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CW Ranks the Batsmen

SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
adharcric said:
1. Don Bradman
2. Jack Hobbs
3. Garry Sobers
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Viv Richards
6. WG Grace
7. Wally Hammond
8. Brian Lara
9. Greg Chappell
10. Len Hutton
11. George Headley
12. Sunil Gavaskar
13. Herbert Sutcliffe
14. Ranji
15. Ricky Ponting
16. Victor Trumper
17. Everton Weekes
18. Graeme Pollock
19. Javed Miandad
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I ask myself whether these would have been in my top 20 and what would be my ranking of these 19. I find that it is not possible to honestly split (even with all my biases like anyone else's) all the players in ranks. So I ended up putting these players in clusters of 2 to four. Of course, Bradman was alone at the top spot :)

  1. Bradman
  2. Hobbs/Sobers/Hammond
  3. Grace/Ranji/Trumper
  4. Tendulkar/Richards/Lara/Weekes
  5. Hutton/Headley/Pollock
  6. Chappell/Gavaskar/Sutcliffe
  7. Ponting/Miandad

Of these 19, 17 would be in my top 20. Thats 85 percent. I would not have had Ponting and Miandad and would have had a bunch of Walcott/Worrell/Compton/Barry Richards.

The point I am making is that for most of us this top 20 will represent between 80-90 percent of our own selection irrespective of ranking, which in my opinion is really pointless unless done just light-heartedly.

So well done CW selection committee. I dont think we have an 80% plus acceptance of most cricket team selections :)
 
adharcric

adharcric

International Coach
Less than an hour to go and this one is really heating up, next vote could produce three different leaders.
 
adharcric

adharcric

International Coach
Vote for #21 batsman of all-time

Border extends his lead and sneaks through.

1. Don Bradman
2. Jack Hobbs
3. Garry Sobers
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Viv Richards
6. WG Grace
7. Wally Hammond
8. Brian Lara
9. Greg Chappell
10. Len Hutton
11. George Headley
12. Sunil Gavaskar
13. Herbert Sutcliffe
14. Ranji
15. Ricky Ponting
16. Victor Trumper
17. Everton Weekes
18. Graeme Pollock
19. Javed Miandad
20. Allan Border

The vote for the #21 batsman of all-time begins now.
 
bagapath

bagapath

International Captain
denis compton
adam gilchrist (time to acknowledge the number of definitive knocks he played in tests and ODIs all around the globe)
 
bagapath

bagapath

International Captain
just a reminder guys, we are allowed to consider tests, ODI and FC records in these polls. players like de silva, inzi, gilchrist, hayden, barry richards and merchant are all very legit choices

(I know you know this already. just hoping to swing a few votes in favor of the greatest no.7 of all time who also is a definitive no.2 in any all time ODI XI)
 
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