Who is the second best opener of the last half century?

[Daemon]

Look guys, Greenidge never had to face the best attack of his era (and they were the best by some distance too). That automatically means you should knock 9.375 runs from his average, proving once and forever that Boeta Dippenaar was the second best opener of the last fifty years behind Chris Gayle.

tbf it's not binary, it's just one of the tens of things you can consider when rating someone.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Because then, you'd have to also penalize any Australian who made runs post 2000 when their attack was by far the best in the world.

Well yes

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Although not really a candidate for the title of “best” Roy Fredericks was as good as any to watch on his day. It’s a shame no footage of his Perth century on the 75/76 tour seems to exist. It was a run a ball against Lillee and Thomson on what was then a frighteningly fast pitch. He did struggle a bit against John McEnroe’s swinging left handed serve. In the first World Cup Final he hooked Lillee out of the ground but trod on his stumps.

 

[Nintendo]

I cannot believe people are voting for Barry Richards in this. Sorry, it gets my goat.

The guy did not play a single test match in the half-century the vote is based on. Not one.

In the half-century we are voting on, he played some first-class matches and was part of a circus extravaganza some impressario fixed, but he never played a meaningful test match ever. We have absolutely no idea how he would have performed in the cauldron of a real test match against fired-up bowlers bowling in a match where something mattered.

I mean, I understand he was a pretty boy and teenagers of that era might have had a crush on him, but that does not make him a candidate for this poll. He's the joke last option in the poll, and people voting for him are idiots.

I'll crush your nuts with my ****.

 

[bagapath]

Although not really a candidate for the title of “best” Roy Fredericks was as good as any to watch on his day. It’s a shame no footage of his Perth century on the 75/76 tour seems to exist. It was a run a ball against Lillee and Thomson on what was then a frighteningly fast pitch. He did struggle a bit against John McEnroe’s swinging left handed serve. In the first World Cup Final he hooked Lillee out of the ground but trod on his stumps.

nice!!!!