CW Top 50 Cricketers of All Time - 2nd Edition

[Flem274*]

Was specifically thinking of you as I typed it, ****

I could go for a Mars Bar right now tbf.

 

[Burgey]

In my list Hadlee and Tendulkar were in top 10. I had to exclude Warne, Miller and Lillee from my top 25 because my top 25 had only 25 places.

Yeah but no one takes what you say seriously, so that's ok.

 

[Burgey]

I could go for a Mars Bar right now tbf.

Me too tbh

 

[weldone]

Yeah but no one takes what you say seriously, so that's ok.

 

[Hurricane]

Only echoing the words of those who played against them both.

Not that blokes who've scored thousands and thousands of test runs would know more than an unco, acne headed 19 year old whose idea of sporting prowess is doing well at Stick Cricket as they over dose on soft drink and Mars Bars before going out for their weekly walk to the mail box to get their quota of exercise*.


* I explicitly exclude you from this btw mate.

Judging by where you placed the * it appears I am excluded from going for the walk to the mail box each week only

cbf debating as there is this thread for it which I may dig to have my mars bar fuelled two cents in.

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/38133-whos-better-lillee-hadlee.html

btw do you recommend clearasil or oxy 10 - what works best for you?

 

[Flem274*]

Judging by where you placed the * it appears I am excluded from going for the walk to the mail box each week only

cbf debating as there is this thread for it which I may dig to have my mars bar fuelled two cents in.

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/38133-whos-better-lillee-hadlee.html

btw do you recommend clearasil or oxy 10 - what works best for you?

According to Burgey in that thread it's gotta be Hussain.

Thus CWs number one cricketer is revealed.

 

[Burgey]

Judging by where you placed the * it appears I am excluded from going for the walk to the mail box each week only

cbf debating as there is this thread for it which I may dig to have my mars bar fuelled two cents in.

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/38133-whos-better-lillee-hadlee.html

btw do you recommend clearasil or oxy 10 - what works best for you?

Was excluding you from the whole insult tbf.

Ftr I think I had them both in my top 25, I may have had Lillee in front, but I can't recall.

I need to set up more spreadsheets or consult statsguru to enhance my knowledge of cricket. I CBF agonizing over it like a lot of people seem to. I suspect for some it's the old inferiority complex coming out to try and get some blokes up in these lists because the teams they played for have been rubbish for most of the game's history.

But I might be mistaken.

 

[Flem274*]

**** I'm hungry now Burgey mentioned Mars Bars. Instead I'm doing this ****ing assignment. **** you Burgeh, I hope you have unscratchable itches for a week, ****.

 

[weldone]

 

[Hurricane]

Was excluding you from the whole insult tbf.

Ftr I think I had them both in my top 25, I may have had Lillee in front, but I can't recall.

I need to set up more spreadsheets or consult statsguru to enhance my knowledge of cricket. I CBF agonizing over it like a lot of people seem to. I suspect for some it's the old inferiority complex coming out to try and get some blokes up in these lists because the teams they played for have been rubbish for most of the game's history.

But I might be mistaken.

All good mate. You have a knack for breathing life into threads which are meandering (such as my Hobbit thread).

 

[Flem274*]

Reading through that Hadlee/Lillee thread, and it only took 6 pages for it to become Atherton > Hayden.

 

[Burgey]

The irony in that is I'll probably have a more diverse list than many posters. I think I had a fair few players from the second tier nations. I'm sure I had Tendulkar, Gavaskar, Hadlee, Imran and I hope I had Wasim in there. Must have had Murali too. Be remiss of me if I didn't.

Certainly not Waqar, a two-three year wonder really - the 1990s Thomson or Tyson. A joke of an inclusion. The majority of his career was more Brett Lee than Malcolm Marshall - feasted on the likes of the FTB line ups of England and India and the like. Shame he was ruined by injury, but again, farcical inclusion to this list.

What about you mate? Find room for Agarkar? He'd be top 15 wouldn't he? Him and Ishant maybe? Probably Zaheer. After all, they've done something in India, for India.

 

[weldone]

The irony in that is I'll probably have a more diverse list than many posters. I think I had a fair few players from the second tier nations. I'm sure I had Tendulkar, Gavaskar, Hadlee, Imran and I hope I had Wasim in there. Must have had Murali too. Be remiss of me if I didn't.

Certainly not Waqar, a two-three year wonder really - the 1990s Thomson or Tyson. A joke of an inclusion. The majority of his career was more Brett Lee than Malcolm Marshall - feasted on the likes of the FTB line ups of England and India and the like. Shame he was ruined by injury, but again, farcical inclusion to this list.

What about you mate? Find room for Agarkar? He'd be top 15 wouldn't he? Him and Ishant maybe? Probably Zaheer. After all, they've done something in India, for India.

Huh! I'm sure I have some Aussies in my list whom probably even a completely biased Aussie like you didn't have. I didn't have Kapil Dev in my list but had Border, Chappell, O'Reilly etc.

But sorry, I didn't have Trumper, Walters, Ponting, Symonds, Tom Moody, Darren Lehmann, Lillee, Warne and Miller at numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively.

 

[Flem274*]

That will do guys.

Off to buy some Mars Bars (no seriously, I have a craving now). Keep the thread civil please.

 

[Burgey]

Tom Moody an underrated great tbf.

Don't think I had AB now I think of it. Brad Hogg was there of course

 

[morgieb]

I had Imran, Hadlee and Sachin in my top 10. Miller was way down on my list, and Lillee wasn't even there.

It will be a farce though, if Bradman doesn't finish #1. I can understand if someone like Sobers goes ahead of him, as he was a test-class bowler too, but I can tell there's gonna be quite a bit of intellectual dishonesty.

 

[morgieb]

Huh! I'm sure I have some Aussies in my list whom probably even a completely biased Aussie like you didn't have. I didn't have Kapil Dev in my list but had Border, Chappell, O'Reilly etc.

But sorry, I didn't have Trumper, Walters, Ponting, Symonds, Tom Moody, Darren Lehmann, Lillee, Warne and Miller at numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively.

Don't troll.

 

[weldone]

Huh! I'm sure I have some Aussies in my list whom probably even a completely biased Aussie like you didn't have. I didn't have Kapil Dev in my list but had Border, Chappell, O'Reilly etc.

But sorry, I didn't have Trumper, Walters, Ponting, Symonds, Tom Moody, Darren Lehmann, Lillee, Warne and Miller at numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively.

Don't troll.

What about you mate? Find room for Agarkar? He'd be top 15 wouldn't he? Him and Ishant maybe? Probably Zaheer. After all, they've done something in India, for India.

 

[weldone]

Brad Hogg was there of course

He was in mine too, onviously

 

[Burgey]

I had Imran in the top ten as well, maybe top five. I think Tendulkar was up there as well. Miller I had in there somewhere, but not top ten iirc.