The Battle of the Englishmen

[GIMH]

Hobbs

 

[steds]

Laker

 

[a massive zebra]

Hobbs very comfortably. Despite his undisputed flashes of brilliance, Laker was not even a regular in the England side for most of his career, and was actually involved in less than half the Test matches played by England between his first and last Tests.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Hobbs.

 

[grecian]

 

[Magrat Garlick]

The final quarter pairs two more absolute legends: Laker and his 19/90 versus The Master. Incidentally, I always thought Hobbs had 197 centuries but cricinfo lists his total as 199. Have some matches posthumously been accorded FC status?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/sports_talk/stump_bearders/4750323.stm

Hobbs for mine, too.

 

[Jamee999]

Laker.

 

[BoyBrumby]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/sports_talk/stump_bearders/4750323.stm

Hobbs for mine, too.

Ta, good knowledge. Seems cricinfo & Bearders disagree on that one.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Ta, good knowledge. Seems cricinfo & Bearders disagree on that one.

Even today they have fun with that. If you ask Bearders, Flintoff has 3,077 Test runs and 179 Test wickets, while CI will say 3,127 Test runs and 186 wickets.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Even today they have fun with that. If you ask Bearders, Flintoff has 3,077 Test runs and 179 Test wickets, while CI will say 3,127 Test runs and 186 wickets.

The RotW XI "test", I'd assume?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

The RotW XI "test", I'd assume?

Yep. Great fun. Cricket's version of Pluto.

 

[Anil]

hobbs

 

[aussie]

Hobbs very comfortably. Despite his undisputed flashes of brilliance, Laker was not even a regular in the England side for most of his career, and was actually involved in less than half the Test matches played by England between his first and last Tests.

True thats, but he is still England's greatest off-spinner, which is a good accolade to have for not being a test regular i'd say.

 

[aussie]

Hobbs for me, arguably the best opener ever.

 

[oz_fan]

Hobbs

 

[BoyBrumby]

The Master carries sway 8-2 & our semi-final line up is as follows: Ranjitsinhji, Barnes, Grace & Hobbs. Clearly English cricket peaked sometime before the First World War!

The draw is, as ever, random & our first semi pairs the two giants of the crease who ruled the world before Sir Donald settled all the arguments:

Battle of the Englishmen: Semi-Final 1

Jack Hobbs
61 tests, 5410 runs @ 56.94 (15 centuries, 28 half-centuries), 1 wicket @ 165.00
834 FC matches, 61,760 runs @ 50.70 (199 centuries, 273 half-centuries), 108 wickets @ 25.03 (5 wicket innings: 3)

vs

WG Grace
22 tests, 1098 runs @ 32.29 (2 centuries, 5 half-centuries), 9 wickets @ 26.22
870 FC matches, 54,241 runs @ 39.45 (124 centuries, 251 half-centuries), 2809 wickets @ 18.14 (5 wicket innings: 240, 10 wicket matches: 64)

 

[a massive zebra]

Hobbs

 

[cameeel]

Grace

 

[aussie]

Hobbs