adharcric
International Coach
Going with the trend, let's come up with a CW list of the twenty-five greatest batsmen of all-time.
Once again, we will start with a list of 50 and vote for the #1, then the #2, all the way to #25. To start off, I'll present my list of batsmen below. Please suggest changes to the list as I surely won't get it completely right.
Australia
Victor Trumper
Bill Ponsford
Don Bradman
Stan McCabe
Lindsay Hassett
Arthur Morris
Neil Harvey
Bob Simpson
Bill Lawry
Greg Chappell
Allan Border
Steve Waugh
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Adam Gilchrist
England
W.G. Grace
Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Wally Hammond
Len Hutton
Dennis Compton
Peter May
Ken Barrington
Geoff Boycott
India
Vijay Merchant
Vijay Hazare
Sunil Gavaskar
Sachin Tendulkar
Rahul Dravid
New Zealand
Martin Crowe
Pakistan
Hanif Mohammad
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Saeed Anwar
Inzamam-ul-Haq
South Africa
Dudley Nourse
Graeme Pollock
Barry Richards
Jacques Kallis
West Indies
George Headley
Everton Weekes
Clyde Walcott
Frank Worrell
Garry Sobers
Rohan Kanhai
Clive Lloyd
Viv Richards
Gordon Greenidge
Brian Lara
Zimbabwe
Andy Flower
Once again, we will start with a list of 50 and vote for the #1, then the #2, all the way to #25. To start off, I'll present my list of batsmen below. Please suggest changes to the list as I surely won't get it completely right.
Australia
Victor Trumper
Bill Ponsford
Don Bradman
Stan McCabe
Lindsay Hassett
Arthur Morris
Neil Harvey
Bob Simpson
Bill Lawry
Greg Chappell
Allan Border
Steve Waugh
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Adam Gilchrist
England
W.G. Grace
Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Wally Hammond
Len Hutton
Dennis Compton
Peter May
Ken Barrington
Geoff Boycott
India
Vijay Merchant
Vijay Hazare
Sunil Gavaskar
Sachin Tendulkar
Rahul Dravid
New Zealand
Martin Crowe
Pakistan
Hanif Mohammad
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Saeed Anwar
Inzamam-ul-Haq
South Africa
Dudley Nourse
Graeme Pollock
Barry Richards
Jacques Kallis
West Indies
George Headley
Everton Weekes
Clyde Walcott
Frank Worrell
Garry Sobers
Rohan Kanhai
Clive Lloyd
Viv Richards
Gordon Greenidge
Brian Lara
Zimbabwe
Andy Flower
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