Players of the Decade (opinions)

[MrIncredible]

Okay here is a try

[B]Decade	Batsman   	Pacer         	Spinner     	All Rounder[/B]

1880's	Grace        	Spofforth   	Peel          	Ulyett
1890's	Ranji         	Lohmann   	Peel          	Noble
1900's	Hobbs       	Barnes      	Rhodes     	Faulkner
1920's	Hobbs       	Tate          	Freeman    	Gregory
1930's	Bradman   	Larwood    	Grimmett	Hammond
1940's	Bradman   	Lindwall	Toshack    	Miller
1950's	Sobers      	Hall           	Laker        	Benaud
1960's	Sobers      	Trueman    	Prasanna	Sobers
1970's	Gavaskar	Lillee	        Chandrashekhar	Botham
1980's	Richards	Hadlee/Marshall	Qadir	        Imran
1990's	Tendulkar	Donald      	Warne       	Cairns
2000's	Ponting     	McGrath    	Muralitharan	Kallis

Top list indeed SJS and thanks alot for the stats provided always look forward to ur wel thought out posts.

 

[Migara]

90s

Batsman: S Waugh
F Bowler: Ambrose ??
Spinner: Warne
AR: Cant think of ne tbh maybe Christ Cairns

AR - Brian McMillian may be?

 

[frey]

Top list indeed SJS and thanks alot for the stats provided always look forward to ur wel thought out posts.

Well done SJS. Quite a deal of effort and some interesting findings for ranking according to the best AVERAGES at TEST LEVEL......but, not necessarily the best players from each decade. Surely players such as Barry Richards, Graeme Pollock and several others from Ali Bacher's teams should be there somewhere in the list of best players? I realise that South Africa had been banned from international competition, but their batsmen and bowlers still excelled outside of the test arena in county and state cricket. It would be good if the database also captured players' information from other forms of first class cricket, including ODI. In addition, the reliance on averages as a means of ranking the best players can be an issue when players have selfishly batted for their averages, often ignoring the team's interests (eg. Geoff Boycott is one of many in this category).

 

[wfdu_ben91]

You are right. Only 34 batsmen have scored 5000 or more runs in a decade over the 132 years of test cricket. Of those 32 Yousuf has the highest average of 63.43. Barrington with 60.99 is the only other in the sixties. Unfortunately it wasn't enough for this selector to put him in his team for that decade

Mohammad Yousuf also averages under 30 against the 3 best bowling attacks of his generation: Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

Also, I'm interested as to why you think Allan Donald was better then Curtly Ambrose?

 

[Naumaan]

Mohammad Yousuf also averages under 30 against the 3 best bowling attacks of his generation: Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

Also, I'm interested as to why you think Allan Donald was better then Curtly Ambrose?

what's ponting's avg against india??????????

 

[Naumaan]

Mohammad Yousuf also averages under 30 against the 3 best bowling attacks of his generation: Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
Also, I'm interested as to why you think Allan Donald was better then Curtly Ambrose?

South Africa's bowling line is amongst top 3 ?????????

 

[Shri]

South Africa's bowling line is amongst top 3 ?????????

Yeah. Lots of people would agree.

 

[SJS]

Mohammad Yousuf also averages under 30 against the 3 best bowling attacks of his generation: Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

Also, I'm interested as to why you think Allan Donald was better then Curtly Ambrose?

Its just a personal opinion

 

[SJS]

Well done SJS. Quite a deal of effort and some interesting findings for ranking according to the best AVERAGES at TEST LEVEL......but, not necessarily the best players from each decade. Surely players such as Barry Richards, Graeme Pollock and several others from Ali Bacher's teams should be there somewhere in the list of best players? I realise that South Africa had been banned from international competition, but their batsmen and bowlers still excelled outside of the test arena in county and state cricket. It would be good if the database also captured players' information from other forms of first class cricket, including ODI. In addition, the reliance on averages as a means of ranking the best players can be an issue when players have selfishly batted for their averages, often ignoring the team's interests (eg. Geoff Boycott is one of many in this category).

And here are my XI's for each decade

[B]1950's	1960's       	1970's       	1980's       	1990's      	2000's[/B]
[COLOR="Blue"]Hutton[/COLOR]	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Simpson[/COLOR]    	[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Gavaskar	Gavaskar[/COLOR]	[COLOR="Blue"]Gooch[/COLOR]       	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Hayden[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkRed"]Worrell[/COLOR]	[COLOR="Red"][B][FONT="Arial Black"]Richards[/FONT][/B][/COLOR]	[COLOR="Blue"]Boycott[/COLOR]     	[COLOR="DarkRed"]Greenidge[/COLOR]	[COLOR="YellowGreen"]Anwar[/COLOR]       	[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Sehwag[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Harvey[/COLOR]	[COLOR="Lime"]Pollock[/COLOR]      	[COLOR="DarkRed"]Richards	Richards	Lara[/COLOR]          	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Ponting[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Blue"]May[/COLOR]	[COLOR="DarkRed"]Kanhai [/COLOR]     	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Chappell[/COLOR]	[COLOR="YellowGreen"]Miandad[/COLOR]    	[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Tendulkar	Tendulkar[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkRed"]Weekes[/COLOR]	[COLOR="Blue"]Dexter[/COLOR]       	[COLOR="YellowGreen"]Miandad[/COLOR]    	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Border[/COLOR]       	[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Aravinda[/COLOR]	Kallis
[COLOR="DarkRed"]Sobers	Sobers      	Sobers[/COLOR]      	[COLOR="YellowGreen"]Imran [/COLOR]       	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]S R Waugh[/COLOR]	[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Jayawardene[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Benaud	Davidson[/COLOR]	[COLOR="Blue"]Botham[/COLOR]     	[COLOR="DarkRed"]Dujon(k) [/COLOR]   	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Healy(k)	Gilchrist(k)[/COLOR]

[COLOR="Blue"]Evans	Knott(k)     	Knott(k)[/COLOR]        Hadlee  	[COLOR="YellowGreen"]Akram[/COLOR]       	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Warne[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Blue"]Trueman[/COLOR]	Pollock      	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Lillee[/COLOR]         	[COLOR="DarkRed"]Marshall[/COLOR]	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Warne[/COLOR]       	Steyn
[COLOR="Blue"]Laker	Trueman[/COLOR]    	[COLOR="DarkRed"]Roberts     	Holding [/COLOR]     	[COLOR="Lime"]Donald [/COLOR]     	[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Muralitharan[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkRed"]Hall[/COLOR]	[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Prasanna	Chandrasekhar[/COLOR]	[COLOR="YellowGreen"]Qadir	[/COLOR]        [COLOR="DarkRed"]Ambrose[/COLOR]   	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]McGrath[/COLOR]

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That is Barry Richards

 

[Migara]

Mohammad Yousuf also averages under 30 against the 3 best bowling attacks of his generation: Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

MoYo found him self as Murali's bunny. Other bowlers, of course was easily dominated by him.

 

[jeevan]

what's ponting's avg against india??????????

47.

Any India (or Australia) fan will tell you that Ponting well and truly buried the one last question mark about him in the last tour.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

1880's

Grace (*)
Shrewsbury
Murdoch
Steel
Read
McDonnell
Giffen
Blackham (+)
Spofforth
Shaw
Turner

1890's

McLaren
Grace (*)
Hill
Ranji
S. Gregory
Hayward
Giffen
Trumble
Blackham (+)
Lohmann
Richardson

1900's

Trumper
Hobbs
Hill
Wooley
Noble
Armstrong
Faulkner
Rhodes
Lilley (+)
Foster
Barnes

1920's

Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Macartney
Hammond
Hendren
Armstrong (*)
Gregory
Oldfield (+)
Tate
McDonald
Mailey

1930's

Hobbs
Suttcliffe
Bradman (*)
Headley
Hammond
Ames (+)
Constantine
Larwood
Verity
Grimmett
O'Reilly

1940's

Morris
Barnes
Bradman
Compton
Donnelly
Miller
Mankad
Lindwall
Tallon (+)
Bedser
Johnston

1950's

Hutton
B. Suttcliffe
Weekes
Walcolt
Worrell
Sobers
Miller
Lindwall
Benaud
Evans (+)
Trueman

1960's

Simpson
Lawry
G. Pollock
May
Sobers
Kanhai
Knott (+)
Benaud
Davidson
P. Pollock
Trueman

1970's

B. Richards
Gavaskar
V. Richards
G. Chappell
Lloyd
Sobers
Botham
Knott (+)
Lillee
Holding
Chandrasekhar

1980's

Greenidge
Gavaskar
V. Richards
Border
Javed Miandad
Imran Kahn
Hadlee
Dujon (+)
Wasim Akram
Marshall
Garner

1990's

Taylor
Slater
Lara
Tendulkar
S. Waugh
A. Flower (+)
S. Pollock
Wasim Akram
Warne
Waqar Younis
McGrath

2000's

Hayden
Langer
Ponting
Tendulkar
Chanderpaul
Kallis
Gilchrist (+)
Warne
Bond
McGrath
Murali

 

[SJS]

Top list indeed SJS and thanks alot for the stats provided always look forward to ur wel thought out posts.

To these I added my wicketkeepers for the decade and we have another job.

[B]Decade	Batsman   	Pacer         	Spinner     	All Rounder	Keeper[/B]
1880's	Grace        	Spofforth   	Peel          	Ulyett        	Blackham
1890's	Ranji         	Lohmann   	Peel          	Noble        	Blackham
1900's	Hobbs       	Barnes      	Rhodes     	Faulkner        Carter
1920's	Hobbs       	Tate          	Freeman    	Gregory     	Oldfield
1930's	Bradman   	Larwood    	Grimmett	Hammond  	Ames
1940's	Bradman   	Lindwall	Toshack    	Miller         	Evans
1950's	Sobers      	Hall           	Laker        	Benaud     	Evans
1960's	Sobers      	Trueman    	Prasanna	Sobers      	Knott
1970's	Gavaskar	Lillee         	Chandrashekhar	Botham     	Knott
1980's	Richards	Hadlee/Marshall	Qadir         	Imran        	Dujon
1990's	Tendulkar	Donald      	Warne       	Cairns       	Healy
2000's	Ponting     	McGrath    	Muralitharan	Kallis        	Gilchrist

Chose an all time 12 with the conditions

1. Of course we should have two openers
2. At least two spinners
3. At least two pacers
4. At least one genuine all rounder
5. Of course a wicket keeper AND
6. Not more than one player from one decade.​

I quickly came up with the following but there are other possibilities.

[B]#	Player       	Decade[/B]

1	Hobbs       	1920's
2	Grace        	1880's
3	Bradman   	1940's
4	Hammond  	1930's
5	Tendulkar	1990's
6	Sobers      	1960's
7	Benaud     	1950's
8	Marshall	1980's
9	Barnes      	1900's
10	Lillee         	1970's
11	Muralitharan	2000's
12	Blackham(k)	1890's

 

[bagapath]

my prediction for 2010's

batsman: kevin pietersen
pace bowler: dale steyn
spinner: ajantha mendis
all rounder: mitchell johnson

 

[bagapath]

Hobbs 1920s
Gavaskar 1970s
Bradman 1940s
Tendulkar 1990s
Sobers 1960s
Miller 1950s
Gilchrist (wk) 2000s
Marshall 1980s
Barnes 1900s
Peel 1890s
Grimmett 1930s
12th man Grace 1880's

 

[SJS]

Hobbs 1920s
Gavaskar 1970s
Bradman 1940s
Tendulkar 1990s
Sobers 1960s
Miller 1950s
Gilchrist (wk) 2000s
Marshall 1980s
Barnes 1900s
Peel 1890s
Grimmett 1930s
12th man Grace 1880's

Thats a very good side.

 

[Ikki]

Hobbs - 1920s
Grace - 1880s
Bradman - 1940s
Richards - 1970s
Hammond - 1930
Sobers - 1960s
Gilchrist - 2000s
Miller - 1950s
Marshall - 1980s
Warne - 1990s
Barnes - 1900s

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Each Decade XI

1. Gavakar (1970's)
2. Hobbs (1900's)
3. Bradman (1930's)
4. Hammond (1920's)
5. Grace (1880's)
6. Sobers (1960's)
7. Miller (1940's)
8. Gilchrist (2000's)
9. Hadlee (1980's)
10. Lindwall (1950's)
11. Warne (1990's)
12. Giffen (1890's)

 

[Naumaan]

my prediction for 2010's

batsman: kevin pietersen
pace bowler: dale steyn
spinner: ajantha mendis
all rounder: mitchell johnson

i have doubt about this one