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Greatest All-rounder if captaincy were to be included

Greatest All-Rounder including captaincy

  • A. Border

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  • T. Goddard

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  • WG Grace

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  • T. Greig

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  • W. Hammond

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  • R. Illingworth

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  • Total voters
    44

Himannv

International Coach
Bats well, bowls well captains well. Has to be Imran I guess. Armstrong is a very underrated candidate IMO.
 

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
Sad to see Both omitted from the poll, had to vote for Richie on the grounds that Imran plainly doesn't deserve a 12-nil lead, fine player for my county though he may have been (on those occasions when he deigned to turn up)
 

Matt79

Global Moderator
Armstrong. Aussie cricket then was as dysfunctional as Pakistani cricket in Imran's time. Armstrong averaged near forty with the bat pre-WW1, and was a very effective leg spinner as well. Plus he had an 80% winning record as captain and drew the other 20%. He never lost a test as skipper and should have captained a lot more but was constantly fighting with the fairly incompetent board of control who hated him. Led one of only two Ashes whitewashes as well.
 

Flem274*

123/5
Vettori.:ph34r:

Though I suppose only captaincy counts, not coaching, selecting, driving the team bus, cooking dinner, parenting Southee and Williamson, dragging Ryder to hospital for stomach pumping, making the team lunch, splitting the firewood, fixing the car, building the shed, cleaning the gutters, making the drinks, rolling the pitch, being the psychologist, being the nutritionist, helping the players with their homework, running NZC, running a top secret spy network, lollin' at Aamer, buying Greatbatch pies and tolerating the rest of the country.

And after he does all that Shakib still gives him liquid soap in the showers.:(
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Armstrong. Aussie cricket then was as dysfunctional as Pakistani cricket in Imran's time. Armstrong averaged near forty with the bat pre-WW1, and was a very effective leg spinner as well. Plus he had an 80% winning record as captain and drew the other 20%. He never lost a test as skipper and should have captained a lot more but was constantly fighting with the fairly incompetent board of control who hated him. Led one of only two Ashes whitewashes as well.
A true allrounder, the Big Ship. Also played in a VFL grand final for South Melbourne.

Mind you, Wally Hammond (Brizzle Rovers) & Beefy (S****horpe) also played professional football.
 

smash84

The Tiger King
In ODIs does anyone get near MS Dhoni in that aspect?
Dhoni does have a very good record in ODIs. Although he is not as good in tournaments involving more than 2 or more than 3 teams I think.

Think captaining Pakistan so successfully derserves infinite kudos, tbh.
LOL.......so true

When did Dhoni start bowling in ODI's?
Well his wicket keeping skills account for turning him into an all rounder. He can (and does walk into his side as a specialist wicket keeper).
 

smash84

The Tiger King
This does not require too much thinking. I guess as an all rounder captain it is difficult to think past Imran (considering the bunch that he captained).

However if this was a thread about the greatest captain ever then it there would have been some stiff competition amongst some very good captains.
 

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