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Greatest English Spinner
- Thread starter Cricket Bliss
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capt_Luffy
International Coach
As we should be really. Eg: Kohli
Johan
Cricketer Of The Year
or the reverse example, Matt Henry
capt_Luffy
International Coach
The list on the first page is insufficient, I can feel a top 40 sprewing up:
Sorry (but no sorry) if I forgot any prominent Pommie spinner
- Jim Laker
- Hedley Verity
- Derek Underwood
- Wilfred Rhodes
- Graeme Swann
- Johnny Wardle
- Colin Blythe
- Bobby Peel
- Johnny Briggs
- Tony Lock
- Fred Titmus
- Ted Peate
- Tich Freeman
- Bob Appleyard
- Jack White
- Tom Goddard
- Ian Peebles
- Billy Bates
- Charles Parker
- Geoff Miller
- Ray Illingworth
- Walter Robbins
- Roy Tattersal
- Eric Hollies
- Tony Greig
- David Allen
- Phil Edmonds
- Jack Leach
- Monty Panesar
- Doug Wright
- John Emburrey
- Moeen Ali
- Norman Gifford
- Bernard Bosanquet
- Freddie Brown
- George Dennett
- Frank Woolley
- Phil Tufnel
- Dominic Bees
- Ashley Giles
Sorry (but no sorry) if I forgot any prominent Pommie spinner
shortpitched713
Cricketer Of The Year
Underwood easy. People don't realize, he was a fingerspinner with relative resilience to conditions. Unlike others on this list usually ranked above him.
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Did it always piss anyone else off that John Emburey was in the Stick Cricket All Star team?
sayon basak
Cricketer Of The Year
Verity? He is the second best English spinner.
sayon basak
Cricketer Of The Year
What's stick cricket?
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Oh my sweet summer child.
capt_Luffy
International Coach
No really, it's the first I heard of it as well.
sayon basak
Cricketer Of The Year
And guess what? You're only 2 years older than me, where Coronis might be over 30.
capt_Luffy
International Coach
Coronis is 30 bhai...... He just likes old things.
sayon basak
Cricketer Of The Year
(ssshhh, I edited 80 to 30)
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
It was a web game, quite big in the mid to late 00’s. Transitioned to a mobile game (apparently successful but I never got into it) and also has other sports e.g Stick Tennis.
I don’t remember the exact makeup of their “All Star XI”, but I know it included Bradman, Tendulkar, Sobers, Lillee, Hadlee Warne and John ****ing Emburey.
I don’t remember the exact makeup of their “All Star XI”, but I know it included Bradman, Tendulkar, Sobers, Lillee, Hadlee Warne and John ****ing Emburey.
shortpitched713
Cricketer Of The Year
It was an ODI All Star team, so maybe it was more justified? Idk.
sayon basak
Cricketer Of The Year
There's another explanation:- The ones who picked the All time XI were high.
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
It wasn’t. Why would Sobers and Bradman be in it?
capt_Luffy
International Coach
I don't think it being in any format makes Emburrey viable really...... Maybe he was buddy with a Dev's dad??
shortpitched713
Cricketer Of The Year
It also had Mark Waugh, iirc.