Best left handed batsman of all time

[harsh.ag]

I started picking an XI but outside of Cook my options for picking openers were too unpleasant

Might just make Chanders do it

A Cook
S Chanderpaul
K Sangakkara
B Lara
A Border
G Sobers
A Gilchrist
W Akram
A Davidson
H Verity
W Johnston

What's so unpleasant about Arthur Morris and Bill Lawry? Harvey probably better than Chanders too if you don't mind a middle order bat.

 

[ImpatientLime]

I started picking an XI but outside of Cook my options for picking openers were too unpleasant

Might just make Chanders do it

A Cook
S Chanderpaul
K Sangakkara
B Lara
A Border
G Sobers
A Gilchrist
W Akram
A Davidson
H Verity
W Johnston

mark taylor? gary kirsten? saeed anwar?

 

[Slifer]

And Justin Langer, Roy Fredricks etc. How old are some of you posters?

 

[Chrish]

Sobers > Lara > Sanga > border > rest

Find it impossible to accurately rate pollock

 

[Shri]

Graeme Smith
Saeed Anwar
Brian Lara
Kumar Sangakkara
Andy Flower
Michael Hussey
Adam Gilchrist
Daniel Vettori
Wasim Akram
Mitchell Johnson
Chaminda Vaas


Best of the ones I have seen play.

 

[OverratedSanity]

And Justin Langer, Roy Fredricks etc. How old are some of you posters?

Cook is better than them.

 

[Shri]

Cook's not better than Langer in any universe.

 

[Red]

Sobers
Pollock=Lara
Sanga
Harvey=Border

 

[Burgey]

Sobers=Border
Pollock=Lara
Sanga
Harvey

Yeah agreed

 

[morgieb]

Cook is better than them.

He has Chanderpaul opening. It's not just Hayden and Smith that can compete out of left-handed openers

 

[Coronis]

Yeah agreed

A boy can dream.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I said it was interesting, not a revelation. FFS.

Sorry I havent read the other 3 or 4. I'll be sure to read everything so as not to annoy you.

FFS I'm not having a go at you don't be so defensive

Cook's not better than Langer in any universe.

I can't speak for any of the others but in our universe he is

 

[Red]

FFS I'm not having a go at you don't be so defensive

Well dont quote people trying to be a smartarse then. And that's what you were doing.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Well dont quote people trying to be a smartarse then. And that's what you were doing.

No, you're just chronically oversensitive and think everything is a slight against you

Sometimes people just state facts because they feel like it

I wasn't saying you were doing anything wrong, just stating a fact I find it annoying. I even specifically stated that there wasn't anything inherently wrong with it and that I'm overreacting:

This is genuinely getting annoying now how often this is being brought up. I honestly think this is the 3rd or 4th time someone here has made this point in the last few weeks here as if it's some great revelation.

I don't know why it annoys me so much it just does

So just settle down, there's no need to create conflict here

 

[dhillon28]

In order:

Sobers
Lara
A Border
Gilchrist
G Pollock
Hayden
G Smith
Gower
C Lloyd
M Hussey

 

[TestMatch]

Lara for me. Across his career, he has held all the big test records: fastest to 10,000 runs, 400, 375, 500, and even most runs in a test over.

Also ICC's top ODI player for much of the mid 90s.

What dragged Lara down was his love for the ladies, his eye disease and the extra juice bowlers saved up when bowling to him. Bowlers came at Lara hard.