Geoff Armstrong- The 100 Greatest Cricketers

[Prince EWS]

Originally Posted by sobers no:1

grace , mynn , bradman and now this... hmm lillywhite ..
this makes sobers the only human in top 5

btw , no need to change the avatar , it features greatest film actor ever

Nah man; Lon Chaney FTW.

[hendrix]

Originally Posted by sobers no:1

btw , no need to change the avatar , it features greatest film actor ever

Someone really oughta tell Keanu that the mustache ain't working

[Coronis]

Originally Posted by sobers no:1

50 % ??
a batsman of 90 avg is 50% better than a batsman with avg.60
is that ok?

i want to know , why only bradman is clearly better than modern greats ? why not WG ?

Largely, because of changes within the game. Thus, we can only really rank Bradman against players who played with similar rules as he did. I mean, even you can admit that its stupid to try and compare say, underarm bowlers and Brett Lee, right?

[sobers no:1]

Originally Posted by Coronis

Largely, because of changes within the game. Thus, we can only really rank Bradman against players who played with similar rules as he did. I mean, even you can admit that its stupid to try and compare say, underarm bowlers and Brett Lee, right?

its as stupid as comparing highly competitive modern cricketers to pre 70s cricketers

[Coronis]

Originally Posted by sobers no:1

its as stupid as comparing highly competitive modern cricketers to pre 70s cricketers

So pre 70's cricketers weren't highly competitive? Solid reasoning there, mate.

[the big bambino]

Originally Posted by sobers no:1

btw , no need to change the avatar , it features greatest film actor ever

Really? Looks like he'd be the leading man in a Jenny Craig ad.

[the big bambino]

Originally Posted by sobers no:1

its as stupid as comparing highly competitive modern cricketers to pre 70s cricketers

Yep. Like Sobers...

[sobers no:1]

Originally Posted by the big bambino

Really? Looks like he'd be the leading man in a Jenny Craig ad.

aged 53 - captain of kerala strikers cricket team

[the big bambino]

Originally Posted by sobers no:1

aged 53 - captain of kerala strikers cricket team

So who is he?

Btw are you from Kerala? My wife and I know some good people from there who have settled in Australia.

[kyear2]

Originally Posted by kyear2

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
Donald Bradman *
Viv Richards ^
Sachin Tendulkar
Garfield Sobers ^
Adam Gilchrist +
Imran Khan
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne ^
Glen Mcgrath

Sunil Gavaskar
Herbert Sutcliffe
George Headley
Brian Lara ^
Greg Chappell *^
Jacques Kallis ^
Keith Miller
Allan Knott +
Curtly Ambrose
Dennis Lillee
Muttiah Muralitharan

Gordon Greenidge ^
Barry Richards
Wally Hammond ^
Graeme Pollock
Ricky Ponting ^
Frank Worrell *
Les Ames +
Richard Hadlee
Michael Holding
Fred Trueman
Bill O’Reilly

Arthur Morris
Bobby Simpson ^
Kumar Sangakkara
Everton Weekes ^
Allan Border *
Clyde Walcott +
Ian Botham ^
Ray Lindwall
Jim Laker
Joel Garner
Sydney Barnes

Victor Trumper
Geoffrey Boycott
Rahul Dravid ^
Neil Harvey ^
Javed Miandad * ^
Aubrey Faulkner
Mike Procter
Alan Davidson
Hedley Verity
Jack Blackham +
Allan Donald

Graeme Gooch ^
Matthew Hayden ^
Rohan Kanhai ^
Kevin Pietersen
Steve Waugh *
Andy Flower +
Kapil Dev
Wasim Akram
Andy Roberts
Dale Steyn
Clarrie Grimmett

Graeme Smith ^
Vijay Merchant
Ken Barrington
Stan McCabe ^
Clive Lloyd *^
Charlie Macartney
John Waite +
Shaun Pollock
Anil Kumble
Harold Larwood
Courtney Walsh

Bruce Mitchell ^
Virender Sehwag
Denis Compton
Inzamam Ul-Haq ^
Dudley Nourse
Tony Greig ^
Farokh Engineer +
Richie Benaud *
Ian Bishop
Waqar Younis
John Snow

Conrad Hunte
Eddie Barlow ^
Ian Chappell *^
Ted Dexter
Martin Crowe ^
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Ian Healy +
Wes Hall
Alec Bedser
Colin Croft
Subhash Gupte

Trevor Goddard

Doesn't anyone else want to take a stab at constructing 9 teams?

[the big bambino]

No way. Our selectors picked that many just before the 1st test against England in Brisbane.

[Cabinet96]

Originally Posted by Prince EWS

It's William Lillywhite; by gosh he was gun. So far ahead of his peers that he earned the nickname Nonpareil. Wasim Akram was closer to Suranga Lakmal in performance than he was to this round arm slow bowler.

But remember to basically group all of his peers together since cricket wasn't as competitive back then. If they all played now they'd all have equal success or failure, and their records would be near identical. Any abbreviations from the mean in those days is an outlier that would be chopped off if they played now.

[Coronis]

Originally Posted by kyear2

Doesn't anyone else want to take a stab at constructing 9 teams?

Not really, its a fair bit of work. Specially if you forget someone.

Anyways, were we gonna do the Sri Lankan ATG thing? I can't remember if we did NZ already..

[watson]

I might have a go later.

I think the best way to go would be to fill individual batting positions for each of the 9 teams, rather than construct whole teams in sequence. In other words, find opening combo's for each team, then No.3s for each team, then opening bowlers for each team, and so on.

[Coronis]

Originally Posted by watson

I might have a go later.

I think the best way to go would be to fill individual batting positions for each of the 9 teams, rather than construct whole teams in sequence. In other words, find opening combo's for each team, then No.3s for each team, then opening bowlers for each team, and so on.

Though obviously that wasn't what he was trying to do, I do believe that is a much better way. I think this is probably one of the worst ways to go about it, if you were picking the "100 Greatest Cricketers"