 30+.
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Yeah I'll go with Qasim. And he was actually decent outside Pakistan.
 
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