Top ten greatest bowlers and batsmen of all time

[Howe_zat]

Where's Hutton, on either list?

 

[Son Of Coco]

have heard it said before by australian chums who are long in the tooth that he was better than mcgrath. apparently a wider variety of skills allied to appreciably greater pace.

I'm not sure letting women handle his bouncers should go into his list of 'skills'.

 

[Flametree]

I subscribe to the "modern batsmen are ****" theory, so...

Batsmen

Bradman
Hobbs
Richards V
Headley
Sobers
Tendulkar
Hutton
Gavaskar
Pollock
Sutcliffe

Seam Bowlers

Marshall
Lillee
Trueman
Ambrose
McGrath
Hadlee
Davidson
Imran Khan
Holding
Wasim Akram

can't believe I've left Waqar, Lindwall and Garner off that list but there you go


Spin Bowlers

Warne
Laker
O'Reilly
Muralitharan
Grimmett
Underwood
Wardle
Tayfield
Bedi
Kumble

All-Rounders

Sobers
Kallis
Imran Khan
Miller
Botham
Pollock S
Procter
Goddard T
Kapil Dev
Hadlee

 

[weldone]

Batsmen:
1. Donald Bradman
2. Jack Hobbs
3. Garry Sobers
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. WG Grace
6. Wally Hammond
7. Leonard Hutton
8. George Headley
9. Kumar Ranjitsinhji
10. Viv Richards

Bowlers:
1. Sydney Barnes
2. Richard Hadlee
3. Malcolm Marshall
4. Muttiah Muralitharan
5. Glenn McGrath
6. Fred Trueman
7. Imran Khan
8. Bill O'Reilly
9. Curtly Ambrose
10. Harold Larwood

 

[Days of Grace]

Batsmen
Bradman
Tendulkar
Grace
Richards
Hobbs
Ranjisinghi
Headley
Lara
Sobers
Pollock

Bowlers
Muralitharan
Warne
Barnes
Marshall
McGrath
Hadlee
Lillee
O'Reilly
Imran Khan
Wasim Akram

 

[kyear2]

It's really hard just to mention just the top 10 from each disipline and really difficult and possibly even unfair) to compare spinners to fast bowlers and openers to middle order batsmen. But there is a couple of players who have separated themselves from the pack. The truely elite from each disipline. The short list.
Openers
Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Sunil Gavaskar, Herbert Sutcliffe, Barry Richards.
Middle Order
Donald Bradman, Garfield Sobers, Vivian Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Walter Hammond, George Headley, Greg Chappell, Graeme Pollock.
Spin
Shane Warne, William O'Riley, Muttiah Muralitharan
Fast
Malcolm Marshall, Sydney Barnes, Denis Lillee, Fred Trueman, Glenn Mcgrath, Curtly Ambrose, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Richard Hadlee.
Keepers
Adam Gilchrist, Alan Knott, Les Ames
All-Rounders
Garfield Sobers, Jacques Kallis, Keith Miller, Ian Botham, Adam Gilchrist, Imran Khan, Aubrey Faulkner, Kumar Sangakkkara.

From that elite list the players who would have just missed out would have been
Just Missed
Ray Lindwall, Michael Holding, Allan Donald, Joel Garner, Dale Steyn, Harold Larwood, Clarrie Grimmett, Anil Kumble, Jim Laker, Javed Miandad, Allan Border, Everton Weekes, Ricky Ponting, Clyde Walcott, Victor Trumper, Rahul Dravid, Ken Barrington, Frank Worrell, Shaun Pollock, Kapil Dev, Ian Healy.

 

[kyear2]

Top 10 Batsmen
Don Bradman
Jack Hobbs
Gary Sobers
Viv Richards
Sachin Tendulkar
George Headley
Brian Lara
Len Hutton
Wally Hammond
Sunil Gavaskar

Top 10 Bowlers
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Syd Barnes
Denis Lillee
Fred Trueman
Glenn Mcgrath
Curtly Ambrose
Bill O'Reilly
Wasim Akram
Muttiah Muralitharan

Top 10 All-Rounders
Garry Sobers
Jaques Kallis
Keith Miller
Ian Botham
Imran Khan
Aubrey Faulkner
Wilfred Rhodes
Tony Grieg
Shaun Pollock
Kapil Dev

Top 10 Wicket-Keeper Batsmen
Adam Gilchrist
Alan Knott
Ian Healy
Kumar Sangakkara
Les Ames
Clyde Walcott
Alec Stewart
Jeffrey Dujon
Denis Lindsay
Rodney Marsh

 

[smash84]

Top 10 Batsmen

Top 10 Bowlers
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Syd Barnes
Denis Lillee
Fred Trueman
Glenn Mcgrath
Curtly Ambrose
Bill O'Reilly
Wasim Akram
Muttiah Muralitharan

How did Wasim break into your top 10?

 

[kyear2]

Because I am beginning to trust the plaers who played againts him. He may not have always got them out, but they say he was the hardest to face. I prefered Donald or Holding but most who played againts both Donald and Akran, all rated Wasim higher, have to respect that, and Holding just didnt play long enough. Lindwall was right there too, just didnt make the final cut.

 

[weldone]

Batsmen:
1. Donald Bradman
2. Jack Hobbs
3. Garry Sobers
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. WG Grace
6. Wally Hammond
7. Leonard Hutton
8. George Headley
9. Kumar Ranjitsinhji
10. Viv Richards

Bowlers:
1. Sydney Barnes
2. Richard Hadlee
3. Malcolm Marshall
4. Muttiah Muralitharan
5. Glenn McGrath
6. Fred Trueman
7. Imran Khan
8. Bill O'Reilly
9. Curtly Ambrose
10. Harold Larwood

However, if I am told to make the lists strictly based on test match performances alone, and nothinf else, my lists will change to:

Batsmen:
Donald Bradman
Leonard Hutton
Garry Sobers
Wally Hammond
Sachin Tendulkar
Jack Hobbs
George Headley
Sunil Gavaskar
Ken Barrington
Herbert Sutcliffe

Bowlers:
1. Malcolm Marshall
2. Sydney Barnes
3. Richard Hadlee
4. Muttiah Muralitharan
5. Glenn McGrath
6. Fred Trueman
7. Imran Khan
8. Bill O'Reilly
9. Curtly Ambrose
10. Joel Garner

 

[zaremba]

Off the top of my head, and reserving the right to change my mind dramatically if answering the question on a different day...

Batsmen

1. Bradman
2. Grace
3. (intentionally blank)
4. Richards
5. Hobbs
6. Tendulkar
7. Hammond
8. Lara
9. Ponting
10. Hutton


Bowlers

1. Marshall
2. Barnes
3. McGrath
4. Warne
5. Murali
6. Hadlee
7. Lillee
8. Ambrose
9. Spofforth
10. Imran

 

[honestbharani]

I can give it a shot, I guess.


1. Don Bradman
2. Garry Sobers
3. Wally Hammond
4. Viv Richards
5. Greg Chappell
6. Brian Lara
7. Sachin Tendulkar
8. Javed Miandad
9. Graeme Pollock
10. Sunil Gavaskar


Of course, a lot of the rating of the players are based on the stuff that is written as I have not seen many of these guys in action live during my time of watching cricket.

 

[Beleg]

bowlers

1. murali
2. warne
3. ambrose
4. mcgrath
5. akram
6. donald
7. waqar
8. pollock
9. steyn
10. kumble

batsmen

1. lara
2. tendulkar
3. dravid
4. kallis
5. ponting
6. inzamam
7. sanga
8. hayden
9. flower
10. richardson

 

[Howe_zat]

Batsmen

3. (intentionally blank)

A cruel name for his parents to give him.

 

[Pothas]

Had a cracking cover drive though.

 

[Pothas]

Anyway I never bother with this sort of thing so working on the basis this is all cricket and not just test, and almost entirely based on what I've read:

Batsmen

Bradman
Grace
Hobbs
Tendulkar
Sobers
Richards
Hammond
Ranji
Lara
Headley

It is obviously pointless to attempt to say who is better (well after Bradman) so tried to take wider impact and influence into account.


Bowlers

Barnes
Marshall
Warne
Murali
Ambrose
McGrath
O'Reilly
Trueman
Hadlee
Imran

Not sure how I left Lillee out, him Waqar, Steyn and Larwood come next. This one a little more based on what I've actually seen, lucky enough to see some of these at their best live.

 

[Anil]

bradman
sobers
hammond
richards
chappell
lara
tendulkar
hutton
hobbs
pollock

barnes
murali
marshall
hadlee
lillee
imran
mcgrath
ambrose
lindwall
akram

healy
tallon
oldfield
ames
marsh
knott
bari
russell
grout
evans

sobers
botham
imran
dev
miller
rhodes
procter
rice
kallis
davidson

 

[Zinzan]

bowlers

1. murali
2. warne
3. ambrose
4. mcgrath
5. akram
6. donald
7. waqar
8. pollock
9. steyn
10. kumble

batsmen

1. lara
2. tendulkar
3. dravid
4. kallis
5. ponting
6. inzamam
7. sanga
8. hayden
9. flower
10. richardson

Post 1990?

 

[kiwiviktor81]

TOP TEN ODI Bowlers:

1. Wasim Akram
2. Joel Garner
3. Allan Donald
4. Saqlain Mushtaq
5. Murali
6. Warne
7. McGrath
8. Waqar
9. Shoaib
10. Bishop/Bond

While I strongly agree with this list, Hadlee's ODI economy rate of 3.3 and his average in the low 20's ough to find him a spot.

 

[Satguru]

Impossible for me to rate cricketers i didnt watch, so ill just restrict it to those cricketers whom ive watched playing or atleast seen plenty of footage of to make a decent judgement

Batsmen:
1. Sachin
2. Lara
3. Viv ... unfortunate that ive seen very little of his batting apart from robelinda's videos.
4. Steve Waugh
5. Dravid
6. Ponting
7. Kallis
8. Martin Crowe
9. Gavaskar
10. G. Chappell

Bowlers:
1. McG
2. Murali
3. Ambrose
4. Steyn
5. Imran
6. Warne
7. Hadlee... need to see a bit more of him tbh
8. Wasim
9. Waqar
10. Donald