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Rank these 5 Test openers in order (Boycott, Greenidge, Hayden, Sehwag, G Smith)

Which was the best Test opener?

  • Boycott

  • Greenidge

  • Hayden

  • Sehwag

  • G. Smith

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subshakerz

Hall of Fame Member
shortpitched713 said:
So there's 2 things that brought this on, the first is a bit of a gripe at the CW "consensus", and in particular about a certain cricketer who grinds my gears, Geoff Boycott. How can we downgrade the accomplishments and abilities of Kallis, a player with incredible longevity and basically impeccable record in a variety of conditions, as being a "slow" player? Then at the same time rate Boycott is rated at or even above ( he's above all of these 4 if you go by the last 2 Vanillaish drafts, looking at you @Line and Length , and @Bitmap ) all non Gavaskar modernish (like Sobers and after basically, played a majority of their careers after the early 60s) openers? This is a guy who got run out by his own teammate, and generally rubbed his own side the wrong way, unlike Kallis who teammates have defended throughout his career as a rock of their order, regardless of what we the peanut gallery say.

So yeah, the other thing is I was trying to make a consensus CW XI out of said "modernish" players, and the only really wild card spot is the second opener. The rest of the team shakes out thusly:

01. Gavaskar
02. ??
03. Lara / S. Smith
04. Tendulkar / S. Smith
05. V. Richards / S. Smith
06. Sobers
07. Gilchrist
08. Hadlee / Khan
09. Marshall
10. Warne/Murali
11. McGrath

My pick is Hayden of course, but I'm not going to pretend there's a consensus on this. Looks like Greenidge is leading for now, but I think the spot certainly has competition.
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The answer is we should downgrade both Kallis and Boycott.
 
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