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Okay, guys, I want to post my list of the top 60 test batsmen, haven't done 100 yet.
Based on career adjusted averages, of which I will explain in detail when the final top 100 is published.
Anyway, compare my list with the one in IT figures:
1 DG Bradman 93.55 1410
2 BC Lara 52.41 913
3 GS Sobers 56.60 911
4 JB Hobbs 57.89 902
5 GA Headley 63.94 900
6 SR Tendulkar 51.21 899
7 SM Gavaskar 49.74 879
8 L Hutton 54.50 871
9 RT Ponting 50.40 866
10 WR Hammond 52.94 861
11 IVA Richards 49.02 858
12 H Sutcliffe 55.80 851
13 SR Waugh 49.05 848
14 GS Chappell 52.10 848
15 ED Weekes 55.83 832
16 CL Walcott 55.58 827
17 KF Barrington 52.88 826
18 JH Kallis 48.89 810
19 R Dravid 48.69 808
20 AR Border 49.82 807
21 AD Nourse 55.02 804
22 Mohammad Yousuf 50.04 801
23 ML Hayden 44.50 788
24 Inzamam-ul-Haq 47.41 779
25 A Flower 49.12 774
26 KP Pietersen 47.08 768
27 V Sehwag 47.33 768
28 Younis Khan 46.46 765
29 RN Harvey 46.39 760
30 Javed Miandad 49.11 759
31 S Chanderpaul 46.72 758
32 CH Lloyd 46.53 758
33 DCS Compton 49.77 755
34 C Hill 48.70 754
35 RG Pollock 56.14 747
36 DPMD Jayawardene 45.46 744
37 PBH May 46.60 743
38 KC Sangakkara 45.35 742
39 KS Ranjitsinhji 54.14 739
40 MD Crowe 44.55 738
41 B Mitchell 45.76 737
42 GA Gooch 43.15 736
43 FS Jackson 59.48 735
44 RB Kanhai 46.21 734
45 FMM Worrell 49.18 727
46 VT Trumper 48.06 725
47 G Boycott 44.42 724
48 WM Lawry 46.89 724
49 CG Macartney 46.51 723
50 DI Gower 43.17 720
51 PA de Silva 40.66 720
52 KD Walters 46.82 718
53 GC Smith 41.85 718
54 AR Morris 44.36 718
55 Saeed Anwar 43.74 716
56 AC Gilchrist 42.99 716
57 G Kirsten 43.27 716
58 M Azharuddin 44.56 715
59 CG Greenidge 43.30 713
60 SM Nurse 46.89 712
Notice how Weekes average is adjusted down. It should be as well. Can't understand how in the IT figures analysis, Weekes average is adjusted up. He plundered runs against weak bowling attacks, whilst only performing averagely against Australia and England (who albeit had some of the strongest bowling attacks in the history of the game post WWII).
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Greatest Ever Test XI (according to my ratings): Hobbs, Hutton, Bradman (c), Headley, Lara, Sobers, Gilchrist (wk), Hadlee, Marshall, Steyn, Muralitharan 12th man: Imran Khan
Favorite XI: Grace (c), Trumper, Richards, Lara, Compton, Gilchrist (wk), Cairns, Jessop, Warne, Bond, Trueman
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