Battle of the Cricketers

[Slifer]

kumble

 

[Dasa]

Kumble.

 

[honestbharani]

Gilchrist...all rounder over specialist, all the time.

 

[age_master]

Gilchrist

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Gilchrist by a mile. He's the greatest ever in his role, while with all due respect to Kumble there's a fair few leg spinners ahead of him, and he's never been much of a player outside of India.

 

[Dark Hunter]

Kumble

 

[Pedro Delgado]

As much as I like Anil,

Gilchrist.

 

[Jamee999]

12-8 Gilly.

ROUND ONE ----- ----- BATTLE SIXTEEN

GD McGrath (Australia) (RHB, RFM)

RG Pollock (South Africa) (LHB,LB)

As we reach the halfway point in the first round, there will be a day off tomorrow (back to school ) and you may vote any time in the next 48 hours.

Big matchup here.

 

[Anil]

this is a tough one...i'll have to say mcgrath...because he is an all-time great just like pollock and has set amazingly high standards for performance, consistency and durability....i am also considering the fact that pollock did not have a full enough career, to select mcgrath....

 

[Pratters]

Tough matchup there.

G.D.McGrath

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

McGrath gets it on the basis of longevity and consistency. Both all-time greats without question.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Despite the fact that the man has wrecked my cricket-watching life by destroying England more times than I care to remember, I have to go for McGrath, for that exact same reason. I both despise him and respect him in equal amounts.

 

[godofcricket]

Mcgrath

 

[Slow Love™]

It probably should be closer than it is, but I suspect McGrath will get the vast majority of the votes (I could be wrong). Mainly because he was able to have an entire career and grow to his full potential. There's no doubt that Graeme Pollock would likely have been one of the greats - obviously many people already rank him one despite his comparitively short (well, in terms of matches, anyway) test career.

One of the things that really elevate McGrath other than his often-quoted statistical brilliance is that he's a bowler able to dominate the best batsman in just about any side - and he has managed to have such an amazing career during an era in which batsman have absolutely prospered. Conditions so often seem completely irrelevant where McGrath's concerned, and it would take one of the game's biggest legends to get a vote from me over Pigeon.

 

[twctopcat]

This is close and despite all the claims about Pollock being one of the greatest left handers ever, i cant vote him in on what might have been. Mcgrath for me, an absolute master of a bowler.

 

[Richard Rash]

Pollock

 

[BoyBrumby]

I thought this would be closer. I'm really trying hard not to vote for McGrath, but with Pollock a lot of supposition is required. I know lots of respected judges rate him as the best southpaw batter ever & it wasn't his fault that he had such an abbreviated test career, but McGrath has been the best for a decade. That's remarkable longevity for a seamer. There's now the odd hint that his body may finally be betraying him (the elbow, basically), but even if he never plays another test he's up there in the pantheon. Maybe he should give the ODIs away to extend the test career? Anyhoo,

McGrath

 

[Armadillo]

I have to go for McGrath but we're weighing up to completely different players here aren't we?

 

[vic_orthdox]

Pollock.

 

[marc71178]

Well McGrath is nothing but a lucky bowler, but he still wins this for me...