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    CW'S 50 Best ODI Cricketers of all time (voting now open)

    I second Marshall and Holding
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    Greatest cricketer post 1990

    I pretty much disagree with all of this. I am not sure how anybody can simply watch the ball, and not think about anything else. Champion sportsmen are all very intelligent, and have the ability to do more than one thing at once. Nobody gets to the top on dumb luck, or simply natural ability...
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    Greatest cricketer post 1990

    International sportsmen are trained and programmed to win. Don't you think that the players that they would rate the highest, are those that they consider to be the greatest match-winners, and those that give their team the best chance of securing victory. Anybody with even a little bit of...
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    Greatest cricketer post 1990

    That is the correct assessment, Archie Mac. 1. Curtly Ambrose 2. Wasim Akram 3. Glenn McGrath I am not really sure on what basis you can argue that McGrath is comfortably ahead of Ambrose, when they were pretty similar bowlers, except that Ambrose was even more dynamic and probably an even...
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    Greatest cricketer post 1990

    Akram was named in Cricinfo's all time World XI by a panel of experts, ahead of both McGrath and Ambrose, so you don't think it is possible or even likely that quite a few people would consider him to be the greatest cricketer of the last 20 years.
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    Greatest cricketer post 1990

    Sorry, last time I checked he was just ahead of Tendulkar. Still, the point stands that he does not seem to be rated that highly by his peers. I don't think Shane Warne rated him in the top 10 cricketers he played with or against, which seems to be the feeling of quite a number.
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    Greatest cricketer post 1990

    Considering that he is universally acknowledged as a genius, and was recently named to Cricinfo's All time World XI by a panel of former international captains, who presumably know what they are talking about, I am curious why Wasim Akram has not received a single vote. I would rate him...
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    Greatest cricketer post 1990

    Curtly Ambrose, at the peak of his powers, was possibly the most valuable and greatest match winner of any of these players. As one of the top 3 or 4 fast bowlers of all time, who consistently got the job done when it really mattered, if you could choose any of these guys in your team, he might...
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    Cricket on YouTube

    Rob, if you have any of these innings do you mind adding them to your list. Clive Lloyd - 121 Adelaide 1980 - 114 Brisbane 1984 Desmond Haynes - 143 Sydney 1989 Richie Richardson - 106 Adelaide 1989 - 182 Georgetown 1991
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    Kallis Vs Sobers

    Jaques Kallis has the best statistics of any cricketer of his generation, and yet if you did a poll around the cricket world amongst players, fans and the media to name the 5 best cricketers of the current era, I'm not sure that he would make it. I suspect the result, in no particular order...
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    Best Bowling Action

    How many were drawn though? Winnng percentage more relevant for bowlers, I imagine, and losing percentage for batsmen. The West Indies didn't lose a Test series between 1980 and 1995, and Marshall and Holding were arguably the two greatest match-winners in that legendary team, so they won...
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    Best Bowling Action

    Holding is the Rolls Royce of fast bowlers, while Marshall was more like a Ferrari. They were both breathtaking to watch in full flight. Arguably, the two greatest fast bowlers of all time when you look at their impact, skills and ability to master all opponents in all conditions. Interestingly...
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    Cricket on YouTube

    If you could upload Viv's 208 in ' 84 that would be great. I'm not sure if you do bowlers as well, but I remember Marshall taking 10 wickets in Adelaide in that same series and 5-29 in Sydney in ' 88/89. Holding took 6-20 in Perth in ' 84 to bowl Australia out for 76 and Ambrose took 9 wickets...
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    Cricket on YouTube

    That's a quality collection you have there Rob. Well done. I would love to see some of the great bowling spells from the legendary West Indian quicks in particular Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding. Do you have any of their great performances in Australia? A few more innings from 'King' Viv...
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