Cricketweb decides the second best batsman ever. 32 player bracket, nomination thread

[marc71178]

This definitely doesn't need a thread per vote, keep it all in this one IMO.

 

[Noble One]

J. Kallis
B. Richards
K. Barrington
H. Sutcliffe
A. Border

 

[cnerd123]

Ken Barrington
Jaques Kallis
Barry Richards
WG Grace
AB De Villiers

 

[Gnske]

Shane Watson
Rob Quiney
SS Das
Suresh Raina
Darren Maddy

 

[mr_mister]

This definitely doesn't need a thread per vote, keep it all in this one IMO.

noted

 

[mr_mister]

Kallis has now received enough nominations.

edit - Since there is such consistency in the noms I'll lower it down to 5 required.


So Kallis, Trumper, Grace, Barry Richards, Sutcliffe, De Villiers and Border now qualify.

Which makes 25, which means 7 spots left.

 

[smash84]

Salman Butt
Salim Malik
Azharuddin
Ajay Jadeja
Hansie Cronje

These five should be able to buy you a win (loss) any time, literally

 

[honestbharani]

surprised smileyshah has not nominated Imran Khan as the 2nd best batsman ever...

 

[Spikey]

just let pews pick the bracket and then we can adjust his silly mistakes from there

 

[chasingthedon]

Harvey
Chanderpaul
Dexter
Sehwag
Gooch

 

[kiwiviktor81]

Younis Khan
Matthew Hayden
Martin Crowe
Michael Hussey
Hashim Amla

 

[Red]

It's between Sobers, Viv and Tendulkar for me, probably in that order.

Sobers and Viv for their skill and brutality, and I love the fact that Tendulkar was successful against everyone in every environment over a long time.

 

[mr_mister]

nominate some peeps RH lets get this moving right along

 

[jimmy101]

As far as the development of batsmanship ever went there is only one person that should be considered here - the Doc.

He played for something like alomost 40 FC seasons, he invented an array of shots which later became the framework of batsmanship & are still taught today, he was a gigantic attraction of his day & helped popularize the game immensely at home & abroad plus he set records that stood for years & years after his retirement.

Apart from being a complete jerk, a cheater & a shamateur, there is much to like about ol' WG haha.

 

[mr_mister]

well, we'll still be considering some others here.

with my second batch of noms i'll go


Ranji
Vijay Merchant
Amla
Younis Khan
& Barrington, meaning he now has enough noms.

6 spots left

 

[cnerd123]

It's only been 12 hours since nominations opened. Should give it alteast 24-48 hours for all the regular members to log in, read this thread, think about their nominees, and then post a response.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah, just chill. The more it's a community thing and the less it's a mr_mister thing, the more people will want to participate with it. There's no huge rush to get the voting underway. I probably would have started with zero automatic entries and just let the noms take their couse tbh.

 

[cnerd123]

Yeah, just chill. The more it's a community thing and the less it's a mr_mister thing, the more people will want to participate with it. There's no huge rush to get the voting underway. I probably would have started with zero automatic entries and just let the noms take their couse tbh.

I would have liked to see this done the same way the 'CW Top 50' cricketers is done - each member could list out 10 batsmen and rank them from 1 to 10 - 1 being the highest and 10 being the lowest. All these rankings could then be combined to see which non-Bradman batsman ranks highest in CW's collective opinion.

 

[Victor Ian]

border, grace, tendulkar, M Waugh (who says this is second best average?) D Gower (same reason)

 

[OverratedSanity]

Vvs