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Originally Posted by Monk

No problems with Boycott being in there. Would've liked to have seen Greenidge in there though. I'd have Greenidge over Matthew Hayden personally.

Greenidge was pitted against Herbie Taylor during the contest for the final openers spot on page 303. And lost for the following reasons.....

The competition for the final opening batsman's spot in this top 100 is very tight. Among others considered were the two men who opened the most of the Windies' great days of the late 1970s and 80s, Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes. However, the fact that both these players averaged less than 45 in Test cricket, even though they never had to face the bevy of fast bowlers who made West Indian cricket so strong from 1976 to 1991, counts against them..........

Pakistan's Hanif Mohammad scored 12 centuries in 55 Tests from 1952 to 1969.......But, like all of Mitchell, Greenidge, Haynes, Morris, Barnes, and Hayward, there is nothing in Hanif's resume to match the success Herbie Taylor enjoyed over the series against a bowler as great as Sydney Barnes at his most dangerous. In one match of that series, so the story goes, Barnes was reduced to hurling the ball to the ground and crying, "It's Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, all the time!"