Top 20 greatest batsmen of all time

[Coronis]

Nobody gives a **** about your rating tho

That must mean less than nobody for yours, surely?

Cricinfo changed their formatting shortly after my August 2019 update so I can't datamine them properly without changing my code. No prospect of me really having the time to do it before April either, and even then if my boss gets elected I'll probably never have the time.

So did your boss get elected?

 

[Coronis]

Bradman
Sobers
Tendulkar
Richards
Lara
Hutton
Smith
Hobbs
Headley
Pollock
Hammond
Gavaskar
Chappell
Sangakkara
Ponting
Kallis
Border
Barrington
Dravid
Miandad

Just off the top of my head...

One glorious name missing but at least you have Kenny in there.

 

[Prince EWS]

So did your boss get elected?

 

[ma1978]

Bradman
Sachin
Sobers
Lara
Hobbs
Hutton
Richards
Smith
Gavaskar
Ponting
Hammond
Headley
Sangakkara
Pollock
Dravid
Miandad
Root
Border
Chappell
Greenidge

Realise Greenidge is a big shout but he averaged 50s for much of his career as an opener

 

[Slifer]

Bradman
Tendulkar
Viv
Hobbs
B Richards
Hammond
G Chappell
Sobers
Gavaskar
G Pollock
Sutcliffe
Hutton
Maindad
Border
S Waugh

Soooo no Brian Lara? Interesting....

 

[Adorable Asshole]

That must mean less than nobody for yours, surely?

Given that this is a 12 page thread, no.

 

[Majestic]

Below names must be there in a list of 20.

Bradman
Sobers
Hobbs
Hutton
Hammond

Viv
Gavaskar
Chappell
Border
Miandad

Lara
Tendulkar
Ponting
Kallis
Sangakkara
Dravid


de Villiers
S Smith
J Root
V Kohli

 

[Jumno]

Below names must be there in a list of 20.

Bradman
Sobers
Hobbs
Hutton
Hammond

Viv
Gavaskar
Chappell
Border
Miandad

Lara
Tendulkar
Ponting
Kallis
Sangakkara
Dravid


de Villiers
S Smith
J Root
V Kohli

No Inzamam from the 90s era?

 

[Majestic]

No Inzamam from the 90s era?

No

 

[Coronis]

Alright.

So I’ve made some recent changes.

I will also be posting my top 20 bowlers list.

Bradman
Hobbs
Tendulkar
Sobers
Smith
Hammond
Lara
Sutcliffe
Hutton
Gavaskar
Chappell
Richards
Kallis
Barrington
Sangakkara
Ponting
Border
Waugh
Headley
Pollock

McGrath
Marshall
Hadlee
Muralitharan
Warne
Steyn
Ambrose
Imran
Barnes
O’Reilly
Wasim
Donald
Davidson
Garner
Lindwall
Lillee
Holding
Trueman
Pollock
Waqar

Enjoy

 

[Burgey]

iS tHaT vIv Or BaRrY?

 

[Coronis]

iS tHaT vIv Or BaRrY?

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Keith, actually

 

[sams daneal]

1 Don Bradman
2 Lara
3 Smith
4 Hobbs
5 Sachin
6 V. Richards
7 Gavaskar
8 Sobers
9 Barrngton
10 Sangakara
11 Ponting
12 Chapppel
13 Dravid
14 Hutton
15 Waugh
16 Sutcliffe
17 Border
18 Miandad
19 B. Richards
20 Kallis(not sure placeholder)

Do u all agree? What's yours?

Many mistakes , this is the real list for true/real cricket fans
1- Don Bradman

Bradman is way better than 2nd best.

2- Steve Smith
3- sachin tendulkar
4- Viv Richards
5- Gary sobers
6- Lara and so on

 

[Thala_0710]

Many mistakes , this is the real list for true/real cricket fans
1- Don Bradman

Bradman is way better than 2nd best.

2- Steve Smith
3- sachin tendulkar
4- Viv Richards
5- Gary sobers
6- Lara and so on

Narayana no 6?

 

[sayon basak]

Top 20 imo:-
Don Bradman
Sachin Tendulkar
Jack Hobbs
Garfield Sobers
Viv Richards
Brian Lara
Len Hutton
Steve Smith
Sunil Gavaskar
Wally Hammond
George Headley
Herbert Sutcliffe
Graeme Pollock
Greg Chappell
Ricky Ponting
Jacques Kallis
Kumar Sangakkara
Allan Border
Steve Waugh
Ken Barrington/Rahul Dravid/Joe Root

 

[Coronis]

Narayana no 6?

Would be surprising to have Tendulkar that high

 

[capt_Luffy]

I mean, why shouldn't I as well.....

Test+FC:


Top 60 Batsmen:

Don Bradman
WG Grace
Jack Hobbs
Sachin Tendulkar
Garry Sobers
Steve Smith
Brian Lara
Len Hutton
Viv Richards
Sunil Gavaskar
Wally Hammond
George Headley
Herbert Sutcliffe
Graeme Pollock
Allan Border
Jacques Kallis
Kumar Sangakkara
Greg Chappell
Steve Waugh
Joe Root
Ricky Ponting
Rahul Dravid
Ken Barrington
KS Ranjitsinhji
Victor Trumper
Barry Richards
Everton Weekes
Dudley Nourse
Javed Miandad
Clyde Walcott
AB de Villiers
Dennis Compton
Younis Khan
Neil Harvey
Kane Williamson
Clem Hill
Virat Kohli
Rohan Kanhai
Peter May
Geoff Boycott
Andy Flower
Frank Worrell
Martin Crowe
Clive Lloyd
Arthur Shrewsbury
Charlie MaCartney
Hashim Amla
Gordon Greenidge
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Bruce Mitchell
Bob Simpson
Graeme Smith
Matthew Hayden
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Alaistar Cook
Vijay Merchant
VVS Laxman
Kevin Pietersen
Michael Clarke
Colin Cowdrey


Top 60 Bowlers:

Malcolm Marshall
Glenn McGrath
Richard Hadlee
Sydney Barnes
Mutthiah Muralitharan
Shane Warne
Dale Steyn
Imran Khan
Curtly Ambrose
Wasim Akram
Bill O'Reilly
Allan Donald
Dennis Lillee
Joel Garner
Michael Holding
Ray Lindwall
Fred Trueman
Jasprit Bumrah
Pat Cummins
Alan Davidson
Waqar Younis
Vintcent Van der Bijl
Courtney Walsh
Shaun Pollock
Kagiso Rabada
Andy Roberts
Ravichandran Ashwin
Clarrie Grimmett
James Anderson
Fred Spofforth
Mike Procter
Jim Laker
Alec Bedser
Harold Larwood
Hedley Verity
Keith Miller
Anil Kumble
Lance Gibbs
Wilfred Rhodes
Brian Statham
Josh Hazlewood
Hugh Tayfield
Bob Willis
Ian Bishop
John Snow
Wes Hall
Nathan Lyon
Derek Underwood
BS Chandrasekhar
George Lohmann
Vernon Philander
Bill Johnston
Neil Adcock
Bishen Singh Bedi
Peter Pollock
Fazal Mahmood
Bart King
Richie Benaud
Charlie Turner
Sylvester Clarke

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Bradman
Tendulkar
Sobers
Viv
Lara
Smith
Hobbs
Hutton
Hammond
Gavaskar
Pollock
Barry
Kallis
Chappell
Sangakkara
Ponting
Border
Waugh
Dravid
Barrington

Miandad, Younis, Root, De Villiers, Harvey all very close to making it

 

[sams daneal]

Narayana no 6?

? Brian Lara

 

[sayon basak]

? Brian Lara

@Thala_0710 I don't think he's Narayana's multi. Don't think he's intelligent enough to adopt some grammatical mistakes. Also as Narayana doesn't know O'Reilly, he shouldn't know Sutcliffe either.