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Martin Crowe's Top 50 Greatest Cricketers of Six Generations

sayon basak

sayon basak

International 12th Man
Don't think this list was discussed in CW.
So here's the list:-

1877-1900: WG Grace
1900-1930: Jack Hobbs, Herbert Sutcliffe, Victor Trumper, Sydney Barnes (4)
1930-1950: Don Bradman, Len Hutton, George Headley, Wally Hammond, Alec Bedser, Bill O'Reilly, Clarrie Grimmett (7)
1950-1970: Keith Miller, Denis Compton, Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott, Garry Sobers, Graeme Pollock, Fred Trueman, Jim Laker, Godfrey Evans (10)
1970-1990: Viv Richards, Greg Chappell, Barry Richards, Sunil Gavaskar, Javed Miandad, Allan Border, Richard Hadlee, Imran Khan, Kapil Dev, Ian Botham, Alan Knott, Dennis Lillee, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall (14)
1990-2013: Sachin Tendulkar, Jacques Kallis, Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan, Anil Kumble, Glenn McGrath, Allan Donald, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Curtly Ambrose (14)
The break-up: Opening batsmen: 7; No. 3s: 8; Nos. 4, 5: 8 Allrounders: 7; Wicketkeepers: 4; Fast bowlers: 10; Slow bowlers: 6

Thoughts?
 
capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

International Captain
shortpitched713 said:
Agreed. Other than those omissions, it's a damn good list though. Who would've thought Crowe was such a thoughtful fan/cricket historian.
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I still find it bonkers when Crowe coined the term 'fab 4', it was right of Kohli's horror 2014 English tour; and their stats were:
40.05 avg for smith (20 tests)
50.94 avg for Root (22 tests)
40.28 avg for Kane (34 tests)
39.46 avg for Kohli (29 tests)
 
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Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
capt_Luffy said:
I still find it bonkers when Crowe coined the term 'fab 4', it was right of Kohli's horror 2014 English tour; and their stats were:
40.05 avg for smith (20 tests)
50.94 avg for Root (22 tests)
40.28 avg for Kane (34 tests)
39.46 avg for Kohli (29 tests)
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Crazy how many more tests Root has played than the others in the last 10 years
 
sayon basak

sayon basak

International 12th Man
Qlder said:
Maybe a clue is in the first sentence of his cricinfo profile:

"Godfrey Evans was arguably the best wicketkeeper the game has ever seen."
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iirc that is the Wisden description.
Here's the Wisden description of Ames:-
"without a doubt the greatest wicketkeeper-batsman the game [had] so far produced"
 
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Qlder

International Debutant
I think Martin Crowe forgot to add himself but there are some top names in his era. Viv Richards, Greg Chappell, Barry Richards, Sunil Gavaskar, Javed Miandad and Allan Border. I think Crowe was right up there with the last two.
 
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