The CW50 - No.30-21

[biased indian]

one doubt aren't we ranking them based on number of people who voted or is it based on mean of their ranking they got ??

 

[bagapath]

There's only one thing that can be said about your opinion of Kallis. You're wrong.

accepting kallis as a great cricketer is one thing. but ranking him above gavaskar and oreilly is something else.

 

[Oscillatingmind]

I think Kallis deserves to be swallowed in love.

Awesome list, love the profiles, good stuff to read.

 

[Matt79]

I think Kallis deserves to be swallowed in love.

Awesome list, love the profiles, good stuff to read.

Well, that would be one way to show our appreciation.

 

[Jarquis]

Devo'd Kallis missed out on the top 25
Another brilliant post there Sean

 

[archie mac]

Bowlers to fill out most of the top 20 IMO.

Loving reading this at 9am with my morning coffee.


One thing I have always wondered about Chappell is why did he miss the famous 1981 Ashes tour? Was he injured, or did he, like Sean wrote, decide to skip that tour? Was he mentally exhausted after the underarm incident?

And like the fact that Hutton is ahead of Gavaskar, who scored many of his runs in bore draws.

I have read a bio on him but I can't remember the exact reason. I think he had just started an Insurance business and wanted to concentrate on that, and as you said he also thought he was in need of a break

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Had six of these guys in my list. Chappell was my highest.

 

[NUFAN]

So far Gavaskar (24) Chappell (23) Laker (21) Akram (20) Ponting (19) Headley (18) are the only players who have made the list.

I can't really see anyone in my top 17 not being selected.

 

[honestbharani]

Getting some real quality here and it makes me wish I'd put a bit more thought into my list, kicking myself at some of the names I left out. Great stuff Sean. Can't wait for the next installments,

sooooooo AWTA.. Great stuff, Sean.. Gotta be on the main page, I feel..

 

[Lillian Thomson]

cant believe kallis is ranked above oreilly and gavaskar!

In any poll of this type there's always a slight inate bias towards current players. If you did a music poll of this type the current XFactor (a bad UK reality show) winner would rank above Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

 

[andyc]

In any poll of this type there's always a slight inate bias towards current players. If you did a music poll of this type the current XFactor (a bad UK reality show) winner would rank above Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

Get out. It's not as if Mohammad Sami ranked above O'Reilly and Gavaskar. And I'm pretty sure if you look at any poll of the like in the music world, The Beatles are still up there.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

I had Hutton at 8, Gavaskar at 13, Headley at 14, Pollock at 16 and Wasim at 24.

 

[Matt79]

Had Waugh (19), Ponting (20), O'Reilly (21), and Gavaskar (22).

Not sure about rating Steve and Ricky above Tiger in retrospect, but my whole list would likely be reshuffled if I did it today, and then again if I did it the day after.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Get out. It's not as if Mohammad Sami ranked above O'Reilly and Gavaskar.

Not yet anyway.

 

[GIMH]

sooooooo AWTA.. Great stuff, Sean.. Gotta be on the main page, I feel..

All in good time hb

 

[Uppercut]

It's not that we're rating modern players more highly than you do LT, it's just that we rate Kallis more highly than you do.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Hutton (12)
Ponting (17)
Trumper (21)
GSC (25)

So I've voted for seven, and there's 20 left...would think that means I've missed three or four of the big shots.

Probably should have had Headley for Chappell, with hindsight. Not that it matters much.

 

[zaremba]

one doubt aren't we ranking them based on number of people who voted or is it based on mean of their ranking they got ??

I think on the aggregate of their ratings, with 1st giving 25 points, 2nd 24 and so on. Sean will inform us if I'm oversimplifying his maths though.

 

[zaremba]

I had:

Wasim 11
Trumper 18
G Pollock 20
Ponting 21
O'Reilly 26
Gavaskar 36
Headley 38
G Chappell 50

Missed Hutton, and not happy about some of these placings but hey

 

[Ikki]

Had Chappell at 10, Ponting at 16 and Wasim at 20. Can't believe how underrated Chappell is; just look what he did to possibly the greatest bowling attack of all time! Chappell and Ponting, both victims to a lot of exaggeration for their contemporaries.