Top Five Cricketers from each country

[trundler]

West Indies
Tests: George Headley, Everton Weekes, Clyde Walcott, Gary Sobers, Malcolm Marshall
ODIs: Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Curtly Ambrose

Very odd to leave Worrell out for Walcott.

 

[Malcolm]

I don't know if it is possible to make such a list with 10 bonafide all time greats for any other country

@h_hurricane

Zaheer, Sehwag, Ganguly, Yuvraj, Kohli(tests) are not ATG players

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

West Indies
Tests: George Headley, Everton Weekes, Clyde Walcott, Gary Sobers, Malcolm Marshall
ODIs: Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Curtly Ambrose

Missing the Prince

 

[h_hurricane]

Very odd to leave Worrell out for Walcott.

Not a contentious choice at all. Walcott was a mighty great cricketer. An early Glichrist.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Not a contentious choice at all. Walcott was a mighty great cricketer. An early Glichrist.

I was thinking this as well, and then realized that this is not a top XI Windies team.

Many would have preferred Dujon over Clyde.

 

[h_hurricane]

@h_hurricane

Zaheer, Sehwag, Ganguly, Yuvraj, Kohli(tests) are not ATG players

They are not(except for the arguable case of Kohli). Since others had been picked for tests, I had to pick someone.

 

[trundler]

Walcott didn't keep in a lot of games and has a major disparity between his home and away averages. Plus, Worrell just had a bigger impact on WI cricket didn't he? Absolute legend. I rare him because of his captaincy, like Imran and Border.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Australia

Top 5 in tests

Bradman
Miller
Lillee
O'Reilley
Border

Top 5 in ODIs

Ponting
Gilchrist
Warne
McGrath
G Chappell


I don't know if it is possible to make such a list with 10 bonafide all time greats for any other country

Procter
G.Pollock
Richards
P.Pollock
Steyn
Kallis
Rabada

Donald
Klusner
Rice
S.Pollock
ABDV

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Walcott didn't keep in a lot of games and has a major disparity between his home and away averages. Plus, Worrell just had a bigger impact on WI cricket didn't he? Absolute legend. I rare him because of his captaincy, like Imran and Border.

Absolutely.

Frank was almost like a Jackie Robinson to our cricket culture and development...and later greatness. Architect.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Australia

Top 5 in tests

Bradman
Miller
Lillee
O'Reilley
Border

Top 5 in ODIs

Ponting
Gilchrist
Warne
McGrath
G Chappell


I don't know if it is possible to make such a list with 10 bonafide all time greats for any other country

Headley
Sobers
Worrell
Marshall
Walcott
Weekes

Viv
Lara
Holding
Lloyd
Ambrose
Garner

 

[Malcolm]

Procter
G.Pollock
Richards
P.Pollock
Steyn
Kallis
Rabada

Donald
Klusner
Rice
S.Pollock
ABDV

Tests and ODIs...List a and FC doesn't count.

 

[trundler]

No love for Gayle or Greenidge?

 

[The Hillside]

From whatever cricket I've seen (started watching from World Cup 1996):



Pakistan: Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Inzamam ul Haq, Wasim Akram, Shoaib Akhtar

India: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Anil Kumble

Srilanka: Sanath Jayasuriya, Mahela Jayawardena, Kumar Sangakkara, Muttiah Muralitharan ,Lasith Malinga

Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Shakib al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mohammad Ashraful, Masrafe Mortaza

Australia: Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Steven Smith, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath

England: Alastair Cook, Joe Root, Kevin Pietersen, Stuart Broad, James Anderson

South Africa: Graeme Smith, AB Devilliers, Jaques Kallis, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel

West Indies: Chris Gayle, Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Courtney Walsh, Curtly Ambrose

Newzealand: Brendon Mccullum, Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Tim Southee, Trent Boult

 

[Test_Fan_Only]

Walcott didn't keep in a lot of games and has a major disparity between his home and away averages. Plus, Worrell just had a bigger impact on WI cricket didn't he? Absolute legend. I rare him because of his captaincy, like Imran and Border.

But how relevant is captaincy to these kind of lists? Surely it is more about how good a batsman or bowler they were.

 

[Slifer]

Wi odi top 5:

Viv
Garner
Haynes
Gayle
Greenidge

 

[mr_mister]

But how relevant is captaincy to these kind of lists? Surely it is more about how good a batsman or bowler they were.

Agreed. I feel captaincy is too much of an intangible thing to allow someone to crack these lists

 

[bagapath]

West Indies
Tests: George Headley, Everton Weekes, Clyde Walcott, Gary Sobers, Malcolm Marshall
ODIs: Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Curtly Ambrose

Andy Roberts could walk into either of the teams; perhaps replacing Clive Lloyd in the ODI list - perhaps not.
Lara certainly belongs too.

 

[bagapath]

South Africa Top 5 in ODIs

ABDV
Hashim Amla
Allan Donald
S.M. Pollock
Q de Kock

South Africa Top 5 in tests

Jacques Kallis
Dale Steyn
G.A. Pollock
GA Faulkner
Dudley Nourse


Others in contention: Mark Boucher and Peter Pollock for tests. Lance Klusener and Gibbs for ODIs.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

South Africa Top 5 in ODIs

ABDV
Hashim Amla
Allan Donald
S.M. Pollock
Q de Kock

South Africa Top 5 in tests

Jacques Kallis
Dale Steyn
G.A. Pollock
GA Faulkner
Dudley Nourse


Others in contention: Mark Boucher and Peter Pollock for tests. Lance Klusener and Gibbs for ODIs.

At least 5 ATGs lost in isolation.

 

[trundler]

Klusener ahead of De Qock surely.