Weekes vs Walcott

[Coronis]

While Tom Graveney says, diplomatically, in his interview with CMJ there that he can't split the three Ws, he did in fact do so on at least one occasion.

In Tom Graveney's Top Ten Cricket Book (one of my all time favourite and most referenced cricket books), published in 1982, his list of the Top Ten Greatest Post-War Batsmen had Walcott at number 6 and Weekes and number 9, while also noting that he agonised over Worrell just missing out.

What other top 10’s did he have again? I feel I’ve read this referenced somewhere but can’t recall

 

[The Sean]

What other top 10’s did he have again? I feel I’ve read this referenced somewhere but can’t recall

Probably by me - I've referenced it a lot!

He had loads. The first half of the book was just list after list - batsmen (including openers, left handers, opening partnerships, best shots etc), bowlers (fast, medium and slow, new ball and spin partnerships), all-rounders, captains, teams. Split into post-war, pre-war and old-time (pre-WWI).

Then the second half of the book was him picking teams - national teams, county teams, alphabet teams, then novelty teams like a team of blokes who had been schoolteacher, or wore glasses, or represented their country at other sports, or who went to Oxford/Cambridge etc.