The CW50 - No.30-21

[andyc]

Originally Posted by Lillian Thomson

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]

Originally Posted by andyc

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

Not yet anyway.

[GIMH]

Originally Posted by honestbharani

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.

[Samuel_Vimes]

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]

Originally Posted by 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 ??

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.

[zaremba]

Yeah I feel bad about putting Chappell at 50, probably an error, but it's a difficult task

[Uppercut]

Originally Posted by 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.

I'd include Ken Barrington in that list- comparatively not as good as either of those listed but his record deserves some respect whereas he's a completely forgotten man.

I gave him a token vote but I think I was the only one .

[Ikki]

Yeh, agree totally.

BTW also had Kallis at 17.

[The Sean]

Glad everyone is enjoying it.

Just a quick note, I may not be able to get 20-11 done tonight but I'll give it my best shot. If it turns out that I'm not able to punch it out then you have my apologies in advance and a guarantee that I'll get it up (yes, yes ) over the weekend.

[G.I.Joe]

Originally Posted by 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.

Haha, can't believe you have Ponting so much lower down than I do.