mr_mister
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
the first pool of players has a slightly bigger time duration but as we all know they had less players around then so it's fair to cut it off around the halfway mark of the 20th century IMO. Use a player's best era as a deciding factor here.
My preliminary 32 man squads....(yes these are big squads):
Classic era:
Grace
Ames
Sutcliffe
Hobbs
Hammond
Hutton
Jardine
Barrington
Compton
Verity
Barnes
Bedser
Laker
Trueman
Larwood
Spofforth
Trumper
Armstrong
Bradman
Ponsford
Harvey
McCabe
Morris
Tallon
Lindwall
Miller
O'Reilly
Grimmett
Benaud
Headley
Weekes
Worrell
Modern era:
Knott
Botham
Lillee
G. Chappell
S. Waugh
Ponting
Gilchrist
Warne
McGrath
V. Richards
Sobers
Greenidge
Marshall
Ambrose
Lara
G. Pollock
B. Richards
Procter
Donald
Gavaskar
Dev
Dravid
Tendulkar
Imran Khan
Miandad
Wasim
Waqar
Sangakkara
Muralitharan
Hadlee
Crowe
A.Flower
Well... that's gonna be very hard to narrow down to 11 on either side. I'm sure I missed a few deserving players. The modern era has a lot more all-rounders, but you only really need one per team right?
Anyway, which team looks better on paper?
My preliminary 32 man squads....(yes these are big squads):
Classic era:
Grace
Ames
Sutcliffe
Hobbs
Hammond
Hutton
Jardine
Barrington
Compton
Verity
Barnes
Bedser
Laker
Trueman
Larwood
Spofforth
Trumper
Armstrong
Bradman
Ponsford
Harvey
McCabe
Morris
Tallon
Lindwall
Miller
O'Reilly
Grimmett
Benaud
Headley
Weekes
Worrell
Modern era:
Knott
Botham
Lillee
G. Chappell
S. Waugh
Ponting
Gilchrist
Warne
McGrath
V. Richards
Sobers
Greenidge
Marshall
Ambrose
Lara
G. Pollock
B. Richards
Procter
Donald
Gavaskar
Dev
Dravid
Tendulkar
Imran Khan
Miandad
Wasim
Waqar
Sangakkara
Muralitharan
Hadlee
Crowe
A.Flower
Well... that's gonna be very hard to narrow down to 11 on either side. I'm sure I missed a few deserving players. The modern era has a lot more all-rounders, but you only really need one per team right?
Anyway, which team looks better on paper?
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