cricketweb chooses the best cricket captain ever: the contest thread

[CricAddict]

This is the most fiercely competed top 8 that I have seen in CW polls.

 

[subshakerz]

My selections

The semi finals!


Please only vote for your top 2 this time around


Pumping the final 8 into the randomiser...



Group 1:

Don Bradman
Allan Border
Imran Khan
Frank Worrell

Group 2:

Richie Benaud
Clive Lloyd
Douglas Jardine
Mike Brearley

 

[mr_mister]

Results:

Group 1:

Frank Worrell (15 votes)
Imran Khan (12 votes)
Allan Border (10 votes)
Don Bradman (5 votes)


Group 2:

Douglas Jardine (12 votes)
Richie Benaud (12 votes)
Mike Brearley (10 votes)
Clive Lloyd (8 votes)



What a round. We only kept 1 out of the 3 aussies, Richie Benaud of all people who I honestly didn't know was rated so highly as a captain

Brearley the man with the degree in people, the specialist captain, is gone. As is Clive Lloyd who I would have expected to win based on reputation before the series started. If not him, then maybe Border. Anyway, here we are!




The final:


Vote for your top 2!


Frank Worrell
Imran Khan
Douglas Jardine
Richie Benaud

 

[morgieb]

Worrell & Jardine

 

[jimmy101]

Worrell & Benaud

 

[subshakerz]

Imran and Benaud

 

[OverratedSanity]

Worrell and Jardine

 

[a massive zebra]

Worrell and Benaud.

 

[smash84]

Imran and Benaud

 

[mr_mister]

Worrell and Jardine

 

[weldone]

Imran, Worrell

4 great personalities in the run though..

 

[mr_mister]

it's also funny seeing Bradman legitimately lose out in something related to quality(not quantity) in cricket.

The only person I literally had to leave out of one of these because he was objectively the best at batting, its funny how it's pretty close but no cigar here. Gives a human element to his cricket skill

 

[wpdavid]

The final:


Vote for your top 2!


Frank Worrell
Imran Khan
Douglas Jardine
Richie Benaud

Benaud and Imran

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Imran
Jardine

 

[marc71178]

Imran Khan
Douglas Jardine

 

[fredfertang]

The Iron Duke

 

[honestbharani]

Worrell
Jardine

 

[AndrewB]

Results:

Group 1:

Frank Worrell (15 votes)
Imran Khan (12 votes)
Allan Border (10 votes)
Don Bradman (5 votes)


Group 2:

Douglas Jardine (12 votes)
Richie Benaud (12 votes)
Mike Brearley (10 votes)
Clive Lloyd (8 votes)



What a round. We only kept 1 out of the 3 aussies, Richie Benaud of all people who I honestly didn't know was rated so highly as a captain

In Tom Graveney's book "The 10 Greatest Test Teams" (which considers 10 of the best teams in the 40 years after the war), 5 of the teams were captained by players listed above (obviously not Jardine and it was a bit too early for Border and Imran's teams). Graveney ranks their captaincy as follows:

1. Richie Benaud
2. Mike Brearley
(3. Ian Chappell)
4. Don Bradman
5. Clive Lloyd
6. Frank Worrell

 

[AndrewB]

I'll vote for Imran and Benaud.

 

[JBMAC]

Benaud and Jardine