CricketWeb Hall of Fame

[Marcuss]

Right, basically I had this really original idea which I totally though of myself ()

Around the world there are a few different Hall of Fames, each with their own criteria and each with their own flaws. For example the ICC HoF contains no cricketers pre-dating Grace and the Australian HoF focuses on players who have earnt at least 20 Test caps, meaning that Barry Richards wouldn't qualify if he were Australian (The fact Austraia never suffered expulsion from Test cricket aside )

Anyway, I see no reason why the posters of CW can not create their own Hall of Fame using some rather more open criteria.

• So long as they've been retired from the playing side of the game for 5 years, they're elligible.
• Each member can nominate up to 25 players
• The top 25 most nominate players will be up for induction to the CW HoF
• Each member will then vote for 10 of the 25 which they want to be inducted into the CW HoF
• All players who receive a vote from 50% of voters will be inducted into the Hall of Fame

Both the nominating and voting stages will be a week long.

The process shall happen once every 3 months for the first year, once every 6 months for th second year and then annually thereafter.

People keen?

[kingkallis]

Originally Posted by Marcuss

Right, basically I had this really original idea which I totally though of myself ()

Around the world there are a few different Hall of Fames, each with their own criteria and each with their own flaws. For example the ICC HoF contains no cricketers pre-dating Grace and the Australian HoF focuses on players who have earnt at least 20 Test caps, meaning that Barry Richards wouldn't qualify if he were Australian (The fact Austraia never suffered expulsion from Test cricket aside )

Anyway, I see no reason why the posters of CW can not create their own Hall of Fame using some rather more open criteria.

• So long as they've been retired from the playing side of the game for 5 years, they're elligible.
• Each member can nominate up to 25 players
• The top 25 most nominate players will be up for induction to the CW HoF
• Each member will then vote for 10 of the 25 which they want to be inducted into the CW HoF
• All players who receive a vote from 50% of voters will be inducted into the Hall of Fame

Both the nominating and voting stages will be a week long.

The process shall happen once every 3 months for the first year, once every 6 months for th second year and then annually thereafter.

People keen?

I think it was Pratyush's idea which was deleted coupla days ago.

[Marcuss]

First Induction Process

27th October 2010 - 3rd November 2010 = Nominating stage 1.
4th November 2010 - 11th November 2010 = Voting stage 1.
12th November 2010 = Innaugral induction to the CricketWeb Hall of Fame

[kingkallis]

I am in.

[Marcuss]

Originally Posted by kingkallis

I think it was Pratyush's idea which was deleted coupla days ago.

[kingkallis]

Originally Posted by Marcuss

hahaha. In fact you kept the contents intact. Awesome man awesome.

[JBMAC]

Here is mine...

1. Don Bradman
2. Frank Worrell
3. "Demon" Spofforth
4. W.G.Grace
5. Len Hutton
6. J.Blackham
7. C.K.Nyadhu
8. Clarrie Grimmett
9. Richie Benaud
10. Colin Cowdrey
11. Bob Simpson
12. Don Tallon
13. Alec Bedser
14. Ted Dexter
15. George Headley
16. Courtney Walsh
17. Fred Trueman
18. Keith Miller
19. Bishen Bedi
20. Farook Engineer
21. Jack Hobbs
22. Bert Sutcliffe
23. Umpire Lou Rowan
24. Umpire David Shepherd
25. N. Harvey

[Marcuss]

Excellent stuff JBMAC, fancy that more than a handful of those names will make it into the HoF this time round

[Blakus]

I'm keen.

In order of when they come to mind:

1.Don Bradman
2.W.G.Grace
3.Garry Sobers
4.Keith Miller
5.Victor Trumper
6.Imran Khan
7.Dennis Lillee
8.Malcolm Marshall
9.Sydney Barnes
10.Bill O'reilly
11.Viv Richards
12.Walter Hammond
13.Jack Hobbs
14.Ian Botham
15.Graeme Pollock
16.Alan Knott
17.Sunil Gavaskar
18.Len Hutton
19.Fred Trueman
20.Ray Lindwall
21.Richard Hadlee
22.Richie Benaud
23.Frank Worrell
24.George Headley
25.Allan Border

[Hurricane]

Says up to 25 players so there are only a few I am passionate about so will do less than 25

Bradman
Grace
Trumper
Richards
Gower
Lillee
Hadlee
Spofforth
Martin Crowe
Barnes
Hobbs
Gavascar
Imran
Dev
Botham
Sobers
Paynter
Holding
Jardine (has to make it in to any hall of fame)
Larwood

[zaremba]

Likewise I will restrict my list to below 25. All the obvious names will get nominated anyway.

Here goes:

Maurice Tate
George Lohmann
David Gower
Douglas Jardine
Archie Jackson
Tom Richardson
Harold Larwood
Bill Ponsford
Ranji
CB Fry

[Spikey]

Stan McCabe
Aubrey Faulkner
Geoff Boycott's grandmother (or the man himself)

[kingkallis]

My 25 players are :

Donald Bradman
Garfield Sobers
Imran Khan
Richard Hadlee
Len Hutton
Jack Hobbs
George Headley
Graeme Pollock
Wally Hammond
Barry Richards
Vivian Richards
Malcolm Marshall
Dennis Lillee
Keith Miller
Mike Procter
Ian Botham
Alan Knott
Kapil Dev
Sunil Gavaskar
Allan Border
Curtley Ambrose
Micheal Holding
Brian Lara
Wasim Akram
Courtney Walsh

[NUFAN]

1 Don Bradman
2 Charles Bannerman
3 Len Hutton
4 Garry Sobers
5 Vinoo Mankad
6 George Headley
7 Malcolm Marshall
8 Fred Trueman
9 Richie Benaud
10 Umpire Dickie Bird
11 Johnny Briggs
12 Allan Border
13 Curtly Ambrose
14 Mark Waugh
15 David Boon
16 Robert Craddock
17 Jonty Rhodes
18 Jim Laker
19 George Lohmann
20 Bert Oldfield
21 Ranji
22 John Traicos
23 Henry Blofeld
24 Kerry Packer
25 Andy Ganteaume

[JBMAC]

Nice to see NUFAN you have an Umpire in there. The unsung, often maligned figures of the game