Best player never to have got a Test double ton?

[Craig]

I'm not counting Jacques Kallis now at writing because he is stilling batting and could still get there in his innings v NZ. I was also going to form a poll but it would be too long and I would end up missing some obvious names.

If Kallis doesn't get it today then he would get my vote, otherwise I'm picking Colin Cowdrey, followed by Ian Chappell and Michael Atherton, although I should add that Mark Waugh also deserves a mention.

 

[pasag]

Sutcliffe

 

[BoyBrumby]

WG Grace for mine. Followed by Barry Richards.

Ranjitsinjhi also worthy of a mention.

 

[gettingbetter]

I'd put Kallis right up the top.

Addd to the list - Ganguly, Hussey, Richie Richardson, Fredricks and Haynes,

 

[Craig]

I think allowances can be made for Richards in that he could only play four Tests.

 

[cricman]

you had to jinx Kallis didn't you! all u had to do is wait 15 minutes and open the thread

 

[Craig]

you had to jinx Kallis didn't you! all u had to do is wait 15 minutes and open the thread

Call me Nostradamus.

 

[chaminda_00]

Shane Warne

 

[Xuhaib]

Saeed Anwar.

 

[andruid]

Glenn Mcgrath ( The thread says best player not best batsman heck i could even say Micheal Jordan being as the thread doesn't even on insist on a cricket player)

Steve Tikolo

 

[SJS]

Without wanting to rank them, here are the surprise ommissions from the list of those who scored a double hundred.

Atherton
Azharuddin
Chappell Ian
Cowdrey
Ganguly
Haynes
Kallicharran
Kallis
Richardson
Stewart, Alec
Sutcliffe, Herbert
Vaughan
Waugh, Mark

I think Colin Cowdrey and Herbert Sutcliffe isare the biggest surprises for me in that list. Not only did they get so many centuries but they were the type to play long innings

 

[Johnners]

Mark Waugh would be close to favourite for the best player to have never scored above 150 tbh.

As for a double ton, Sutcliffe for mine.

 

[pasag]

Without wanting to rank them, here are the surprise ommissions from the list of those who scored a double hundred.

Atherton
Azharuddin
Chappell Ian
Cowdrey
Ganguly
Haynes
Kallicharran
Kallis
Richardson
Stewart, Alec
Sutcliffe, Herbert
Vaughan
Waugh, Mark

I think Colin Cowdrey and Herbert Sutcliffe isare the biggest surprises for me in that list. Not only did they get so many centuries but they were the type to play long innings

Would add Clem Hill there as well.

 

[James90]

Mark Waugh would be close to favourite for the best player to have never scored above 150 tbh.

153* against India.

First instinct was Muralitharan but someone already beat me with McGrath. Kallis would be right up there with WG Grace

 

[Johnners]

153* against India.

First instinct was Muralitharan but someone already beat me with McGrath. Kallis would be right up there with WG Grace

Hmmmm, for some reason I always thought his highest was 142...

 

[Pratters]

Australia:

WW Bardsley
Lawrence Booth
P Burge
I Chappell
Fingleton
Hassett
Clem Hill
FA Iredale
A Jackson
MacCartney
Miller
NC O'Neill
Redpath
ME Waugh
Woodfull

England:

Abel
Ames
Atherton
Cowdrey
O'Oliviera
Duleepsinghji
Fletcher
Tony Greig
FS Jackson
Jardine
Leyland
CP Mead
Parfitt
Pullar
Ranji
CAG Russell
Stewart
Sutcliffe
G Tyldessley
C Washbrook
F Wooley

India:

M Amarnath
Azhar
Ganguly
Hazare
Merchant
Vengsarkar

New Zealand:

A Jones

Pakistan:

Asif Iqbal
Majid Khan

RSA:

Bland
Kallis
Melville
B Mitchell
HW Taylor

Kepler Wessels (Aus and RSA)

Sri Lanka:

Tillekeratne

West Indies:

Roy Fredericks
Haynes
Kallicharan
Richardson

 

[SJS]

Would add Clem Hill there as well.

Yes. Thats correct. I would actually add...

• WG Grace
• Clem Hill
• Macartney
• Ranji

 

[Xuhaib]

Without wanting to rank them, here are the surprise ommissions from the list of those who scored a double hundred.

Atherton
Azharuddin
Chappell Ian
Cowdrey
Ganguly
Haynes
Kallicharran
Kallis
Richardson
Stewart, Alec
Sutcliffe, Herbert
Vaughan
Waugh, Mark

I think Colin Cowdrey and Herbert Sutcliffe isare the biggest surprises for me in that list. Not only did they get so many centuries but they were the type to play long innings

Where is Saeed Anwar?

 

[White Lightning]

It's Herb Sutcliffe surely. Can't be too much debate on the topic.

He is the only batsman with geunine claims to be the second best test batsman of all time to have not scored a double century, and therefore he really takes the mantle by default.

other batsman in this thread are fantastic, but none of them at his level.

 

[burr]

Well if people can mention Ganguly and Vaughan I think I have right to add Marto

Double tons are overrated, you've got a hundred isn't that enough already?

I'm amazed to hear Kallis has never scored a double ton, he seens the sort that would bat for days