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Battle Of The Fieldsmen

Turbinator

Cricketer Of The Year
Lets do a battle of the fieldsmen. Remember this battle pertains to the cricketers fielding ability ONLY.

OK, first step is to nominate 40-45 people.

When nominating someone, please put a link to their cricinfo page, so its easy for people to see their stats, and also post a link to a picture if you can find it.

So far...

1) Ricky Ponting
2) Mark Waugh
3) Mark Taylor
4) Roger Harper
5) Viv Richards
6) Clive Lloyd
7) Derek Randall
8) Jonty Rhodes
9) Herschelle Gibbs
10) Bob Simpson
11) Garry Sobers
12) Norm O'Neil
13) Paul Sheeham
14) Lance Gribbs
15) Gus Logie
16) Sachin Tendulkar
17) Mohammad Kaif
18) Yuvraj Singh
19) Paul Collingwood
20) Mohammad Azharuddin
21) Shahid Afridi
22) Suresh Raina
23) Brian Lara
24) Imran Khan
25) Kapil Dev
26) Mike Hussey
27) Shaun Pollock
28) Greg Chappell
29) Mahela Jayawardene
30) Tillakaratne Dilshan
31) Muttiah Muralitharan
32) Dwayne Bravo

Special thanks to SS because I used his battle of the subcontinent thread as a guideline as to how battles work.
 

Turbinator

Cricketer Of The Year
silentstriker said:
I nominate Monty Panesar. And Jonty will likely win the whole thing, making it a bit pointless TBH.
True, but atleast it'll be interesting to see who comes 2nd, 3rd and so on.
 

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
Wally Hammond. One of the finest slip fielders of all time, definitely deserves a place.

There's some weird ones in there anyway. I mean, Imran Khan? You may as well include McGrath and Brett Lee.
 
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silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
shortpitched713 said:
Will you be using winning percentage for this one too, SS? :ph34r:
No, draw percentage. Obviously, better fielding would equal the batsman being more defensive for fear of run out or hard catchees taken, and thus become defensive, thus leading to a draw.
 

Turbinator

Cricketer Of The Year
FaaipDeOiad said:
Wally Hammond. One of the finest slip fielders of all time, definitely deserves a place.

There's some weird ones in there anyway. I mean, Imran Khan? You may as well include McGrath and Brett Lee.
Okay well first let's get the 40-45 people, then we'll start replacing the wierd ones.
 

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I dont think Jonty Rhodes would be a clear cut winner as everyone thinks he will be, sure he was a magnificent fielder in the ring but there have been some amazing slip fielders over the years who, although they do different things could probably be considered equal.
 

Turbinator

Cricketer Of The Year
Okay So Far It's...

1) Ricky Ponting
2) Mark Waugh
3) Mark Taylor
4) Roger Harper
5) Viv Richards
6) Clive Lloyd
7) Derek Randall
8) Jonty Rhodes
9) Herschelle Gibbs
10) Bob Simpson
11) Garry Sobers
12) Norm O'Neil
13) Paul Sheeham
14) Lance Gribbs
15) Gus Logie
16) Sachin Tendulkar
17) Mohammad Kaif
18) Yuvraj Singh
19) Paul Collingwood
20) Mohammad Azharuddin
21) Shahid Afridi
22) Suresh Raina
23) Brian Lara
24) Imran Khan
25) Kapil Dev
26) Mike Hussey
27) Shaun Pollock
28) Greg Chappell
29) Mahela Jayawardene
30) Tillakaratne Dilshan
31) Muttiah Muralitharan
32) Dwayne Bravo
33) Andrew Symonds
34) Michael Clarke
35) Wally Hammond
36) Dwayne Smith

............................................4-9 more needed.
 

adharcric

International Coach
Eknath Solkar, Michael Bevan

Nothing special about Murali, Afridi or Lara. Not sure about Imran, Kapil and Pollock. Haven't heard of a few others in there. Get rid of a few and keep it to 32, IMO.
 
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chaminda_00

Hall of Fame Member
Chris Harris
Hamish Marshall
James Marshall
Lou Vincent
Steven Flemming
David Boon
Jack Hobbs
Keith Miller
Monty Noble
Chris Gayle
Hugh Trumble
Shane Warne
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
adharcric said:
Nothing special about Murali, Afridi or Lara. Not sure about Imran, Kapil and Pollock. Haven't heard of a few others in there. Get rid of a few and keep it to 32, IMO.
Afridi's a pretty good fielder actually. Probably the most athletic fielder out of the current Pakistani lot, although thats not really saying much. 8-)
Imran isn't good enough to be in, so I'd keep Afridi in just to have some Pakistani representation.
 

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
Ian Botham, Steve Waugh, Rahul Dravid, Akash Chopra, Marcus Trescothick and Matthew Hayden.

Take out the likes of Murali, Imran and Afridi, there's no way they are even close to deserving. Kapil and Lara probably shouldn't be there either, and wasn't Ian Chappell a better fielder than his brother Greg?
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
Younis is a pretty good slipper, but he can't match up to many other great slippers throughout history. I always thought slip fielders were overrated anyway. Sure they play an important role, needing to hold on to more catches than in other positions, but most of the time the catches are pretty straightforward.
 

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Turbinator said:
Okay So Far It's...

1) Ricky Ponting
2) Mark Waugh
3) Mark Taylor
4) Roger Harper
5) Viv Richards
6) Clive Lloyd
7) Derek Randall
8) Jonty Rhodes
9) Herschelle Gibbs
10) Bob Simpson
11) Garry Sobers
12) Norm O'Neil
13) Paul Sheeham
14) Lance Gribbs
15) Gus Logie
16) Sachin Tendulkar
17) Mohammad Kaif
18) Yuvraj Singh
19) Paul Collingwood
20) Mohammad Azharuddin
21) Shahid Afridi
22) Suresh Raina
23) Brian Lara
24) Imran Khan
25) Kapil Dev
26) Mike Hussey
27) Shaun Pollock
28) Greg Chappell
29) Mahela Jayawardene
30) Tillakaratne Dilshan
31) Muttiah Muralitharan
32) Dwayne Bravo
33) Andrew Symonds
34) Michael Clarke
35) Wally Hammond
36) Dwayne Smith

............................................4-9 more needed.
This is ridiculous, either we do this properly or we don't do it at all. I suggest starting the list fresh and then getting people nominating who they think should be one it. The player in question must receive 3 nominations before going on.
 

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